Strange - I don't get this in Firefox. I wonder if its because I'm in the UK or perhaps Privacy Badger is blocking it.
This is with the Safari browser on iOS, using Google websites while not being logged in to Google. No content blockers.
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systemtest commented on Apple's Browser Engine Ban Persists, Even Under the DMA open-web-advocacy.org/blo... · Posted by u/yashghelani
It is shame that this is true. However it should not mean that we need to accept this situation. Hopefully Google anti competitive practices with Chrome can be addressed at the same time.
Those popups I get multiple times a day about how this website works better on Chrome , which cover half my screen and which forward me to the App Store, are incredibly misleading. I have misclicked many times and then the App Store opens up. If you go back to the browser and hit the back button, it will again open the App Store. I have to press and hold the back button and skip multiple pages to get back to what I was doing.
systemtest commented on Hacking a Smart Home Device (2024) jmswrnr.com/blog/hacking-... · Posted by u/walterbell
The result of this process is that the air purifier boosts when the air quality inside drops.
I feel like that is something that doesn’t or at least shouldn’t require a string of IoT devices, apps, wireless communication and hubs. Why not leave all of that out and just attach an air quality sensor to the air purifier and a small LCD to adjust the settings?
The light in my hallway turns on automatically when I walk past. No cloud, no HomeAssist, no WiFi, no Zigbee, no apps, no batteries to change. Just a motion sensor hardwired to the light fixture. Hasn’t failed me once in the past ten years. Works great even if the network goes down.
I recommend you sit this one out, as recording people, even if only audio and sending the sound over the internet is very much against the law in germany
Especially on a Sunday
systemtest commented on What are the best options for Amazon SDEs thinking about leaving over RTO policy · Posted by u/aws_throwaway
Where is this legal right to work from home? It does not exist in Germany as well as in couple northern countries. Is this a thing for Netherlands?
There is no legal right to work from home in The Netherlands. The only law we have is that an employer should give you a good reason to work from the office.
systemtest commented on Amazon tells employees to return to office five days a week cnbc.com/2024/09/16/amazo... · Posted by u/jbredeche
Well I don't have to pay for any transporation, 'cause my employer can't decide on a dime to force me into the cage 5 times a week ;) I also only live a 15 minute bike ride away, rather than a 2 hour car ride as seems to be the case for many people in the US.
But even ignoring all that, money isn't the be-all, end-all. Having worked in the US for a stint, I'll take my "low" pay in the Netherlands any day of the week over rotting away in a soulless US megacorp headed by legitimate psychopaths, where they can decide to fuck you over at a moment's notice for any reason and you have no recourse.
After all, what good is money that you can't spend? If you gave me a trillion dollars but it meant I had to spend 12 hours of my day dedicated to work, what use is that? I'll take my sane working culture I have at the moment despite me earning marginally less (if you ignore literally all the other benefits of living in the Netherlands, that is) all day, every day.
> rather than a 2 hour car ride as seems to be the case for many people in the US.
The Netherlands has good bicycle infrastructure but the majority of people still go to work by car.
The commute time between countries is similar.
systemtest commented on Amazon tells employees to return to office five days a week cnbc.com/2024/09/16/amazo... · Posted by u/jbredeche
I find it crazy that this isn't the case in the US every time I see this topic come up. You always hear about all the benefits of working for a FAANG, but they're too cheap to even cover cost of transport?
In the Netherlands, and probably a lot of other EU countries, transport to work has to be compensated by your employer. If you live within biking distance this means providing you a bike (usually via a service like Swapfiets these days), and otherwise you get your train/public transport costs or fuel costs if you drive a car completely covered. It's even tax-deductible I think, though I've never bothered looking into that option since I just take my own bike to work.
The Netherlands does not have transport cost compensation by law. Various unions have negotiated it for their members and a lot of people have it as part of their compensation package, but it's not mandated by law that a company should pay you for your travel cost.
A company is also not mandated by law to provide you with a bicycle.
You also do not get your cost fully covered if you drive by car. Currently it's capped at 23 cents per kilometer which is not enough for most cars.
It's not a tax deductible, it's just (income) tax free.
systemtest commented on How to succeed in MrBeast production (Leaked PDF) simonwillison.net/2024/Se... · Posted by u/babelfish
Average Americans (his main audience) always visit "Europe" or "Africa", never mentioning a specific country.
In similar fashion, European students with a gap-year will go backpacking in Asia
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So I decided to solve it.
Using the Bosch API - I can tell both when a cycle is complete, and if the door is open. Currently I use their default version, but there is a local hosted option I'll be switching too now the proof of concept works.
So using Home Assistant I have a simple script that detects when a washing machine cycle is complete AND the door has NOT been opened. This implies my washing machine has wet clothes still in it.
So Home Assistant will alert my phone (and my wife only if she is home based upon presence detection) once every 15mins that there are wet clothes waiting in the washing machine.
Very simple - works perfectly.
It works with all brands regardless of API.