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Cake day: March 2nd, 2024

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  • I use the Hive integration and just let the Hive stuff do its work, monitoring via Home Assistant occasionally. My setup is the Hive thermostat, boiler relay and the hub

    I went down a rabbit hole of TRVs, automations, Shelly relays talking to the boiler, zigbee thermometers everywhere, and it got complicated. Ultimately the big risk was the system getting stuck or in a state where the boiler would be on all the time and cost a fortune, so I got rid of it all.

    If Hive no longer meets my needs I know I can just pair the hardware to my zigbee network and stop using the cloud service.











  • There’s a carefully designed process that involves sealing the phones in faraday bags so they can’t communicate with the outside worlds, and then replacing/reprogramming certain components so the phone works outside of the Find My ecosystem.

    These phones are reprogrammed and re-chipped en masse and then sent all over the world. See all those “mobile phone repair” shops all over your high street/strip mall? they’re all getting their stock from the same place.

    Apple operating the hardware pairing scheme is just a cat and mouse game with this industry.









  • If only there was some way the government could have predicted this would happen and maybe not rushed a poorly thought out law in the first place!

    maybe then they would not have:

    • forced big tech companies to withdraw service to the uk
    • forced uk-based small forums and message boards to close
    • given free vpn providers tons more data to sell
    • reduced the overall cyber resilience of the country by forcing people to choose between giving photos of their passports to some weird online service or signing up for a free vpn which sells their data, may inject their own unregulated adverts etc
    • reduced uk based advertising effectiveness and thus investment and marketing spend
    • pissed everyone off while doing it, scoring yet another win for the far right

    absolute roasters the lot of them