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Rather than disconnecting these type of appliances completely I’d rather disconnect them from the cloud and connect locally, for example using Home Assistant. I have captured an OTA update for my Miele appliance but so far haven’t gotten around to poking around. Has anyone tried something similar?
Most of my industrial career, I've used things like this for actual systems beyond prototyping:

https://www.ni.com/en-us/support/model.ni-9870.html

They go through an FPGA and then exposed via drivers over Ethernet or USB and are rock solid. You can access the serial data on the FPGA or you can use a default driver/personality for them that makes the module plug and play. There are other products I've used that expose RS-232 over Ethernet or fiber that work decently well.

There's also the Pmod interface:

https://digilent.com/reference/pmod/pmodrs232/start

I'll take a look at what you linked. I have often thought about doing something in this area, because it's amazing how reliable serial communication over RS-232, RS-422, and RS-485 can be, within their operation constraints.
You can actually buy X86 microcontrollers.
You’d be amazed how the smallest amount of information can be used to invade your privacy.

I don’t know how fridges with WiFi works. But considering the rumors about connecting to open Wi-Fi connections automatically, let’s start from there.

1) What if a so-called smart fridge keeps a list of items you have stored in your fridge? Maybe there are temperature settings for different zones. Maybe a default is listed as “eggs”.

Ok, now you know that, presumably, your target really likes eggs. So much that he Selects that temperature by default.

Now you know what to look for to make potential physical contact with your target.

1) where is nearest store with eggs?

2) how often does he open and close the fridge? Maybe the data stored keeps that data. From there, you can guess how often your target may run out of eggs if he buys them a dozen at a time and opens the fridge every morning for breakfast.

3) you have three stored within cycling / driving range. You go to one of them to wait for your target.

Next scenario:

You connect to the fridges open Wi-Fi connection automatically. Oh, jackpot! This fridge has a camera in its screen! Now you have access to watch your target through the fridge camera.

Next scenario:

Maybe the fridge keeps a list of other Wi-Fi sourced it tried to access earlier. You can scan those and maybe try to guess passwords to break into those networks.

I could go on.
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the 'data leak' which contains traditional rather than simplified Chinese script.
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Another tactic I have seen used a lot is that of the "if we all use the same hashtags, this is an ad, it will then spread through the ecosystem." This tactic doesn't work. If I use #StopHateCamps with every retweet and the article still gets flagged, this would be a waste of my time and effort.
I went to INSA in the early aughts and we didn't really have continuous grading, labs (TPs) were graded but the biggest part of the grades (les partiels - exam week) happened twice a year (or 4 times a year during the first two years of prépa intégré).

I do know that since then they've moved to a continuous grading system. I'm not sure if that's the same with other grande écoles but I do know that my friends in other grand écoles had a similar system of 2-4 partiels a year.
From the article it’s unclear to me what AI has to do with these measurement data. It more reads like an advertisement for Azure.

Please enlighten me if I misunderstand or misread.
Even better screens from the UI: https://imgur.com/a/Jb6jW
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It’s a feature, not a bug
Which company/product/service has great docs? Several times I've came across Stripe as a example of good docs.
In the USA? Everywhere I’ve ever lived in the USA already has a plethora of churches. Why are they making more?
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Buying a new washing machine / dishwasher requires delicate skills - there are basically two things that drive the price down: simplicity, and low quality. You have to look for simple and well-build machines, and this usually means days of comparing prices and reviews. It also requires instinct. To make matters worse, over-engineered "smart" machines often have very good reviews because they offer a reasonable experience for the first few years, and most people are blinded by "cool" smart features.

A general rule of thumb: avoid machines with a large display.
I dunno, you seem to be conflating culture and politics. Politics implies it's about power in some kind of hierarchy, culture doesn't necessarily imply that, it just implies a state of being. Is 'being vegetarian' political to a Buddhist, for example? Does anything think Buddhists are being political when they refuse meat?

