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  Mystery! One of my #homeassistant door sensors is... missing. It's still connected via Zigbee, but it's nowhere to be found. Did the kid abscond with it? (he says no). Did the cat knock it loose and bat it around? It registered its last "door open" just after dinner two days ago, when it was pouring rain. Zigbee network shows it connected to a router that is across the house in the basement (and not any of the 3 routers on the main level) Any tips for f...

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  First, it's not "GPS" that you're having Chrony (or NTPd) syncing to. It's 1 Pulse-Per-Second (PPS), which is why my screenshot says PPS is my reference clock. GPS delivers "NMEA stanzas" over a serial connection. Which means we're talking over (usually slow) serial baud rates, over which you receive "the time is now X", along with many other messages and have to guess at how long ago that timestamp was generated, since it takes many milliseconds t...

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  This is AI comedy gold https://gist.github.com/bretonium/291f4388e2de89a43b25c135b44e41f0 #ai #badai #badbot #comedy

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  Shiny. Firefly reboot, with original cast, but as an animated series https://deadline.com/2026/03/nathan-fillion-firefly-animated-series-development-1236754122/ #firefly

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  @joeress Just snap a photo of mom's creditcard, it's in her purse. :blobcatpeek:

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  Okta, for an authentication system, has so many rough edges and bad user experiences. In the portal, and click the Sign Out button? Yeah, doesn't do anything. Already logged in, but touching something that requires 2FA? Tell the user that, and give them options on what 2FA to trigger. My org doesn't allow Windows Hello, so if I login with that, having Okta Verify pop up, with a big "Windows Hello confirmation <disabled>" doesn't help m...

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  I've been using Valkey (and Redis before it) for years when building scripts or small apps to store a bit of data. Even though I'm not storing a lot of data, it has always irked me that it needs to be in memory all the time. Last night I found kvrocks, an Apache project, which provides a redis interface, but stores data on disk in rocksdb. Even better, it has "namespaces", so I can separate each app easily by credential. https://kvrocks.apache.org/ #kvrocks...

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  #Zen browser added a "Live Folder" (a folder of tabs based on a RSS feed) in the latest version. And I don't know how many hundreds of items were on my #Readeck read-later list, but it's now five, which is incredible. Just bringing my read-later list right into my browser tabs has made a world of difference. #selfhost #homelab

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  I've been working on custom #MCP tools to better tie my stuff together. It's connected to the Assist functionality in #HomeAssistant allowing me to do things like: - add items to grocery/personal/household to-do lists. - check or update quantities of items in my #HomeBox inventory - ask for weather forecasts for anywhere #selfhost #homelab #llm #ai

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  RE: https://infosec.exchange/@mainframed767/115650775795256747 Prediction: Companies will forget to draft business continuity plans for the case of LLM service failures or problems. "What do you mean Customer Service is down?" #ai #llm

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  Ok. I feel you, it's the holidays. #error

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  @bird@birdbox.party I've also been looking into this. It appears to be bots, with full-blown browsers that are requesting /tags/, which loads the full page, which they likely scrape. I've put a quick block in place, so they aren't getting what they want from my instance, and am considering what else I could do... Poison the well (give them bogus data)? Feed them an Anubis page with an impossibly difficult challenge to spin their CPU for a while? Since they're a full browser...