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Vmware launches Liota (Little IoT Agent), a vender-neutral open-source SDK
- dang 10y agoRelated announcement post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11833620 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11833620
- dimdimdim 10y agoWould be better if they called it Lolita :)
- curryhoward 10y agoOr just "Iota", which already carries the connotation of "little" without the preceding "L".
- venomsnake 10y agoNo. Because it is intended for Goodfellas.
- eps 10y agoSay all you want, but it's an example of how not to name things, especially an open source project meant for wide adoption. In written form, it's basically a variation of "Lolita", which leaves a corresponding impression even after it's re-read properly.
- neutronicus 10y agoThat ... didn't even enter my mind, FWIW.
- rndmio 10y agoWhereas my first thought was "Ray Liota", which apparently has two T's. Also with the fact that I would pronounce the two words quite differently, I think you're wrong.
- ZoF 10y agoLolita isn't a very common term outside of *chan.
- eps 10y agoIt's one of Nabokov's more notable novels, but I guess to each his own, including *chan for some.
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- jon-wood 10y agoThat's because you spend too much time combining literature discussion and back water IRC channels! More seriously I agree, terrible naming, especially given another poster pointing out Iota would have been fine.
- staticvar 10y agoWhat does this project bring to the table? The examples are Python scripts that we could already write on a Raspberry Pi.
- ctz 10y agoThat example code isn't going to run. Hyphens are illegal in python identifiers.
- bogomipz 10y agoDoes anyone actually believe that IoT is anything more than marketing fluff? What are the benefits of my LED lightbulbs having an IPv6 address?
- IshKebab 10y agoYes there are definite benefits. The problem at the moment is that nothing is interoperable. Everything is proprietary. I'm hopeful that eventually we'll get some semi-open standard that most things support. Probably Homekit or Weave. They have the huge advantage of native support on a mobile OS. Weave looks better, but Homekit has the advantage of actually existing. I would say, wait 3 years then ask that question again. And some possible benefits of connected lights are: * Automatically turn off when you leave the house (or room if you have good enough sensors). * Automatically adjust colour temperature over time (e.g. using the weather). * Gently fade on when your alarm goes off in the morning. I lived in a flat with motion-sensing lights in the bathroom and I wish they had been connected so I could have made them dimmer at night.
- microcolonel 10y agoWouldn't it be better if they were just automatically dimmer at night? Wouldn't you still prefer a real dimmer switch, even if it moves automatically on a schedule? I can't see wanting to pull out a phone (which I may not even have with me at night) to dim the lights while my hands are wet. I don't even have a smartphone, and my flatmate broke hers irreparably the other day and has been without while waiting for a replacement. I really don't see any reason why people should be expected to control devices which are right in front of them with something in their pocket. There's a reason we still carry cash: when the lights go out, and the ink on the credit card recorder runs dry, you can still pay for things. People who do not carry cash deserve a nomination for the Darwin Award.
- icebraining 10y agoI agree that only being able to control stuff using your smartphone is dumb, but that's a separate question from whether IoT is useful or not, as you could have both.