Tuya soil sensor integration
I'm attempting to add a no-name chinese solar wifi soil sensor to my HA server and have a couple questions. I was able to pair the device to the Smart Life app, add the Tuya integration to HA, link my Smart Life account to the HA integration, and recognize the device from that integration.
The device in the Smart Life app shows sensor readings for temperature, moisture, and nutrient levels, but the only sensor reading available in HA is temperature.
So I guess I have 2 questions:
1. How to get HA to recognize the other sensors from this device?
2. Is there any way directly connect a device like this to HA without linking to a Smart Life account?
this always cheers me up
This Photographer Built an Awesome Medium-Format Rangefinder, and So Can You
This Photographer Built an Awesome Medium-Format Rangefinder, and So Can You
Photographer Albert Cornelissen wanted an affordable, versatile medium-format rangefinder. So he built it himself.Jeremy Gray (PetaPixel)
SLIC Superpixels
SLIC Superpixels
Abstract Superpixels are becoming increasingly popular for use in computer vision applications. However, there are few algorithms that output a desired number of regular, compact superpixels with a low computational overhead.EPFL
What's the deal with Reddit and Zelensky?
Just that. Someone uploaded this photo of Zelensky allegedly taking a selfie in Kupiansk, which is supposed to be a city already taken by Russian forces. I am not really informed of the situation in Kupiansk, but this is not the issue for me.
In the Politics subreddit, where this was published, the comments are overwhelmingly pro Ukraine, which, well, checks out. But what I find kind of trollish, are the comments surrounding Zelenksy. It's like reading the five-star comments of the Google Play Services app in the Play Store, or something. They repeatedly talk about how big and glorious are Zelensky's balls? Praising his balls, even though, he is a smaller guy? They praise the bold actions of Zelensky calling him a European hero, imagining his heroic dialogues as in some cheap hollywood movie, etc. To me, it just feels utterly fake? I mean, AI fake.
What do you make of this, guys? Please, remember, it's not about the conflict itself.
Jessica Ashooh: The Taming of Reddit and the National Security State Plant Tabbed to Do It
Exploring the troubling background of Reddit Director of Policy Jessica Ashooh, her links to a dictatorship and hawkish think tanks.Alan Macleod (MintPress News)
What is the AI vibe at work like for you?
I have a boss who tells us weekly that everything we do should start with AI. Researching? Ask ChatGPT first. Writing an email or a document? Get ChatGPT to do it.
They send me documents they "put together" that are clearly ChatGPT generated, with no shame. They tell us that if we aren't doing these things, our careers will be dead. And their boss is bought in to AI just as much, and so on.
I feel like I am living in a nightmare.
While this sounds like a good idea, leaving individual decisions to people, longterm it is quite dumb.
- if you let an LLM solve your software dev problems, you learn nothing. You don't get better at handling this problem, you don't get faster, you don't get experience in spotting the same problem and having a solution ready.
- you don't train junior devs this way, and in 20 years there will be (or would be without the bubble popping) a massive need for skilled software developers. (and other specialists in other fields. Better pray that medical doctors handle their profession differently..)
- you really enjoy tweaking a prompt, dealing with "lying" LLMs and the occasional deleted harddrive? Is this really what you want to do as a job?
- (bonus point) Would your company be ok with someone paying a remote worker to do his tasks for a fraction of the salary, and then do nothing? I doubt that. so, apparently it does matter how the work gets done.
Old enough to remember how people made these same arguments about writing in anything but assembly, using garbage collection, and so on. Technology moves on, and every time there's a new way to do things people who invested time into doing things the old way end up being upset. You're just doing moral panic here.
It's also very clear that you haven't used these tools yourself, and you're just making up a straw man workflow that is divorced from reality.
Meanwhile, your bonus point has nothing to do with technology itself. You're complaining about how capitalism works.
Old enough to remember how people made these same arguments about writing in anything but assembly, using garbage collection, and so on. Technology moves on, and every time there’s a new way to do things people who invested time into doing things the old way end up being upset. You’re just doing moral panic here.
If this is an example of your level of reading comprehension, then i guess it's no surprise that you find LLMs work well for you.
Your answer addresses none of the points i made, and just tries to do the Jedi-mind-trick-handwave, which unfortunately doesn't work in real life.
that don’t exist in the real world.
