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You can use capacitive water sensors taped to the outside of non-capacitive containers (aluminum foil, a resistor, an arduino, and a plastic 5 gallon container), but honestly all you need are DNI timers to "automate" any grow operation. Put your lights and pumps on a schedule and there is absolutely no reason to get more creative. If you do anything besides low-level timers you're making it complicated and brittle with no added benefit.

> Of course, make your app in Rails with people that have no clue about architecture...

So you're a front-end guy?

Do you know that Microsoft Bing maps also "steals" the OSM data? They did some very clever "reverse stealing" as well when they contributed back to the project by providing millions of accurate building footprints.

Yes, I'm being sarcastic. It's a win-win situation when ANY large mapping group joins OSM. At the very least; they will accidentally contribute road-level improvements when they work with the data. I rely upon OSM data and need these large players throwing their weight behind this mapping system.

This! All of the companies kept shortening their dopamine cycle to compete with each other and now people can’t focus in real life for more than 5-10 seconds before they are mentally searching for the scroll button to find a new interaction.

You should drop down a few layers on the OSI model and catch this at your reverse proxy instead of publishing login pages to catch every permutation of 'wp' in urls.

All soil moisture sensors will eventually become uncalibrated, wear out, or fail.

The only automation you need to keep a plant alive is a timer attached to a water source. Also, don't forget to feed it with nutrients every month or so... they don't eat soil and letting a plant starve isn't proof you needed a moisture sensor.

I refused to reward Google with traffic on their newly forced ads for every youtube video. You should boycott them too until they U-turn on this bad decision.

You tell me.

Totally agree. I’m thinking in terms and concepts like “iptables”, “ipset”, “fail2ban”, “cidr”, “asn”… while everyone else is thinking about how to change their cloudflare settings.

OP even said they gave up on cloudflare but people are trying to upsell him on the higher tiers through this hn post!

> you really shouldn't be hacking some scripts on top of your bank login

You can hack whatever you want, but from a SECURITY perspective this is horrible and the banks know this. There are secure ways to store credentials for scripts but most people will just hard-code the values or stick them in unencrypted ENV vars. Also, who's fault is it when the bank updates their website and the selenium script does something horribly wrong? Tell me more about Disney...