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EarMaster

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EarMaster ,

I recently listened to a story of someone in Berlin tracking his lost bikes (yes plural) using air tags. The police helped him because they were genuinely interested in the new possibilities to actually find stolen bikes. Before they just had no real chance to track any of the stolen goods and therefore weren't able to help without relying on just heresay.

EarMaster ,

My dog refuses to do 2FA so that's not going to happen anytime soon... /s

EarMaster ,

The funny thing is: This will work against them regarding the EU DMA regulations. If no one uses their offer it will not be interpreted as nobody wants to use it, but instead it will be interpreted as the offer was unfair.

EarMaster ,

There is no such thing as too much RAM...

EarMaster , (edited )

Oh Tesla gets the Twitter treatment. At that rate it will be renamed X within the next 7 months. Better make sure X (formerly known as Twitter) has been terminated by then otherwise they have to sue each other...

EarMaster ,

My home server is called Home Alone, my web server Carl Lewis. At work we use names of robots or computers from movies, games or comics.

'Vortex Cannon vs Drone' - Mark Rober shows off tech from a "defense technology company that specializes in advanced autonomous systems". That seems bad

I've enjoyed Mark Rober's videos for a while now. They are fun, touch on accessible topics, and have decent production value. But this recent video isn't sitting right with me...

EarMaster , (edited )

I haven't watched any of his videos since the second glitter bomb video. He was looking for people setting up glitter bombs as a trap and sent one to to someone who never had the intention to do ao. As consequence he sent some embarrassing postcards to the person's neighbors and claims to have submitted the address to Scientology recruitment.

EarMaster , (edited )

I'm not a native speaker, but you can easily just watch the primary source (the second glitter bomb video) and you will definitely spot the part I refer to.

Edit: I have rewritten my original comment to make it easier to understand. I hope it worked.

EarMaster ,

I'm seeing this as not "just a prank". If you read a bit about Scientology and their practices you might realize that this is potentially existential for the guy. And given the audience I wouldn't want to have Scientology established as an organization you use for a prank. If he really was that bitter about it he should have sued the guy or - what a crazy thought - just let him be.

EarMaster ,

Acknowledging that 8GB only delivers mediocre performance at best would upset anyone who already bought a device with only 8GB. And as later upgrades are not supported by Apple it would abandon these users like buyers of a 1st gen Apple device...

EarMaster ,

You know you're allowed (some might even say supposed) to have different keys for different machines. They're basically free to generate and take up to no space.

EarMaster , (edited )

My default dashboard is maybe a little bit unusual:

Default Dashboard with blood glucose levels

It's the blood glucose levels of my daughter (and mine in the next tab) as we are both T1 diabetics. The levels are transmitted via a tool called Nightscout and then shared with Home Assistant. This allows my wife and myself to get notified via light signals at night (in addition to the alarm her blood glucose sensor sounds). The dashboard also contains average levels for several timespans as well as an estimated long time level (Hb1Ac).

The second dashboard is an overview of all the lights, sensors and appliances located on a floorplan of the house:

Home Assistant dashboard with a floor plan and several devices on it

There are several tabs grouping lights (and appliances), sensor readings and battery levels.

EarMaster ,

I like the low battery panel. I might copy that. I have a general overview over all batteries, but it didn't occur to me that I could filter the values and show only the ones needing replacement.

EarMaster ,

Good news: The gauge card is a standard component.

EarMaster ,

For reference: Debian 6 which was the current release of Debian at the time Windows 10 was released hasn't received official security patches 2016, CentOS 6.6 stopped receiving them 2022. Mac OS X Yosemite latest update was released 2017...

EarMaster ,

They did provide security updates for several years longer than any competitor. Even (or especially depending on your point of view) for a company like Microsoft a user shouldn't expect updates indefinitely at least not for the normal retail price.

And to be clear: I also don't want to blame any of the named Linux distros. I recently migrated an old CentOS 6 server and it was about time. Sure there were still some security updates but several software components hadn't received updates for years and there were a lot of workarounds necessary to keep the thing in a somewhat decent and modern state.

EarMaster ,

You can also upgrade from Windows 10 to 11 for free.

EarMaster ,

You are right. I misinterpreted the information on wiki page. Debian 8's free LTS tier ended 2020 and the Extended LTS continues until 2025. Extended support is a paid service though and costs a lot more than a single Windows license. Microsoft offers a similar (also paid) service.

EarMaster ,

Out of curiosity: How do you start programs? If a program is clearly associated with a file by opening the file from explorer I assume, but there are programs which are not file based (web browser, games, ...). Do you maintain a folder with shortcuts or do you navigate the start menu folder using the explorer?

EarMaster ,

Passkeys are a form of passwordless authentication. You store them in Bitwarden like regular passwords, but when you want to access a site that supports them (e.g. eBay) instead of asking for you password and autofilling or copy pasting it from Bitwarden your Bitwarden pops up and asks you if you want to login and it just happens (if you have multiple passkeys associated with a site you can select which you want to use). That's it. No password fields which get autofilled and no password in your clipboard (history).

