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This entire situation has been wild. From Miles' public defender turning to him and telling him to stop talking in courts, to the idea that renaming your Instagram profile gets around court orders, to just loaning your car out to friends.

 

Location: 3rd and Union. The Joseph Vance Building

Pay-wall link: https://archive.is/fNbTv

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

There's a set of special topics under homeassistant/ that devices also publish to that describe what each topic does and how HA should present it. HA will subscribe to everything under that root topic to discover all your MQTT devices.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Just updated and it looks like this one fixed the log spam:

json_loads was called from hacs, this is a deprecated function which will be removed in HA Core 2025.8. 
Use homeassistant.util.json.json_loads instead, please create a bug report at https://github.com/hacs/integration/issues

It's a little weird they don't have a download update button on the new HACS dashboard for an individual repository, now you have to go to Settings > Updates. I also wish I could hide new and available repositories and only show the ones I have installed (you can't seem to select Pending Restart, Pending Update, and Downloaded at the same time.)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

As a professional software dev, I worked with pretty much every OS daily. My personal computer was a Windows, my work laptop was a Mac, and I ran my code on Linux so I was familiar with the things I liked and disliked about each. I also ran my own set of server with my websites, mail servers, and various research projects to learn and grow.

Then I decided it was time to order a new laptop and I didn't want to go to Windows 11 because I felt Microsoft was going too much into features I didn't want like Ads, more tracking, pushing AI. Don't get me wrong, I like AI, but it was too much about forcing me to use it to justify their stock valuations.

I also was working on reducing my usage of big tech, setting up self hosted services like pi-hole, Home Assistant, starting to work my own Mint alternative. It just felt natural to get a Framework laptop and try running Linux on it.

I still have a Windows desktop for games and other things, I still use Mac at work. I still like the Mac for it's power efficiency and it doesn't get as hot. Linux has some annoyances here and there, like dbus locking up, or weird GNOME issues, or for a while my screen would artifact until set some kernel params, or the fact that my wifi card would crash and I had to replace it with an Intel card, but I'll stick with it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

As if Sound Transit needs any more reasons to delay and rethink and collect community input on the West Seattle link.

 

Seattle Police locked down the grocery store and the corner of 15th and John after a reported exchange of gunfire at the Capitol Hill Safeway early Sunday evening.

No victims were found at the scene.

25 minutes later, a 911 caller reported a male with a gunshot wound to the leg at 12th and Fir.

Police were called to the reported 15th and John shootout just after 5 PM as people in the parking lot and customers inside the store scrambled for cover.

SPD taped off a large area around the parking lot and Williams Place Park where they reported finding multiple shell casings and at least one unspent round.

According to East Precinct radio updates, the shootout involved at least two armed assailants with one reportedly fleeing northbound on a rental scooter.

About 25 minutes after the Safeway call, police were called to 12th and Fir where a male was reported with a gunshot wound to the leg.

Seattle Fire was at the scene to treat the victim and transport him to the hospital.

It was not immediately clear if the incidents were separate shootings though at least one 911 caller described a group of possible suspects leaving the 12th and Fir scene.

There were no reported arrests.

According to a radio update, Seattle Police were investigating the possibility a Glock handgun reported stolen earlier in the day was used in the Capitol Hill shooting.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I actually have a double sided male A cable. I was shocked when I got it but I have this laptop cooler that has two A ports on it, presumably to allow a pass through but I'm always nervous that I'll plug it in and fry something.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

There's two main ways of doing geo-based load balancing:

  1. IP Any-casting - In this case, an IP address is "homed" in multiple spots and through the magic of IP routing, it arrives at the nearest location. This is exactly how 1.1.1.1 and 8.8.8.8 work. It works fine for stateless packets like DNS, however it has some risks for stateful traffic like HTTP.
  2. DNS based load balancing. A server receives a request for "google.com", looks at the IP of the DNS server and/or the EDNS Client IP in the DNS query packet and returns an IP that's near. The problem is that when you're doing Wireguard, it goes phone -> pi-hole (source IP is some internal IP) -> the next hop (e.g. 1.1.1.1 or 8.8.8.8), which sees the packet is coming from your home/pi-hole's public IP. Thus it gets confused and thinks you're in a different location than you really are. Neither of these hops really knows your true location of your phone/mobile device.

Of course, this doesn't matter for companies that only have one data center.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Sorry, what do you mean route it directly? Maybe I didn't clarify well enough.

