https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Mould

This is a great post that I hadn’t seen before. Thanks for the link!

Wow, nice! I’ll have to go to one next time I’m in the LA area!

As far as I’ve heard, they don’t even have any blueprints or permits.

I feel the same about software development. For personal projects, I’ll often use a technology stack I’m very familiar with, like C# and MySQL on a Debian Linux server. Maybe not the fanciest, but they’re proven, reliable technologies that have been around for a long time, and will likely still be around a long time from now.

New frameworks, libraries, and languages pop up all the time, but some of the ecosystems move way too quickly. I have some Node.js sites I built years ago that I can’t even run any more without major changes.

Relevant: https://www.expatsoftware.com/articles/happiness-is-a-boring-stack.html

I wish there was a law stipulating that smart devices must allow for local control. That’d never happen in the USA (since companies couldn’t make as much money selling the data, and we can’t hurt the poor companies’ revenue streams), but maybe it’s happen in Europe one day.

My guess would be that you’ve logged into all of the accounts in the same browser, and thus they all shared a common cookie or something similar (like LocalStorage) at some point. It’s a common tactic sites use to mark multiple accounts as being operated by the same person.

I’ve never used Arch yet still use their wiki quite a lot.

deeply sane

I hope somebody describes me like this one day.

There’s Aldi in California? I haven’t seen them in norcal, just Trader Joe’s.

rtsp support

Ideally ONVIF support too, to get events (person detected, etc)

Smart switches can have instant response time too.

I’m using high-end smart switches (Inovelli Blue) and they’re great. They don’t have any of the problems of the cheap ones. You can use them with regular bulbs, or in conjunction with smart bulbs. For smart bulbs, you can pair the switch directly with the bulb.

Omnilert later admitted the incident was a “false positive” but claimed the system “functioned as intended,” saying its purpose is to “prioritize safety and awareness through rapid human verification.”

What?? How is it prioritizing safety if it did exactly the opposite and created an unsafe environment (a bunch of US cops with guns pointed at teens)?

If there’s no ground then I’d immediately contact an electrician and get a quote to replace all the wiring. The existing wiring is likely unsafe, especially with the amount of power pulled by modern devices (old electrical wiring wasn’t designed with that much power usage in mind!)

Also get them to take a look at the main electrical panel and ensure it’s okay.

My house was built in the 1960s, but the wiring was redone at some point by a previous owner. The 100 amp main panel was still original though, and it was a brand that was known for issues. I had it replaced with a new 200 amp panel.

They’re only pausing production for four days.

They work well. They cost more than other options, but (at least in my experience) colours are more consistent and uniform.

Not sure if it’s still the case, but the ones I have from a few years ago use Zigbee so you don’t actually need their hub - any Zigbee coordinator will do (I’m using a PoE one, the smlight SLZB-06).

Consider using smart switches instead of smart bulbs. However, given how old the house is, you might not have neutral wires at the switches, which limits the types of smart switches you can use. Do you know if the electrical wiring is still original, or if it was redone at some point?

For the power outlets, I’d highly recommend getting an electrican to install more. It’s way more convenient than having power strips everywhere.

Sure, but there’s Linux features that use TPM too, although you probably don’t need them in a home environment.

It was a feature built in to the web browser, providing a website, file sharing, a music player, a photo sharing tool, chat, a whiteboard, a guestbook, and some other features.

All you needed to do was open the browser and forward a port, or let UPnP do it (since everyone still had UPnP enabled back then), and you’d get a .operaunite.com subdomain that anyone could access, which would hit the web server built into the browser.

This was back in 2008ish, when Opera was still good (before it was converted to be Chromium-powered). A lot of people still used independent blogs back then, rather than everything being on social media, so maybe it was ahead of its time a bit.

Depends on if you use any security features that require a TPM. If not, the older chips are fine, or some motherboards allow a separate TPM chip to be added.

For example, my employer requires TPM 2.0 for both Windows and Linux systems, since they store most encryption keys and certificates on it - including WPA2-Enterprise key for wifi, 802.1x key for wired Ethernet, SSH keys (in some cases), LUKS key for full-disk encryption on Linux, Bitlocker key on Windows, etc.

For home use, if you don’t use any of those features (or require strong encryption for them), the main thing you’ll miss out on is support for Windows 11, which is fine if you’re using Linux.

“cloud” still mostly means services like AWS and Google Cloud. People don’t refer to Hetzner dedicated servers as “cloud” for example.