I mean, everything is political just because humans do it is a funny perspective but so general that it really loses all meaning.
No I get it completely, I would. And probably a lot of readers here would. Though admittedly I'd wait to see if the brand existed in a year, so I could get parts. But the problem seems to keep coming up that people like us just don't represent enough market share for it to be worth everyone's time.

See also: US made hand tools. Everyone seems to yearn for the old Craftsman days, but not enough people want to pay that premium. While Harbor Freight seems ever expanding...
> I use Shelly relays installed behind all my switches [...]

> As a perk you retain the functionality of the existing light switch

This sounds super interesting, so both the control from shelly/HA and the physical light switch can be used?

Do you have any pictures/blog/something about how to set that up? I briefly looked into this in the past, but it seemed impossible with the existing wiring (only the live wire is behind the physical switch, no neutral).
It might even be worth fixing it, depending on the build quality and the actual consumption. Use a kill-a-watt or something similar to figure out what the device actually costs. Be prepared for surprises, both in the positive and the negative direction! Do this before something breaks.
That is amazing and bananas in equal measure, and I seriously hope it's true (in a sort of black mirror-esque way) -- it's just the perfect parody.

And the perfect example! If I was choosing between two otherwise-equivalent hot tubs I would /definitely/ pay more for one without the ability to call home. Are there enough people who would also be willing to pay more, and pay enough more to make up the difference in lost advertising revenue? I guess...not?
If you use small scale solar+wind and surplus grey water those are moot.

The comparison is the water and energy embodied in the solar panel/turbine/inverter.

If you live in a desert, water is relevant
Replaced a 20+ year GE 18" fridge due to its age. Its insulation was gone, compressor has lost a lot of power and was noisy.

Our new Samsung has more space, less noise, way less heat generation and power consumption, and has no additional bells and whistles.

Like or not, appliances age, and their performance drops.

Same with dishwashers. With the looming water crisis ahead, every drop of savings is a plus.

Arcelik/Beko group uses 1000LT fresh water per year. The rest is recycled in the plant. This is less than monthly consumption of a single household.
It's a niche feature on a declining medium.

Probably not.

(By the way, I didn't downvote you.)
Did you lose your sense of fun in the war?
Not guilt. What good would that do. But maybe a little humor.
Well there are few options. I am not a black hat and my imagination is not as vivid but I think if somebody makes my fridge turn off is bad enough. More sophisticated attackers might use it as a vector to get in to your home network. Not sure.
I'm not sure. We use the raidintegrity option, which layers dm-integrity on top of the raid. We then run btrfs scrubs periodically to trigger reads on the device.

https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/lvmraid.7.html#DATA_IN...
Thomas piketty already discovered that the growth rate of the economy must be higher than the rate of return on capital. Not all returns actually go to 0% due to monopolies, etc. This means those returns have to be taken from someone else and forcibly growing the economy is just a bandaid so people don't lose what they already have to the rich owners of monopolies.
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Thank you for this informative reply.
i think a more general question is how would you measure explainability when you see it? is there some sort of metric for that?
Big money, nuclear subsidies, and systemic corruption (2021)
If they also leave out the dsp, and settle on a standard form factor with no plastic clips and with standard mounts for all internal stuff. I'd buy in a heartbeat.
Glad to see i'm not the only one solving problems that way :)

My Roomba would get stuck under the radiator in the living room. It fits under one end, but aparently it's not completely level, so as it was doing it's edge routine it would gradually wedge itself stuck under the radiator.

The solution was "simple" as 3D printing a couple of "stands" to place under the radiator where the Roomba fit and didn't fit.

As for my Robot lawnmower getting stuck on the trampoline, i simply dug down the trampoline legs far enough to make the robot drive safely over them :)
???

Free universal education was the key to take poor people out of poverty.

How is this even worth discussing?

