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> Yes, you know where you are in the house. However, your "smart" home does not.

I solved this in home assistant by adding sensors to my doors inside the apartment.

For example if the living room doors are closed, and after that there's movement inside, the room is marked as "occupied". It works really well.

Same could be achieved with straight line movement sensors on the door frames, if you're someone who keeps the doors open all the time.

And speaking of open source, my whole smart home setup (from sensors, lights, heating, etc) works offline and using open source software and protocols even if hardware isn't open source itself. Which I found to be a good tradeoff.

I personally used this app to create the whole floorplan - https://www.magicplan.app/en/

Then I just double checked wall length with a tape measure, because I wanted 100% exact measurements, out of the box the app was 95% accurate. In my experience this is more than enough for the purposes of furniture placement planning and things like that, and it's pretty fast to do too.

I've been just using this docker image - https://github.com/kylemanna/docker-openvpn#quick-start

It works really good and is super easy to set up, this was also my first time setting up home VPN, so I didn't have any previous experience, and I still got it working easily.

Are you talking about online microsoft account or something windows specific? Because that's not true, my password has been 40+ characters for a long time and I change it pretty often.

For local login you can use a PIN, or set up windows hello, if you don't want to type in the long password every time.

I see them more as a fingerprint, which yes is unique, but I don't consider providing it when getting my ID to be privacy invading. If that makes sense.

Because what the police is really doing in these cases is that they're trying to identify potential suspects, not find people who have a high chance of some disease to sell them insurances and make money. Because of that I do not find this to be in any way privacy infringing. Just because something _can_ be used in a privacy invading context, doesn't mean that it is in the context being discussed.

I don't understand the privacy concerns and most of the comments here. I see these DNA database searches as an amazing tool to find criminals and not in any way privacy infringing. And I wish it was more widespread, ideally everyone being required to submit their DNA.

Some arguments I'm seeing:

* "Privacy": I don't see this more private than the information contained on a driver's license. It also does not expose anything that's not otherwise already available to the police. I don't see the difference (when it comes to privacy) between DNA and a fingerprint that you have to provide when getting ID/drivers license.

* "False positives": Yes, they'll probably happen. But even if we go with that assumption there are additional ways to exclude most of them. And those that can't be excluded get tested for an exact match and/or additional evidence. This is no different than being a suspect in any other way.

* "False convictions": As far as I understood it this will just be used to narrow down potential suspects, not to get a conviction.

* "Police will lie do anything to convict the person just based off of this evidence": That's a separate topic that needs to be addressed, but not by reducing tools and forbidding technology that can narrow down and find suspects.

Under worst case scenario is being a false positive result and maybe talking to the police (if you were in the same city, your age was correct, you were around/close to area of the crime) and providing exact DNA sample so much worse than the fact that "The approach has led to arrests in at least 60 cold cases around the country."? I say it's not.

I am in the same boat and am going to give plex a try. They do have silence removal in the iOS app at least, but plex lacks a lot of podcasts features otherwise. I hope they keep improving on this.

Works directly with banks too via FinTS - https://docs.firefly-iii.org/en/latest/import/fints.html

I can't get it to use en_US for interface but de_DE for dates/currencies across all platforms. Because GnuCash insists on reading these settings from locales, and I can't get it right to save my life.

So it'll see a comma when I open the file on windows and just report an error.

Right now I'm considering running it in on my server and then connecting to it somehow from all the different platforms.

Has anyone here successfully migrated from GnuCash to Firefly III? How does it compare long term? GnuCash is amazing features wise, but the UI and cross platform compatibility is subpar at best.

And more importantly is it possible to import data from GnuCash? Last time I tried it I failed.

To offer a bit of an opposite view here on HN:

I give firefox a shot from time to time. I switch all devices to it, and then I use it exclusively all the time.

My most recent attempt failed few days ago, after a bit more than a month with it.

Firefox performance just doesn't feel the same as chrome, from constant small freezes, to using 100% CPU pretty often.

And just overall experience on some platforms - especially macOS doesn't feel native at all. On top of that some websites don't support it that good (not Firefox's fault here - but I don't want to deal with that day to day).

Firefox also seemed snappier on the first few runs, but as the time went on I didn't find it faster or feeling less bloated than chrome as a lot of people like to portray it.

