My reason for wanting HomeAssistant and a locked down VLAN...


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xkcd #3109: Dehumidifier

xkcd #3109: Dehumidifier

Title text:

It's important for devices to have internet connectivity so the manufacturer can patch remote exploits.

Transcript:

[A store salesman, Hairy, is showing Cueball a dehumidifier, with a "SALE" label on it. Several other unidentified devices, possibly other dehumidifier models, are shown in the store as well.]

Salesman: This dehumidifier model features built-in WiFi for remote updates.
Cueball: Great! That will be really useful if they discover a new kind of water.

Source: xkcd.com/3109/

explainxkcd for #3109

in reply to Landless2029

I just shopped for a humidifier, purposely avoided anything "smart", I ended up with a really fucking simple one, it has a hydrostat and can aim to automatically reach a level you want (40-50-60), has 4 speed,1,2,3,auto and sleep.

And the whole thing is nothing else just a wicking filter sitting in water that has a fan pointed at it, I think Technology Connectios would be proud of my purchase.

I will have to disinfect and change filters, but no need for distilled water like with ultrasonic humidifiers, and I boil my water and let it cool back to room temperature before adding it to the humidifier, hopefully that will help with staving off build up of bacteria

Die CDU stemmt sich gegen das Hissen der Regenbogenflagge am Bundestag, Kanzler Merz äußerte sich besonders schnodderig. Die Opposition – aber auch CDU-Politikerinnen – reagieren verärgert.

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AC/DC rock out in Prague: President Pavel in the crowd for Brian Johnson’s return to stage | Radio Prague International english.radio.cz/acdc-rock-out…

This is cool
#rock #czech

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die UV-Strahlung erreicht bundesweit ungewöhnlich hohe Werte. Mit 8 von 11 Punkten war sie gestern schon "sehr hoch", heute dürfte sie weiter steigen. Der DWD rät zu "unbedingten Schutzmaßnahmen": "Der Aufenthalt im Freien 11 - 16 Uhr sollte möglichst gemieden & auch im Schatten sollten lange Kleidung, Sonnencreme, Sonnenbrille und ein breitkrempiger Hut getragen werden. Übermäßige UV-Strahlung kann zu Sonnenbrand, einer beschleunigten Hautalterung und Hautkrebs führen"

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If you’re against Nazis, and billionaires, and bigots, and pro LGBTQ+ but look the other way as Israel commits genocide in Palestine, or, even worse, support Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people, I have news for you: You’re not progressive; you’re selectively fascist.

#israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism #Palestine #Gaza #WestBank #fascism #complicity

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[ TechCrunch: Congress just greenlit a NASA moon plan opposed by Musk and Isaacman ]
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Who gives a flying FUCK what two billionaire bromos think about anything? #NASA

#press #news #hitzeschutz #gesundheit #stadt #schule

"In Frankreich sind zwei Menschen infolge der Hitze ums Leben gekommen. In Spanien gab es zwei Tote durch einen Buschbrand. Das Schweizer AKW Beznau hat einen Reaktor heruntergefahren, um eine zu hohe Erwärmung von Flüssen zu vermeiden."

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And in case you feel bad, don’t. I believed in a young upstart in the UK who said all the right things and then sold out entirely when his party got into a coalition government with the conservatives. Guess where he ended up after he was boosted in the next election? Did you say Facebook? How’d you guess? (He finally left this year after seven years of as Mark Zuckerberg’s coin-operated mouth hole.)

"Illiberal pronatalists think of having many children as a duty, and thus consider obligations and prohibitions rather than incentives. The strain of pronatalism that is most prominent among certain Silicon Valley elites is decidedly illiberal."techpolicy.press/tech-oligarc...

Tech Oligarchs and the Rise of...

Nürnberg (dpo) - Ein junges Mädchen aus Nürnberg, das derzeit über Temperaturen weit jenseits von 30 Grad klagt, wird sich eines Tages gerne an diesen Sommer als einen der kühlsten seines Lebens zurückerinnern.

"Puh, ist das eine Hitze! Das ist ja kaum auszuhalten", beschwert sich die achtjährige Lena. Noch ahnt sie nicht, dass sie diesen Sommer in ferner Zukunft angesichts noch viel höherer Temperaturen als vergleichsweise angenehm und erfrischend loben wird.

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#press #opinion #trump #florida #politics

Der US-Präsident installiert ein Abschiebegefängnis in den Sümpfen Floridas. Schon der Name dafür verrät, welch zynisches Vergnügen ihm das bereitet: Alligator Alcatraz.

