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> Everyone is afraid of a catastrophic 1M$ one time event.

That was my thought, too, until I researched what a catastrophic event can cost and in the US it's a lot more than $1M!

I have a filter to never send email to the spam folder if it contains the word "settlement" in the subject, to work around this annoying issue.

Heard a job ad for a TikTok senior data scientist on FM radio at 11am last week.

Same story here. Everything goes through MQTT, and a single python script has my automation logic. All redeployable via Docker Compose. I never need to worry about updates breaking things, and there’s much less context for me to try to remember.

Home Assistant never “clicked” with me. It makes some hard things easy, but some easy things hard. I just don’t love YAML enough to write logic in config files…

I also hate that HA pushes you to run their whole OS. The docs usually assume you’re running HAOS.

I had some custom triggers I set up in Google Home to trigger streaming NPR on my Sonos. Every dang month I had to pick a new, more obscure trigger phrase because I’m guessing someone at Google would look at a list of phrases they couldn’t match and hardcode a new rule. And your trigger phrases couldn’t match any built-in triggers…

Of all the "big tech" companies, Amazon's monopoly position is the one that worries me the most.

Google, Apple, Netflix, Facebook - you can imagine how a clever competitor can get a foothold to compete in those markets. But Amazon's ownership over the entire physical logistics supply chain through to last-mile delivery is just such a huge moat that keeps getting larger and larger.

Enpass is like Keepass but with a better UX. Which is exactly what I wanted, and it hasn’t let me down on iOS + Linux, synced via Dropbox.

> It used to be 1.25 cents per search. Microsoft recently increased Bing search results API cost to 2.8 cents per search

I guess Microsoft decided to switch their strategy from "help startups take market share from Google" to "kill the competition and try to get users to search on Bing"?

> I also tried to enable less secure apps to access email option in google settings. But keep getting the Authentication error.

Turning on 2FA and using Google's "app-specific password" eliminated errors of this sort for me recently.

I've heard that the online betting platforms quickly stop taking your money if you have a consistent positive return. Any truth to that?