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**#A quick edit to address something important and provide a disclaimer: **

Thank you all for your feedback! This project was "vibecoded" with Cloude AI and serves more as a "proof of concept" for what could be achieved with AI assistance. I'm just a tech enthusiast, and I'm excited to continue exploring new possibilities. I understand there’s a real concern about “AI Slop,” but that's exactly why I’m sharing this project with you all so that experts who are interested in the idea can offer guidance or even help improve it.

I’ve noticed that many people with home labs prefer to update their applications manually instead of relying on other apps that automate the process. Often, they have to check each one individually. That’s where Vigil comes in. The primary function of Vigil is to centralize the information and give users clear visibility of which applications are outdated, their current version, and the newer version available from several sources. This way, you can decide what and when to update.

To be honest, I hope it ends up being useful to others as it is for me.

If you have a few minutes, I’d really appreciate you trying it out and leaving a review or suggestions on the repo or even here. I'd do my best to answer most of the comments.

REPO: https://github.com/kumucode/vigil.git

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[–] elettrona@poliversity.it 1 points 16 hours ago

@1step I find comfortable when a bot is designed to describe images, such as AltBot, or Be My Eyes's BeMyAI - you can also "chat" with the bot to ask questions in order to have further details on what the camera is focusing.
On web communities (forums and social networks) that should be comfortable if you tag the bot and it replies with the image description. But it should be temporary, as a 24/7 answering bot, replying to EVERY conversation in every moment or (worse) being set up for propaganda, makes the world a worse place - yes it can turn on flames (violent on line argues) so that you will not know if you are talking to a person, or punching the wall.
In my area we say "hey! Am I talking to the wall?" when someone is stubborn, does never understand what you say, won't listen, does all the opposite of what you asked them to do.
We should change it "Oops, I'm talking to a robot"