Because English is half a dozen languages wrapped in a trenchcoat? A lot of the law related words are from French derivations AFAIK?

Domain specific language is found across all realms of society, even firefighters have words or phrases with a specific meaning (back-burning, pumper, appliance, etc). So maybe its not that some areas are lazy, its just that you haven’t been exposed to their more technical side?

You have a typo: platform: esphome.

Thanks for posting, good catch!

I cant test this, but should it be something like:

# Example button configuration
button:
  - platform: template
    name: Livingroom Lazy Mood 1
    id: my_button

    # Optional variables:
    icon: "mdi:emoticon-outline"
    on_press:
      - logger.log: "Button 1 pressed"
  - platform: template
    name: Livingroom Lazy Mood 2
    id: my_button2

    # Optional variables:
    icon: "mdi:emoticon-outline"
    on_press:
      - logger.log: "Button 2 pressed"

As for the other thing, that might be something you need to write your own driver for? if you need some inspiration, this repo has a driver for mitsubishi heatpumps, which does something similar (read/write to a uart): https://github.com/echavet/MitsubishiCN105ESPHome

Cunt is our national word :)

Communication platforms are going to be abused by organised crime, pedofiles and all kinds of unsavoury people. KYC rules mean that if a platform finds that kind of content, they can report it to the appropriate authorities.

I dont know whether its by a law, or something else, but even if you self host its a good idea to know who your users are and what they are doing.

Yeah, pretty friendly i think. Kiwis and Canadians might be friendlier, but we are close.

Aussies are just Yanks slathered in vegemite :D

Self host it. Their hosted version has KYC requirements, same as Zoom etc. The self-hosted version has none of that.

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I knew the trans agenda was to get rid of bridges. Wakeup sheeple!!!2!!?

Some might be paid actors, but i bet a lot are just brain rotted morons.

Is this homework?

One possible example I can think of, is if there is a struct of a known size, and you want to find it, you can allocate a block of the same size, and get a ptr that is near it?

Also, if you know of a function vulnerable to buffer overruns, you can place data near the input for a given buffer as long as you know its size and therefore control what the vulnerable function reads.,

Yeah, forums or wikis for long term data, chat for ephemeral data. Just never confluence :D

Could chat histories get transitioned from Freenode onwards? Because that is the major issue I see with using Discord, projects often use chat history as a “wiki” of sorts. If you did the same thing on IRC, wouldn’t you be equally SOL? I dont think switching the protocol is the problem, its leaving behind the historical data?

You’ve come full circle. Of course there are hosting providers everywhere, but there are no guarentees that they will still exist in the future. And if your not selfhosting, then you have to pay someone to host it for you, whereas Discord and Github are free.

And a small subsection of the “dont use discord” crowd are equally against using Github for many of the same reasons.

To be clear, I am completely okay with Discord, Github etc for foss projects.

Very true, but self-hosting isn’t free either, so there are maintenance/moderation/etc costs that take away time from the project. Small projects often just cant justify selfhosting.

But if your service is hosted by a third party, you really do want to be sure they will be around in the near future. And its not just chat that this applies to, git hosting, web hosting, ci/cd etc.

The flip-side of that argument is that “librefosschat” alternative might also be dead next year when it runs out of money :/

At least commercial vc enshitiffied stuff tends to get ridden into the ground, so there is a long offramp.

I was thinking of using an electro magnet to trigger the lid switch. Maybe we are just fans rube goldberg setups :D

Makes it kinda meta. The most latestagecapitalism thing: Misinformation being uncritically repeated by media organisations who should know better

Might just mirror that repo to be safe :D

The IR blasters can usually be flashed with open firmware like tasmota or esphome. I started with IR as well. The downside for me was that IR was one way. You can tell the unit to turn on, but you cant know if it actually did turn on.

For a cheaper IR option: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005004486051086.html

If anyone is in Aus and wants some IR blasters with tasmota, happy to ship my spares :D