I learned it from Superfastmatt. He needed a piece of plastic that retails for $1500 for his van, so he said: “either I have a $1500 solution or I have a $1500 solution but I get a free fancy 3D printer in the end…” that stuck with me.

Then I have a bash script that runs on the raspberry pi board that has a speaker installed, something of this sort to play the doorbell chime:

  while [ true ]; do
    mosquitto_sub --exit-after-first-message /my-topic
    play_wav my-file.wav
  done

If you have a beefy wireless Lan that can pull 1.5 Gbps then the two Lan connections combined can still saturate the Wan pipe.

The lesson that I learned from the journey was that working with hardware can be fun and— if you want your career to be long-lasting— better be fun. The Chumby was one of the first devices that showed me that and bunnie was the one who showed me that. I still follow that principle to this day. No day in my life has making firmware or fucking around with hardware devices not something I enjoyed.

1: https://www.engadget.com/2012-05-31-developer-runs-webkit-on...

My reasoning is that it would not be trivial to guess the phone number from my account/name, and to guess my name from phone number (unless someone hacks into the bank's db, in which I'm in troubles anyways). Furthermore if someone was able to figure out that link, it would not be trivial to do SIM swap on Google Voice, it would not be trivial to attack the Google Voice app. Two or three stars have to line up for someone to sim-swap that GV number.

But some stupid bank go further to ban GV numbers. In which case I just don't bank with them.

That’s so embarrassing - especially for something to show how good their stuff is (although I think it’s probably not the ai’s fault) - just shows how sloppy their people are.

I know they have plenty of Vietnamese engineers there. Did the PR dept just throw this final version of the video out without reviewing with them?

I was nor I'm the best position in my life when the job offer came. The opportunity boosted my confidence really turned my life around.

- Provides custom domain support.

- Is cheap ($1 for 3 email addresses).

- Has email web interface and imap access.

- Seems to support contacts and calendar sync via carddav, caldav - standard stuff I can sync my other devices with.

- Apple is reputable enough with security.

Drawbacks:

- No standard two-factor authentication like Google, needs an iPhone/mac for two-factor.

- Migrating Google Photos/shared will be a pain in the ass.

Now you have to have a database of a million phones from Shenzhen that you need to keep track of whether it has your bands. Who's gonna pay for their QA and know what phone manufacturers are doing what with their phones?

Facebook portal. Yeah Facebook privacy and all that but that's a good product that allows me to call people without having to mess with the phone. The audio and video is super clear. I use it despite it's from Facebook.

Work sharp knife sharpener. It's superior to sharpening the my knives with the stone.

Apple airtags. I often forget where I put my keychain so this is really well executed. Apple airpods. They just work and they are nice enough.

Hakko soldering station. I don't know if the recent Chinese usbc ones are better but the hakko one I have work well enough for everything I want to do.

I sell stuff on Ebay from time to time, and one of my pet peeves is not having labels professionally printed and having to tape them. After researching stuff I decided to skip the Dymo stuff and went with Rollo. The Rollo only prints over USB, so I connected it to the Pi0w. It's so godsend nice, I can just shove it into the closet and print from any computer in the network. There is no software to install, it can print from literally any app.

Wifi QR codes? Print it and stick it on anything. Instructions to use an appliance or recipes? Print it. Freaking love it.

One more thing about the Rollo label printer is that they have some sort of deal with USPS so it's always cheaper to print the label from their "shipping manager" web interface. I haven't even shipped 30 packages from the time I got it two years ago and the printer already made the money I paid for it back.

https://amp.knowyourmeme.com/memes/people/parked-domain-girl

However, if doing it with a classical approach (matching sprites) takes a person half a day, and doing it with the new fangled proprietary ml takes a person 20 minutes, I do see that doing it with the new fangled ml approach does have some merits. People want to get stuff done.

I'm a barely passable programmer, so not exactly a shining benchmark, so maybe my view is distorted. I don't think I can do duck detection flawlessly with classical programming in half a day and it would be a total pain in the ass to do it that way, to be completely honest with you.