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targetdrone

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Hacking computers since 1973, and so happy that there's always more than ever to learn! Long time developer turned to #cryptography and #InfoSec by day; #SDR, #3Dprinting, #homeassistant and #homeautomation, and any ridiculously shiny subject that crosses my feeds by night.

As for other people, all are welcome on my lawn. Except nazis. I hate those guys.

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MissingThePt, to random
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk warns he could release another product like the Cybertruck if $56 billion pay package not approved. https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/6/24173064/tesla-board-chair-warn-elon-musk-leave-pay-shareholders

targetdrone,
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@MissingThePt $56 billion? I'd slam the door on his ass so hard that the ass-prints would never come out of it!

And then I'd put up a bronze plaque: "In 2024 this door was slammed on Elon Musk's ass so hard that his 12th child felt it. His ass prints remain visible to this day.

This was also the day before Tesla's stock price and sales hit their highest all time peaks."

arstechnica, to random
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A week with the Chevy Blazer EV shows things to love—but also painful flaws

The decision to drop Apple CarPlay was a mistake.

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2024/05/a-week-with-the-chevy-blazer-ev-shows-things-to-love-but-also-painful-flaws/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

targetdrone,
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@hankg @arstechnica My understanding is they already fired the moron who made the original decision. I did expect their dismissal meant that CP/AA would remain included in their 2024 lineup, so this monumental screwup still comes as a bit of a surprise to me.

My '23 Bolt has CP, so barring an accident I'll be spared the agony of waiting for them to backpedal before buying another car.

po3mah, to homeassistant
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Yes, it is the DNS.

Today is the fourth day of the Mitsubishi's MELCloud outage. This means their heatpumps and AC units all over the EU can not be controlled remotely. Their communication about the issue is a shame, again.

The quick temporary workaround is to add the following entry to your local DNS (router or Pi-hole or similar):

production.receiver.melcloud.com 52.49.107.93

It is high time to legislate local access to 'smart' devices.

targetdrone,
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@acesabe @po3mah How badly Mitsubishi mismanages their systems should be irrelevant.

If control was local instead of "their app, their cloud," their incompetent operations would never be able to impact their existing clients.

tubetime, to random
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anyone know what chip this is?

targetdrone,
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@tubetime Rebadged 8051! Everybody drink!

j/k, I have no idea.

ottaross, to homeassistant
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Does anyone have the scoop on relative to the current issue?

I'm a week or three behind on core updates, is that a good thing perhaps?

@homeassistant

targetdrone,
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@ottaross @homeassistant unxz in HAOS is provided by an implementation in BusyBox. The latest HAOS build, version 12.1, includes BusyBox v1.36.1, dated 7-Nov-2023, long before the backdoor was implanted in the repo.

HAOS is almost certainly unaffected by this vulnerability, so it's nothing to panic over.

targetdrone,
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@ottaross @homeassistant unxz uses the liblzma library, which is at version 5.4.5. The infected library versions are 5.6.0 and 5.6.1. So no, HAOS is not vulnerable.

targetdrone,
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@holgerschurig @ottaross @homeassistant SSH doesn't contain the malware; it's the intended target. The malware author convinced OpenSSH to include xz as a dependency; which causes sshd to load the liblzma library. But since the version of liblzma in current HAOS (5.4.5) is not the infected version (5.6.0 or 5.6.1), SSH is not attacked.

MissingThePt, to random
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DUNE 2 SPOILER ALERT: I can’t believe all the Freman come down with pinkeye, I would have thought they’re immune.

targetdrone,
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@MissingThePt

campuscodi, (edited ) to random
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Ok... let's see it. Who do you have for the Super Bowl tonight? 🏈

targetdrone,
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@campuscodi You're missing the option of "Annheiser-Busch, Frito Lay, et al"

notsle, to HomeAutomation
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If I sold my house today. I feel like I need to leave behind instruction manual with network diagrams and information on zigbee devices. I have no intentions of selling soon. But this keeps crossing my mind anytime I work on my homelab or home automation

targetdrone,
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@notsle I document all the things because once they're set up and running I forget how I did it. In a few years I will be the one who needs them. "Oh, yeah, Google found this patch on a discord that lets me flash these outlets with Tasmota and enable MQTT" isn't a detail I'll remember, and I may never find that advice again.

