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by fps 9y ago
This is a video chat hardware device, not an assistant. Facebook has become the de-facto messaging platform for most of the people I know, and Facebook's Video chat is typically what I suggest when I want to do a video conference with
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by fps 9y ago
The concession "stands" in theaters in my area (Boston) all sell hot food and alcohol[0,1] these days, because the traditional popcorn, 1/2 gallon of soda and raisinettes weren't selling to most people anymore. I think
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by fps 9y ago
What part of "read and navigate news" and "printers for output and barcode scanners for input" isn't absolutely crystal clear? It fully and clearly explains what the system can do and how you interact with it. D
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by fps 9y ago
I can also hear a CRT on anywhere in a house/office. One of the best things about the transition to flat screens is that the annoying high-pitched whine that accompanied CRTs has gone away. Now I only hear mode scanning/input ski
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by fps 9y ago
Verizon bought AOL in 2015 [0] and has recently started discontinuing their ISP provided @verizon.net email addresses and servers[1] in favor of @aol.com addresses. 0: https://www.wsj.com/articles/verizon-to-buy-aol-for
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by fps 9y ago
citation? I belive that this local number spoofing is just a meme that's caught on within the junk calling industry. The people making these calls are already in violation of a pile of laws, but they don't care. Number spoofing
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by fps 9y ago
Home assistant ( https://home-assistant.io/ ) combined with zwave devices gives you an open source controller and a LAN only network of things. You can also to in to hundreds of existing devices/platforms. The platform i
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by fps 9y ago
I'd prefer they just let you run the hub/central service yourself, with an option to have them run it for a fee, yes. I think we'll start to see regular consumers harmed by some of these start-ups destroying hardware when the
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by fps 9y ago
I feel like selling a hardware device that depends on a cloud service you're bundling for free is intentionally bricking the devices. They are refusing to accept returns, and they're refusing to open the API or provide a firmwa
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by fps 9y ago
Most of these companies don't have any subscription fees. They just provide the "free" cloud service for as long as it takes to make a whole bunch of sales, then shut it down and suddenly all the devices stop working. if y
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by fps 9y ago
Home Assistant on a raspberry pi gives you an open source home hub with a mobile app. It has built-in dyndns functionality from a variety of providers, using an open standard. It supports on-board ssl via letsencrypt, and provides easy in
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Emberlight is shutting down, bricking all previously sold hardware(emberlight.co)
34 points by fps 9y ago|23 comments
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by fps 9y ago
The "drop off lane" at my local elementary school is already a 30 minute traffic jam, and that's with parents in the cars hurrying the kids along and school staff directing traffic. You think a robot car is going to get a kid
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by fps 9y ago
Shared hosting (with PHP, mod_perl and SSI) was available from thousands of providers for between $5 and $25/month. SSL required a dedicated IP, because SNI wasn't a thing yet, and so if you wanted an SSL enabled site, you were
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by fps 9y ago
the problem is that the four big consumer z-wave hubs all have the cloud entanglement issue. Wink, Smartthings, Amazon and Vera all sell you a piece of hardware that only works as long as they're providing their free cloud service. It
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by fps 9y ago
Some communities aren't profitable to serve with broadband. The first municipal broadband efforts I was aware of were created because no commercial ISPs wanted to compete in an area. Broadband, like water and electricity, is a natural
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by fps 9y ago
When I worked in a supermarket in the late 90's, we did have a pretty expansive back room filled with stuff that had been taken off trucks but not stocked on shelves. However, it was next to impossible for a front-end person to actua
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by fps 9y ago
I've never seen bluetooth audio devices that were capable of syncing video and audio in 10 years of using bluetooth audio devices. My most recent tao tronics BT headphones were great for podcasts and audio, but useless for watching v
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by fps 9y ago
As much as I appreciate https for sensitive information, I feel that for many things, it also functions as a way to lock down the standard protocols of the web and lock users in to proprietary software and services. No longer can you spy o
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by fps 9y ago
I've always been upfront and honest about my current salary and expectations. It keeps me from getting lowballed on an offer, and reduces time wasted in talking to employers that can't meet my expected salary. The starting point
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by fps 9y ago
we [1] do most of our AMI provisioning by booting a machine, checking out our ansible codebase and running `ansible-playbook -c local -i "localhost," ...` as part of cloud-init. Build progress is piped over SQS and a management p
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by fps 9y ago
Intel and AMD both embed monitoring processors with unaudited binary OSes in their CPUs: https://boingboing.net/2016/06/15/intel-x86-processors-ship-... Intel calls their spy cpu "Management Engine&quot
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by fps 9y ago
Yeah, the intro to the article made it pretty clear that this writer doesn't know the first thing about mobile technology. I think, in his mind, "Siri" is the name for mobile text to speech.
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by fps 9y ago
I live in Massachusetts, and have 37 250 watt panels. Snow isn't an issue. The panels generate a little bit of resistive heat, which means snow typically doesn't stick. If it's snowing so heavy, and is so cold that the panel
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by fps 9y ago
> True, it's not "apt install" but it's pretty close I feel like maybe you don't know what apt does, or how it's used, if you think that shell script is "pretty close."
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by fps 9y ago
I'm from southern NY, and where I grew up, you would refer to state highway 110 as "110" or "Route 110". Interstate 495 is "495" or "the L.I.E." Named roads like the Northern State Parkway or
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by fps 9y ago
The national average cost for gas is $2.67/gallon, Electricity $0.12/kwh. Based entirely on fuel costs, the Model S 85 costs $0.04/mile and the 20 mpg BMW M4 costs $0.13/mile. In order to save $200/month on fuel wit
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by fps 9y ago
MIT gave up half of 18/8 earlier this year, mostly to Amazon - https://www.networkworld.com/article/3191503/internet/mit-se... They've internally started rolling out IPv4 NAT and IPv6
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by fps 9y ago
I've used it a few times but only because I know amazon's costs and shipping policies are consistent, and they give you enough information up front on the item page to make a fully informed purchase decision. Other ecommerce sites
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by fps 9y ago
But it doesn't need to be shipped from the factory in China to the user. Sand can be locally sourced cheaply. Washing machine installers just need an additional material on their truck, in addition to the tools and plumbing supplies th

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