I don’t really have enough stuff going on to need have a dashboard on the wall ATM. Maybe down the line, although it feels redundant when we both have phones. Maybe if I ever do something with lighting? The goal is really to not have to worry about manually doing things, I don’t really use it myself unless an automation went wrong.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Ivy_Bells

You can just store metadata instead of all traffic (most of it is encrypted anyway). Or just store the packets that interest you.

They can actually just store the data on drives on the snooping device, and then periodically swap out the storage devices with a submarine.

Elon’s maternal grandparents relocated from Canada to South Africa in the early 1900s as they knew the Afrikaner government was a stronghold of support for Nazism outside of Germany.

Man, how is this something you just share in an interview as if it’s just a nice piece of family history.

They’ll be driving multiple cars at the same time, while drunk.

And do you know why it happened on inauguration day and not anytime during the Carter administration? It’s because Reagan promised a better deal for Iran if they didn’t take the one Carter offered.

Nah, let Trump own it, because Israel is definitely going to break it anyway.

Nobody forced Biden to go along with it, or Harris to promise to continue the exact same policies. This is the DNC’s making. The DNC failed their voters, not the other way around. Maybe next time try promising to do popular things, and follow through on the things you promised last time.

I think it’s just a case of people needing to get used to it.

Venues are taking a cut of that as well now in some cases. It’s disgusting honestly.

Yeah, he specifically gets boosted across the site, which is why he ended up in everyone’s feeds.

Yep, the more precarious their legal status, the more compliant they are. This is all about suppressing labour rights.

That’s why the Republican playbook regarding the border was always just talk, and Trump somehow doesn’t get that it was always a scam to get the votes of the racists without ever seriously planning to follow through.

If all farm workers were legally in the US, they’d form unions right off the bat, especially since a strike during harvest season is going to fuck over a farmer financially within days.

I think I’d still prefer actual buttons if I went that route, but I think I kind of get it. Can this be made to work with a smart watch too?

I’m generally the only one that actually interacts with the app, home assistant basically automates things on schedules and based on temperature and whether anyone’s home or not.

So there’s stuff like:

• preheat the office on cold work days
• make the robot vacuum clean the house if nobody’s home
• turn the AC off if nobody’s home
• turn the night light on in the baby’s room and turn it off in the morning (change the colour when it’s time to wake up)

I guess the goal is to keep the house comfortable while at home, while turning everything off when not to save energy without having to think about it.

I don’t quite get the NFC tags thing. Does this mean you have a tag on your wall that you tap your phone on? Is this something you prefer doing over opening home assistant on your phone and clicking the appropriate button? Not being critical or anything, I just see it mentioned often but I can’t really conceptualise why it’s a thing, and I’m curious what I might be missing.

I mean, if they can somehow come up with something better than activitypub, that would be great, from what I read it’s actually not that efficient. But yeah, decentralisation is not something you can just tack on, so I’m sceptical too, especially since they’re trying to raise VC money, which is not something you do when you want to build an open protocol.

It’s been clear from Gen X onwards that we’ll have a worse life than our parents, of course you’ll get anxious about it. You can probably plot this on the same chart that shows the rise of income inequality.

That’s somehow worse than Mastodon’s toots.

Bluesky is supposedly working on decentralisation, but yeah, I agree, especially since Mastodon is already there. Normies are just somehow very turned off by too much Linux talk, even though free software is part of the answer to keeping our society free and stopping monopolies from forming.

Are there any creative energy sinks you could run when the price goes negative? I can only think of mining crypto or transcoding video or stuff like that.