The paradox of tolerance disappears when you look at it as a social contract. “I agree to tolerate your weirdness, that doesn’t significantly affect me, if you do the same in turn.” Add in “If you back me when someone breaks the contract, and I will back you in turn.” and you get a very good basis to build on. You end up with a few grey areas, but 95% is obvious.

Or you could realise you are in a group focused on a single bit of software and do a 5 minute investigation into said software.

We are in a forum talking about Home Assistant, an open source piece of software, aimed at patching over the annoyances and games the various companies you are complaining about play.

It lets you control them all from one piece of software, so you don’t need 20 apps on your phone, and the spying they support. It also lets you isolate the devices on their own vlan, cut off from the internet completely. All control then goes through software under our control.

The database it’s talking about is basically a scoring of how nicely the various devices play once you have deloused and neutered them.

It’s a community attempt to fight back against big data etc. This is why you are being down voted hard. You’re interrupting with a rant about the very thing we are fighting.

If you’re trying to fend off the CIA then your worries have merit. My goal is to limit casual data leaks and bypass attacks.

Normal worst case, someone can see when I turn lights on and off. Or mess with my thermostats. There are easier ways to gather that info.

Can you actually back up any of those statements, particularly when we are dealing with things like ZigBee, tasmota, or espHome?

Home assistant is used by a lot of security savvy people. It’s not to their benefit to leak data like that.

Local control also means you can isolate IoT devices from the internet. You can make it so they CAN’T exfiltrate data. You can wrap your insecure IoT devices in a secure wrapper.

The database is for how well devices work in this environment. Will they work fine, or throw a fit and stop working.

I thought that only applied to steam keys?

You can sell your game for whatever you want elsewhere, but if you want them to be able to install via steam, you can’t undercut steam itself.

Men in sheds is now fairly international. It’s primarily aimed is at retired or disadvantaged men. Most are not gender limiting however. They often do a lot of community outreach stuff too.

For younger demographics, makerspaces (aka hackspaces or hackerspaces) fill a similar role. You don’t need to go in with any particular knowledge, just an attitude of making new friends.

Also, don’t be afraid to use groups as jumping off points. Often members will be involved in other activities that might suit you better.

I agree its one of the few uses.

The ai gives the correct terminology, you can then cut it out of the loop for reliable information on the subject.

There’s a massive difference between asking where the toilets are, and pissing in the pool.

I just want a film to get it right. I want the hero to realise he needs to fold out his amazing hand based on instincts and skill.

Very rarely, if ever.

The only time it is justifiable is if it’s either pre-agreed or if there is a threat to the child.

If there is reason to think they are being groomed, or used in some way, then yes. E.g. a room search after getting information that they are holding drugs for a dealer. They should be treated like a police search. Only done when there is real reason, rather than just fishing.

If it’s pre-agreed that a device isn’t private, then the rules change slightly. A younger child’s phone or computer should be subject to respectful monitoring. It should also be part of an open and equitable discussion on boundaries and rules. Even here, the goal should be to protect the child from dangers, not to snoop on what they are chatting with friends about beyond that.

Privacy, is an important thing for children. It needs to be provided with guard rails initially, but should be respected as best you can.

You’ve basically summed up what I was trying to say better than I did. To Linux users, bug reports are a good thing. They help fix things. To middle management, bug reports are a bad thing, they hurt their bonuses.

One group needs to change, and Linux users are impressively stubborn.

It’s anecdotal , but I heard that Linux bug reports are actually a problem for some game developers. When 1% of your customer base submits 10-20% of your bug reports, middle managers get upset. Apparently several games have had Linux support dropped because of this.

While Linux often has more bugs in games (and so more reports), Linux users have also been conditioned to report bugs better. It helps a lot in FOSS etc.

It’s a catch 22. A lot of good products die due to people not knowing they exist (or remembering).

I have no issues with informational based advertising. Basically the polite “we exist” or “we’ve got this now” type adverts. I take offence to adverts trying to mess with my mental familiarity levels. I’m doubly offended when they get aggressive with pushing that on me.

A great example is steam ads. It gives you some when you first start it. It’s trivial to skip or ignore them however. It also sits back and gets out of the way as soon as you’re not interested.

I always knew he was an arsehole, but I thought he was at least a like minded arsehole, when it came to saving the planet.

The trapped kids incident also the first proper crack I noticed in his image. Now, I wouldn’t touch anything of his with a 40’ pole.

In the words of Dr house “people lie”. They should take the woman’s word on things like this. However, it just takes being burnt once or twice, to not trust the answer from anyone else.

There’s a fun chess game on steam this comic keeps reminding me of.

5D Chess, with multiverse time travel

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1349230/5D_Chess_With_Multiverse_Time_Travel/

It basically allows for moves similar to this. It also creates coherent rules for jumping timelines, or time travel. It’s quite elegant how they come out, in a “my brain is melting out my ear” kind of way!

It does have a pci-e socket… 😁

Steam’s main thing is that they have recognised that killing the golden goose is a bad thing for everybody. They have consistently played for long term growth and profits, over purely short term gains.

Steam has made mistakes, but their demonstrated values have been shown to be mostly compatible with mine. I can work with that.

Also, them being privately owned means that they are less have seagull investors swooping in and demanding short term gains now now now.

The aiming is still a problem. The Hubble is relatively small. Even then, it can’t track fast enough to image the moon, let alone the earth’s surface.

Any useful reflector would be measured in Km^2 . Aiming that, with the same precision as Hubble would be a tall order. Added to that, the mirror would have to be light enough to launch. You’re basically trying to aim a sheet of tinfoil, as large as a stadium (minimum), with active tracking.