Respect my -15, or I’ll be back with my -9

Yeah, I hadn’t really considered writing an integration but this is more general purpose than my universal remote.

My hope is that I can use custom sentences to send values to a script or service that, in-turn, will trigger an appdaemon app where I can do all the work in python. I’m not sure about returning the calculated value as a response though.

That’s how I built my harmony hub replacement.

It worked for Microsoft. The month after they started to force install Teams in windows they published user numbers showing how teams had sprinted ahead of Slack by that metric, and the tech press mostly ate it up.

It being dumb was a selling point. I’ve wanted to dump it for ages but my wife used it (mainly for timers and unit conversions) somewhat frequently. But as someone who spends most of her day dealing with problems caused by LLM slop, she refuses to ever use them herself.

I also promised I’d do my best to get Home Assistant Voice set up so it can do math and unit conversions (sans Truthiness engine).

I convinced my wife this was coming a few months ago and its what finally convinced her we needed to drop Prime and Alexa.

My players may be visiting the dons of the animal mafia in a coming session. This could happen.

History suggests they’ll talk they’re way out of it and invite the geese over for a potluck.

My cats only come running when they hear the other cat’s name get called. They only respond to FOMO.

I always wanted to be a fly on the wall when they named the colony (later state) of Virginia.

“We should name this place after Queen Elizabeth.”
“Excellent idea, Elizabethia it is!”
“No, no. Virginia. 'Cause she’s never… you know. Wink wink, nudge nudge.”

Makes sense, but it still makes me want to grab a coffee and order its murder.

To be fair, it wasn’t a programmer that got me into D&D… he worked for the QA department.

This country was once so resistant to any mandatory national ID that the Social Security Administration was only able to issue cards after assurances that the ID number not be used as such. That didn’t last long, and now we’re here.

I used to have a rack in a colo in the middle of Portland Oregon. The 3rd floor was the colo and they also had telecom equipment on the roof, but the rest of the building was normal commercial real-estate.

They spent so much reinforcing the floor, sound proofing the floor and ceiling, and building a giant door in the wall (so they could crane in equipment), and helping pay for a new local substation that when P.a.a.S. services (AWS, Azure, etc) they quickly started to struggle to keep the bills paid.

Soundproofing wouldn’t be needed if the whole building were servers, but the rest would be.

LibreWolf also has the Reader View, also do not use that.

Alexa is also the linchpin of Amazon Sidewalk which is opt-out and potentially gives a way for devices in your home (like smart appliances) to connect to the internet whether you give them wifi access or not. Pretty handy surveillance tool.

But don’t worry, we’ve only made Jeff Bezo’s powerful enough to rent Venice for his wedding.

This meme lost its sparkle after watching Cold Lasagna Hate Myself 1999

Virginia’s exists because the navy was worried that a bridge accident or attack could cut off Norfolk Naval Station from the Atlantic. Submarines cross under the bridge though.

I walked into to work this morning to a dev IM needing permissions. Instead of telling me what the error message said, which would contain the allowance needed, he needed he sent me a screenshot of what chatGPT said he needed. GPT effectively said the solution was to let him assume any privileged access policy that exists.

I think security teams are fine for a while.

Given how much time I spend actually looking at the screen while the show/movie is on, it might as well be in ca. 2000 RealVideo 160x120 resolution.