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Light switch advice (lemmy.world)

Just looking for some advice if the idea I have in mind is even feasible.

I have 2 light switches in my kitchen, one for some pendant lights, one for some overhead cannister lights.

I hate the placement of the switches, since the pendant lights which I prefer are far away from the actual doorways into the kitchen. Meanwhile the cannister lights are on the switches near the doors.

I'm looking to do some clever "hackery" to make it so the switches by the doors control the pendant lights, if possible, but I don't want to have to rewire things in the walls/ceilings.

Is there a good solution to this? I was looking at some Shelly switches, but I'm not sure those solve for the problem I wanna solve. I'm willing to swap out switches or wire in things near the lights, but trying to keep things simple as possible.

[-] skullvalanche@lemmy.world 60 points 1 year ago

Just came here to say that this also affects any applications that use the libwebp library.

That includes many apps that most people don't think of as "browsers".

Electron based applications all use chromium under the hood, and are quite common/prolific these days.

https://www.electronjs.org/apps

Expect updates to a lot of things in the near future.

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libwebp vulnerability (i.imgflip.com)

update / patch all the things

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Turquoise, by Electric Six (electricsix.bandcamp.com)

Any other E6 fans on here??

I think my fave track so far is Staten Island Ass Squad but there's a lot of gems on this one.

[-] skullvalanche@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Pretty sure the internet would collapse in a matter of hours.

(Cloud Infrastructure and Security Engineer)

[-] skullvalanche@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I hope everyone reading this knows that you can just not connect a "Smart" TV to the internet. Leave it as a "dumb" TV.

Get a separate device like a Roku or AppleTV or Amazon Fire or whatever. The garbage hardware that TV manufacturers slap inside a TV so they can advertise its "smart" features will always be inferior to a purpose built external device.

To say nothing of the security implications of having an unpatched probably unsupported IoT device running on your network for years.

[-] skullvalanche@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

The Duran Duran Tribute album (1997)

[-] skullvalanche@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Ever notice that this movie is basically the same story as The Three Amigos?

[-] skullvalanche@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Ha! Came here to say this. Ya beat me to it.

[-] skullvalanche@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

BetterTouchTool (which isn't free but is worth every penny) lets you do everything rectangle does. Also lets you configure your mouse buttons to do whatever you want. Also infinite custom hot keys and shortcuts.

Also Raycast as a replacement for Spotlight.

[-] skullvalanche@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

But he also discusses why things froth and some of the science behind it. Might be helpful when selecting an alterna-milk?

I'm curious, what brand/model is the frother?

[-] skullvalanche@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Just gonna leave this link here, since it's comprehensive in a general way.

https://youtu.be/oaKRBBpA4fw

[-] skullvalanche@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

ah, damn. thanks for the info!

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I have a bunch of Nest Detect (A0028) sensors from the now defunct Google Nest home security system.

Anybody know what radio protocol these things use? Zigbee? Z-Wave? some other thing?

I have a Z-Wave USB dongle, or I could get a Zigbee one, but I'm not sure if either of them actually communicates with these devices.

I hate to throw them away, as they're well designed.

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_____, by Sadness (sadnessmusic.bandcamp.com)

Not sure what to call this album. "Series of Underscores" ? 😂

Love it so far.

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The Blog That Celebrates Itself Records (theblogthatcelebratesitself.bandcamp.com)

I'm sure this is probably old news for many folks here, but this label has some fantastic compilation albums. Quite literally days and days worth of material.

[-] skullvalanche@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

The video takes a long time to say this:

There's a new (and concerning) service known as "Plist FMI off" which appears to be able to unlock an iPhone that would otherwise be locked and useless to thieves.

Disabling iCloud lock / Find My iPhone lock should be something only possible by someone working from inside Apple -- thus implying that there's likely an insider involved in this. Or at the very least, a security flaw in Apple's network that's allowing this to happen.

The Youtuber seems to think that Apple should be forthcoming about declaring this vulnerability exists. IMHO, he is wrong to think that. Declaring the flaw before it's been patched would only create a rash of iPhone thefts.

Ideally, Apple is now aware of this situation, and is doing internal investigations to correct it.

[-] skullvalanche@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I found the web UI on mobile a bit clumsy for my big thumbs.

There's a couple early beta apps for iOS:

Mlem - https://testflight.apple.com/join/xQfmkJhc

Memmy - https://testflight.apple.com/join/6jaRU6rD

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I'm sure this is a total longshot, given how few folks are likely learning Yiddish on Duolingo, but figured I'd create a community for it anyway.

They say if you don't practice the language every day, it'll never stick.

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Deserta - Hide (deserta.bandcamp.com)

Love this track.

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