Avatar is a lemming in bed because this account wasn’t intended to be used except for creating communities… and then my instance announced it was closing.
- Fedia: @chris
- Mastodon: @confusedbunny
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The little smart home platform that could How Home Assistant plans to transition from an enthusiast platform to a mainstream consumer product. (www.theverge.com)
Raspberry Pi MQTT Monitor (github.com)
I was looking for an easy way of monitoring my Raspberry Pis using Home Assistant, and came across this. It seems to work pretty well, updates are handled through HA, and it can send reboot/shutdown commands.
Current situation on FOSS Discord replacements?
A couple weeks ago Discord announced their plans to go down the IPO route. This means that there is now a ticking clock until the platform goes full-on enshittified like so many others before them....
parcel safe place (lemmy.world)
Amazon driver put cardboard package in cardboard recycling bin due to be collected this week... delivery note explaining where parcel was had been placed in the bin too
This Guy Has Built an Open Source Search Engine as an Alternative to Google in His Spare Time (www.404media.co)
"I found it very weird that there essentially is no way to browse the web in an open manner. So that's what I am trying to build," the founder of Stract said.
AI chatbots tend to choose violence and nuclear strikes in wargames (www.newscientist.com)
Did nobody really question the usability of language models in designing war strategies?
Google Search is losing its 'cached' web page feature (www.engadget.com)
One of Google Search's oldest and best-known features, cache links, are being retired. Best known by the "Cached" button, those are a snapshot of a web page the last time Google indexed it. However, according to Google, they're no longer required....
Raining - We love the rain! "under new management" (sh.itjust.works)
I took over this community (former mod was inactive) and thought I should re-promote it! Feel free to post anything rain-related, rainy photos and art especially appreciated....
European gas and electricity prices tumble as wind power surges (www.irishtimes.com)
European gas and electricity prices tumble as wind power surges::Elevated wind generation offers respite for energy supplies after recent cold blast
Notepad++ - A community for the notepad++ text editor! (programming.dev)
Place to discuss anything relating to notepad++ whether that be getting help, posting news, showing off features, etc....
Community Request: c/comedy
I hope it's allowed to request a community here. I don't have time to moderate it, but I think a general comedy community would be good. For all things comedy like clips, specials, podcasts, movies etc.