Dаn̈ıel Раršlow 🥧 @pieist@social.cleverlibre.org

@liaizon NotForLongNote

@Beeks @AnnemarieBridy

Surely he has hordes of groupies who fling themselves at him, screaming "monetize me!!!"

@amayer @GreenFire @IAm_THEPaulina
What, they can spell out "Putin has stank-breath" in the sky or something?

@Landcombatmissiles On top of all the other restitution they're going to have to pay, it's going to cost Russia billions to demine the place.

@rubenbolling Finally, the "Titanic tourist" submersible of the air!

@rubenbolling "But to avoid automobile crash test laws ..."

Yes, I totally want that flying machine from a company unwilling to comply with even the most basic transportation safety regs.

@Erik @Ruth_Mottram

Yep. I'd be delighted if there were turnkey open-source home automation solutions. Having experimented with hassio and friends, there's nothing there for the ordinary user.

I'm a very experienced netops software engineer and my reaction to these is "you've got to be kidding". They're preposterously bloated and require a huge investment of time and energy to get any work out of them.

I've done some compact and efficient work in that area for my own fun but it's not ready for prime time. Hopefully I'll get enough free time to package them well enough for others to use.

@feditips They're all going to sod off again when Musk relents and makes Twitter even a little bit usable again, so I wouldn't get excited.

@mmasnick Please stop saying that things fall to the ground because of gravity. They disproved that last week. It's not that.

Fact is the moment Musk relents and makes Twitter even slightly usable again they're all going to go back there. We've seen this over and over again: Musk breaks something, it's the Fediverse jubilee. Musk unbreaks it even slightly, you can't see them for dust.

@Ruth_Mottram @Erik

They really are a poor value. Expense, effort and exposure to risk, in return for a level of convenience which is in practice almost completely hypothetical.

@Ruth_Mottram @Erik

I've got a few smart bulbs and outlets but only ones that could be reflashed with open-source firmware. They don't phone home to the cloud, and I pretty much control them vie their own built-in web APIs.
With lots of very nerdy effort you can make your own smart home with Siri and MQTT --- I did all this and then realized I didn't actually need it... at this point I'd actually have to go rummage around and find my old code if I wanted to tell anyone else how to do it.

@GustavinoBevilacqua @Erik
Okay, it'd take me an nour NOW. It probably took me a day or so to set it up initially and I think I had to add some code to a python based webserver I'd written to access cameras and crap. So yeah, massive nerdiness is a prerequisite.

@GustavinoBevilacqua @Erik MQTT plus Siri and you can do this stuff under your own roof. Takes an hour of fiddling around and a few cycles from any always-on box you happen to be using already.

@semioticstandard I used to think that selling one of your kidneys was bad but when they outlawed it I realized that eliminated a valuable source of income for the poor

Tell me you haven't been paying your hosting and bandwidth bills without telling me you haven't been paying your hosting and bandwidth bills