jonne
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- Comment on SONOFF ZBMicro Zigbee USB smart adapter adds any USB device to your Smart Home setup 9 hours ago:
Most devices have a button you need to press to turn it on after power is enabled, so yeah, struggling to find a use case too.
- Comment on Dublin: Trinity College Dublin protest camp to end 1 day ago:
A bunch of US universities managed to resolve it peacefully too. It’s mostly the ones beholden to billionaire donors that decided to call in the police.
- Comment on Gender-specific toilets to be required in non-residential buildings in England 4 days ago:
I just want an MP to stand up during the debate on this and say something to the effect of: “I have it on good authority that the honourable member from Toryshire has a gender neutral bathroom in his own house! What is he hiding?”
- Comment on Gender-specific toilets to be required in non-residential buildings in England 4 days ago:
Mingling mens and womens hands in the same bank of sinks is obviously going to lead to sinful behaviour.
- Comment on Gender-specific toilets to be required in non-residential buildings in England 4 days ago:
Wtf do people do in bathrooms? You go in, find a stall, do your business and then wash your hands. Why does it have to be gendered? If it’s about perverts creeping, what is this doing about same sex perverts?
- Comment on A YouTuber let the Cybertruck close on his finger to test the new sensor update. It didn't go well. 1 week ago:
I wonder if the guy that designed autopilot had the same idea. “So when the car detects resistance up ahead in the form of a crowd or wall, it will accelerate to make sure it goes through!”
- Comment on After 16 years, Ecobee is shutting down support for the original smart thermostat 1 week ago:
Not quite everything. The stuff that calls home to their own servers can’t be saved by home assistant. If you take care to buy stuff that can be controlled locally, you’re more likely to have some longevity out of your devices.
- Comment on After 16 years, Ecobee is shutting down support for the original smart thermostat 1 week ago:
Home assistant can talk to homekit devices without involving Apple, so you can assume it’ll be around for a while.
- Comment on After 16 years, Ecobee is shutting down support for the original smart thermostat 1 week ago:
In the last 16 years there’s been multiple SSL vulnerabilities, so if someone was motivated enough, they could probably hack it, especially considering they’d have physical access. You could probably even dump out the filesystem and overwrite certificates with your own.
- Comment on After 16 years, Ecobee is shutting down support for the original smart thermostat 1 week ago:
For a thermostat that’s built into a house, 16 years doesn’t seem long enough, tbh. A ‘dumb’ thermostat can easily be in use for 30+ years before anyone would even consider replacing it.
But yeah, as you said, if it’s connected to the internet you have to worry about software patches, certificates, etc.
- Comment on 40-year-old delivers for DoorDash to help pay down her $100,000 student loan debt—on top of her full-time job 1 week ago:
I’m guessing this is sarcasm, but it’s uncomfortably close to how actual neoliberals think
- Comment on Tesla to lay off everyone working on Superchargers, new vehicles 1 week ago:
So is the implication that he’s just going to source all those things from a Chinese company? Basically the next Tesla and chargers will just be rebadged BYDs or whatever?
- Comment on Razer to pay out over $1 million in refunds over its misleading (and hideous) Zephyr face mask 1 week ago:
I’m just amazed they apparently sold a million dollars worth of this thing.
- Comment on Bodycam video shows DA calling cop an “a**hole” after being pulled over for speeding 1 week ago:
Now she’s going around tagging the whole city with ACAB, I bet.
- Comment on YouTube Tests Showing Ads When You Pause a Video, Calls it ''Pause Ads'' 2 weeks ago:
That’s definitely something I want to see when I pause YouTube to take a phone call or whatever.
- Comment on IBM to buy HashiCorp in $6.4 billion deal to expand cloud software 2 weeks ago:
Yep, now they own ansible and terraform. No way they’ll let both exist long term and they’ll likely kill both.
- Comment on Netanyahu Resists U.S. Plan to Cut Off Aid to Israeli Military Unit 2 weeks ago:
Because he knows the US will never actually cut them off.
- Comment on Thames Water nationalisation plan could move bulk of £15bn debt to state 2 weeks ago:
Yep, bankruptcy and let the state or a cooperative buy the assets.
- Comment on Google fires 28 employees after protest over Israel cloud contract 3 weeks ago:
I guess Google didn’t want to risk finding out.
- Comment on Google fires 28 employees after protest over Israel cloud contract 3 weeks ago:
Unfortunately it doesn’t appear to be enough for most western countries.
- Comment on Google fires 28 employees after protest over Israel cloud contract 3 weeks ago:
They dropped that one quietly a couple of years ago. I guess around the time they started doing contracts for Israel?
- Comment on turtles 3 weeks ago:
Those ones belong in a pond, preferably in a Tesla.
- Comment on ‘It’s catastrophic’: Italian restaurants in London struggle to find staff post-Brexit 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, Australia is specifically targeting UK nursing staff as well.
- Comment on Tesla Owner Calls Police on Rivian Driver Using Supercharger 4 weeks ago:
Tesla not properly planning the rollout of a new feature? Well I never!
- Comment on Rich Americans are getting second passports, citing risk of instability 4 weeks ago:
The rich are the ones that are stoking the instability though. Decades of pushing to make bribes legal, government only working for the wealthy, growing inequality, and they’re surprised all of that is causing popular discontent.
- Comment on ‘It’s got nasty’: the battle to build the US’s biggest solar power farm 4 weeks ago:
A solar farm has got to be the least disruptive power generation method (especially if combined with agrovoltaics). I really don’t see how you could be against it.
- Comment on How Hidden Nazi Symbols Were the Tip of a Toxic Iceberg at Life Is Strange Developer Deck Nine - IGN 5 weeks ago:
Which is something typically only the maintainer/admin has rights to.
- Comment on How Hidden Nazi Symbols Were the Tip of a Toxic Iceberg at Life Is Strange Developer Deck Nine - IGN 5 weeks ago:
Presumably they removed it all before launch. What I don’t get is how they didn’t figure out who did this (unless it’s mentioned later on in the article, I have up after it got rambly), don’t they use version control?
- Comment on Norwegian Cruise captain refused to let eight passengers who were late reboard ship 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, not sure why this is a story. I assume this happens relatively often.
- Comment on How can the Oregon government make drugs illegal again with no public comment periods or voter input at all? 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, of course. But they were unwilling to fund that aspect of the decriminalisation.