EarMaster ,

It is a similar experience, but you don't need any infrastructure for it. Everything is handled by your device.

EarMaster ,

That's a reasonable decision. While passkeys are usually considered much safer than passwords they are not really common. It is mostly the big services (Google, Microsoft, eBay) which have implemented them. Also Bitwarden only supports them on desktop as they are currently working on mobile support. But this will change and as they follow a standard it will be no problem to log into apps with passkeys as the support widens.

EarMaster , (edited )

INWX because it's a local provider which seems decent.

EarMaster ,

That is just not true. The DMA asks for bans on self-favoritism, regulations on data use and data interoperability to bans on discrimination and over all fair conditions. This far from without rules or terms.

EU Commission fines Apple over €1.8 billion over abusive App store rules for music streaming providers (ec.europa.eu)

The European Commission has fined Apple over €1.8 billion for abusing its dominant position on the market for the distribution of music streaming apps to iPhone and iPad users (‘iOS users') through its App Store. In particular, the Commission found that Apple applied restrictions on app developers preventing them from...

EarMaster ,

I am wondering if it's really true, that Spotify pays nothing to Apple. If my information is correct every app provider needs to have at least one active Apple Developer subscription (in the case of Spotify there is probably far more than just one account involved). If it is true that Spotify pays nothing to Apple the only possibility is that Apple invited them to bring their app to iOS and granted them free access.

I know 99 USD is not what Apple is after, but it seems dishonest to not disclose this.

EarMaster ,

And I still try to figure out how to enable it. I just want to try it out so I can decide whether I like it or not, but so far it hasn't shown up for me...

EarMaster ,

For the exact reason they are posting this. What if some service you are referencing has breaking changes? If you pinpoint the exact version it will have no effect to your project unless you decide (hopefully after some consideration) to upgrade the service version number.

EarMaster ,

You just have to tweak the prompt a little bit...

EarMaster ,

To be fair: The internet you grew up on was quite different to the internet we have today.

But nonetheless: I think every generation (at least in modern times) has its own thing nobody else has experienced before, so most likely they will turn out okay...

Share your favorite automations

I've been running HA for a while, and it's been working well; I haven't had to change much in a few months. That being said, it's fun to tinker with it, and I'm curious to hear what kind of automations the rest of the community is using. What automations are you most proud of? What are your favorite? What kind of interesting...

EarMaster ,

I have a motion sensor in the bedroom that turns the light on when you enter it (or leave it) and turns it off after some time once there is no motion detected anymore. But there is also a button right next to the door which disables the automation for 10 minutes for entering the bedroom at night when our youngest is already sleeping in the room.

Simple but very useful and even my wife likes it alot.

EarMaster ,

That way Firefox has to submit a different app for Europe, splitting its userbase and making it more complicated for developers. They are pulling every trick they can...

EarMaster ,

Just think about it. Let's assume that 1% of users will do the same and choose another device on their next purchase. That means that the profit loss Apple has to expect is less than the profit loss for losing their app store monopoly. For Apple this is a somewhat simple business calculation and it shows how much more profit they earn from app store purchases than from hardware sales.

EarMaster ,

Have you considered moving to an EU member state? 😉

EarMaster OP ,

I will have a look into it.

EarMaster OP ,

It looks promising. Thanks for the suggestion.

EarMaster OP ,

I like the recipe management, but I dislike the grocery list for the same reason I don't like Grocy. It is just too complex and hard to use in the store.

EarMaster OP ,

Interesting thought. I found this blog post, but I think this is not what I'm looking for.

EarMaster OP ,

That sounds like it is very complex, but the interface seems nice. I will have a look.

EarMaster OP ,

Can't wait to tell my wife she has to create a merge request to change our plans for tonight. 😉

EarMaster OP ,

We switched to Kitchen Owl and it works out okay. The recipe management is nice in theory, but doesn't work well for most of our recipe sources (because of parsing issues most websites aren't recognized and ingredient amounts are not parsed correctly for German recipes), but we usually just create an empty recipe with a link to the original. This isn't perfect - in hindsight we should have stayed with Bring! because it just works better. We are hoping that the issues will be fixed sometime in the future although I am not sure what to expect...

EarMaster OP ,

Update: We switched to Kitchen Owl as suggested in the comments.

EarMaster ,

Before we had Google, we had Altavista and before that we had indexes like Yahoo. Maybe we should consider going back. With the help of AI (I know...) it seems feasible to keep up with the ever growing content.

EarMaster ,

I feel like you're all making these names up...but they were probably suggested by a LLM all together...

EarMaster ,

You don't have to, but if you do you may have the ability to stand up against a company trying to shut down your open source project...

EarMaster ,

The good thing (for me personally) is that only some very old mail aliases of mine are in this collection. Which means that using a password manager to create and save all my passwords for years does have a positive effect.

EarMaster ,

I really hope somebody finds a way to upload custom firmware to Google or Alexa speakers. I like the hardware and the sound and I know I will not be able to build something as nice myself...

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