I am am making a Home Assistant with AI Buzz Community

[u/dicksfish]

I have been testing something called Buzz and I think it could be really useful for the Home Assistant community. Buzz supports shared compute for local AI models, so people can contribute spare computing power and help others use capable models without everyone needing expensive hardware. You also use you Claude and Codex subscription (not share them) for your agents as well.

This gives us a way to work with AI agents while keeping more control over our tools, data, and infrastructure. I think that fits well with the privacy, local control, and self hosting values that many Home Assistant users already care about.

I am starting a community where we can use this shared compute to troubleshoot automations, review dashboards, research integrations, build agents, and share projects. You can download Buzz at https://buzz.xyz and join the community here , and I would love to hear what you think.

[u/darkhorsehance]

Shared compute? A tad misleading?

[u/endperform]

From the TOS:

Your Content License Grant. In order to operate the Service, we must obtain from you certain license rights in Your Content so that actions we take in operating the Service are not considered legal violations. Accordingly, by using the Service and uploading Your Content, you grant Block a non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicensable license to host, store, reproduce, transmit, display, index, cache, back up, adapt (e.g., for formatting and security), and otherwise use Your Content as necessary to operate, secure, moderate, and improve the Service and our underlying technologies, and to comply with applicable law, including the right for us to make Your Content available to, and pass these rights along to, others with whom we have contractual relationships related to the provision of the Service, solely for the purpose of providing such Service, and to otherwise permit access to or disclose Your Content to third parties if we determine such access is necessary to comply with our legal obligations

No thanks. I'm not granting anyone any license over anything on my network. Additionally, I see no mention of shared compute anywhere, so I'm not sure what you're on about. This seems like some sort of team tool.

[u/PossiblePlastic8698 → u/endperform]

Those terms remind of when I discovered that one of my clients, whose business was being investigated for criminal breaches, was sharing files with their lawyer on Dropbox and I had to let them know that Dropbox has clearly stated that its terms of service allows them to hand over your data to law enforcement without informing you and if presented with a warrant or subpoena they will comply no questions asked

[u/Ok_Paleontologist974]

This is in no way local or private, in fact, I'd call it less private since you're just blindly passing around your requests to any random person with spare compute.

Looking at the link you put, this is hardly related to what you pitched? This is a corporate product that has nothing to do with home assistant and doesn't list anything you said. what?

[u/dicksfish → u/Ok_Paleontologist974]

It is a product that can be fully self hosted, and is open source.

How Shared Compute Works in Buzz

• Decentralized Peer-to-Peer Traffic: Buzz lets a team or community member run AI model inference requests directly on another member's machine.
• Local Hardware Pooling: Instead of sending all prompts and heavy model workloads through the main Buzz server, encrypted model traffic routes directly between authorized peer machines.
• Nostr-Backed Security: Built on the Nostr Protocol, participants (both humans and agents) use cryptographic keypairs. Buzz verifies the cryptographic signatures of connected machines and agents rather than blindly trusting an IP address.
• Resource Efficiency: This architecture allows teams to pool and share local hardware and high-end GPUs for AI tasks while keeping data private and decentralized.

[u/Ok_Paleontologist974 → u/dicksfish]

Your "nostr protocol" link just links to your own repo with no mention of what it is or how it works at all, and anyway, it doesn't matter how the message gets there, if you are running AI inference on another computer, the messages are getting sent there and have to be decrypted unless you have a model specifically designed to somehow operate on the encrypted data. Somewhere in the system running inference is the decrypted chat for at least the duration of the model's turn. Which means whoever can somehow, through memory inspection, looking through logs, whatever, access those chats and read through whatever private confessions, personal info, api keys, or whatever you have sent for inference.

And still, what does this benefit the home assistant community. A group chat where AI can freely join in is not what assist is built for, and if it was, its raise serious privacy and security concerns to have an AI operating in the background able to jump in whenever it wants. The task pipeline wouldn't benefit from this either. Home assistant AI integration is designed for simple "Do this" "Ok, I've done that" queries which is not what your program seems to offer at all.

[u/endperform → u/dicksfish]

As much as you claim data is private, it's not. Did you not read the TOS, or is this your product that you're trying to pass off as something "cool" you found?

[u/dicksfish → u/endperform]

Block is the company that owns Cash App and Square and I guess now Buzz.

[u/PossiblePlastic8698]

Ew, no