GOP President, GOP Senate, GOP House of Representatives = GOP shutdown. From: @WIRED https://flipboard.com/@wired/politics-f1di4a1cz/-/a-05fKQlvUTpC9JjTuXzgoHw%3Aa%3A3199480-%2F0

HacktoberFest starts today. If you know of crappy home automation or #iot hardware, making a PR on https://github.com/unixorn/internet-of-trash/ counts as a #hacktoberfest submission. @homeassistant #homeassistant

In 2011, Aaron Swartz was arrested after he downloaded millions of academic journal articles from JSTOR via the MIT network. He was charged under federal laws (including wire fraud and violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act) with up to 13 felony counts, carrying the possibility of […]

I know there's a lot going on right now, but the characterization by the president - to our top military leadership - of US cities as "battlefields" that should be used as "military training grounds" (and without "stupid rules of engagement") is a very big deal. Even by 2025 standards, this is […]

https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/econopocalypse/#subprime-intelligence "AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations" #ai #aipocalypse

New work laptop. I don't want to sign it into my #Apple account for obvious reasons. Connect my Apple trackpad to the new work machine and it works fine. Try to reconnect the trackpad to my personal Mac so I can do some homelab stuff over the weekend, not so fine. It shows up in the BT menu […]

PSA - @neurodivergent and @neurospicy replacements for the dead a.gup.pe groups are live. #neurodivergent #neurospicy #adhd #AdultADHD #AuDHD #autistic Please boost to help propagate this.

Public service announcement for #homeassistant. I created @[email protected] to replace the dead @[email protected] group. Please boost so the group can get some traction.

https://bsky.app/profile/adamchalmers.com/post/3lzhtyhq6f225 Literally LOLed so loud reading that thread that the cat left my office in disgust.

This is the most impactful thing one can do to protest corporate caving to autocracy. Canceling Disney and Hulu subscriptions. I suggest you do the same. Now. And boost messaging like this to friends. Push back hard.

Varnish Cache project to change its name to Vinyl Cache with the next release, 8.0.0 , In March. > We have tried to negotiate with Varnish Software for many months about this issue, but their IP-Lawyers still insist that Varnish Software owns the Varnish Cache name, and at most we have being […]

#economics #recession #uspol

Added BMW to the Internet-of-Trash list (https://github.com/unixorn/internet-of-trash). #bmw #homeassistant @homeassistant @homeautomation

Today the Supreme Court has handed down a decision permitting Trump’s DHS/ICE goon squads to stop and demand papers from people who have brown skin or speak Spanish just bc they have these attributes. This is not only counter to the guarantees of the 14th A, it is fascism.

First the Roberts Court made women second class citizens. Now they have made brown and Spanish speaking people second class. They are all in on white patriarchal nationalism. May this Court go down in into greater infamy than the Taney Court.

Also, “Executive Orders” are not laws. They’re orders to the executive branch of the federal government. If you don’t work for the executive branch of the federal government (say, for example, you’re a state election official), presidential executive orders don’t apply to you.

the greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing people that 'free credit monitoring' was worth anything, and is a substitute for monetary compensation in the face of massive corporate entities being grossly negligent with peoples financial information

DC Friends: Neither CVS nor Walgreens appear to have any of the updated COVID vaccines available yet, but both do in the nearby MD suburbs. Just scheduled mine in Bethesda. (I suppose getting vaccinated is technically literally a drug deal, but now it also feels that way).

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Vibe coding and imposter syndrome: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/xBilK3gT5e0 #vibecoding #ai #swe #sre @devops #devoops #devops

OH on slack User Story As Overloaded Olivia, the backend engineer, I want clear, actionable requirements with business context, so that I can implement the correct solution without burning half a day in meetings or wild guessing. Acceptance Criteria 1. The story includes functional […]

I needed a Debian 13 LXC container, but proxmox doesn't have one available yet, even though Proxmox 9 in based on Debian 13. Anyway, I wrote a post explaining how to make a new LXC template for Debian 13 to use with proxmox […]

An Open Source sustainability story in two slides. (for a coming talk of mine) Slide 1: car brands using #curl Slide 2: car brands sponsoring or paying for #curl support

Periodic reminder that https://github.com/unixorn/internet-of-trash exists and I'm always looking for submissions either as PRs or github issues #iot @iot #homeassistant #ZigBee #ZWave @homeassistant @zigbee2mqtt @zwave-js-ui

In #dubrovnik the penalty for excessive feline cuteness is jail. #cat #cutekitten #cutecat

