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"Lets tie more things to how the stock market is doing" is a crazy take for a fund that's supposed to be stable.

Because the Department of Homeland Security has broad powers and very little checks and balances to it's discretionary use by the Executive branch. It's the thing people have been warning against since it's creation after 9/11.

more than 300 million Americans

I know wiggle room is the gold standard of journalism... but you can just say "all Americans".

They can also be, not to put too fine a point on it, petty dicks about it.

My city banned Flock cameras. So there are a bunch of them juuust outside the city limits. Since official city limits lag behind development they're at intersections you would otherwise think were in the city.

With a zero specifically I think you'd need extra bits to get it on a network, but Traccar itself is pretty lightweight.

Former healthcare IT, holy crap do all digital health records systems seem to suck. Some of them suck in different ways, but none of the big ones anyway are great.

I get that there's a lot of semi-special use cases and regulatory requirements and so on, but at the end of the day it's text and images and a record of the changes to them. And it's not like this is a surprise problem. People have been trying to digitize stuff since at least the 90s. And yet every single system seems like it's only been in development for a few months and usually has trouble working with itself, much less any other record system.

You can still get cameras and screens for the Fairphone 2 from Fairphone. No they're not making more, but they also have never said "unlimited support forever".

That the process doesn't require prying apart glue alone makes it significantly more repairable than any other mainstream phone.

For now anyway, it used to be $20+/gb. I'll settle for flooding the market with refurbished 16+tb drives.

The boring company tunnels are a problem.

They don't have the boring normal stuff you need for an actual transit line, like service access or evacuation routes or proper ventilation. They're being disruptive by ignoring everything we've learned since the 1800s about tunnel building. It might be easier to retrofit than dig a fresh tunnel, but at that point you're limited to the route they dug, which probably isn't as useful for transporting people instead of cars.

Saying "my point is valid" does not make an argument valid. You're presenting as a 2nd year computer science student who is mad because they just learned that Microsoft is less than trustworthy. Who read an article about toxoplasmosis recently.

Most of the devices connecting to Home Assistant are using air gapped, non-wifi networks. A lot of them don't have a TCP/IP stack, much less a radio capable of connecting to the internet.

Home Assistant is an open source project. It's not a thing constructed by a company for sale. You are in a lemmy instance talking about it, which is why the people reading a post about a version update to it, know what it is.

Yes, there could be a magical way for "them" to secretly gather data on everything you do. But at that point they don't need the smart devices.

If you have trust, why do you need a blockchain?

Distributed / immutable databases are not solely a feature of blockchain either.

It's a very interesting thing in a vacuum. Basically any application of it so far (with the possible exception of the original one, if it weren't just a speculation investment machine at the moment) runs into the problem where it has to interact with reality at some point. And most of the problems Blockchains solve are already solved by a variety of other systems, for less time/currency/hardware investment.