Chrome for me, as an average user, does not have any of these downsides. The closest to a downside for some people you could pin to chrome is that it's owned by google.

At the end of the day, chrome gets the job done, and does it without being in my way, on all the platforms I use, - and that's what I want from a browser, so for now I'm sticking with chrome.

So what exactly did this malware do most of the time?

In the original kaspersky report it says "For example, an app with this malicious code may show intrusive ads and sign users up for paid subscriptions.".

So how/did it sign up users for paid subscriptions without user interaction? Does android allow something like that? Aren't all apps sandboxed?

In general how is the android sandboxing and permission system nowadays? I'm considering switching back to it from iOS, but reports like this are kinda discouraging.

Xiaomi Aqara temperature and humidity sensor.

* Under $10.

* Works with zigbee.

* Works out of the box with open source zigbee hubs. I personally have conbee II/deconz.

And the whole setup of these open source zigbee solutions usually just consists of plugging in the USB device and starting a docker container. It's not not the tedious open source setup as it often is with open source projects.

As a bonus you can use different zigbee devices from different manufacturers all together.

Google assistant is so much better to look up information and understand what you want.

I use Alexa, Siri, and google assistant. And others don't come even close to assistant when it comes to understanding what you mean and the context. Or even understanding what I've said.

You can ask it stuff like "What's the name of the blonde actress from that new tarantino movie" and you will get the result (works on google.com too), then you can ask follow up questions about her.

This also carries over into setting reminders, controlling smart home devices. "Set a timer", "No, you know what, cancel it". It feels like talking to a person. And it sounds more like a person too.

The ONLY reason I use assistant the least of the 3, is the wake word.

I don't think those services should be banned as that's not their only purpose. I do think that anyone knowingly spreading racist, extremist, terrorist material should be punished.

Platforms that can, but do not, enforce rules to remove such content should also be punished and forbidden.

I would not sacrifice the lives of the ones I love in the name of free speech. Promoting terrorist content increases ever so slightly the chances of your loved ones and your family being hurt by those who get radicalized due to such content.

If "China-esque way" is what it takes then so be it.

When he distributed the content he didn't pick only the rational ones. Many people did exactly that, joining ISIS, traveling to Syria, doing terrorist attacks in their own countries.

They didn't get the ideas to do that out of the blue, without seeing or hearing any of the propaganda content.

> Speak for yourself, I would. I've downloaded and distributed ISIS propaganda videos before out of sheer intrigue.

It will be downvoted because it's INSANE, not because it's a hot topic.

ISIS propaganda isn't banned for the fun of it or because "too near emotions influencing policies", it's banned for the effect that it casuses, the intention it has, and the attorcities it shows.

There's a difference between supporting free speech and you spreading around videos of murders, executions of innocent people who have families, and calls for more murders of innocent people all over the world. Just because those things don't make you want to kill someone, doesn't change the fact that they do help radicalize other people.

There is a difference between facebook/twitter that disallow those things, will remove them and app that when presented with those behaviours says that they are welcome. You know that.

Unfortunately nobody taking a stance will lead to that horrible behaviour increasing.

The argument "Because X and Y have similar technical implementations in what users can do" is irrelevant here, it's about the intent/goals/policies/how widespread it is.

I welcome anything that reduces hate speech that is officially accepted on some platforms. That is a real problem and one that needs to be dealt with in any way possible.

Considering the relatively short response times the original owners were given in some cases, and you do not gain anything from having all those usernames I think what you did was kind of a dick move.

And because of that you'll use it to acquire even more usernames.

You opened a dispute to take someone's chat/telegram name... Not cool. What if the person was active but just didn't want to reply to you? Why would they, you don't own the rights to that username. What if they were away for personal or health reasons temporarily?

You're not a brand. You're not a product. You're someone who has those letters in your name, just like I'm sure a lot of other people.

What gives you the right to claim those usernames more than anyone else? In some cases it seems what gives you the right is just the fact that you bothered support, or opened disputes, to give you a name on another service then used that fact to get more of them.

As a buyer I would never want to use cryptocurrencies. There is absolutely zero customer protection without the cryptocurrencies going trough a middleman, at which point it's nothing else than another version of PayPal.

