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Cake day: March 1st, 2025

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  • How would you do presence detection (getting home)

    I have a sensor on my front door that triggers an automation that sends a text to everyone’s phones that is (supposed to) trigger a location update. It then waits ten seconds and checks everyone’s phones to see what wifi network they are connected to, it then waits another ten seconds and if nobody’s location is “home”, or nobody’s wifi is the home network, then it texts everyone an alert of a possible break in.

    Only about 50% of the time does it correctly identify someone legitimately coming home lol









  • When you remember that in order to even get the death penalty, you have to be such a horrible person that you’re pretty much no longer human

    This is just absolutely not true. Throughout history countless innocent people have been executed not because of the facts, but because they were unable to defend themselves against the accusations. Meanwhile, many wealthy or powerful people have been guilty but never even charged with a crime. In fact, the nature of a crime has almost zero correlation with the sentence.




  • This quote from Ford’s CEO:

    “It’s going to be a vibrant industry, but it’s going to be smaller, way smaller than we thought,” Ford chief executive Jim Farley said at an event on Tuesday.

    Combined with the following quote he recently said:

    Speaking on the Everything Electric Show podcast, Farley praised the [Xiaomi] electric sedan. “I don’t like talking about the competition so much, but I drive a Xiaomi,” he said. “We flew one from Shanghai to Chicago, and I’ve been driving it for six months now, and I don’t want to give it up.”

    Really feels like Kodak in the 90’s kinda-sorta investing in digital but not willing to fully transform a majority of business.