HA is pretty good (I'm already running it), but unfortunately most people already have a full-time job and don't want to take on a second one configuring and running HA.

They need them to store the 100-page AI-generated weekly reports they need to submit to justify not being replaced by AI.

I have about 30 smart home devices. There are lights which, if you flip a switch on the wall, turn on. Flip it again and they turn off. Also a kettle that works the same way. And a bedside clock that has buttons you can use to set the time. All of them just as smart as I need them to be, and they'll never be bricked or disabled.

If it's an everyday occurrence then it's not news any more. The US has up to 50,000 gun deaths a year, more than most of the world's war zones. And it's normal. Nothing to see here, too soon to talk about gun control, thoughts and prayers.

Also, a rule of thumb for combat casualties is 4 wounded for every 1 dead (actual figures range from 2:1 to 13:1), which would mean a quarter of a million combat casualties a year in the US... which isn't in a war. So a couple of children being shot isn't news, it's just business as usual.

Yeah, the writeup reads like any number of audio golden-ears reviews where the new gadget is always vastly clearer, more distinct, better soundstage, etc than the previous, which that was vastly clearer, more distinct, better soundstage, etc, than its predecessor, which in turn was vastly clearer, more distinct, better soundstage, etc than the one before. Which makes you wonder why they spent $10,000 on the previous model if it was so obviously inferior.

And then a non-golden-ears person does an A/B test on the same gear and can't tell the difference no matter how hard they try.

I'm thinking it's more like "Fad gewgaw pushed via TikTok fails to live up to the hype", a.k.a. business as usual.

Dunno, but it's certainly the preferred writing instrument for redirecting hurricanes.

In any case you don't need to worry about it, if the NSA really wants to listen in they can just use their

or even their

It's a good thing they haven't got their

running yet or you wouldn't even be able to read this.

It's also yet another y'all-watch-this paper, one of many, many published every year. Cool trick and a nice piece of work, but nothing to see here in practice.

The fact that there are multiple actually goes back to pretty much the beginning of recorded history, for instance Judaism (bronze age) has eight genders and hinduism (iron age) has... well it gets tricky but "several" is a hand-wavy answer, and for thousands of years no-one cared. It's only within the last 10-20 years when it became politicised that the people exploiting it for political purposes have spread the myth that there's only two.

Yup, so the headline should really read "Secret Service gets called on its bullshit story, doubles down with yet more bullshit".

Y'all watch this!

Trigger warnings typically seem be more about virtue signalling than anything else when they're anything other than "this story about $violent_event contains images of mangled bodies that some viewers may find disturbing". So it's not surprising that they don't do much good.

Was just going to say, this would never happen in the US because you can get the equivalent of US "beer" from any tap in your house.

And that was the problem in this case, they were keeping their accounts scribbled onto the back of a sheepskin. If only the Institute of IT Professionals had someone who could run an Excel spreadsheet or something.