Do you realize that if that goes away, we won't be in a libertarian paradise, we'll be back to feudalism?

Countless people from bad environments broke through due to free universal education.

I guess you're not aware of the history on this domain or are just privileged and you don't realize it.
Oh a different NaCl not the Cryptography library.
To be honest that's what they want you to believe. Last time i opened a smart TV looked like the most expensive thing was the standing foot and the plastic frame. The rest was power supply (which was broken - planned - died just when warranty expired) and a cheap android computer. I think they cannot resist to the idea that if they have Android why not sell some ads.
If you don't some of your neighbors might. I installed an app to control my AC remotely and when i pressed the button to add all units in range it automatically added one more than there were in my apartment. I had complete control over the AC unit of some unsuspecting neighbour - I could see its status and control everything from my phone anywhere in the world. I suspect it's not that bad for fridges, but you still might be able to do some harm there as well.
> Buying a 20+ old washing machine will cost you a lot in electricity and wasted water.

Does the cost of the electricity and water an old machine uses equal or exceed the cost of the electricity and water involved in having to make a brand new appliance instead of using an already-made one?
You'd just buy a dumb fridge in the first place, no? I mean I know with TV it's nearly impossible to buy dumb now but with fridges it's (at least in the UK) still "default is dumb"...
I'm disappointed that all these smart home appliances connect exclusively via WiFi. None of them connect via Ethernet even though they are stationary and often connecting a cable to them could be easy. The WiFi connection is usually unreliable, supports only 2.4 GHz and requires multiple steps to establish.
> Like many other 'smart' appliances, it creates it's own AP so allow you to set it up. So anyone within range could attach it to their network, and then do whatever they like with it.

Considering the security risk of smart devices generally working like this, I feel like the industry ought to standardize on something more sensible. Maybe some kind of NFC pairing?
3blue1brown … that is it, one if the gem of internet. So wish I have that when I am young.
Thou speakest the truth.
I'm pretty sure they're talking about client side JS bundles, not a NodeJS server that renders HTML.
>Bill Ackman, Jim Chanos, Micheal Burry - those are just few investing douchebags that had one or two hits and then proceeded to be wrong and loose money many times over.

See the link between the 3? She was basically the only woman of the lot. Do you see a lot of famous hedge funds women? Yeah. None.
Cory Doctorow has a story on IoT devices being used to control the behavior of poor people https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/01/unauthorized-bread-a-...
I never thought I'd have a use for extra buttons all that much. There's always keyboard combinations to spare.

Yet about 18 months ago, I remembered I'd got these 5 custom buttons on my keyboard that in something like a decade and a half of using this keyboard model, I'd never once used.

A little bit of searching later, I figured out how to write a bash script that would (for Linux) find the zoom window for whatever meeting or webinar I was in, and bring that up. Then a second script to do the same but also unmute. That has become so insanely useful I'm really kicking myself about not having used those buttons before.
The painting is added after the book edge is cut. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fore-edge_painting

There’s a YouTube of a guy doing it by hand.
I guess by EEE you mean GNOME is pushing for apps to use Flatpak, then once they do, pushing for the Flatpak version to be the main (or only) version. I don't think that really fits the EEE model because any Linux distro (or even Mac or Windows or BSD) can ship Flatpak.
legislation is coming in Sept 2024 (RED directive) mandating a lot of security for IoT home appliance. If your device doesn't have (secure) OTA update, secure-boot, among other things it won't get CE certification. In Europe vendors are scrambling because the law is there but standards are still half-baked (ETSI/EN 303 645 etc). In the US the situation is the opposite: standards are solid but the law is still not clearly defined.

There is a lot to be said about throwing whole classes of users under the bus (elderly, people with disabilities) when asking them to manage technology mostly because how these things are going to be implemented (e.g. the security vs usability dilemma).
My house is neat enough because I have a robot vacuum.

