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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



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.


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

Is this app 18+ only or are children allowed to find older boyfriends? How are teens and children protected?
in reply to mlody

I used it to chat with people and someone suggested what ended up being one my favorite albums. You won't meet the love if your life, but IMO still worth to spend some time there, you can find very interesting stuff.


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

Save yourself the time and boot into a live distro with gnome, like the latest Ubuntu or something. Sanity test. Make sure it works there before trying to fix your own install.



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

You didn't really include any details about your current VPN setups, your subnets, your routing rules, etc for anyone to give you a useful answer.
in reply to kiol

I'm not sure what you'd like here. You didn't give much info.

Did you want someone to literally work out a full config for you in here? We don't know what you're even running.

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?


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