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Well there’s Bosch. Software wise I salute their home connect initiative which is maybe not the best UX but at least it works locally so either it is good forward thinking software engineering choices either it shows neglected software engineering practices.

Sadly AI assist is dead as of now as it received the internet hug of death

I am glad home assistant (HA) gets some exposure. I run it in a VM on a proxmox server (because I use it for other stuff), it works like a charm. If you only need HA buy the dedicated hardware they sell or buy a mini PC. For my lights and switches (via the wall module), I am 100% Philips hue which is expensive but make the best smart lights money can buy and works as expected locally even if the internet or my HA server were to go down. Beware the rabbit hole of home automation though

Great idea!

This looks really cool, will try it out!

LLM

Funnily enough I went to the article because I guessed that it would have literally formed overnight by some surface movement originating from within the moon not some external cause. And I believe my guess is as good as yours except in hindsight of course.

Here's a classic example :

Je suis allé à une teuf de ouf => je suis allé à une fête de fou

Literally :

I went to an zeecray teepar => I went to a crazy party

C'est pas oim => c'est pas moi (It's not me)

Fais pas ièch => fais pas chier (stop bothering /(f*cking with) me)

Je l'ai ken => je l'ai niqué(e) (I screwed him/her)

Found that with a quick Google search: https://www.francaisavecpierre.com/le-verlan/

I wired together all the cables behind the switches in my home and covered them with smart switches

Just go with Philips Hue, you can't go wrong.

Then, when you're ready, setup home assistant but setup everything so basic functionality still works even if your server or internet went down.

My hue bulbs are at the center of this strategy with each bulb controlled by either a remote control or a hue movement detector. Hint: remote controls in rooms where you stay, sensors where you pass by or if you stay only a little while.

I can also control everything via Alexa and can't wait for the day there is a viable privacy-friendly / low-maintenance alternative (Home assistant are working on this). Again, if internet goes down, I still have the remotes/detectors so my lights always work.

Also, for any other equipment you would buy, make sure it's compatible with Matter.

I was also intrigued to see a real MRI scanner built with Legos. Also disappointed to see they only give away 600 of these. What's the total cost of this marketing campaign for Lego? $20k?

I have 200 domains at Dynadot and keep my personal/most valuable ones at Cloudflare. Dynadot has improved a lot in the past few years.

Same here

Cool for you. What about if you contribute to this one or open-source yours?

Crazy to think OP wasn’t even born when Win95 was used. Congrats on the job!

Great advice

I stopped reading after « with nary a mainstream use case to show for it other than drugs and ransomware »

Wether you like them or not, DEFI, ICOs and NFTs are all very valid use cases which attracted people with backgrounds different enough that we can call it mainstream. Yes you can do pretty much all of them without blockchain but so can you with drugs and ransomware. I don’t know what is it with crypto that it generates so much extremism in both sides.

I like these as well!

So in French it could be:

Steak végétal => Steakal or Stékal

Saucisse végétale => Saucissal or Saucissal

Done

Pretty cool! But, before you jump into it... Unless Github have changed their terms, this is against the ToS of Github actions. If I recall correctly, they are meant to be used for building/testing/maintaining the project included in the repo.

Also in the same vein, check out https://lakefs.io/

I laughed so hard at Gordon Inkeles' response.

Wendell Berry:

  My wife types my work on a Royal standard typewriter bought new in 1956 and as good now as it was then. As she types, she sees things that are wrong and marks them with small checks in the margins.

  Wendell Berry provides writers enslaved by the computer with a handy alternative: Wife - a low-tech energy-saving device. Drop a pile of handwritten notes on Wife and you get back a finished manuscript, edited while it was typed. What computer can do that? Wife meets all of Berry's uncompromising standards for techno- logical innovation: she's cheap, repairable near home, and good for the family structure. Best of all, Wife is politically correct because she breaks a writer's "direct dependence on strip-mined coal."
  History teaches us that Wife can also be used to beat rugs and wash clothes by hand, thus eliminating the need for the vacuum cleaner and washing machine, two more nasty machines that threaten the act of writing.

In theory yes! Practically speaking, I think it'll be very hard to find a pricing model that works.

You can get in touch if you want to discuss.

Happy user of https://forwardemail.net for $3/month for unlimited domains/aliases. This is the only subscription I pay that I believe has a fair (cheap?) price.

I use it for all email forwards for my family: https://github.com/politician/barissat-infra

You are right I didn't know it was allowed

You are right, they added a A record in the root zone file. I didn't know it was allowed.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31690379

I'm not saying "ai" is not a valid domain. I'm just guessing why people get to a website when they just type "ai".

I'm on my phone now, if you search for the ai entry in the root zone file (https://www.iana.org/domains/root/files) you should find that IP returned by your host command.

Can you try curling "ai" and see if the content returned (if any) is the same as the one from "www.ai"?

It is a valid domain in the technical DNS sense. But practically speaking, each TLD has "ns" entries in the root zone database, not "A", "CNAME", etc. entries. This is just a guy who registered www under a TLD that's it.

So they registered the domain "www" just like they could have registered "google" or "lol".

You can access Google by typing:

- google.com (domain name)

- www.google.com (subdomain)

The same for the domain in question:

- www.ai (domain name)

- www.www.ai (subdomain)

~~The reason why typing ".ai" or "ai", etc. In your browser works is in IMO due to the internals of the browser that automatically adds a www in front of the domain if it can't resolve it because historically so many websites run on http://www.example.com and neglect to setup http://example.com~~

Edit: as pointed by another comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31690379) there are actually TLDs with A records which is the case here.

So to take my example from above: The registry responsible for the AI TLD set up a website on the domain name "www.ai" but neglected to set it up on the subdomain "www.www.ai" Instead, they set it up on the TLD "ai" which is indeed very unusual.

Microsoft Access! I haven't touched that in years.