phughes

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[–] phughes 5 points 1 week ago

despite overwhelming opposition from union members

It sounds to me like the author needs to look up "overwhelming" in the dictionary.

[–] phughes 4 points 2 weeks ago

I made his lamb shank recipe a couple years ago and it was incredibly flavorful. About as subtle as a brick to the head, but still insanely delicious.

[–] phughes 74 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

As a friend of mine says: "The American Bar Association is a very agree-to-disagree organization. If the ABA is warning about an imminent collapse of the rule of law, we are down to studs and wires."

[–] phughes 5 points 2 weeks ago

I like how this is posed as a question even though the CEO is supposed to be responsible for the company's fortunes by default. That's why they're paid so much, right?

[–] phughes 13 points 2 weeks ago

IRS Free File.

[–] phughes 5 points 2 weeks ago

Fun fact: Trans-Siberian Orchestra was born out of the band Savatage.

[–] phughes 7 points 2 weeks ago

The unanswered question is: what are we going to do about it?

Unfortunately the answer looks to be: Not much.

[–] phughes 3 points 2 weeks ago

I broke like a 15 year streak of not giving Tom Cruise any money to watch the last one, and boy did that movie fucking suck. Given the choice of finding out the ending and never thinking about that shitty movie again I'm going to pick the latter.

[–] phughes 11 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

Am I supposed to care about the Fauci museum exhibit?

No, I care about being able to rely on the federal government doing what it said it would do. So that if I get a federal contract I know that I'm not going to bankrupt my company by following through on my side of the deal, never knowing if they're going to renege on their part.

The Fauci museum is more than halfway through the period the money was supposed to be spent during. Does that mean we have spent $90K to get nothing? That doesn't sound so fiscally conservative.

Also, fuck the Daily Mail for propagating bullshit talking points about COVID being created in a US government lab in China (long established as false.)

[–] phughes 2 points 3 weeks ago

It's great that you have the skills to do that, but we both know that most people buying smart home gadgets don't have those skills. I'd prefer those people to have a safe by default setup, which is why I advocate for Zigbee and Z-Wave.

[–] phughes 37 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

One thing I like about Z-Wave and Zigbee devices is that they can't connect to the internet no matter what, because they don't have the hardware for it.

  • This means you don't need to worry about them phoning home with usage data. (privacy)
  • It means you don't need to worry about them being used by a hacker to penetrate your network. (security)
  • It means you don't need to worry about them being a node in some botnet mining crypto for someone else with your electricity. (resource usage)

You've already got HomeAssistant to connect them to your Google Home or HomeKit account, so you can still turn on your closet light from the bar or whatever. You're not losing anything by them not being connected to the internet directly. You just never have to worry about that stuff. Instead of having to keep 40 devices that were sold by some company that no longer exists up to date on their firmware, you just need to keep HA up to date.

All it costs is one $30 usb dongle.

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