I feel in the minority, but took the ad as if it was compressing all those things into the iPad, not “destroying” them. Maybe it’s a glass half full kind of thing.
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robalfonso commented on Zigbee and Z-Wave are the best part of my smart home arstechnica.com/gadgets/2... · Posted by u/mfiguiere
I've run around 20 Zigbee and an equal number of Zwave devices for several years. Zigbee is great. Zwave is terrible: despite operating at a better frequency for a home environment (lots of walls,) in my experience is has worse propagation, higher latency, and an unreliable mesh topology that randomly breaks and has to be manually repaired.
I've found that some people have great zigbee experiences and terrible z-wave and just as many are the opposite. I chalk it up to individual environments etc. Go with what works best from you.
The Zooz ZEN16v2 or ZEN17 are also good options for connecting arbitrary sensors via Z-Wave, and the ZEN17 in particular is electrically more flexible (sink or source inputs). That said two water leak sensors will often be cheaper than one ZEN17 with its two inputs. An even cheaper option are door/window contact sensors and desoldering the reed switch to replace it with whatever you want, but it's less convenient for sure. And to wrap it all up, Zigbee devices are often a bit cheaper than Z-Wave.
Fibaro makes a similar device in a smaller form factor as well
https://www.thesmartesthouse.com/collections/fibaro/products...
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I've done this as well, but I moved to 500kg load cells on the bed legs for reliability.
2 Load cells one on each back leg of the bed. Upside too is I've been able to discern things like, sitting on the edge of the bed to put on shoes etc based on the weights.
Esphome, load cell, and hx711 chip for the load cell comes out to about $40-$50 each leg.
robalfonso commented on NYPD will use drones to monitor backyard parties this weekend apnews.com/article/drones... · Posted by u/anigbrowl
IANAL, but it might. As the article mentions, it almost certainly violates NYC laws as well[1].
The NYPD has not historically shown an institutional interest in laws enforced on them, rather than by them.
[1]: https://www.nyc.gov/site/nypd/about/about-nypd/policy/post-a...
My feeling would be this does violate the law. The problem is new technology must often go through courts to actually establish the law. So it seems that while the NYPD could decide it’s a no-go, their worse case is to do it, get sued and then let a judge make the call.
robalfonso commented on AI bots are now better than humans at decoding CAPTCHAs qz.com/ai-bots-recaptcha-... · Posted by u/geox
CAPTCHAs are supposed to tell humans and robots apart, if robots are all doing better than humans, maybe we should flip the acceptance criteria to make sure you are not performing task at superhuman level, (until we train bots to do this). On an unrelated note, I have found captchas that don't even work and reprompt me all the time, I wonder if there is some naive filtering behavior they are applying.
To that point, when I do the picture captcha (Select the crosswalks type question), I always click a square I know is not valid and then de-select it. Adds some "human-ness" to the interaction and I never get a 2nd challenge that way. Will that be the future? Look for behavior that is too perfect?
robalfonso commented on Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky blueskyweb.xyz/blog/7-05-... · Posted by u/ted0
Presumably you'd transfer your domain from Namecheap, not bluesky; there are extremely strict conditions on registrars around domain portability.
This is actually really messy.
It’s unclear to me who is the registrant in this scenario.
If blue sky then you don’t own anything and there is no portability.
If you are the registrant that’s great but namecheap is going to need contact information that’s verifiable which may turn people off who would like a bit more separation on their social profiles. I also wonder does blue sky see that registrant data? Can’t say I like that very much.
robalfonso commented on Hacking root EPP servers to take control of zones hackcompute.com/hacking-e... · Posted by u/iancarroll
This is interesting, however the vast majority of registries require connecting from a known ip, using a specific cert chain and in some instances their own ca. Turns out when you don’t follow industry practices in one way you don’t do much else right either
robalfonso commented on Apple sued by two women over AirTag stalking phonearena.com/news/apple... · Posted by u/mikece
Welcome to the US. You shoot somebody and they sue the gun maker, you stab somebody and they sue the knife maker, you run somebody over and they sue the car maker.
This is hyperbole. You typically can't sue (and win) against the maker of an item used in a crime just because they manufactured it.
There is usually some extenuating circumstance when these cases do prevail. For instance one manufacturer was found to have such incendiary marketing around their assault rifle it had risen to the level of a "call to arms". So typically it has to be more than "We are the manufacturer"