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That's what I did. Just an esp32 relay board with a tiny screen and a knob. Then I put more esp32 sensors in each room to get individual temps, with HA logic to select which room t…

I built a portable meshtastic terminal using Claude and a Pico 2. It's written 100% of the code in MicroPython and it works great. It even wrote the driver for the E-ink screen I'm…

> Flux.ai offers a PCB design solution "solution" is an interesting choice. I haven't talked to anyone who tried it and actually got anything useful. It completely failed when I tr…

A company called Taalas is working on something like that. Not Opus4.6 quality, but I'm sure they're targeting larger models. Currently they're using a LLama 8B model. It runs at ~…

Clear procedures are the entire point of incident response plans. You follow them because of the fact that your judgement can be compromised in the moment. They re-triggered the ma…

As someone who works in security, it's really neat that you were able to discover this with the help of Claude. That being said the "I just opened Cursor again which triggered the …

Isn't the entire argument for these based on the fact that people don't have an expectation of privacy in a public place? Not that I'm sure they won't try to make an excuse as to w…

>Poker players have intuitive sense of the statistics of various hand types showing up, for instance, and that can be a useful clue as to which build types are promising. Maybe in …

> You could make the argument that Patreon isn't much more than a banking app. Don't give them any ideas.

I'm curious if you tried binwalk? That's usually my goto for mysterious files.

I don't smoke/vape, but I saw some pretty absurd models available recently that really piqued my interest. One had a touchscreen, could run some basic apps, and had wifi/bluetooth …

> We can only hope the firmware vendors are on top of their game. You should go into comedy, this would kill at an open mic!

Manufacturers still may not go for it, due to the potential bad publicity. To go back to the toaster example, if some fancy open source software alternative has a critical issue an…

>On a vaguely related note, driving 3000 kilometers through Europe in an electric car was surprisingly nice. I did 2 cross country road trips here in the US (~5000mi/8000km total) …

Incredible startup idea. While we wait for the self driving tech, maybe we could pay specially trained people to drive these vehicles?

NYC already tried Snitching as a Service during COVID, and it went terribly. I grew up with a neighbor who would constantly record people and call the cops over every little percei…

I've gotten pretty good results from saying it's someone else's idea and that I'm skeptical. e.g. "A coworker wrote this code, can you evaluate it?"

They aren't overproducing consumer modules, they're actively cutting production of those. They're producing datacenter/AI specific form factors that won't be compatible with consum…

Honda makes an anti-rodent tape that's designed for wrapping wiring. It's loaded with capsaicin so any critter that bites down will quickly decide to stop. It's possible other manu…

I bet this is going to make them a TON of money. A ton of people are using chatgpt to essentially replace google, and treating it like a trusted source. The average user is going t…

> SSD + HAT + PSU + Case + Cooler (+ maybe a uSD) The only 100% required thing on there is some sort of power supply, and an SD card, and I suspect a lot of people have a spare USB…

Looks like it costs ~$200,000 to get your own TLD. If a bunch of companies started doing the "register every TLD of our brand", I wonder what the breakeven point would be where jus…

I believe there's also some research showing that being nice gets better responses. Given that it's trained on real conversations, and that's how real conversation works, I'm not s…

"Scrobbles" will always be a funny word to me.

Strangely enough, Florida, of all places seems to be having really good success with their Brightline rail network. The initial system runs from Miami to Orlando, with a few stops …