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X-Istence··on Testing 12 different Zigbee temperature/humidity sensors
Yep... I have had the same issue with the Aqara ones (on top of the battery life being the worst).
X-Istence··on Best-selling Zigbee temperature sensors tested and compared
I got a bunch of the Aqara WSDCGQ11LM's around my house, and every single one after 3-6 months the battery is dead. The Zigbee network in my house is strong, and stable and yet they keep running out of battery.

Once out of battery, replacing the battery means you need to re-pair them to the network since they don't rejoin automatically. Thankfully Home Assistant sees it as the same device, but it has been a pain, and the batteries get expensive really quickly.

I've been slowly replacing them with Ikea's Matter sensors instead, they have a display that comes on when you tap them, and join the rest of my Thread network. Slowly over time I am likely to replace all of my Zigbee based devices with Matter/Thread based devices because it seems to be far more stable for my use cases than most of my Zigbee devices, especially battery powered ones seem to last much longer when using the Matter/Thread based versions.

X-Istence··on Fixing a bricked Framework laptop
Yep, you can do a DFU recovery on a Mac from another Mac over USB. Same as if it were an iPhone/iPad. Which makes sense since it's basically the same hardware.
X-Istence··on GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra will be in Codex
Where fable has blown me away is converting entire code bases and or refactoring across many different segments.

It’s far more careful than opus and puts far more effort into testing and validating by default.

Switching back to opus at work was a downgrade. Similar requests felt more clunky and needed far more hand holding.

X-Istence··on Cloudflare Turnstile requiring fingerprintable WebGL
This is an issue I am running up against on Safari (Version 26.5 (21624.2.5.11.4)) on MacOS 26.5.

I keep getting the turnstile and having to click the "I a human" button.

X-Istence··on Louis Rossmann offers to pay legal fees for a threatened OrcaSlicer developer
Where is the proof for that? I am interested in learning more about the network plugin! I was under the impression it did not use any AGPL code at all, and that it basically just talked HTTP.
X-Istence··on Bun's experimental Rust rewrite hits 99.8% test compatibility on Linux x64 glibc
I've been comparing Claude vs Codex using GPT and Claude consistently is better than GPT about reasoning, about writing code, and using the tools as appropriate.

GPT for instance had a lot of issues using git worktrees, and didn't understand how to correctly use it to then merge stuff back into a main branch, vs Claude which seems to do this much more naturally.

GPT also left me with broken tests/code that I had to iterate on manually, Claude is much better about reasoning through code. Primarily Python.

X-Istence··on A Nationwide Book Ban Bill Has Been Introduced in the House of Representatives
That page (and the rest of the book) is far less pornographic than the actual porn I and many other kids I grew up with had access to, and regularly shared between ourselves, and is incredibly tame.

I also find it very telling that you'd consider what is on page 168 pornographic in the first place, sexually explicit maybe, but it is not intended to arouse or cause sexual excitement, it's meant to portray a lived experience.

The sexual repression in the United States is part of the reason why so many people grow up with the wrong ideas around sex and why teen pregnancy is such a big thing. Open discussion about these things (including gender and gender identity in that) is the best way to allow kids to grow up to be functional adults that are well informed and able to have critical thought about how and what they do and are far less likely to fall prey to predators and people who want to do them harm due to their lack of experience.

X-Istence··on Signal Secure Backups
I already pay Apple for storage, please just back up my chats/media to iCloud.
X-Istence··on Samsung Q990D unresponsive after 1020 firmware update
This is one of those cases where I am glad I don't have my soundbar connected to the internet...
X-Istence··on Xiaomi Home Integration for Home Assistant
I moved my Hue sensors to my primary Zigbee network and left the bulbs on the hub, especially since I have some of the gradient strips that don't work unless they are on the Hue hub, and my motion sensors have been rock solid.
X-Istence··on Xiaomi Home Integration for Home Assistant
Hue bulbs currently are stock standard Zigbee compatible light bulbs. You can pay them into ZHA/Z2M without any issues and control them without any Hue hub or app.

If Hue were to suddenly switch to something proprietary their existing bulbs will all continue to function without their app or hub.

X-Istence··on Senators say TSA's facial recognition program is out of control
I am a US resident alien (green card holder) and I have my fingerprints and picture taken each time I enter the United States.
X-Istence··on Senators say TSA's facial recognition program is out of control
When entering the United States they also take fingerprints and a picture of your face.
X-Istence··on Warning: DNS encryption in Little Snitch 6.1 may occasionally fail
Not resolving 127.0.0.1 or RFC1918 addresses or even ULA for IPv6 is done to avoid DNS rebinding attacks. For most end users that is probably the correct move.
X-Istence··on FreeBSD 13.4-Release
There are some people that like the stability of staying in a single branch for a longer period of time. Same as for example people staying on RHEL 8 vs RHEL 9 or Ubuntu 22.04 vs 24.04
X-Istence··on FreeBSD 13.4-Release
Updating to 13.4-RELEASE also requires a reboot.
X-Istence··on Interviewing Tim Sweeney and Neal Stephenson
Anathem was almost unreadable due to the aforementioned world building but also apparently needing to redefine every single last word in the dictionary.

But Cryptonomicon, Snow Crash and REAMDE were amazing.

X-Istence··on Stop Microsoft users sending 'reactions' to email by adding a postfix header
Android does this too. I am in several group chat's with Android users and their reactions are also sent the same way.
X-Istence··on Using S3 as a Container Registry
Azure's IPv6 implementation is still flawed and still broken. That has not changed.
X-Istence··on Cloudflare automatically fixes Polyfill.io for free sites
Looks like it is down at the .io registry level, I am not getting any NS records for polyfill.io
X-Istence··on Spam blocklist SORBS closed by its owner, Proofpoint
That's interesting to say the least... it means that there are MANY MANY more azure tenants that are used to send spam :/
X-Istence··on Spam blocklist SORBS closed by its owner, Proofpoint
Single user... me. My email address is used on all my git commits/mailing lists across the web.

I check my junk folder every other day to make sure that legitimate mail does not go through because I've set my rspamd config pretty tight.

So all of these are classified correctly as spam by human eyes.

X-Istence··on Spam blocklist SORBS closed by its owner, Proofpoint
For anyone interested, here's the list for the last month or so:

https://gist.github.com/digitalresistor/03ea1b8798c519a71f06...

Edit: moved list to Gist.

X-Istence··on Spam blocklist SORBS closed by its owner, Proofpoint
About 70% of my spam originates from *.onmicrosoft.com. Unfortunately I can't easily block the whole thing because there is also legitimate email traffic from Office365/Azure.

I have tried sending Microsoft reports, but have not heard back, and the spam continues.

X-Istence··on BIMI and DMARC Can't Save You: The Overlooked DKIM Exploit
The length header in DKIM only pertains to the body of the message. Received headers should never be signed by DKIM, and those are added to give you a way to trace how a message was handled.
X-Istence··on Macaroons Escalated Quickly
Macaroons are also implemented and used by pypi.org's implementation named Warehouse:

https://warehouse.pypa.io/development/token-scanning.html

Also see:

https://pypitoken.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

X-Istence··on Czech republic sets IPv4 end date
How is your isp provided router doing the heavy lifting? You’ve turned off IPv6… you won’t be able to reach IPv6 resources.
X-Istence··on VMware is now part of Broadcom
No, you can't failover a datacenter with VirtualBox.
X-Istence··on Apple announces that RCS support is coming to iPhone next year
Because blue means iMessage and iMessage means E2EE.

Grey and Green means not encrypted. Simple.

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