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Auckland Council said it is aware of the issue and there will be increased litter patrols, but denies the removal of a bin has contributed to the problem.

What do they think bins exist for?

I wonder if they really got their 8.5m savings or are they replacing one known spot to get the rubbish with a more expensive litter patrol team?

I guess I just don't really understand why, if they think the bin is underutilised, why aren't they getting their savings by only emptying every second day or whatever. Why are they spending money to remove 30% of their public bins?

From Wikipedia, he was just a mascot until:

The Timberwolves struggle in the championship game and an injury leaves them with four players. Buddy shows up to the crowd's cheers. After it is discovered that there is no rule preventing a dog from playing basketball, he is added to the roster and...

I used to work with someone who had a postit in the end of a cardboard tube that said "Leave me alone". They would stand it up on their desk when they needed to focus.

Everything is exposed through a reverse proxy. E.g. homeassistant.mydomain.nz

However, I have DNS rewriting set in Adguard that does *.mydomain.nz -> 192.168.1.XX

This means a) things don't need to go external if I'm at home, and b) I have many things only accessible internally, which rely on this otherwise they won't work at all.

It's all HTTPS, I just use a cloudflare integration in Traefik to do the Let's Encrypt validation for domains not accessible externally.

It's an LLM that has access to run commands. It's a major bug by design 😅. But it does do a decent job if I keep tweaking after thing kind of thing happens.

Without the LLM you have to phrase things very specifically, or it will say it doesn't understand. With the LLM the kids can do things like ask for "the song that goes [lyrics here]" and it can play it. It's a very cool thing to play with, e.g. "can you tell me what the weather will be like today, phrased as a haiku", but it's full of traps as well. I have a "Home Assistant Voice Preview", the "Preview" bit is to make it clear this is not ready for the general public yet 🙂

P.S. if you're wondering, the weather today:

Showers grace the sky,
Rain will fall, then clear away,
Gentle winds will sigh.

I have definitely done similar things. Now you mention it, I remember adding a hosts file entry for testing recently and can't remember if I removed it. I just checked my laptop and two servers and didn't find anything weird so now it's gonna bug me.

Is it DNS?

Haha I guess I should be grateful for that, though I do host another dozen or more services at home so a lot of things broke!

Haha it's a fine balance between preventing this sort of craziness and having a voice assistant that is actually useful because it can do things.

I want to figure out how to disable these two voice commands, and how to completely disable turning off the smart plug my server rack uses.

In the settings->voice assistants page you can see exposed entities. Review them and remove anything you don't want it to be able to control.

You can also set up custom commands as an automation. You could probably set up an automation trigger to pick up on the phrases you want to block and respond with "I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that" (or something boring).

I think that setting has been there as long as I've had a voice assistant (since I got my HA Voice Preview in January). I knew it existed but I let it expose them. I probably shouldn't, because I always have to review it after adding anything new since it normally doesn't get what I wanted exposed/not exposed.

I'm surprised it didn't turn off the voice assistant. It does have the ability to mute itself (for when the kids are using it when they are supposed to be doing something else or are just generally annoying).

Maybe. I do have faith that these things generally come out eventually, but mostly because people are greedy. If she snuck in one contract and then left they may have got away with it.

From the video you can tell that thing was rocketing along right from the start. It was really flying!

Then it will look off when it's on 😆. I just want to be able to tell when it's off by looking at it. It doesn't actually bother me, it's not in my bedroom, it's in the lounge attached to the TV.

I also got sick much more often for several years. I attributed it to having young kids. Not just the extra exposure but also the lack of sleep doesn't help the immune system.

Oh I was comparing Disney+ Standard to Netflix Standard. Turns out there's also Netflix Basic which is a similar price to Disney+ Standard, but with many more restrictions.

I think Disney+ Standard and Netflix Standard seem to be comparable. In NZD Disney+ is $16.99 (approx $10USD)and Netflix is $25.99 (approx $15USD) per month. Disney+ gives annual discounts as well.

None of the plans in NZ seem to have ads (yet...).

Though I don’t think they- charge extra for 4k so there is that.

Out of the two plans I see, the Standard only includes up to 1080p and 4k requires Premium, $21.99NZD (approx $13USD).

Half of new Netflix subscribers opt for the $8 per month option rather than ad-free subscriptions, which start at $18 per month, the company says.

Damn, when did it get so expensive? Assuming that's USD. That's a decent amount more than Disney+, right?

Ah nice. I like starting (and finishing) early, but more like 7.

Hmm, just had a search and can't find any less than $8.49 for a block. It doesn't feel that long ago that the warehouse had their $5 loss leader butter.

I swear I've regularly seen it for $6.XX even recently.

I'm glad I don't have to do that anymore. I had a job starting at 5am for a while and it was rough.