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"Keine Webseite der deutschen öffentlichen Stellen ist barrierefrei – dabei ist das in Deutschland per Gesetz vorgeschrieben. Die Beraterin für Barrierefreiheit Casey Kreer veröffentlicht die Prüfberichte und kritisiert, der Staat werde seiner Verantwortung nicht gerecht."

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UN rapporteur: Tech firms and corporations profiting from Israeli 'economy of genocide' tehrantimes.com/news/515192/UN…

Die Innenminister wollen sexualisierte Gewalt gegen Kinder und Jugendliche konsequent bekämpfen. Sie fordern Vorratsdatenspeicherung und Chatkontrolle. Aber entsprechende Inhalte aktiv löschen - das tun sie nicht. innenministerkonferenz.de/IMK/… ndr.de/fernsehen/sendungen/pan…

Steps Forward in Long-form Text


Some quick news about the Long-form Text project at the Social Web Foundation. After the publication of the draft FEP b2b8 (“Long-form Text”), the Social Web Foundation has been working with implementers to get more support for the Article data type, repr

Some quick news about the Long-form Text project at the Social Web Foundation. After the publication of the draft FEP b2b8 (“Long-form Text”), the Social Web Foundation has been working with implementers to get more support for the Article data type, representing multi-paragraph text on the Fediverse.

One of the big pain points has been how subscribers to long-form text from platforms like WordPress, WriteFreely, Plume and Ghost.org see the text in their microblogging platforms like Mastodon or Threads. Often, the data is abbreviated or misformatted. FEP b2b8 is, in part, a way to improve and standardize this problem.

The work in this area is bearing fruit; a few weeks ago, Shubhankar Srivastava of the Fediverse team at Threads announced that Threads is now properly displaying long-form text from Ghost. This is a big step forward in support.

The participants in the project are aiming to have better standards support from both publishers and consumers over the next few months, so I’m optimistic that other platforms will see similar improvements.

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in reply to Evan Prodromou

As soon as Mastodon redirects all comments with more than one paragraph back to their original site rather than displaying them inline (in other words, makes them type 'Article' and treats them just like they do 'Article' content from WordPress, Ghost, or Friendica), I'll turn on our "long-form content should be an Article" switch again. Until that day, it's going to be a Note.
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in reply to Mike Macgirvin 🖥️

Re: Steps Forward in Long-form Text


mikedev@fediversity.site that's the eventual plan actually... The vision is Articles are sent with a Note preview that contains maybe a paragraph or two, and links back to the original article. Baby steps!

FWIW NodeBB has already turned on "federate top level posts as Articles".

cc evanprodromou@socialwebfoundation.org

Rediscovering the Magic of the Blogosphere, with John O’Nolan and Matthias Pfefferle


Social networks were built on short posts designed for speed and scale. But what if the next era of the web was built for something deeper?

Two of the social web’s “longformers” are working on this. John O’Nolan, the founder and CEO of Ghost, and Matthias Pfefferle, the developer behind the ActivityPub plugin for WordPress, are at the forefront of integrating social features with blogs, newsletters, essays — anything that doesn’t fit in a box of 500 characters or less.

In this episode of Dot Social, they talk with Flipboard CEO Mike McCue about rediscovering the magic of the blogosphere; why formatting, identity, and interoperability are tricky problems to solve; and where writing belongs in the next chapter of the internet.

Highlights of this conversation:
1:24 Why should writers and bloggers care about this topic?
8:35 How the plugin has been received
12:15 Building social into blogs
17:35 Will this increase discovery?
20:15 Models for discovery
23:03 Tumblr in its heyday and status of integration
25:17 How they’re thinking about AT Proto
33:20 Thoughts on bridging
37:16 Core principles around integrating long-form content into protocol
44:06 Leveraging lessons from email?
46:16 Need for collaboration
49:10 Rough edges
52:50 New experiences

Mentioned or related to this episode:
- Julian Lam of Node BB nodebb.org/
- “Digital Sovereignty Is the New Influencer Status, with Citation Needed's Molly White” dot-social.simplecast.com/epis…
- “Steps Forward in Long-form Text” socialwebfoundation.org/2025/0…

🔎 You can find John at john.onolan.org/ and Matthias at pfefferle.dev/.
✚ You can connect with Mike McCue at @mike@flipboard.social and @mmccue.bsky.social.
🌊 Catch the wave! Surf the social web and create your own custom feeds at surf.social, a new beta from the people at Flipboard. about.surf.social/

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Das Bundeskabinett beschließt in diesen Minuten Gasbohrungen vor Borkum. Am bisher mit heißesten Tag des Jahres. Und das ist gewollt 🤯
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So wie #Klingbeil und Co. bislang einfach hingenommen haben, dass die neue Energieministerin wichtige #Versprechen aus dem Koalitionsvertrag einfach ignoriert.

