supergeek133

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by supergeek133 4mo ago
I have first hand view of traffic Home Assistant creates.. there is an upside down usage model. Infrastructure (servers, bandwidth, etc) costs money. For better or worse, most devices don't have local interfaces. Some matter devices ex
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by supergeek133 4mo ago
Volkswagen has an EU Data Act site: https://drivesomethinggreater.com/eu-data-act
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by supergeek133 1y ago
No, it isn't. It literally created a second class of phone users in America. Specific example: When on dating apps you see "green bubbles" as a red flag/un-dateable trait, it has done considerable harm.
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by supergeek133 1y ago
So many people are overengineering this... I have a wireless Jabra headset. Works great. At home I use one of those usb speakerphone pucks, works great. Not these super special desktop mics that streamers or radio broadcasters use. The peop
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by supergeek133 2y ago
Whenever you see one of these "it's product" or "it's engineers" all I can think of is "someone has more business context or knowledge than the others" The best teams I've ever worked on as a pro
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by supergeek133 2y ago
The friends I have that work there that love it are absolute workaholics. Amazon takes every minute they're willing to give, they're successful and consistently promoted/paid more. This is also why I'll never work at Ama
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by supergeek133 2y ago
One frivolous lawsuit destroys the revenue from multiple happy customers. Unfortunately.
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by supergeek133 2y ago
The State of MN stopped accepting certain credit cards for many DMV type activities, and now only accept ones that allow an explicit surcharge (Visa, Mastercard, Discover, Amex).
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by supergeek133 2y ago
That's the interesting bit for me. I DO believe people are calling the police less for crime, even violent crime. However, how do you have an official source of "I decided not to call the cops".
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by supergeek133 2y ago
How does one have an official source of "A crime was done to me but I just decided to not call the police"
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by supergeek133 2y ago
But this cultural issue is literally quoted in the DOJ complaint against Apple. Apple, by overlaying iMessage features over SMS and only accessible to iPhone users have created a virtual second class of phone users.
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by supergeek133 2y ago
I'm not saying I run into these people, and I agree with your take. > Not at all. A few of my friends are techies and they use Android/iPhone about 50/50. Family is mixed as well. No one in family uses iMessage. I would be
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by supergeek133 2y ago
Your average iphone user has no idea what this is. All the know is "android makes the bubbles green and iMessage doesn't work as well with them, or at all".
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by supergeek133 2y ago
Are your various friends/family all tech-y people? My "normal" friends and family are majority iPhone users. I'm Android. I "literally ruin" their group texts. I've seen people actually reject relationship
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by supergeek133 3y ago
And yet here I am with my 10+ years of experience, without a degree. I've met people better than me with less experience and no degree, and people who aren't very good that have MANY degrees. Yet we've gone through many itera
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by supergeek133 3y ago
Or the fact that many of the major "security bad press" or "S in IoT stands for security" stories are because such interfaces were made but not properly secured. (see bosch story)
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by supergeek133 3y ago
Understood, and I've advocated for this at my company, but I like to talk about things I have sphere of influence over.
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by supergeek133 3y ago
How do you know these are Haier's best customers? By definition, they are using MORE platform/API traffic than the average user and not paying more.
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by supergeek133 3y ago
That's what I don't get, why they didn't just start with pure math/data when reaching out to the developer. The only thing I can think of is someone outside of the "knowledge chain" caught wind of it and just f
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by supergeek133 3y ago
> Yes, they are your users. They are likely the people who will gush about your product to their friends and result in more sales. If the plugin could be behaved better: Make a PR and improve it. People will love you if you do it under y
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by supergeek133 3y ago
> Design a better api, bud. If you can't deal with all of your users using the product you sold them, the product you made is trash and your users deserve a refund. If 3k home assistant users take up as much traffic as say... 50% of
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by supergeek133 3y ago
I have data to back this up (at least for our products), do you?
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by supergeek133 3y ago
That's exactly what Haier is doing, just via legal means than technical ones. We actually have a public self-serve API. In some cases, if I've tried the diplomatic approach, I've had to actually shut off API access to get som
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by supergeek133 3y ago
Haier (at least this product in the EU) doesn't have a published/public API. The code in question scraped the API off of app/device traffic. Also, Home Assistant is a locally focused platform, and when it uses cloud APIs it c
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by supergeek133 3y ago
At this point? I'd push harder to avoid all this negative press that is pervasive in IoT journo when it REALLY impacts a percent of a percent. When the Chamberlain story happened, I received questions from executives on why it was such
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by supergeek133 3y ago
I'm guessing when they're saying "Assistant" they're talking about Google. Not HA.
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by supergeek133 3y ago
It takes a lot more to deal with/manage these integrations than some on HN ever realize, especially when these stories come up.
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by supergeek133 3y ago
Even though I advocate for a local interface, I also completely agree with your statement. But, the alternative is we either accept this completely upside down API traffic ratio with locally focused integrations (bad, costs lots of money) o
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by supergeek133 3y ago
Security via obscurity and "closed loop" tends to be the answer, plus whatever doesn't show up on a scan tool. Thankfully we have a (fairly) accessible API to the cloud side. TBD on what (if anything) matter will change.
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by supergeek133 3y ago
Don't ask me to explain the mindset of your average "tool runner" cybersecurity person. I've long advocated a local HTTP interface for our products, but usually a losing battle.

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