Tim Harford summarises the paradox of #automation (something we should all be concerned about):
;An automated system can assist humans or even replace human judgment. But this means that humans may forget their skills or simply stop paying attention. When the computer needs human intervention, the humans may no longer be up to the job. Better automated systems mean these cases become rare & stranger, and humans even less likely to cope with them'!
In @homeassistant@homeassistant , is there a way to group multiple entities (NFC tags in particular) such that I define one automation for the whole group such that I can queue their execution? I want to scan one tag to start an action with one value of an input parameter and it takes a while to execute. Then only once that is done I want to run the same action with a different input corresponding to this other tag that I scanned while the first action was running.
TIL: An automation trigger can be "Time of your phone's next alarm" and now I can automatically turn on two WLED and one proprietary RGB lighting automatically when I have a wake up alarm set on my phone and my phone is at home.
Question of the day: Agencies, do client-facing push-button products like Tyler (AI + templates = semi-instant website) frighten you, excite you, or what?
This entire article is about the trucking industry and trucking jobs, ultimately arguing it's a "good thing", even if it destroys hundreds of towns and casts millions out of work.
Those millions aren't going to be taking up poetry, art, or writing. Under the current way things work in the US, they're going to be driven to poverty and homelessness, poor health, and worse.
Today's useful #homeassistant#automation of the day is a notification when any of our battery-level related sensors are low.
I even managed to find a way where I don't have to add all the sensors to the automation by hand: instead I'm observing the state_changed event, with a filter for only states that have the device_class attribute set to battery.
Together with the Battery Notes custom integration this should make our home much more muggle friendly, so that things don't randomly break only because a battery is low, and instead the smart home's going to proactively notify its users about upcoming issues.
The #AppleScript dictionary in #NeoFinder has been expanded to give you read and write access to the #Finder#Tags (aka Finder keywords) and the color labels of NeoFinder.
Success! Record voice memo on phone, sync to virtual machine (using syncthing). Python job notices filesystem change, asks OpenAI whisper to transcribe, produces a new markdown note, moves to my Obsidan (PKM-tool) inbox, and sends a notification message to a Matrix room when processing has been completed.
#AI#Automation#LLMs#Algorithms "What is AI? A dominant view describes it as the quest "to solve intelligence"—a solution supposedly to be found in the secret logic of the mind, such as in its complex neural networks. Matteo Pasquinelli argues, to the contrary, that the inner code of AI is shaped not by the imitation of biological intelligence, but the intelligence of labour and social relations. Here he is interviewed by Richard Hames, audio producer at Novara Media." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0wECTKNmlY
Do you have a project on GitHub? Does it use GitHub Pages for documentation or other purposes? Would you like to archive a copy of those GitHub pages in the Internet Archive automatically whenever you release a new version?
I wrote Waystation, a simple and free GitHub Action, exactly for this purpose:
#homeassistant#automation folks, can anyone recommend a 10a DIN rail fitting wifi switch with metering that works with HA and has an override button on the front like the attached picture?
This week we're testing a new tool called the Mastodon Scheduler to automate our posts. It's self-hosted, doesn't expose itself to the internet, and runs as a background service so you never have to worry about keeping an app open.
Applescript support in #ArcBrowser is pretty broken. One space, one window, three tabs open, but via Applescript it reports a list of 57 (!) dysfunctional Tab objects.
There's a saying that IT professionals tend to be lazier than others - any maybe there's some truth to it. But is it really a bad character trait? Not necessarily.
Lazy developers and admins automate. They don't repeat the same set of tasks over and over again, but instead come up with an idea to make their lifes easier and more convenient ;-)
As even ZERO GmbH is not safe from lazy developers, we have automated some processes in our IT - including the setup of various software components for our #AMPS nodes and the associated IT infrastructure, such as #VPN and #DNS setup.
This saves us a huge amount of time. A quarter of an hour of manual labour can become a few seconds of waiting time and we have time for more interesting tasks :-)
We mainly use the "Ansible" configuration tool, which we like because it works without an additional daemon on the target and via a simple SSH interface.