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From the 3rd link:

The team is in the process of speaking with a large manufacturer to bring Smart Straws to the market, Baigorri said, and plan to make it "very affordable and cheap enough to dispose."

Laudible goal, but I do wonder why other teams failed. The bulk price (on amazon) seems to be about $2.30 each, which definitely isnt super cheap.

The downside of "every drink gets a stick" is that it becomes much easier for a would-be rapist to replace the stick with a fake at the same time as inserting the drug. If you cant trust the integrity of the drink, you can't trust the stick either.

I wonder if having a "Free drink replacement, no questions asked" policy might be easier/cheaper answer. If you think your drink was tampered with, return it to the bar for a replacement. Bar can increase their prices a bit to cover the wasted drinks.

Is this one of those "my first chemistry project" kinda things? I swear I have heard of heaps of these kind of things coming out of unis, and nothing about this seems different to all the ones from ages ago.

Edit: existing product: https://www.amazon.com/DrinkCheck-Spiking-Escape-Spiking-Personal/dp/B0D1VGWJFG

Highschoolers from 8 years ago: https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2017/05/27/whats-in-your-drink-the-straw-that-can-detect-date-rape-drugs/

Also 2017, and a commercial product: https://www.cnet.com/culture/this-straw-is-smart-enough-to-detect-date-rape-drugs/

Exactly this. Company statements have zero basis in reality, they should be ignored unless they actually back them up with evidence or data.

No one forced apple to announce AI. They could have just waited until they had something ready.

"We are currently clean on OPSEC"

I started reading and though this was someone who had lost their marbles, by target 2 I was hooked.

And next to his original, fully erect penis, was another one. Identical. Bio-engineered, apparently. He struck a pose.

Poetry.

Sure, sure, "evaporate". Your secrets safe with us :D

Stored correctly it may not be, but a little rat urine can spoil anything :)

I was using it to deploy VMs to vsphere, and to test, started by deploying against a local KVM. Got it all working, copied the config to my prod vsphere, hoping I could just update the creds, and bunch of the KVM flags didn't work for vsphere, so I had to fix/rewrite them, which wasted a lot of time.

TF would be amazing if it was a single API that appled generically to all backends. And it sorta is for the most part, but there are just a few footguns that can really spoil the mood. If they had a core API and anything non-portable was clearly documented, that would be good as well.

Which part? Thats exactly what I've used terraform for, it might not be the full capabilities of it, but its one of the main use case?

Yeah, but I was trying to keep the description basic, to avoid turning it into a buzzword salad.

Have you used it much? Like it? Hate it? I'm curious to know others thoughts on it.

Its for easily deploying virtual machines. You can specify the VM specs, give it an install disk and some instructions, and it will churn out a VM for you.

Honestly, it's not great in my experience, nothing about it is common or portable, so if you change your VM host, it might all fall apart.

I think its a matter of perspective though. I have all the physical buttons I need, and even ones I dont need, so im happy. For you, yours doesn't have all the functions you need, so obviously your not happy.

Both versions have delay, but I did lose half load and delicate. Gained some other programs though, but those aren't useful. Funnily enough, neither version has a dedicated rinse.

Series 6 Integrated incase anyone else is interested:

• https://www.productreview.com.au/listings/bosch-serie-6-built-in-dishwashers
• https://www.productreview.com.au/listings/bosch-serie-6-built-in-dishwashers

That is very irresponsible of them, that shouldn't have happened over land.

I saw the shadow of a Chinook out of the office window, disappointed that I didn't see it properly :(

1. Pump, pump, PUMP!
2. ???

Buy up plebs, someone's gonna get rich at step 2.

The feature removal is nuanced thing worthy of more discussion. If Bosch had sold the dishwasher with a rinse button, and then disabled it via a firmware patch, I would be pissed as well. If Bosch are advertising a cloud only featured without making it clear its cloud only, also pissed. But Bosch shipping a dishwasher without a rinse button, that is less clear. Not all offline dishwashers have a rinse (I had an IKEA without a rinse cycle), so whether it is a standard feature or not is open for debate. It could be as simple as Bosch deciding to prioritise a difference cycle button instead? Features being removed from products is unfortunately nothing new, in all industries there are numerous examples,, the only difference here is that with their app, Bosch can add it back in.

Remote start is the main reason for having it networked. They also advertise it with home assistant/homekit/googlehome/alexa connectivity, which isnt for everyone, but for some, that is a sellable feature. So its not necessarily true that the app directly makes money, it could simply be a feature that helps sell more machines.

Bosch are EU based, so any collected data should be protected by GDPR, although Im not EU, so they could be screwing me if they want. (I am also not a gdpr lawyer, so correct me if i am wrong here). I'd trust Bosch a lot more than a Chinese/US manufacturer, but I isolate it out of an abundance of paranoia.

I still think its unnecessarily rude to call someone's opinion/experience "pathetic".

The rest, I absolutely agree with. Its not a Bosch problem, its that specific model of dishwasher for that specific user problem. If I were in their situation, I would return the dishwasher.

Removing buttons definitely sucks. In my case, its a built in dishwasher, so space is already limited for buttons, and all the ones I need are there. So the cloud is 100% value add. I'd hate it as well if the app was my only choice for a feature.

No need for name calling.

My dishwasher is completely fine without the cloud. Period. Full stop.

There is no need to put it on the network, but if you want to, and are paranoid, you can connect it to an isolated network. If you dont want to, dont, and the dishwasher will work.

There are valid use cases for the networking, beyond data collection, if you dont like it, dont use it. I do like it, and I'd rather support companies that do provide first party homeassistant support.

The line between "optional add", and "base features" will differ per user, so personally, mine can do everything I need it to on the controls, and the cloud stuff is value add.

My only complaint with Bosch is that my washing machine from the same vintage doesn't have any remote start features, so i can't run it via homeassistant.