My DNS is routed over the VPN but Internet traffic is routed directly. The problem is the load balancing is done based on where the DNS server is so say Google even though the traffic egresses directly to the internet bypassing the VPN it still goes to a Google DC near my home. Not all websites do this so its not always an issue.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yes, but if you hit a company doing DNS based load balancing, DNS is going to return an IP that's near to your DNS server which may not be near your device. That's going to add to the latency.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (5 children)

I have Wireguard and I forward DNS and my internal traffic from my phone over the VPN to my pi-hole at home. All other traffic goes directly over the Internet, not the VPN. So that means only DNS encounters higher latency.

However, because a lot of companies do DNS based geo load balancing that means even if I'm on the east coast all my traffic gets sent to the West Coast because my DNS server is located there. That right there has the biggest impact on latency.

It's tolerable on the same continent, but once I start getting into other continents then it gets a bit slow.

 

The Washington State Transportation Commission (WSTC) has adopted new toll rates for the SR 520 Bridge.

Beginning August 15, 2024, toll rates will increase by an average of 10 percent, rounded to the nearest nickel. Depending on the time of day and day of week, tolls will either decrease by 10 cents or increase by up to 70 cents. In addition, the new rate schedule will feature six rate variations throughout the week instead of the current eight.

Please see the table below for a breakdown of the changes:

Weekday rate changes (Monday-Friday)

Weekend rate changes (Saturday & Sunday)

State law mandates that tolls generate sufficient revenue to meet the bridge’s financial obligations, such as operations and on-going maintenance costs, and repaying construction bonds used to build the bridge. Tolls are also required to be set in a manner that helps maintain travel time, speed, and reliability in the corridor. These rate adjustments aim to streamline the toll structure while ensuring toll revenue meets the bridge’s financial requirements.

For more information about the new toll rates and schedules please visit our website.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Yes fiduciary duty to the shareholder is sometimes misunderstood but this is in scope.

Everything can be securities fraud:

https://archive.is/p2YHV

Or:

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-06-26/everything-everywhere-is-securities-fraud

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

Or just used wired connections. This is targeting wifi cameras and doorbells.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

Right, it's a lot better to give somebody a better alternative first if you want the public on board. Build up public transit, build up regional and high speed rail and leave planes for long distances that are unfortunately suited for trains and cars (e.g. international, cross-continental, etc.)

 

Windows and macOS have similar clients (Hass.Agent for Windows and Home Assistant for macOS).

I've found these kinds of clients useful because I can remotely wake-up or sleep computers, track how long they are turned on for, and automatically pause my lights and music when my webcam turns on.

 

Sadly, WSDOT's social media hasn't discovered Lemmy yet, so cross posting:

Good news, late-night downtown Seattle travelers – we’re about to finish one of our construction projects in the area! From 10 p.m. to 4 a.m. nightly Tuesday, July 9, through Friday morning, July 12, we’ll reduce southbound I-5 to three lanes between Yale Avenue and James Street, close the Yale Avenue/Howell Street on-ramp to southbound I-5, close the southbound I-5 off-ramp to Union Street (Exit 165B) and reduce the southbound I-5 off-ramp to James Street (Exit 165A) to one lane. The usual signed detours will be available around the Yale Avenue and Union Street ramp closures.

The new attenuator along the southbound Interstate 5 off-ramp to James Street in Downtown Seattle. The metal structure protects a concrete barrier along the ramp at is yellow at the end. The attenuator is surrounded by concrete barrier and a truck sits near it with flashing yellow lights.

This work marks the last of 23 guardrails and barriers we will be updating in King or Snohomish counties as part of the Northwest Region Breakaway Cable Terminal Replacement project.

Map on left shows the closure of the southbound Interstate 5 off-ramp to Union Street highlighted in orange. The detour is shown in blue with arrows using southbound I-5 to the James Street off-ramp, westbound Columbia Street, northbound Fourth Avenue, eastbound University Street and northbound Sixth Avenue to Union Street. Map on right shows closure of the Yale Avenue/Howell Street on-ramp to southbound Interstate 5 in downtown Seattle highlighted in orange. The detour is shown in blue with arrows using northbound Eastlake Avenue East, westbound Republican Street, northbound Fairview Avenue North and eastbound Mercer Street to the on-ramp to southbound Interstate 5.

 

I thought the model of 3D printing models of the chips to be a really cool way of visualizing how these chips work.

From the YouTube summary

How does your phone track its position in space? MEMS devices! Phones use small micro mechanical chips called MEMS, to monitor accelerations and rotations. These are fabricated using semiconductor technology, but are tiny little moving mechanisms.

Today we're decapping a six axis IMU (MPU-6050, on a GY-521 breakout board, containing three accelerometers and three gyroscopes), looking at it under the SEM, printing up some models, doing some high speed video recording, and talking about how these little MEMS devices work.

CAD/STL models (fair warning, it's a very challenging print!): https://www.printables.com/model/413667-mems-model-six-axis-imu-device

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