Statt #EnergySharing, #Genehmigungsbeschleunigung, Vollendung die #Energieunion und weitere #Entbürokratisierung zügig umzusetzen, subventioniert Reiche #Gas aus dem #Klimatransformationfonds und stellt den Ausbau der #Erneuerbaren in Frage.

#FotoVorschlag zum heutigen Thema "Dinge die mit 'T' beginnen":

"Traumschiff" von grüner Natur überwuchert - gesehen in einem versteckten Seitenarm des Main in der Stadt Frankfurt. Es wird auch "Naturschiff" genannt.

#frankfurt #main #schiff #ship #boat #natur #nature #fotografie #photography #Photographie #foto #fotovorschlag #stadtfotografie #urbanphotography #naturephotography

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"It is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties.
We hold this prudent jealousy to be the first duty of citizens,
and one of the noblest characteristics of the late Revolution. The freeman of America did not wait till usurped power had strengthened itself by exercise, and entangled the question in precedents. They saw all the consequences in the principle, and they avoided the consequences by denying the principle."

-- James Madison
(1751-1836)

Die Pride-Flagge darf in einer Grundschule hängen bleiben, urteilt ein Gericht - sie verstößt nicht gegen die Neutralität. Sagt das jemand Frau Klöckner? Weitere Urteile aus dem Juni: AfD-Aktivist darf nicht Volljurist werden, Rechtsextremist wegen Wahlfälschung verurteilt und mehr. volksverpetzer.de/serie/urteil…

Postillon versucht sich an DWD-Vorhersagequalität ranzurobben: Das Blatt meldet mit Foto vorab: Gleich soll vor der DWD-Zentrale ein Antihitze-Bündnis gegen die Offenbacher Thermometer-Dominatoren demonstrieren. Bisher schlagen die DWD-Bewegungsmelder nicht an. der-postillon.com/2018/07/hitz…

Yikes, Microsoft is laying off about 10k staff, majority Xbox. What a disaster.

I fear the MS SLT is destroying the Xbox unit by trying to make a brand rather than giving gamers great experiences.

theverge.com/news/693535/micro…

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Verkehr - Deutsche Bahn warnt vor Ausfällen und Verspätungen wegen Hitze - 48 Reisende steckten stundenlang im Zug fest


Reisende müssen sich wegen der hohen Temperaturen vor allem im westdeutschen Regionalverkehr auf Zugausfälle und Verspätungen einstellen.
Verkehr - Deutsche Bahn warnt vor Ausfällen und Verspätungen wegen Hitze - 48 Reisende steckten stundenlang im Zug fest

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Rechtsextremer in griechischer Regierung

Neuer Migrationsminister forderte, Flüchtende zu erschießen


Von Marco Fründt

Griechenlands Premier hat mit Athanasios Plevris erneut einen Ultrarechten zum Migrationsminister ernannt. Dieser fiel unter anderem durch Goebbels-Zitate auf.

Schwerpunkt: Social-Auswahl

#taz #tageszeitung #Griechenland #Kyriakos #Mitsotakis #Migration #Goldene #Morgenröte #Rechtsextremismus #Minister #Asyl #Athen

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Russia Drives Forward the Development of Donbass and Novorossiya eir.news/2025/07/news/russia-d…

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"We the People of the united States, in Order to form a more perfect
Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquillity, provide for the
common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."

-- Constitution for the USA
By the Unanimous Order of the States at the Constitutional Convention, September 17, 1787

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"But, when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security."

-- Declaration of Independence
July 4, 1776

NEW on “How to Fix the Internet” - @durumcrustulum joins EFF’s Cindy Cohn and @jgkelley to discuss how post-quantum cryptography can shore up existing protections but also help us find entirely new methods of securing our information. eff.org/deeplinks/2025/06/podc…

A top Republican senator released FBI emails Tuesday appearing to show the bureau did not pursue intelligence indicating Communist China was looking to hijack the 2020 presidential election with a potential mail-in ballot scheme to assist then-Democratic nominee Joe Biden.

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OBS does not allow me to create a new pipewire screen (only one works)


How come when I try to create a new obs screen, it is black, whether or not i toggle off the visibility on Screen Capture
and how do i get it to show the capture settings, like which monitor, or what portion of the screen, to be clear, the! first capture works, for some reason no other capture i try to create is letting me configure or display anything


^ Image \
pastebin.com/AzKCZ8Tt \
^ Logs
imgur.com/a/K7pMA4p
\
^ Video \
There is a chance this might be related to another issue I had, but I dont know a fix (I have to manually add what portals I want to install due to a bug, but I have the plasma portals so that should be enough?)

