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vayunon Turning a dumb AC unit smart (without losing my security deposit)

https://esphome.io/ would make the software side of this a 10 minute job

vayunon Ubuntu's TPM encryption switches to snap kernel that blocks deb kernel packages

At which point they will be stopped by Ubuntu login screen which requires user password (or fingerprint, pin, etc).

Basically there are two options for have to enter 1 password: 1. TPM disk encryption + login password. 2. Password for disk encryption and automatic login (doesn't support multiple user accounts well).

vayunon How much health insurers pay for almost everything is about to go public

Cigna posted a single 570GB gzipped JSON that barely qualifies as machine-readable

vayunon Uber London loses licence to operate

What is the problem with cyclists cross the road on a pedestrian crosswalk (with a reasonable speed of course)? In some European countries cyclists are actually forbidden to take direct left turn on the road and have to use pedestrian crosswalk for that.

vayunon Big brother is here, and his name is Facebook

The article is pure FUD spreading.

"potentially being able to eavesdrop on our conversations", so now any app which has access to microphone "may be listening"?

So it uses data which you are willingly share with it to "serve better ads". Where is a problem with that? Does the author prefer worse ads?