XorNot

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by XorNot 3d ago
Honestly if Tuya just added official support so you could OTA flash their stuff, then between that and ESPHome this would already be done. If you have physical access (not easy always) it's relatively straight forward to upgrade a Tuya
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by XorNot 3d ago
Wifi with a firewalled network is a lot easier to debug, which is how I do it in my house. There's no Internet from the IoT SSID.
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by XorNot 4d ago
My hypothesis on people quitting in protest is they're being offered very generous severance packages to do it.
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by XorNot 5d ago
That's all of them.
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by XorNot 6d ago
Well that and it's indicative of the broader American social dysfunction that they are chronically incapable of holding themselves or their (still surprisingly democratic) government accountable and so everything is always about "
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by XorNot 6d ago
Oh, do they have some mechanism by which they just took people's votes away entirely?
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by XorNot 6d ago
The plight can be quite real but when people say they have no social life what they're not saying is what sort of social life do they want? What do they want to do while being social with people?
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by XorNot 6d ago
For the purposes of an organization concerned with the demography of actual people, what is the value Winkel Tripel is bringing at the scales it would be used in general application? Because if you have a specific application then you choos
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by XorNot 6d ago
I have a heat pump hot water unit in Australia - Sanden: https://www.sanden-hot-water.com.au/ CO2 refrigerant as well.
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by XorNot 6d ago
I mean it also accurately depicts relative land mass sizes? For the purposes of the UN that seems fairly relevant compared to Mercator which is a good map if you're actually navigating a coast line but atrocious if you're trying t
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by XorNot 7d ago
Has anyone lived with a foldable phone for a while? I just can't believe that the actuated element isnt going to end up a bundle of dead pixels.
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by XorNot 7d ago
I don't know in terms of saved paper because the printer has somehow switched to Letter again I think an argument could be made...
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by XorNot 7d ago
Arguing whether "all" or just "most" of humans dying is certainly a choice. Survival of the species isn't enough.
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by XorNot 8d ago
My point is that the satire doesn't work because it doesn't understand the issue at hand. A fictional American town being renamed to to South America doesn't actually capture the absurdities or issues of the current American
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by XorNot 8d ago
But they already do that. They have local presences because they need it to get local ad dollars and trade locally. You don't need a total solution to have an influence: it's a saturated market where you're only as good as qu
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by XorNot 8d ago
Well that, and the average amount of easily obtainable explosives is substantially less dangerous then renting a box truck and crashing it into a crowd of people. People go for conventional "exciting" threats rather then boring on
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by XorNot 8d ago
You can't design an infectious pathogen without testing it. It's got all the same problems as the concept of a dirty bomb did, only worse (dirty bombs aren't practical because handling highly radioactive materials en masse is
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by XorNot 8d ago
> * Alternatively, American govt takes the position of "American companies don't have to follow the laws of random countries just because they accept IP packets from those countries". American companies eliminate their off
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by XorNot 9d ago
It's because Musk fired his PR department. Tesla have no ability to damage control stories like this because it's no one's job at the company. A normal firm would have a heads up warning when requests for comment hit their me
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by XorNot 9d ago
They lie loudly and often and face no punishment for it because a lie is halfway round the world before the truth gets its pants on. "They're eating the dogs. They're eating the cats."
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by XorNot 9d ago
Because having the TV play from streaming apps out of the box is pretty useful. The problem is we've not enforced any strong regulation against ads, downgrade rights or hack ability. I don't need "better performance" fro
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by XorNot 9d ago
That seems less likely then people being tired and stressed from the costs of living and the increased economic instability. We have smartphones but we're perilously few missed pay cheques away from not having a house, with a capital c
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by XorNot 9d ago
> 1) "Everybody knows" that if you build Skynet (misaligned ASI) everybody dies. Lol nobody knows that. Everyone thinks they know that because for some reason this is the one field people still cite straight up fiction and say
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by XorNot 9d ago
Okay but like, you can make that happen. You can just stop using it. Interestingly I did learn of a niche which is completely unserved except by Meta recently: child-locked messaging apps. Messenger for Kids basically does everything you wa
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by XorNot 10d ago
Scrapers scrape every link they can find. The git host example is probably the one which Anubis is the dumbest defense for: the main reason to have those links is for easy machine interaction. So that's dead when you implement it. So w
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by XorNot 10d ago
Okay but it's like no RAM at all. Thats the problem: you've got stupid bots causing a bunch of issues - these can be stopped. And then regular users: who now can't really browse your site. And then smart bots - anyone with ev
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by XorNot 10d ago
I think internet people care about some theoretical surveillance angle more then anyone else actually does. People hire cleaners and tradespeople into their homes all the time. The practical problems with robots are effectiveness, cost and
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by XorNot 11d ago
I've said it before and I'll keep saying it: indoor plumbing, and a nice clean bathroom to use it with. That is a luxury not everyone gets even today.
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by XorNot 11d ago
Going on injectable testosterone suppresses natural production. It also leads to compensatory feedback effects like an increase in estrogen. Once you're on it it's very hard to come off it, and the side effects are significant.
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by XorNot 11d ago
How is it hard? It's difficult to build electrical generation these days and not go renewables because they're so cheap and fast to deploy. It's not a total solution, but market forces wise everything says "build solar a

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