GreatAlbatross @ GreatAlbatross @feddit.uk

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You could also set up a local NTP server, and block them entirely.
Currently, I have mine set with an invalid gateway, and blocked from the internet to be sure.

"Noise floor? Don't be silly, it's analogue, there is no noise floor!"

This is a great comment, thanks for taking the time to go through things :)

Can I just clarify: Your point of view is that a tax to disincentivise sugar in fizzy drinks is going to cause malnutrition in underprivileged kids?

Would you have also argued this when we removed fizzy drink vending machines from schools a decade ago?

I try hard to get the real sugar drinks nowadays.

I maybe drink 1L a month, so not a huge expense thankfully.

All pale to the satisfaction of inserting a digibeta tape.

That's a big oof, and I feel really sorry for them.

Area has a rubbish problem. Council considers it fly tipping.
Someone tries to help by arranging it, Council now has a name for the fly-tipping, sends the fine, problem "solved".
I've often worried when reporting fly tips in the past, that my council will just use me as the closest thing they have to a lead!

The lesson is, I guess, if you're going to do this, take it to the tip.

Readers will be pleased to see that their gofundme is now standing at £1800!
I thought about chipping in a tenner, but apparently gofundme sends your real name to the fundraisers, which is a bit uncomfortable for me.

This is actually something I'm paying attention to: Which EVs get hacked and fossed.
I'm hoping the 40KWH zoes get done soon.

I'm a bit late, but if it helps, I've had good results with the Sonoff and Tuya zigbee sensors. I prefer the Tuyas, just because they use AA instead of CR2032 batteries.
$50 will easily get you everything you need to start.

You might also want to think about getting a 433MHz radio for the system.
If you live in a built up area, you'd be surprised how many people have equipment transmitting on 433MHz already (free data!).
And a lot of generic wireless temperature sensor kits use it as a standard, making it a good value way to get weatherproof gear.
I got a generic fridge/freezer kit for about £10 that works perfectly with this. Again, $50 or so for a DVB-T2 receiver. Just be aware that it's a little more technically involved than pairing zigbee devices.

Bother me with DMs if you like, I've been fiddling with just about every protocol I can get my hands on for under £100!

It's easy to dodge the politics at work on election day.

"Where were you between 10am and 5pm?"
'Voting. Big queue.' burp

To give to the birds, right?

Right?

Someone else already raised the mains wired safety/budget issue, but I may have a side suggestion for you: Bulbs as repeaters.

I've added hue bulbs directly to my zigbee network, where they also act as repeaters.

The problem then was people switching off at the switch. This has been resolved by adding a little zigbee button by the switch (as people can achieve the function without the mains switch).
Which gives the bonus of being able to do different taps.

(So for example, I have one click as toggle on/off, two clicks is daytime+bright, press+hold is evening+dim)

This is the reason I haven't gone down the smart light switches path yet.
Anything that I'd trust enough on 240v is out of budget!

Now that I think about it, activitypub must be a nice little wiggle-around for the great firewall. As unless they whitelist (I honestly don't know), all you need is a federated instance that isn't blocked.

HEVC is almost entirely down the the licensing. This section of the wikipedia page details it pretty well.

The tl;dr is that the LA group wanted to hike the fees significantly, and that combined with a fear of locking in led to the mozilla group not to support HEVC.

And it's annoying at times. Some of my security cameras are HEVC only at full resolution, which means I cannot view them in Firefox.

I've found this when trying to get a decent USB>9-pin Serial connector.

You think it's your software, or something weird going wrong. Then you swap over a name-brand adapter, and the thing just works.

I'm shocked, I say. Shocked!
The idea of an app being used to gather additional datea from a customer!

I was eagerly anticipating "I'm looking for a gift for my aunt".

One of the first lessons from my instructor was to push the gear stick from the right with your palm for 1/2, top for 3/4, and left for anything else.

That way, there is less chance of shifting from one section to another. Useful when you car sometimes needs a downshift on the motorway, and 4th is adjacent to R.

There is a bit of a chain of trust, however. Instance fills with spam bots? Defed.
Spam bots start making their own instances? Go to whitelists.

And as henfredemars says, because there is no financial incentive to grow the userbase, instances can slow things right down if the spam starts.