People dropping water balloons off the roof onto the Principal’s head the last day of school.

💯 with wherever Masnick lands.

Not just blindly following, but because anyone coming up with a 230 alternative better have thought through the history and gamed all the potential adverse outcomes.

Sometimes I miss the old Captchas.

Wasn’t “lo-code” a BIG thing a few years ago… that would destroy programming and make every PM a developer? Whatever happened to that? 🤔

Edit: read the HN comments. If I ever go back to consulting, I’m 10x-ing my rate to work on cleaning up this slop. I’m not anti-AI coding and use it for my own projects, but if you just give it a prompt and walk away, you will be very sad later.

There’s a BIG difference between prototypes and something others have to use. As the lo-code folks found out the hard way.

Sun Tzu, entering the chat.

May want to also take a look at Wyze.

Also, anyone looking to buy cameras or doorbells should check for the manufacturer or brand on Shodan to see if they’re compromised. If it’s a no-name cheap one, it almost certainly is or will be.

Missed opportunity.

Oh man. Was kind of hoping the headline meant they were handing out official ticketing capability to every ordinary person.

Would have loved to see that in action.

Artist has done a whole series of these: https://www.artstation.com/pierreroussel/albums/8482338

They tried that around these parts. It didn’t go as planned.

If worried about falling asleep and drowning, you can always take a household pet in the tub to nudge you awake.

Little-known fact is that cats are very good at this.

I’d put my concerns elsewhere: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/6748192/

Here are the specs on the HA voice Preview: https://www.home-assistant.io/voice-pe/

And a breakdown of one of the lowest-end Alexa devices: https://www.briandorey.com/post/echo-dot-5th-gen-smart-speaker-teardown

The HA device runs on an ESP32-S3 with two microphones. A Seedstudio variant uses a Raspberry Pi CM4, also with two mics: https://iotbyhvm.ooo/home-assistant-voice-kit-by-seeed-studio-a-comprehensive-guide/

The Echo dot runs on a custom AZ2 processor with a built-in neural edge processor and three microphones. Echoes used to have as many as seven mics, but advanced Digital Signal Processing techniques let them get away with fewer input signals (and lower BOM cost).

The difference is with three or more mics you can do what’s called ‘beam-forming’ (https://dspconcepts.com/sites/default/files/voice_ui_part2.pdf) to isolate outside noise. This gets you cleaner wake-word recognition and faster response. Also, having an on-device neural processor chip means you can offload a lot of the filter processing.

The upshot is, until HA switches to a more custom audio-processing system, it’ll always lag behind a cheap $30 Echo or Google device. The HA unit is good for dev experimentation, but for day-to-day use folks might want to consider something from the ReSpeaker line: https://www.seeedstudio.com/blog/2024/10/16/smart-home-assistant-speakers/

Curious how those viewing numbers are tallied nowadays, given over-the-air, cable, DVR boxes, streaming, digital DVRs, overseas, etc.

Breakdown of the performance: https://bsky.app/profile/beckyhammer.bsky.social/post/3meffq52d4k2h

I posted the BSKY link, but noticed you linked to it in the edit. One tip, though. Each time the screenshotted posts end, she continues in the reply to that post. Might be a thread-limit on bsky.

I don’t go on r*ddit much at all any more, but had to take a bullet peek, hoping someone had an explanation for some of the references: https://www.reddit.com/r/NoStupidQuestions/s/Y4RVLaPfsx

PS: the old and new subdomain trick didn’t work for me – they’re now enforcing login. YMMV.

Side note: JFC, that place is positively larded with ads now. But the halftime show was so damn good it was worth getting slimed.

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When that thing fails, it’ll be…