This is the primary reason I, and I assume a lot of others, use PayPal - not because of their amazing customer support, but because of their customer protection which works just fine in 99.9% cases - which is still a lot better than 0 customer protection.

I'm with you on this one. I don't think mozilla is as privacy oriented as HN would make you think.

* They pushed ad/extension for a TV show to everyone

* They silently served modified installers to a small subset of users downloading firefox which sent all browsing data to a 3rd party by default.

* Disabling experiments used for pushing the mr robot ad does not disable "normandy" - which is practically the same thing and they used to push new certificates once their old ones expired and broke addons recently. This feature is hidden in advanced settings.

And then as you say, using google analytics everywhere (giving google data), painting google indirectly as evil while having it as a default engine and collecting google money.

Why is it hard to understand? Because your average user will not "wireshark their own cables", and those who do will use different methods of secure communication. You'd be surprised how many users are unable to bypass various extremely simple restrictions - and this is the target market for these features.

On top of that self deleting email will make it also a bit harder to prove that the screenshot is real - unless you get a court order to get the senders outbox folder from google and the data still exists there.

Because that doesn't reduce latency, but instead just makes it look like that which is worse.

If the user then copies the URL of their post and sends it to another user the other user will not be able to view it.

It would also not be noticeable for the user if an error occurs while processing the video.

Depends on who you mean by "we", people working directly on implementing/supporting AMP? Anti-google crowd? Sure, you're probably right.

But as someone who's just an end user, and not working on frontend development who likes AMP, I don't bother commenting when the opinion is extremely skewed to one side.

I love AMP. The website loads faster, feels a lot snappier, and is overall positive experience for me. That's what I care about. I don't care how it got to that point, I want usable and fast loading website - and AMP gives me that.

Can this be speed and mobile friendliness be implemented without AMP? Yes. Is it implemented without AMP? Very rarely.

Of course there's the argument with google trying to get a tighter grip on web and while that is not a good thing the truth is that I, and huge majority of average consumers, just don't care if it means better results for me.

Having tried a couple of different accounting/budgeting applications, this is what I always end up coming back to. As it just works when it comes to keeping track of finances.

However GnuCash really falls short if you have anything other than default locale settings. Want US language and EU number/date formatting? Syncing that across different OS'? GnuCash will probably struggle with it, you'll need to sometimes set locale, sometimes `LC_MONETARY`, sometimes system regional settings, sometimes all of it, and sometimes it still won't work.

I really wish they would move to a more user friendly settings system.

Also, the whole UI is extremely ugly, and the reports UI/UX could be better. But at the end of the day as a whole package it's still a lot better than a lot of alternatives, and more importantly it's not cloud based.

I hope that one day they'll rework the UI and perhaps adapt reporting, portfolio, etc to be more like something you'd see in banktivity (scroll down for screenshots) https://www.iggsoftware.com/banktivity/

Backups, apparently. According to the info provided by services mentioned in the article on how to set up tracking on iOS devices there seem to be two approaches to this:

One service says "In order to monitor device activity like texts (including some deleted ones!), web browsing, notes, and the camera roll on an Apple device, we'll need to perform regular backups to a computer. This is because of Apple's stringent security on their devices, which prevents regular apps from monitoring those activities. After the first-time setup, activities will be backed up wirelessly over Wi-Fi whenever your child and their devices are home."

The second one seems to be using iCloud backups, in the requirements on how to monitor iOS devices it says "Just iCloud ID & Password are required, iCloud backup should be enabled on the device."

Honest question: How can you trust FF when they less than a year ago silently modified installers for a small % of users, to include tracking - which then sent all browsing data to a 3rd party?

https://blog.mozilla.org/press-uk/2017/10/06/testing-cliqz-i...

Or after they (ab)used systems intended for testing features to inject, what's basically an ad? https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/lookingglass

At least for me the prompt isn't a one time thing, unless you consent to enabling telemetry. I get asked whether I want to enable it all the time when logging in.

No it's not. Because Payback has 30 million customers in Germany. Their whole business model is literally based around mining user data. In markets you'll see people paying with cash and then using the Payback card for the bonus points.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payback_(Bonusprogramm)

https://www.payback.net/de/ueber-payback/daten-fakten/

As far as I'm aware, French court does not have any jurisdiction over web.com - therefore the transfer was unfounded.