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in reply to just_another_person

I have the hyprland portals installed, and the kde ones, due to some issue I had to explicitly install them so idk if that will mess with the way applications handle it, assuming not, and yes I have two gpus, one dgpu, and one igpu, the dgpu is directly connected to my hdmi, does OBS stuggle with 2 gpus? still, that sounds like it would be a issue with capturing the monitor managed by my igpu. Not a reason to stop a second pipewire capture.

What logs do you need? I provided some from running OBS but i assume it isnt enough, what logs should I collect, or is there a flag i need to run with OBS

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Missed your logs link, but there's some hints in there.

You have both an Intel GPU and Nvidia GPU in that laptop, and it's selecting your Intel while trying to use Nvidia compatible settings. So you need to try and force everything to either work on Nvidia, or everything to work on Intel. It can't do both without splitting the settings per GPU, which I don't think is an option in OBS.

in reply to just_another_person

I tried nvidia-offload, as I set up PRIME awhile ago, it didnt help, here is the logs, if its useful:
pastebin.com/CiJ4Zyjw

Idk if OBS would actually respect the GPU being handed to it, or if it'll do something weird with screen capture, its weird per-gpu settings is not a option with OBS, if this is a OBS bug, i can file a bug report. Hopefully it can be resolved here.

in reply to SpiderUnderUrBed

Well in that log, it actually DOES use the right GPU. There are some other errors you have going on in there though, like you seem to have AV1 encoding selected somewhere in your settings, but this RTX 3070 doesn't support AV1 encoding (on the fly) AFAIK.

Try launching the app this same, setting all your hardware encoding stuff back to defaults, then see if you can get it working. In these logs it IS picking up the second pipewire display, so that's good, but launch this way again without AV1 enabled then upload the logs again and let's see what's happening.

#LPT - When installing/ reinstalling a #Linux distro with #LUKS #FDE and you need to overwrite your boot drive, make sure you copy/ preserve your /etc directory BEFORE your wipe your hard drive!

Specifically /etc/luks-keys/ and /etc/fstab or you will have a bad day.

Trust me on this one.

Math.Pow(-1, 2) == -1 in Windows 11 Insider build

Link: github.com/dotnet/runtime/issu…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…

Venezuela dismantles far-right terrorist plot with destabilizing aims radiohc.cu/en/noticias/interna…

Was kann Deutschland vom Phänomen #Milei lernen?


Der wohl unglaublichste Politerfolg der jüngsten Vergangenheit

Als eine seiner ersten Amtshandlungen verringerte der Kettensägenmann Javier Milei die Zahl der argentinischen #Ministerien von 22 auf 9. Der exzentrische Polit- #Quereinsteiger, der aus dem Nichts kam, ohne Partei, ohne Struktur, und der Verhältnisse im peronistischen #Argentinien auf den Kopf stellte, ist der erste #libertäre und bekennend #anarcho-kapitalistische Präsident der Welt. Dieses Werk beleuchtet die Gründe für den wohl unglaublichsten #Politikerfolg der jüngsten Vergangenheit. Doch was sind seine Ideen? Was ist Anarchokapitalismus? Wieso bezeichnet Milei das Konzept der sozialen Gerechtigkeit als zutiefst ungerecht?
Wie Milei an die Macht kam, welche Allianzen er dabei einging und welche Rolle der von ihm beschworene Kulturkampf auch global spielt, wird keinen Leser unberührt lassen. Ist Milei ein #Rechtspopulist?
Was kann Deutschland vom Phänomen Milei lernen?
Antworten auf diese und viele Fragen liefert dieses Werk. ¡Viva la libertad, carajo!

»Ein großartiges und ein wichtiges Buch! Hier schreibt ein Kenner von #Javier #Milei über den Ausnahmereformer und die Ideen, die ihn antreiben. Man lernt unglaublich viel dabei« Prof. Dr. Stefan Kooths

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#Sozialismus = #Kommunismus = #Faschismus
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#Hayek #Mises #BitCoin #SocialJustice #FabianSocialism #MoneySocialism #Socialism #Fabiansozialismus

Auf der #Wanderung von #Seddin nach #Potsdam auf dem 66-Seen-Wanderweg. 🌲🌳
#Wanderempfehlungen in diesem Bundesland mit GPX-Track findet Ihr unter oekologisch-unterwegs.de/wande…
#Wandern #Wanderung #Wanderlust #Ausflugstipp #Wandertipp #Brandenburg

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Damit kann man GPX-Tracks in Videos umwandeln. Ja, das klingt ein bisschen wie HDMI auf Gardena Wasserschlauch, ergibt aber tatsächlich Sinn, siehe unten.

Das Ding spuckt bis zu 4k Video aus! Keine Registrierung nötig. Kostenlos.

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