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alexiveson Xiaomi Home Integration for Home Assistant

They have a bit of this with their "IoT classes". All of the integrations are denoted as either local or cloud based.

https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2016/02/12/classifying-th...

alexiveson Chamberlain blocks smart garage door opener from working with smart homes

It seems like Chamberlain has been playing this "Cat and Mouse" with us garage door owners for years. The home assistant integration has been spotty for ages. Chamberlain will add some new measure to block it, and the integration folks update the library to work around it.

Personally, I moved to an ESPHome based controller and deleted their app years ago. That said... I'm definitely ordering a ratgdo, that seems like a way better option than what I've got now!

alexiveson Kid Pix as a JavaScript App

Looks like an earlier version of this by the same author.

https://github.com/vikrum/kiddopaint vs https://github.com/vikrum/kidpix

alexiveson It feels lonelier at the top with everyone working from home

This is definitely done already. GitLab (where I work as an engineer) has done it for a number of years. They used to publish the numbers and ranges for every role/location but they made it internal only a year or so back for reasons that I can't remember. You can still see the old calculator thanks to the internet archive - https://web.archive.org/web/20200606161551/https://about.git...

I don't want to debate whether this is the best approach in terms of treating employees fairly, but it certainly seems to have it's advantages for the company - they get to save money by hiring people in places with a lower compensation rate.

alexiveson Pricing niche products

I would guess there's a patent involved preventing another company from using it. I would definitely have bought an MS 3000/Sculpt with mechanical switches before I built my own ergodox. My problem was that I wore out my sculpt in like 14 months. Half of the space bar stopped working. I'm actually a little surprised Microsoft hasn't released one with mechanical switches.

alexiveson Raspberry Pi 4

I do the same thing! Plus, with the webcam integration you can keep an eye on it from another room. (Not too far though in case something goes wrong)

alexiveson NYU Makes Tuition Free for All Medical Students

Weird, still gives me a paywall through that link.

alexiveson AWS icon quiz

I think I only made 7/20 from guessing.

alexiveson Hubot, “the hardest working GitHubber”

Same here. We love to hate jenkins.