IphtashuFitz @ IphtashuFitz @lemmy.world

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But how does it handle issues like retrying until one and/or the other person is alerted, without erroneously alerting the other at a later time when they get home? And pausing until the next morning and picking up where it left off?

I’m sure you know what xkcd has to say about standards…

Back in the 90’s before this whole internet thing started taking off I was heavily involved with Microsoft’s effort to create a telephony API (TAPI) that was meant to standardize all manner of telephone equipment. The problem is that it has to be overly broad in order to support everything from a dial-up modem to fax machines to the telephone systems used in large corporate offices, and everything in between.

I remember testing a TAPI program I wrote on different types of hardware. I wrote and tested it on a handful of smaller systems that handled a dozen or so phone lines. The first time I tested it on a large enterprise phone system it failed miserably. That enterprise system had a feature that I never anticipated so my code didn’t handle it properly. In a nutshell, if you placed a call on hold then that system assumed you were placing a new call and you immediately got a dial tone. My code assumed when a call was placed on hold that that was all that happened.

I can see similar issues with a broad standard like Matter/Thread. There will likely be devices out there that behave in unanticipated ways, and testing them will be difficult unless you have the physical device. But hopefully, given the backing of all those big companies, they’ll have a good handle on this. It should be able to let end users gracefully handle edge cases, etc.

I took a very cursory look at HomeKit a while ago and found its ability to create complex automations rather limited. For example, our washer & dryer are in our basement, and we can easily forget we have loads of laundry being washed/dryed when we get busy with the rest of our days.

We now have an automation that will text me and/or my wife when a laundry cycle finishes. But it only alerts us if we’re home, and only whoever is home so can go take care of it. If nobody is home when the cycle completes then it waits until one or both of us is home, and then it alerts us. It also won’t alert us overnight but will wait until morning. So if we start a load of laundry at 10pm it doesn’t wake us up at midnight but instead waits until 7am to alert us.

I’ve implemented this in both Home Assistant and Indigo without too much difficulty. Not sure how easy it would be to do in HomeKit though…

That’s one of the more complex automations I’ve created, but I have a few others that are up there as well.

Trump going to emulate big daddy Putler and embark on a 3 day special operation after he’s back in the White House?

Tell that to all the minorities that Trump has rounded up and deported without even the most basic attempts at due process.

Just wait until Elon puts AI in those new robots he invented!!!

/s for those who need it…

You seriously think Trump is considering further out than next months news cycle?

How long until some organization forks the project and everybody switches to it?

With all the plugins etc. it might take a while, but once a critical mass is reached it would put an end to this idiocy.

Sounds to me like a failure to follow police commands to drive over the striking workers…

Ivermectin Ivan

I never said they weren’t legit. I said they likely would never go public and be listed on stock exchanges due to all the requirements that entails.

These companies I listed provide VPN services to people who want a level of privacy in their internet usage. That list of public companies you mentioned sell VPN hardware mostly to corporations that want to secure their own private traffic between different locations. Huge difference.

Airport security checkpoints etc. will slow to a crawl. The TSA agents may be forced to show up, but they can’t be forced to work at their normal pace.

Never said they were.

That list of public companies mostly sell networking gear that you can use to configure VPNs. I don’t think that’s what the post I originally replied to was talking about. I think they were talking more about VPN service providers like NordVPN, ExpressVPN, PIA, ProtonVPN, etc.

Yeah, but how many VPN providers are public companies? I’m guessing not very many given the reporting requirements public companies face.

Probably the companies themselves. I work remotely, and our company provides software phones to remote workers as needed. 99% of the time I don’t need one, but there have been a few times where I’ve needed one for various reasons. So I have one temporarily set up for myself, usually for just a few days. Just about every time I have done that I get random voicemails from frustrated customers who are trying anything to just reach a human.

Let’s hope they provide it as a PDF with the full text still copy/pastsble behind the black boxes.

I think Netflix could probably start selling their tool and make more money from that then streaming if they can get it to work, because I'm guessing AWS makes it hard on purpose.

The company Cloudhealth Technologies has already been doing this for years, and not just with AWS but other cloud providers as well. Unfortunately they’ve been acquired by VMware so no idea if they’re still as good as they used to be…

You going to volunteer to work in farm fields for poverty wages once all the migrant labor has been rounded up and deported?

I didn’t think so.

He rehired them after he got over his temper tantrum though. He started rehiring them less than a week after he fired them.

I just hope those employees that got rehired were able to lock in pay raises, bonuses, etc. for Musks childish behavior.

He’ll probably nominate Barron as Secretary of the Cyber.