The vacuum runs every weekday at the same time. It's mentally easier for me to spend the 1-5 minutes running around the house and get stuff off the floor for the vacuum to do its job than it is to chase after it to get it to dock again.

The biggest motivator is the amount of dust it gathers even when it runs every day. I'd be breathing in all that crap if it didn't pick it up.
I use FHEM (https://fhem.de/) to automate my home.

Its written in Perl and a bit dated, but it's small and connects with everything I have. Plus it includes a MQTT server.
> The only thing that maintains the value of any asset (or currency) is the collective belief in that asset or currency. Put another way: there is an inescapable component of trust in every asset

Most non currency assets are cash flow generating financial instruments.

If analysts don't believe a company is worth a dime, it can show them wrong by being profitable and paying dividends.

Edit: I think my point is - even if no one else believes in a stock or bond, you can still profit by "being right". The same is not true for currencies.
You’ll see the same problem with Roblox and children accounts. We’ve paid for piles of robux, I had a child account linked to my email. It no longer seems linked and cannot reset it, I’ve sent 10s of emails but only get automated responses.

Gaming industry don’t care
The economy is not like an ecosystem since there is no reciprocation. Money flows in one direction only, toward the top. I find it particularly frustrating that people don't see the economic distortion caused by monopolies in the private economy, they think it must be the government's doing when it tries to undo some of the harm caused by them.
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Always get a LIDAR model, the "bump into everything and guess where I am" -bots are generally useless.

The LIDAR models can travel to a certain room, clean it and get back without any issues.
> Other people genuinely want to understand how things work, and getting a CS degree is not the only way to get there.

It's not the only way, but it is certainly a good way (at least for some).

In my case, I didn't really know what I didn't know. Before studying CS, I had this vague idea of programming as an activity I liked, but it never really "clicked" in the larger sense, as it was woven with magic that I didn't understand at the time. We make programs using Code::Blocks? Well, who made Code::Blocks, and how did they make Code::Blocks without using Code::Blocks?

After studying CS, it just felt like all those mysteries disappeared. Everything made sense, connected into a coherent whole by various mathematical links.

Of course, there's still a lot of things I don't know, and even more that I don't know I don't know. Every now and then, I run into a new concept that teaches me things that I've kinda wondered about, but couldn't put properly into words. Reading about such topics, and seeing the journey unravel, that another person took in order to discover what I'm getting on a silver platter, is one of the most rewarding things in the world.
There is, just on the ultra high end and ultra low end. The mid-range has decided to leverage 'smart' features to compete on cost or shift buyers over.
The appliances came with the apartment/house the author is in, they didn’t choose to buy them.
I agree my syntax is quite spartan, though that's because I don't intend to rely on it as the user interface, but would rather extend to structured editing more like Self.

On the laziness part I'm torn - quoting is what that amounts to and it never seemed extremely elegant either. The call site disambiguation is nice for knowing whether you can compile something.
I don’t think it is hit piece. She is supposed to be expert day trader. She is supposed to be surrounded by economics gurus. She is supposed to have eyes and ears in her investments. She should have offloaded her positions in time, pocketed the gain and waited to re-buy assets she believed in at lower prices. That’s what the day traders do. That’s why they get paid obscene management fees. Instead she sat on risky bets which are underwater and there is no sight when it will get back on track. It is ok if ARKK isn’t growing because they are all in cash Buffet style but it is not ok if it severely underwater. It is an actively managed very high management fees ETF with expected anytime liquidity and shouldn’t fail so horribly.
If there is any animal that I could be convinced is not of this earth, it would be octopus. I’m disappointed that their DNA didn’t suggest this is a possibility ;-)
Yep, hand power tools are another perfect case. We're just vigorously agreeing with one another now, but I would really like to see the economics behind e.g. smart washing machines. I mean, it's not like Samsung just likes violating their customers' privacy for the hell of it -- there must be (considerable?) profit in it somewhere. It's just distressing that there increasingly doesn't seem to be a market /at all/ for non-smart appliances.

