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Betterbird. Simply Better

antsar — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 13:40:29 +0000

Article URL: https://www.betterbird.eu

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47703619

Points: 13

# Comments: 1

New comment by antsar in "Automatically generate all 3D print files for organizing a drawer"

antsar — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 22:37:46 +0000

Clicked one of the examples...

> I have a 400mm x 500mm x 80mm drawer for screws and bolts.

(thinking for a while)

"Please provide drawer dimensions to continue."

New comment by antsar in "Doom crash after 2.5 years of real-world runtime confirmed on real hardware"

antsar — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 23:45:28 +0000

It takes serious hardware investment [0] to pull that off.

[0] https://lenowo.org/viewtopic.php?t=28

New comment by antsar in "Xiaomi Home Integration for Home Assistant"

antsar — Mon, 16 Dec 2024 21:53:16 +0000

A local REST API doesn't require servers.

New comment by antsar in "Xiaomi Home Integration for Home Assistant"

antsar — Mon, 16 Dec 2024 20:32:18 +0000

Yes. This is frustrating. Notable examples:

Updating an ESPHome device config requires network to build/compile the image. [0]

Viewing your Integrations page leaks a list of integrations you are using to "brands.home-assistant.io". [1]

[0] https://community.home-assistant.io/t/esphome-completely-off...

[1] https://community.home-assistant.io/t/wth-why-are-brand-icon...

New comment by antsar in "Restaurant Menu Tricks (2020)"

antsar — Mon, 02 Dec 2024 04:13:34 +0000

Color: 6-pack

New comment by antsar in "Phased Array Microphone (2023)"

antsar — Sat, 23 Nov 2024 17:03:05 +0000

You won't see another mosquito - guaranteed!

New comment by antsar in ""Grip Car""

antsar — Fri, 09 Aug 2024 00:48:55 +0000

You're not going crazy :)

Hover over the "minutes ago" string on any of those comments & you'll see the original timestamp. I guess this is a repost, comments got merged, and the "minutes ago" strings are cached/pre-generated from the old thread?

New comment by antsar in "Curl is just the hobby"

antsar — Mon, 22 Apr 2024 11:00:30 +0000

> lawyer ads

I take it you haven't had the pleasure of driving thru Philadelphia. Some say you can even see skyscrapers behind the sea of lawyer ads.

New comment by antsar in "Synology MFA Fails if Internet is down"

antsar — Thu, 26 Oct 2023 19:00:23 +0000

Experienced this too. Having SSH access enabled on the Synology saved the day. There's no 2FA prompt on SSH, so you can SSH in and manually fix the time.

New comment by antsar in "WLED Project"

antsar — Fri, 23 Dec 2022 22:15:59 +0000

Also available from their site with much faster shipping than AliExpress’s Jan 20 (to the US, at least).

https://www.athom.tech/

Happily using this little guy to drive 100 fairy lights (from Adafruit), all from a USB plug.

https://www.athom.tech/blank-1/wled-2812b-led-strip-controll...

New comment by antsar in "Startup is selling tech to make call center workers sound like white Americans"

antsar — Thu, 25 Aug 2022 15:16:15 +0000

Similar: A growing chunk of my support calls have the audio SO LOW that I have to turn on speakerphone and shove the thing halfway down my ear canal to decipher what they're saying. Asking the agent to speak up gets a response like I'm the first person all day to complain about this.

I guess "due to COVID", companies "just can't control" the quality of the microphone their support staff are using. Surely this has nothing to do with the side effects: it's impossible to make a usable recording of the call (to hold them accountable), I'm frustrated with the experience (and less likely to consume their support resources in the future), and maybe I'll even give up now (saving them money on a product exchange, credit, or whatever I'm calling about).

See also: long holds with noisy corpaganda instead of music, keeping you on the phone while we "fill some things in", "oops the system is loading", and so on.

Its not like these are unsolvable problems. But, money. And regulatory capture.

New comment by antsar in "Tell HN: Information security audit / consulting is largely a scam industry"

antsar — Sun, 10 Jul 2022 13:39:35 +0000

When you get easily hacked by a script kiddie, you can CYA internally about all the “preventative measures” you took by showing off the rubber stamp.

New comment by antsar in "Universal Media Server. A DLNA, UPnP and HTTP(s) Media Server"

antsar — Tue, 28 Jun 2022 18:49:26 +0000

Why not use a VPN to access your home network, rather than directly exposing the NAS? Many routers have an L2TP or similar server built-in.

New comment by antsar in "I disabled WiFi on the new Samsung fridge"

antsar — Mon, 30 May 2022 13:11:19 +0000

You really think no money changes hands to power this feature? The last ~decade of tech teaches one to assume otherwise…

New comment by antsar in "FTC sues Intuit for its deceptive TurboTax “free” filing campaign"

antsar — Sat, 02 Apr 2022 14:04:45 +0000

Huh, that's a pretty large amount of refunds (granted, still $10B in additional revenue). Interesting data, thank you for sharing.

New comment by antsar in "FTC sues Intuit for its deceptive TurboTax “free” filing campaign"

antsar — Tue, 29 Mar 2022 21:37:59 +0000

Sure. But why in the world would they audit you if you overpaid?

New comment by antsar in "Tesla's charging ports use a standard msg to open on 315MHz and can be replayed"

antsar — Sun, 27 Mar 2022 12:40:32 +0000

One can hope. I await the CVE.

New comment by antsar in "Texas man wins $75K suing telemarketers for illegal robo-calls"

antsar — Mon, 14 Mar 2022 23:28:40 +0000

Presumably a hybrid of #1, #2, #3 is most effective - there are audiences that will respond best to each. I assume the targeting data is out there.

Personally, though, I find the handwritten aspect of the letter, and the from a human being part of the text messages, to be the awkward parts. I've never met the folks texting me, yet they know my name and want to convince me of things. Its advertising, it feels pushy. Being channeled through a real human (even if they truly align with the message) doesn't change that. I might agree with the message, but I still don't want it to barge into my day like that.

New comment by antsar in "Texas man wins $75K suing telemarketers for illegal robo-calls"

antsar — Mon, 14 Mar 2022 17:22:59 +0000

Honestly, no, I haven't tried "STOP" out of fear that any response will be taken as a confirmation that a human reads the messages, worsening the spam. That's what happens w/ email and phone spam and its impossible to know if this one is different.

I don't think I registered a party affiliation, so it's not exactly like I opted in to this.

I appreciate that this is an effective way to get people to vote, and more voters is a good thing. I vote. Unfortunately it's hard to sympathize with a party when the message is delivered as an unsolicited faux-personalized distraction in a way that I can't easily block.