pluralistic, to random
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Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Solar is a market for (financial) lemons; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/27/here-comes-the-sun-king/

1/

targetdrone,
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@pluralistic A few years ago I asked for a quote from the local big-name company who came in with a $43k bid on a 20 year financing plan. The panels, hardware, and inverters worked out to $17k market price. $43k was also exactly how much electricity it was projected to generate over 20 years at current rates. I think their bidding process was to subtract the hardware cost from the estimate and write down the balance as "installation and project management costs."

We didn't buy it.

laurahelmuth, to random
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A recent AI survey "emphasizes baseless speculation about human extinction ... Such vague, hyped-up notions are dangerous because they draw attention away from mundane but much more urgent issues that are happening right now” https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ai-survey-exaggerates-apocalyptic-risks/ by @stokel

targetdrone,
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@feliz @laurahelmuth @stokel @pluralistic And don't forget polluting the worldwide pool of information with machine generated hallucinations that are indistinguishable from factual data provided by subject matter experts.

targetdrone, to HashtagGames
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Baby Needs a New Pair of Cement Shoes


lzg, to random
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    targetdrone,
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    @lzg About 30-35 years ago the company I worked for had an official IT historian, who was also our librarian. But they ended the position sometime in the 1990s.

    Anyway, now we have git blame.

    targetdrone, to HashtagGames
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    Mozzarella Enchanted


    pluralistic, to tech
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    We're living in the , in which the forces of enshittification are turning everything from our cars to our streaming services to our dishwashers into thoroughly enshittifified piles of shit. Call it the Great Enshittening:

    https://pluralistic.net/2023/11/09/lead-me-not-into-temptation/#chamberlain

    --

    If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

    https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/13/solidarity-forever/#tech-unions

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    targetdrone,
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    @pluralistic Being one of Chamberlain's many enshittification victims, I bought a "ratgdo" (Rage Against The Garage Door Opener), a small $30 circuit that hooks to a Chamberlain-brand garage door opener and lets me control it locally with . I then disconnected my opener from the official MyQ site and deleted their app.

    It's a small victory, but I savored it.

    tomi, to homeassistant

    Aliexpress Santa delivered a cheap (10€) Tuya smart socket (Zigbee version). I have several Aquara smart sockets (SP-EUC01) around the house that work really well in . But they cost 20-25€.

    I wanted to test the smart socket this time. Not sure exactly which model it is, Aliex… markets it as “Homekit Tuya Smart Zigbee 3.0 Power Plug 16A EU Outlet 3680W“.

    Zigbee2MQTT recognizes it as TS011F.

    https://blog.rozman.info/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/image-23-1024x632.pngAdding it to my Zigbee mesh network was pretty straight-forward. I just connected it to the socket, activated Home Assistant -> Zigbee2MQTT -> Permit join – all and that was it.

    It exposes the following functionalities: state (switch on-off), power outage memory (in case of power loss), LED, power measurement, current measurement, voltage measurement, energy consumption, child lock (not sure how it works) and network signal strength.

    https://blog.rozman.info/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/image-24.pngI connected my 20-year-old Bosch dishwasher to Tuya smart socket because:

    1. I wanted to measure how much electricity it consumes per washing cycle and
    2. to check when exactly it stops. It has some issues, sometimes it randomly stops during the washing cycle. A gentle door push restarts it. I’m suspecting a faulty door micro-switch, but I want to see the pattern.

    I’ve run a ‘medium’ dishwasher program (55C) and here’s the graph of the power. When the heater is on, it reaches 2200W. When only a water pump runs, it consumes about 150W:

    https://blog.rozman.info/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/image-22-1024x410.pngTotal electricity consumption per washing cycle is 1.27 kWh.

    https://blog.rozman.info/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/image-25.pngI’ve checked new dishwashers and they consume approx. 0.8 kWh per washing cycle.

