A while back, I saw a story in the Home Assistant Facebook group about someone's child saying "Hey Google, turn on everything" and it messing things up. I was telling the story to my wife and forgot to replace "Hey Google" with something Google wouldn't pick up on. Oops. It heard my "turn on everything" and chaos ensued. I have some Zigbee alarms that all started sounding. It enabled several different scenes and ran several scripts. All TVs turned on. My Xbox and Nvidia Shield were fighting for control of the TV (there's some issue with HDMI-CEC that I haven't figured out where if both are on, they get stuck in a loop changing the TV input between HDMI2 and HDMI3 about once per second).

Don't do that. "Turn off everything" is bad too. I ~~have~~ used to have my server rack plugged into a smart plug to measure power usage, and "turn off everything" turns that off. I want to figure out how to disable these two voice commands.

This is a rare case where a piece of consumer electronics is going to be quite a bit cheaper in Australia compared to the USA! Usually stuff costs more in Australia.

The Switch is currently US$450 and will probably go up with tariffs. Meanwhile, it's listed as AU$700 in Australia, which is AU$630 before tax (all advertised prices include tax), which is US$385.

I imagine this is going to happen for a lot of devices. I'm an Aussie living in the USA and I never thought I'd see the day when buying stuff in Australia would be cheaper. Australia has better consumer protection too, around things like repairs/refunds due to major issues even outside the warranty period.

It's amusing. Meta's AI team is more open than "Open"AI ever was - they publish so many research papers for free, and the latest versions of Llama are very capable models that you can run on your own hardware (if it's powerful enough) for free as long as you don't use it in an app with more than 700 million monthly users.

Yeah this is strange. People need to stop vilifying sex work. If the person is doing it willingly, they're not hurting anyone, and they enjoy doing it, what's the problem?

Except for the fact that a lot of less tech savvy people will fall for it.

Reposting my comment from Github:

A good reminder to be extremely careful loading scripts from a third-party CDN unless you trust the owner 100% (and even then, ownership can change over time, as shown here). You're essentially giving the maintainer of that CDN full control of your site. Ideally, never do it, as it's just begging for a supply chain attack. If you need polyfills for older browsers, host the JS yourself. :)

If you really must load scripts from a third-party, use subresource integrity so that the browser refuses to load it if the hash changes. A broken site is better than a hacked one.

And on the value of dynamic polyfills (which is what this service provides):

Often it's sufficient to just have two variants of your JS bundles, for example "very old browsers" (all the polyfills required by the oldest browser versions your product supports) and "somewhat new browsers" (just polyfills required for browsers released in the last year or so), which you can do with browserslist and caniuse-lite data.

This is pretty specific to millenials in the USA...

In Australia for citizens, the government subsidises around 75-80% of the cost of university, loans are through the government and are interest-free (just indexed for inflation once per year), and payments are based on income - no payment required at all if you're earning less than AU$51k/year, and payment rates vary between 1% of your income at $51k/year to 10% of income for $151k/year or higher.

One of my favourite naming schemes is MikroTik's. CRS312-4C+8XG-RM looks like a mess initially, but it's very logical. The features of the product are literally in its name:

• CRS Cloud Router Switch (product name)
• 3rd generation
• 12 ports total
• 4C+ = 4x combo (RJ45 and SFP+) 10Gbps ports
• 8XG = 8x 10Gbps RJ45 ports (XG = multi gigabit)
• RM = rack mountable

If the USA didn't have such a complicated tax system, with companies like Intuit lobbying to keep it that way so they still make money, this wouldn't be an issue.

A lot of countries automatically fill out your entire income tax return for you, and send it to you to verify it. If it's all good, you just need to accept it. Less than five minutes work.

A lot of Linux drivers are like this - just one or two people maintaining them. They usually eventually mainline the driver rather than having a separate Git repo though.

This type of printer exists. It's called a Brother laser printer.

Hopefully that swap is on an SSD, otherwise that query may not ever finish lol
Once you're deep into swap, things can get so slow that there's no recovering from it.