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Best way to trigger automation with my return home?


I have a few old automations that are designed to unlock my front door, or open my garage door, depending on how I leave. If I ride my bike or car, it opens my garage, if I leave via front door, it opens the front door. Pretty simple. Except!!! I did this in pieces, so it's 2 separate automations. One detects my phone entering the "home zone", the other detects an event firing (iOS triggered the event via 'shortcuts')

There is now "zone based" automations, and there is also my "person entity". So the way I see it, I have 3 different ways to tell when I come home:

  1. My phone's gps enters the 'home zone'
  2. My HA 'person' state changes from 'away' to 'home'
  3. My phone's shortcut app fires an event that is detected.

I feel like #1 and #2 are the same, no? I only have one device linked to my person entity, and it's my phone. Is there any difference in this case? Is there a preferred choice?





This Toronto doctor has over 2,000 patients, but still no permanent residency


in reply to HellsBelle

What were the technicalities?

Edit: how did I miss that? Never mind.

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in reply to StinkyFingerItchyBum

in reply to HellsBelle

Interesting read but that's just another one in a myriad of cases. This is the norm.

100% of my acquaintances that did not get professional services to prepare the application forms and documents (because that help is very expensive) had at least one rejection due to a form mistake or weird edge case.

Even with professional help I had trouble getting my wife's fingerprints validated because her digitals are so dim that ink-on-paper fingerprinting just doesn't work, it's a black blob every time, and during our year-long process the government changed the rule so that digital submissions were no longer valid so it had to be ink-on-paper.



Mozilla announces switch to disable all Firefox AI features


In response to user feedback on AI integration, Mozilla announced today that the next Firefox release will let users disable AI features entirely or manage them individually.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/software/mozilla-will-let-you-turn-off-all-firefox-ai-features/



Early Console Modchips - From Piracy to Freedom [10:56] | Modern Vintage Gamer


With the launch of optical media in game consoles such as the Sony PlayStation 1. The console could be hacked with a use of a simple modchip - an unauthorized hardware modification that was soldered directly onto the motherboard. This was done to circumvent security features. While the original goal was for piracy and backups, as modchips evolved, so did their use cases. Everything from Region Free, homebrew, emulators, makeshift development kits and more were soon possible. In today's video we look at the earliest modchips and how they shaped the video game landscape.
in reply to cm0002

I grew up playing a modded OG Xbox

I don't think I ever actually used the stock Xbox OS

in reply to EonNShadow

Hehe same, I powered on a stock system to play a few years ago and I'm like sitting there wondering if it's broken or if this really all there was to the stock system LMAO


First Open Source dating app


What do you think about it? I guess that woman to men ratio will be something like 1:20
in reply to mlody

I checked it out for fun some time ago.
I really appreciated how unmonetized and not emotionally manipulative it was.
There's like no people on there though.
in reply to Sivecano

Be the people on there that you want there to be

🙌🌈



Orion Browser


Any mac users out there who tried this browser? Linux alpha is coming this month so will try it myself then.

It sounds like they are building a new browser from the ground up.



I'm so confused with this random audio issue


Speakers -> Worked via Line OUT for months

Take PC apart and change PSU, assemble PC back.

Speakers - Line OUT detected but can't test Left/Right audio channels, options missing. No AUDIO from speakers unless I select them as default in Pavucontrol or manually assign outputs via Helvum.

Fedora 43 GNOME

How do I get my GNOME audio settings to work again?

This is so random and funny at the same time... yet frustrating because it makes no god damn sense :D

in reply to WereCat

Hmmm. Random guess: does your machine have another audio output, possibly via HDMI, that you're not using? This could be ALSA selecting the wrong device as a default, which would then propagate up through the stack.
in reply to nyan

I do via USB. I tend to switch between speakers and headphones. But other audio outputs work via the audio settings when I select them
in reply to WereCat

I have a stupid question: Are you sure you're not confusing "line out" and "headphone out"? They're different, and pretty much every desktop supports both these days. But standard PC speakers usually connect to the "headphone" socket.



in reply to slothrop

They could save $12.4B and dust off Canada's anti-monopoly laws which haven't been in use in 30 years. Break up Roblaws.
in reply to SaveTheTuaHawk

We're waiting to see if a corporate lapdog wins NDP leadership in March before I say anything about who could be willing to try that lol.
in reply to slothrop

Any chance that > $12.4B is directly taxed or siphoned from the big grocery chains?


Help managing access to multiple VPN services (Tailscale, Wireguard, Twingate)


cross-posted from: discuss.online/post/34942012

I find everyone using different services, so unsure how to best manage (and balance) concurrent access in Ubuntu/Debian to:
- Local network services
- Tailscale services from userA
- Tailscale services from userB
- Wireguard (OpenVPN also option) from userC
- Twingate from userD

Each user is wanting to share different services via VPN, and pressuring any to change their production setups to a different style of VPN is not going to happen.
- Management via software
- Possibly up a routing device along the lines of OpenWrt or OpnSense.
- Could even distribute such devices between these friends.

Thanks for all thoughts!

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in reply to kiol

What do you mean? Is it working now? To my understanding this stuff either works or it doesn’t, what is going wrong for you? What are some things you’d like to make more seamless?
in reply to kiol

Are you running your services directly on the host or via docker? All the VPN services listed provide docker images which I think should allow you to run multiple instances without them interfering with each other, although I've only played around with Tailscale myself. The setup would be slightly different depending on if your services are containers or not


AI controls is coming to Firefox


Starting with Firefox 148, which rolls out on Feb. 24, you’ll find a new AI controls section within the desktop browser settings. It provides a single place to block current and future generative AI features in Firefox.


They actually listened to the community, thats very nice.



Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft


Software engineers at Microsoft are now expected to use both Claude Code and GitHub Copilot and give feedback comparing the two, I’m told. Microsoft sells GitHub Copilot as its AI coding tool of choice to its customers, but if these broad internal pilot programs are successful, then it’s possible the company could even eventually sell Claude Code directly to its cloud customers.


Guys? Are we going to have to rename Microsoft products from Copilot to Claude soon?

Microsoft Claude 365?



'No conocemos la palabra rendición': los cubanos responden a las nuevas amenazas de Estados Unidos




'No conocemos la palabra rendición': los cubanos responden a las nuevas amenazas de Estados Unidos


#Cuba


'No conocemos la palabra rendición': los cubanos responden a las nuevas amenazas de Estados Unidos





Wiarton Willie predicts early spring, but Punxsutawney Phil disagrees


Wiarton Willie, along with most of his Canadian counterparts, has predicted an early spring after he did not see his shadow on Monday morning on Groundhog Day.

Groundhog Day is a long-held tradition of watching animals coming out of hibernation to predict whether there'll be an early spring or six more weeks of winter.

Every Feb. 2, groundhogs and even a crustacean emerge from their shelters to see if they see their shadows.

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in reply to breakfastmtn

predict whether there'll be an early spring or six more weeks of winter.


Where I live 6 more weeks of winter is an early spring.

in reply to breakfastmtn

Phil is warning of an ICE storm, and is hiding in its hole with a whistle ready.