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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • Yeah, it’s not really a problem when I’m at home, but there are times when I’m not physically nearby the hardware and on those cases it’d be nice to have option to migrate HA to different hardware on the fly.

    Also having z-wave controller on ethernet would make it a bit easier to position antenna in the middle of everything, my server isn’t the centerpiece of our living room after all.


  • Sort of high availability. I don’t really have the hardware right now for proper high availability setup, but I have a spare laptop running proxmox which I use for pihole and other ‘network critical’ stuff when doing maintenance for the main server. I don’t have any doubts about passtrough working, I’d just like to have flexibility on the environment and thus it’d be nice to have z-wave controller on ethernet.

    But I think I’ll end up with ZWA-2, I’ll just use usb hub or something to make it physically easier to move HAOS VM between different hardware.



  • Well that’s exactly what I asked for. Pretty neat thing at least on quick read up. Unfortunately the customs situation with shipments from USA to Finland (or EU in general) is a mess right now, so I wont dig up my visa card at least immediately. I need to study a bit what’s actually the situation today (and hope that it doesn’t change again after few days).



  • I’m not running LXC, so USB passtrough should not be a problem. Running zwave-js on haos requires that the hardware is visible to the OS and as razberry7 connects to raspberry pi gpio ports I’d need to move the whole installation over to rasberry which I don’t want. I’ve already burned myself with broken SD-card with that setup and even then the controller didn’t work as reliable as I’d want to.


  • I saw that project and it seems to be pretty promising, but as it’s on pretty experimental state I think I’ll skip that for now. The biggest headache I’ve had with home automation so far is unstable z-wave connectivity, so I’m not really interested on tinkering with experimental stuff.

    But good to hear that ZWA-2 actually works as well as advertising claims.






  • It is, but the sad reality is that while you contribute your capacity for good cause it’ll be abused by bad actors as well. Obviously with snowflake node you don’t get to see what’s excactly going trough, but some time ago I had exit node running and I got several calls from my ISP that there’s malicious traffic coming from my IP address. ISP managed it pretty well when I explained what’s going on but eventually they got so many complaints from other peers on the network that they took ‘hard route’ and told that they’ll take my connection down unless I shut down the node. No hard feelings for the ISP, they took all the abuse mails and other annoyance for me and I absolutely understand their decision. But it’s good to at least acknowledge that tor isn’t just to get around oppressive policies.


  • It’s not monitored for security patches as it gets all the latest stuff anyways pretty quickly, security patches (and new vulnerabilities) included. It’s just not meant to be hardened nor rock solid as it’s excactly what it claims to be: development branch of the whole project. That doesn’t mean it’s insecure by default, it just works differently from stable releases where security patches are provided for years after official release.



  • Our previous president son is on the files. There was a news article where he explained that Epstein had contacted him for fundraising or some other legal thing and they met somewhere once for a short while but that’s all. There was also other finns, like one young woman who applied for an assistant job on some of his businesses but didn’t get hired.

    So, while there’s a crapload of people who should be convicted and thrown in a jail there’s also a ton of people who don’t have anything to do with pedo-ring or anything else. Good to keep in mind that having someones name on the files alone doesn’t mean too much.

    And just to avoid any confusion, if you are mentioned in the files more than Jesus is mentioned on the bible it’s not an accident or one time thing. Allegedly that applies at least to Trump and there should be a small and dark cell somewhere ready.