    The difference between mine and new ones is ~0.4 kWh.

    We wash dishes approx. 300 times per year. A new dishwasher would consume 120 kWh less per year. The current electricity price 0.19€ / kWh which means 22€ fewer costs per year.

    A new dishwasher costs approx. 600€.

    ROI would be approx. 27 years.

    This means the dishwasher stays and I’ll fix it as long as I can.

    https://blog.rozman.info/how-much-electricity-does-20y-old-dishwasher-consume-tuya-zigbee-smart-socket-test/

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    targetdrone,
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    @tomi I'd keep a watchful eye on that switch. Some inexpensive switches that are labeled for high current are not always "reliable" when it comes to actual appliance use.

    targetdrone, to HashtagGames
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    "Sugar, Sugar" by The Archies.

    Oh, wait --


    superbetsy, to Minnesota
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    For the next 10 days you can submit your ideas for names!! Alas, my perennial submission of "With Great Plower Comes Great Responsibility" is again too long for consideration. Go forth and pun! https://www.dot.state.mn.us/nameasnowplow/

    targetdrone,
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    @superbetsy Let's see how "Slush Little Baby" does.

    philpem, to homeassistant
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    Does anyone know how to set a light to a specific pattern (and turn it on) at a given time using a automation?
    Been trying to get my Christmas tree lights to turn on/off on a timer, but the "on" trigger only lets me set it to white.

    targetdrone,
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    @philpem You have to follow the "on" command with another home assistant command to select the pattern. You might also need to insert a one or two second delay after turning it on.

    targetdrone,
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    @philpem Unfortunately, it sounds like the current integration for your particular device doesn't include that capability today.

    Maybe watch the integration for updates, and check it again after a while. When new devices are released with new capabilities, it often takes a while before the people who maintain them add new capabilities.

    homeassistant, to random
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    To quote Ars Technica on the MyQ decision to block third parties:
    "The company recently issued a statement decrying "unauthorized usage" of its smart garage door openers. That's "unauthorized usage" by the people who bought the garage door opener, by the way."

    https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/11/chamberlain-blocks-smart-garage-door-opener-from-working-with-smart-homes/

    targetdrone,
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    @homeassistant Of course, the money reason has been revealed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38191712

    Retailers want more secure home deliveries to cut claims of "package stolen from my doorstep". Chamberlain makes money from their Amazon Key integration, which lets drivers scan packages to open garage doors to make in-garage deliveries. And they are afraid of non-MyQ systems enabling customers to work around their monopoly.

    They're literally gatekeeping!

    unixorn, (edited ) to homeassistant
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    Given that we've seen three companies in just the last couple of weeks enshittify their device or API offerings (Hue requiring a cloud account, Chamberlain disabling API access, Mazda sending a cease and desist to the Mazda developer), I've created a GitHub repository to track problem devices & APIs.

    I think it'll be good to have a central location to point new users to with a list of stuff not to get.

    https://github.com/unixorn/internet-of-trash

    PRs welcome.

    @homeassistant

    targetdrone,
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    @kravemir @unixorn @homeassistant This is exactly why I haven't rushed out to buy any Matter enabled devices. I can't trust them to not send telemetry back to the manufacturers, or to bind me to their service. The only reason I would ever want to bridge Matter devices to the internet is to receive security updates, but there are no guarantees that's all they'll use the network for.

    homeassistant, to random
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    The MyQ integration will be removed from Home Assistant in release 2023.12. Chamberlain Group, the owners of MyQ, have released a public statement saying they will continue blocking access to third-party apps like the integration. Read more: https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2023/11/06/removal-of-myq-integration/

    targetdrone,
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    @homeassistant Good on HA for deprecating it! Nobody in open source should have to waste their limited efforts to support idiot-run companies that do this to their customers.

    And I can guarantee that anyone who's already installed a ratgdo or other open source WiFi interface is never paying for or installing a closed source opener again.

    targetdrone, to HashtagGames
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    Shake, Rattle, and Cinnamon Roll


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