I'll probably never buy a television again, since it seems you can't buy a decent non-smart panel without crossing into the enterprise (and adding an order of magnitude in price). And I'm not alone! How is there not a single manufacturer making a single modern non-smart LCD TV? Hell, call it the "HNTV" and expect to sell no more than...20,000? At 200€ in margin that's a 4m€ product line, surely worth throwing off given that the R&D is just removing hardware from an existing model?
>research has shown video conferencing is much more fatiguing than a real meeting

do you have a link to this research? it sounds right but I'd love to see the source
After I cut over to a new wifi router I left my old one partially configured with no internet connection and mirroring everything to one of the LAN ports that goes to an un-numbered (no IP address, no IP egress) port on my main server where I can maniacally sniff their futile unrequited traffic at my leisure.

The idea is to some day make a per-gadget catalog of all the hostnames and addresses these things want to reach, but hopefully someone beat me to it already and you folks can let me know where to find it.
I would like to read more about this. Do you have links?
What happens if you change the WiFi password?
Your comment is definitely centralized in a US mindset but I promise you can still have rights as an employee and not have some much company culture stuff at other companies outside of the US. Being 1099 contractor has too much exposure to risk as an employee IME.

> Because let’s be honest, the reason most of these folks are doing this is because they don’t give a crap about the specific company or anything like that. They just want to build cool shit that other people spec out.

I do not build cool stuff everyday that other people spec out and wouldn’t consider my job being a developer these days. I would say I very much care and like the company I work for.
The people that spec out things can also work remotely.

> As long as the pay is competitive one day they might be building a healthcare mobile app, another day an online car dealership portal.

I work in Cybersecurity and very much have a preference on what I work on and who I work for. I also have a strong preference on working remotely and having employment rights or benefits.
That's an interesting proxy for measurement for sure, but there are others. It rests on the assumption that all privacy improvements will cost Facebook significantly. I don't think that has been demonstrated to be fact. It seems that many will but also many won't. Apparently, just for example, being able to obtain and delete their data didn't effect them in the same way.
Google pays for it, so they get to make the rules. If you pay for it yourself you can make your own rules. That's what living in a free society is like. There isn't really more to say about it.
This look interesting. I'll need to test it out. I'm a, little it puzzled what does subtitle support means. I guess it is possible to embed them directly into video.
I really doubt it happening today or in a years' time. There's digital implementations of games but they don't have the same feeling as playing the game by hand. I'd pick up a card or draw something from a drawstring bag 1000 times for every 1 time I'd tap and drag a card or drag a token from a bag on a screen, and I'd think that's a pretty popular opinion.
The lower the income disparity, the lower the theft crime. In places with high inequality like London, SF, New York, Rio de Janeiro, Paris etc, even beater bikes will have their locks sawn through.
So refreshing to see that others have this simple problem, too. Roombas really are like users. They will eventually find flaws and errors in your software, or, in this case, shoelaces and pieces of cloth lying on the ground.

Other issues with the roomba:
- plant raisers with thin wooden feet.
- wine rack with low base/feet
- ikea chair with low U-shaped feet. Especially when the roomba tries to return to station

I also noticed that it has a hard time detecting dark/black surfaces. Probably it has to do with absorption of whatever kind of sensor wavelengths it uses.
Inflation is mostly a regressive tax because it is pretty easy to evade if you have your value parked in non dollar assets. Housing or stocks for example should appreciate with the inflation rate, if all else is equal. Wages are usually more sticky, so consumers have less to spend.
Why do Solidity programmers get paid so much (200k per year)?
r/cricket is leaking
Microsoft finds severe bugs in Android apps from large mobile providers
Is the AP active literally all the time until you set it up? Usually in these devices it only activates once you select an option in the menu, or shortly after first start - but yeah, if it's on 24/7 until configured, then I agree that's a problem.