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Cake day: June 17th, 2023

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  • The sad reality is that most of the people reading your comment and mine are naturally going to be privileged enough to have literacy education, internet access, and the spare time to browse the internet.

    Too many leftists think locally and not globally; underprivileged individuals in other countries half a world away are easy for them to disqualify as an “out of context problem”, when we should all be in this together: global intersectionality.




  • An API token is more secure than a password by virtue of it not needing to be typed in by a human. Phishing, writing down passwords, and the fact that API tokens can have restricted scopes all make them more secure.

    Expiration on its own doesn’t make it more secure, but it can if it’s in the context of loading the token onto a system that you might lose track of/not have access to in the future.

    Individual API tokens can also be revoked without revoking all of them, unlike a password where changing it means you have to re-login everywhere.

    And that’s just the tip of the iceberg. Lmk if you have questions, though.







  • To add onto this:

    Home Assistant isn’t “yet another” service. It’s not trying to do vendor lock in: you can think of Home Assistant kinda like a “glue” framework.

    It’s meant to let you systemically attach devices/software across any number of mediums, and pre-existing services, and let them play nice.

    So if you’ve already gone and set up your Google Home, or Alexa, or Apple Homekit, you don’t have to abandon them to use Home Assistant.

    Sometimes you can’t even get away from it: the thermostat that came with our rental basically only has a useful Samsung Smartthings integration, but we can still use it with Home Assistant.


  • I fucking hate the whiny answer of “but my/most existing headphones had an aux so I don’t like USB-C.”

    The biggest factor for me is that it simply makes it impossible to charge your phone and use wired headphones at the same time without a special splitter adaptor… Which itself is impossible to roll up with your headphones.

    It’s designed to be such an inconvenience to the point that you’re actually just incentivized to buy wireless headphones. And since it was Apple, that of course meant their very expensive Airpods.

    That said, I happily use wireless Bose headphones now anyway, but I did have to ditch my audio technicas for that reason.