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Because I was curious and I self-host my own Home Assistant, so, as a bonus of sorts.

Yeah, thinking there would be a way to configure it for local networking (like I did with my cameras)

Again, I was unaware my freezer even had online capabilities until after I had it installed at home and read the manual.

So I don’t need to manually MITM my freezer to pass through my computer directly, just be sure both are in the same network? Alright, I might test it later

I have no idea of how to connect to my freezer directly to capture Wireshark packets, is there a tutorial for that?

I wonder how expensive would it be to import one of those. The system is also able to track and adjust temperature, so a simple ESP32 wouldn’t be enough to replace that circuitry

I agree with that, it’s ridiculous that a known standard still depends on a centralized server

It does, and as a matter of fact I was unaware that it had automation support until after I read the manual. But I like to keep statistics on my devices, and I’m not exactly happy about losing them when Samsung or SmartThings decide to pull the plug. Hopefully I manage to patch some alternate firmware somehow by then.

In related topics, I’m still peeved that my freezer, unlike my camera, needs to do a full back-and-forth trip (in this case to Samsung’s SmartThings servers) just to notify my Home Assistant server that the door was left open.

Those should have been pasted with solder instead, right?

Yeah, rationalism has been twisted into individualism with a lot more steps. If they were truly rational (as in, considering our current knowledge of astrophysics and biology, the heat death of the universe and the origins of survival instinct), they would have probably ended up noticing that attempting to make things better for hypothetical future people is equally as worth(less) as making things better for the people of now - both are merely postponing the unavoidable.

The fact that, evolutionarily speaking, it’s easier to find lifeforms that have a strong survival instinct than lifeforms that question or reject it can be explained with two main reasons. First, assuming that evolution is performed by random adaptations that are then tested by the environment to see if they survive and their wielders reproduce, a lifeform that prioritizes a single task is more statistically probable to develop first than one that performs complex analysis of the environment and then chooses a reaction. Which is to say, dogmatic behavior developed long before critical thinking was even possible, and by the time the latter appeared, the survival instinct was already well baked into the very structure of the brain. Second, beings that prioritize survival tend to live longer than those that end up questioning the survival instinct, as the latter die more often for obvious reasons.

On the rationalist hub per excellence, LessWrong: lesswrong.com/posts/NxYgL5nPMT…

Criticism of Nietzsche has been out there for a good while. Bertrand Russell, for example, wasn’t a fan of Nietzsche, calling his ideology “an appeal to the emotions”: reddit.com/r/Nietzsche/comment…

Calling Nietzsche’s philosophy “irrationalist” is still a common trend: monthlyreview.org/articles/on-…

Even Marxists hammer on Nietzsche’s hardcore individualism: queer-bolshevik.medium.com/a-c…

To a few philosophers, particularly the hardcore rationalists, Nietzsche’s struggle for self-ownership as meaning was, in modern terms, a truckload of copium

Not directly, but if you configure them via Home Assistant, you can download the camera footage (depending on the brand, I use Tapo) and then sync that to your server of choice via FTP or WebDAV.

Surprised he didn’t put John Tyler among his greats

bird.makeup turns X/Twitter posts into ActivityPub posts and might still work

Slight digression: “The demon that eats colors” would be an interesting addition to Magic: The Gathering, if it doesn’t exist already in some form

So that’s who bought the Hooters brand at the bankruptcy auction, go figure

PieFed recently added RSS-ingestion functionality

Time to turn my YouTube subscriptions into a private community, I guess