PHISHING ALERT: I just got a DM from something calling itself the "Mastodon Support Team", saying that "verification is now required for all members", with a link to click on to do so. It's screamingly obvious phishing (probably attempted identity theft), but if you see it, report and block it! […]

OH: Cops are like a box of chocolates... they'll kill your dog. #acab

I'm in the middle of migrating my HA from docker to an HAOS VM. As part of the cleanup, I did a fresh install of Node-RED to a separate #docker container so I could use tailscale to proxy it. I wrote up how at https://unixorn.github.io/post/homelab/nodered-homeassistant-and-tailscale/ #homelab […]

Nice summary of #windsurf https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8hCtoy7/ #ai #chatgpt

OH on slack: I think we've all seen enough to say that computers are a cryparty. it's just very rarely they're tears of joy; most often they're tears of sorrow or rage or shock. #sre #devoops @devops @sre

What a sad day for America. So much pain will be inflicted for no good reason. Now begins the work of building a coalition to take back the house and senate. Enjoy the holiday weekend and then it’s back to work.

Released v0.20.0 of the ha-mqtt-discoverable python module. This is a pure-python library for creating #mqtt entities that will be automatically detected by #homeassistant Added a 'set_blob' method to the Image class to allow publication of images directly from code. HA will take base64 […]

delighted to announce that my new zine "The Secret Rules of the Terminal" is out today!! You can get it for $12 USD here: https://wizardzines.com/zines/terminal

Updated https://github.com/unixorn/internet-of-trash Updates: - Genie now has a Python module for accessing their Aladdin garage door opener API. It still requires internet access so you can use an OAuth token. #iot #homeassistant #internetoftrash @internetoftrash @homeassistant @iot

I'm looking at setting up an auto-feeder for my #aquarium. I would like to find one that either has a native #homeassistant integration, or is at least easy to override it's native controller with an #esp32 brainworm I can run #esphome on. @esp32 @esphome @homeassistant @aquarium @nanotank […]

> The Posse Comitatus Act consists of just one sentence: “Whoever, except in cases and under circumstances expressly authorized by the Constitution or Act of Congress, willfully uses any part of the Army or the Air Force as a posse comitatus or otherwise to execute the laws shall be fined under […]

My kingdom for a "Block contact, report as junk, and delete" button that does all three of those things in one tap in Messages! Why does this still not exist!?

I have been trying to find some Chili Rasboras for my new 16 gallon nanotank since before I even got the tank. They've been out of stock everywhere. I even signed up for text notifications on a couple of sites and when I got the text I was in the middle of a […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

Since fire season has kicked in, a reminder that it's easy (it took me ~10m because I am a crappy solderer) to add an ESP32 to an Ikea Vindriktning air quality sensor and get pm2.5 data into HA so you can have it notify you when the air quality gets worse than usual. It costs ~$25 for the esp32 […]

Released 0.19.2 of ha-mqtt-discoverable. This is a pure-python library for creating #mqtt entities that will be automatically detected by #homeassistant https://github.com/unixorn/ha-mqtt-discoverable/releases Fixes Select behavior (Thanks mhentschke!) @homeassistant

Wrote a post summarizing the recommendations I give to new #neocaridina shrimp keepers https://unixorn.github.io/post/aquarium/2025-05-31-advice-for-new-neocaridina-keepers/ @neocaridina @shrimptank

OH on slack: Microsoft: Are you enjoying the new Teams experience? Does Sisyphus enjoy the cardiovascular benefits of endless futility? @sre @devops #sre #devops

If the personal computer is a bicycle for the mind LLM-powered chatbots are, correspondingly, Cybertrucks.

OH on slack: https://youtube.com/shorts/xGgeUK9Twiw?si=W4IWQPzjivEjccxV TL;DW most insurance policies won't pay out for damage caused by acts of terrorism. By declaring attacks on Teslas acts of terrorism, President Trump has screwed over Tesla drivers (edited) #cybertruckkk #swastikar #Tesla

OH on slack: https://youtube.com/shorts/xGgeUK9Twiw?si=W4IWQPzjivEjccxV TL;DW most insurance policies won't pay out for damage caused by acts of terrorism. By declaring attacks on Teslas acts of terrorism, President Trump has screwed over Tesla drivers (edited) #cybertruckkk #swastikar #Tesla

Last year when I was setting up my 5G tank I got this plant. I thought it had died, but it had propagated a baby behind one of the big rocks in the tank. I moved it to my new 16G so it'd be more visible. I think it's some sort of crypt because it doesn't have a […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

RFK Jr: People should be able to make their own decisions about vaccines Sane people: Get covid vax, get MMR vax RFKJ: Not like that! #vaccines #insanerfk #rfk