herrvogel

@herrvogel@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Smart devices are turning out to be a poor investment⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Trying to set up home assistant for my parents’ house, I started seeing the point of all the cloud stuff. My dad wants to have home automation but he completely lacks the technical skills to run and maintain a home assistant instance and he’s completely unwilling to learn. Even after I’ve done all the difficult parts for him, he always manages to have trouble. The majority of those troubles could be avoided with a cloud managed service. I’m guessing there are way more people like my dad than there are who could be assed with setting up a 100% local smart home. Because that does require more than a little bit of technical inclination.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨U.S.: Responding to the “gunshot detection” tool ShotSpotter, a Chicago police officer opened fire on an unarmed teenager⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  but the US is about twice as large as Europe

  Excuse me? When did that happen?

  The US is about twice as large as the EU. Europe is not the EU.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Using a foreign language only delays the “enemy”, which might be tactically valuable depending on the situation but the message will eventually get cracked, have no doubt about that. It’s not a secure way of hiding your information and it’s foolish to even consider it. Some forensic dude’s gonna analyze your shit and it’s all going to become 100% transparent in no time at all.

  Encryption, on the other hand, can be mathematically proven to be EXTREMELY unlikely to be cracked even by the best efforts of well funded experts, when properly implemented and used.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cron job running, but script not doing anything?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Check your permissions and your working directory. Forgetting to make sure cron executes the script at the correct location is an easy and common mistake to make.