A bit like your ability to reason and provide arguments. But i guess that happens when you have used LLMs for too long.
I'm sorry?
You have the gall to tell that to me, after the first thing you do is falsely accusing me of using straw man arguments and making things up.
And then come here, after providing zero actual counterpoints and tell me I am acting like a child?
Incredible.
Of course, the end point of everyone who doesn't really have any facts and just vibes on the internet.
Very predictable.
At least 11 die in storm-hit Gaza from cold and collapsing buildings
By Mera Aladam
12 December 2025 10:20 GMT
Overall, at least 13 buildings - already partly damaged from Israeli bombing - collapsed due to heavy rain and strong winds, according to the Gaza-based Government Media Office. Some people remain trapped under the rubble, with others wounded.Meanwhile, over 27,000 tents of displaced families have been destroyed or swept away by floods and strong winds. More than 250,000 displaced people have been affected by rain, floods, and collapsing shelters.
Over 4,300 distress calls have been made across the Gaza Strip since the storm began earlier this week, the Ministry of Interior and National Security said.
Despite limited resources, the ministry said search-and-rescue civil defence teams, along with police, are doing their best to help people.
At least 11 die in storm-hit Gaza from cold and collapsing buildings
At least 11 Palestinians have died in storm-hit Gaza from cold and collapsing buildings within the last 24 hours.Mera Aladam (Middle East Eye)
Israel’s expanding ‘Yellow Line’ swallows Gaza districts and uproots families
By Maha Hussaini in Gaza City, occupied Palestine
13 December 2025 09:44 GMT
“From the first day we came back, we heard bombardment, demolitions and gunfire,” Hamed said.“It would start at sunset and continue until dawn.”
At first, they assumed the explosions were far away, believing the Yellow Line was still distant.
But now, Hamed can see the yellow concrete blocks placed by Israeli forces from his window – a sight that wasn’t there just weeks ago.
Across Gaza, the temporary demarcation line has been shifting, creeping ever closer to densely populated areas and fuelling fears of renewed displacement and violence by Israel.
Israel’s expanding ‘Yellow Line’ swallows Gaza districts and uproots families
When Ahmed Hamed returned to his home in Gaza City after the ceasefire, it stood about 1.5 kilometres west of the so-called “Yellow Line” enforced by Israel. Two months on, that distance has shrunk to roughly 200 metres.Maha Hussaini (Middle East Eye)
Pro-Palestine prisoner on hunger strike 'deteriorating past point of no return'
Pro-Palestine prisoner on hunger strike for 39 days 'deteriorating past point of no return'
Pro_palestine activist Amu Gib, who has been on hunger strike for almost 40 days, is deteriorating past the point of no return, their friends say.Gergana Krasteva (Metro)
Are canadians friendly to people from other countries?
I plan on traveling to Canada, but I do have this worry.
To be more specific, I'm not kinda black, my skin's somehow white, but I have black relatives, which means I got wavy hair and some other things.
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Elections impossible under Zelensky’s ‘terrorist regime’ – Ukrainian MP
Elections impossible under Zelensky’s ‘terrorist regime’ – Ukrainian MP
Elections in Ukraine are only possible after the “capitulation” of Vladimir Zelensky’s “terrorist regime,” Artyom Dmitruk has saidRT
China to regulate CEO romance micro dramas, warns against content promoting materialism, flaunting of wealth: report
China to regulate CEO romance micro dramas, warns against content promoting materialism, flaunting of wealth: report
Chinese authorities have recently released guidelines to regulate CEO romance micro dramas, emphasizing the need to avoid promoting ideals that glorify marriage with the powerful, wealthy individuals or families.www.globaltimes.cn
China’s subsea centre could power 7,000 DeepSeek conversations a second: report
China’s subsea data centre could power 7,000 DeepSeek conversations a second: report
Computing power in underwater computing cluster off Hainan will be used in AI training, game production and marine research: state media.Holly Chik (South China Morning Post)
I heard about that! Heat from data centers is harder, unfortunately, because the amount of waste heat generated by a nuclear reactor is far higher than the amount generated by a data center. With smaller quantities of heat come greater costs to recuperate it, at least until they link all the waste-heat sources up into a single network that can collect from multiple data centers.
China is moving fast, though. I bet we'll see some kind of project like this before the bubble pops in the US.
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