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by idatum 5y ago
Yes! I've been using Windows as long as I've been a developer, and the combination of WSL(2), Terminal, and VSCode (running as Windows process) has been solid for me. I don't use Windows without WSL anymore. PowerShell just n
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I do recommend a GTI -- any recent generation. Sometimes I use it like a "truck" by folding the rear seats flat. It also serves well on longer distance drives with folks in the backseats. I will not part with my MK6, manual 6 spee
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by idatum 5y ago
Good article that gets into the details of leveraging Home Assistant (HA) to glue together various types of sensors and switches, etc. I think categorizing HA users into 2 groups of either technical or non-technical is too coarse. You have
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by idatum 5y ago
In 2020 when my provider still gave out a /64, I recall (via Ubiquity router stats) at least 60% of our household traffic was IPv6. Not "exclusively", but a majority. Most traffic overall was streaming services. Now I have be
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by idatum 5y ago
Their website is glorious in a retro kind of way. Installed lynx just to enjoy the text experience.
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+1 on this. I expect some kind of flashing ad or pop up, where that expectation itself is a distraction. It's rare that it's not a website I'm reading on mobile. The state of the internet. Sigh.
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If you simply need to know when the dishwasher is on, and be alerted when then off (complete), there are simple and non-wifi solutions by monitoring the power usage on its circuit. For example, I have CTs directly attached to my laundry cir
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by idatum 5y ago
How far does YouTube Premium go as far as privacy? I never took a look at it carefully. My fear is I would pay the fee for no ads, but Google would still collect data on what I view and monetize that by selling me ads somewhere else.
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by idatum 5y ago
+1 on combination of WSL2 + Windows Terminal. Use VSCode as Windows process (if you prefer) as your WSL2 editor; extensions can be installed on WSL2. I also use Python + OpenCV4.5 + cudnn (CUDA) for computer vision work leveraging GPU compu
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Or worse, phone # for "security".
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by idatum 5y ago
Has anyone else reached a point where online tracking (aka surveillance economy) has become debilitating, online, outside a forum such as HN? Interacting online, searching, just clicking a link, has become....exhausting actually, because of
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by idatum 5y ago
HN will feed more clicks, even in good faith to question this video. The company behind that stupid wallet thing he's promoting is probably happy, at least for now. And GOOG won't pull this, at least for now. Fact checkers? lol Wh
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On Signal? Wow, this is bad news because I have my immediate family on Signal and I won't pick up a call unless it's a Signal call. Regarding the money trail, etc: I can't help but think we'll never really see the "
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by idatum 5y ago
Terrible loss of life, and the thought of these monster tornados striking at night is terrifying. Maybe it could have been worse though. Most of the warnings issued were accurate, from what I've read [0]. I really hope we continue to i
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by idatum 5y ago
I upgraded from 12.2 today. Flawless. Once 13.1 is out, I'll jump a full version. FreeBSD, and the BSDs generally, are such gems. I use Linux for work every day (mostly Debian based), and that's all good. And almost 100% of that i
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by idatum 5y ago
HP calculators are such gems. The HP-48 survived my school backpack and always "just worked". Really great products. Will have to also acknowledge the BSDs along with ZFS for storage.
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Somewhat related to injecting unusual characters, in my experience in localization efforts: Inject a Turkish 'I'. I don't know how to type or paste it here, but picture an English lower case 'i' that is upper case.
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My laptop was capable of upgrading to Win11 and WSLg was my main motivation. I like the mix of Windows and Linux and having Linux graphics and pulseaudio mixed in with native Windows. This most likely wouldn't be described as a "c
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Looks interesting, will check that out!
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I enjoyed reading "A mind at Play", Soni and Goodman. There are several of these kind of stories with colleagues. I also like how the book goes into his childhood, including using electrified fence to communicate with his farm nei
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by idatum 5y ago
Moving my home automation notifications (mix of DIY and Home Assistant) from Twilio SMS to Signal using signal-cli Docker image. I might even get confident enough in this solution to allow commands to be sent (e.g. lock front door).
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Never having explicitly queried fb.com before I never noticed how they (face:b00c) got clever with their IPv6 address: 2a03:2880:f1ff:83:face:b00c:0:25de
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by idatum 5y ago
+1 on paho-mqtt for python and mosquitto. All of my fun projects such as XBee3 sensors and HA + Z-Wave go through MQTT. It has been rock solid and a joy to develop against.
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by idatum 5y ago
Maybe the article was AI generated? /s
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I use Z-Wave and the key for me is I'm not beholden to some external IoT service that is a potential privacy issue, can update firmware without my consent, or simply goes away. I feel I own my Z-Wave network (aka right to repair). For
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I also use signal-cli for notifications including my own custom integrations using MQTT. And to connect remotely to the Home Assistant (HA) UI I use an SSH tunnel. But this is how I enjoy using HA, integrating with my own projects. What I a
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by idatum 5y ago
There is a dark pattern in Android that is tangentially related only, but I need to share it: The service in Android using (B)SSID for "a better experience" is configured off on my phone, and I explicitly turn off all location ser
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I also enjoyed "A Mind at Play". I had forgotten (or never fully appreciated) what Shannon did and what other early pioneers did in computing. I have a better appreciation for all of them now. One other highlight was Shannon'
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Projections can be tricky. Early memory I have in college: I walked into my professor's office and she had a curious looking map on her wall. It had Australia at the center and the US was distorted and upside down. As someone from Nort
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Fair question. This is exhausting.

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