We will help represent Home Assistant users and the Open Home Foundation values on this board, defining the future of Z-Wave.
I'm excited to see this as I'm pretty much only use Z-Wave. Also interesting is they are developing their own dongle
Summer construction season is coming to an end, but not before we tackle our biggest weekend of construction for the region this year. We're calling it our Monster Weekend. Buckle up (literally) because here's what's going down:
SR 520 CLOSED - highway and trail
-Where: From I-5 in Seattle to 92nd Ave NE in Clyde Hill -When: 11 p.m. Friday, Sept. 27, to 5 a.m. Monday, Sept. 30 -What: Working on lighting and the fire suppression system under the new Montlake lid over SR 520.
NB I-405 in Renton CLOSED
-Where: From Sunset Boulevard Northeast/Southport Drive (Exit 5) to Coal Creek Parkway SE -When: 11 p.m. Friday, Sept. 27, to 4 a.m. Monday, Sept. 30. -What: Shifting northbound traffic onto a new bridge. A signed detour will be available. This work is weather-dependent and may be rescheduled.
SB SR 167 in Kent CLOSED
-Where: From SR 516 to South 27th Street -When: 11:59 p.m. Friday, Sept. 27, to 4 a.m. Monday, Sept. 30. -Why: Paving and striping sections of SB SR 167. This work is weather-dependent and may be rescheduled.
Both directions I-5 CLOSED - overnights only!
-Where: Between SR 18 in Federal Way and 54th Ave E in Fife -When: Overnight Friday, Sept. 27, and Saturday, Sept. 28. NB lanes will close by 10:30 p.m. and SB lanes by 11 p.m. On Saturday, lanes begin opening at 7 a.m. (fully open by 11 a.m.). On Sunday, lanes begin reopening at 8 a.m. (fully open by noon). -Why: Setting girders for a new overpass crossing I-5.
Mercer Street on-ramps to I-5 CLOSED
-Where: Mercer Street on-ramps to both NB and SB I-5 in Seattle -When: 10 p.m. Friday, Sept. 27, and 5 a.m. Monday, Sept. 30. -Why: Paving the ramp and adjacent shoulders.
Some of these closures have detours, but a warning: Detour routes cannot accommodate normal traffic volumes, so try to travel during off-peak hours or, if possible, delay your trip to help minimize backups.
It's been a long summer of road work. You've been patient, and we're grateful for that. We need to get this work done now before we fully enter The Big Gray.
Then good luck getting a house mortgage because you can't lend based on future income because it's not guaranteed. When I bought my house they incorporated the value of my brokerage account. I wouldn't be able to own a place if they didn't.
With house mortgages it's collateralized against the house, a physical object, but it has only a fake value until it's actually sold because house prices can go up or down.
I didn't see any references to the homeless in this post and it contained a lot of good insights and discussion about preparedness. Sadly the WA state doesn't open up a thread on Lemmy yet. One day
September is National Preparedness Month. Staff members from King County Emergency Management and Washington Emergency Management Division are...
September is National Preparedness Month. Staff members from King County Emergency Management and Washington Emergency Management Division are here to answer your questions about hazards in King County and how you can be better prepared for emergencies.
This is my biggest challenge with this extension. What's clickbait to one person is not to another. Several times I've come across titles that get mangled when rewritten to lose key points. Or the image gets replaced with a random screen grab. There's a difference between somebody doing the YouTube face and a title with "the craziest stunt you've ever seen" and an artist photo with a title saying the "a crazy stunt jump through a burning hoop". I'm okay with the latter but dearrow will often remove crazy. The is just an contrived example
One person could still say "crazy" makes it clickbait, but having some adjectives are fine
If you're trying to run a dedicated server and getting an error about being unable to connect to the API. There's an issue that seems to be affecting Docker setups: https://github.com/wolveix/satisfactory-server/issues/260
If you are port forwarding. I recommend not exposing it on the default port of 25565 and instead expose it as a random port. Then, assuming you have a domain name, create an SRV record that points to your IP and port. This will cut down on the drive by scanners who scan by ports, but won't totally eliminate it. If you do use the SRV record, your friends won't even notice there's a different port.
The commitments were part of a tentative deal the planemaker struck with a 30,000-plus-member union that could avoid a debilitating strike
The alternative is to let certain countries de facto claim a region because others are too afraid to call them on their BS
Ah yeah. Mono didn't support WPF, but Mono did support running WinForms apps natively on Linux without using Wine.
.net core is the future but Mono is still important for running legacy .net framework applications like ones that use WinForms or WPF. That's pretty much it. Anything new should go straight to .net core.
Looks like Lynnwood and others are capitalizing on this to increase housing around the light rail station:
If you are a commuter or just looking to visit a new neighborhood, here are tips on bus connections, and attractions including a beach, a stadium and parks.
- https://archive.is/vaaUl
- https://www.soundtransit.org/system-expansion/lynnwood-link-extension
The Lynnwood 1 Line extension is scheduled to open on this Friday, Aug 30th, 2024
Update 8/24: SPD has reportedly arrested a teen in connection with the shooting
This entire situation has been wild. From Miles' public defender turning to him and telling him to stop talking in courts, to the idea that renaming your Instagram profile gets around court orders, to just loaning your car out to friends.
Officials are offering tax breaks and regulatory relief as fewer office workers return to once-busy areas. In Seattle, nearly a third of downtown office space is empty or available for sublease.
Location: 3rd and Union. The Joseph Vance Building
Pay-wall link: https://archive.is/fNbTv
There's a set of special topics under homeassistant/ that devices also publish to that describe what each topic does and how HA should present it. HA will subscribe to everything under that root topic to discover all your MQTT devices.
Just updated and it looks like this one fixed the log spam:
json_loads was called from hacs, this is a deprecated function which will be removed in HA Core 2025.8.
Use homeassistant.util.json.json_loads instead, please create a bug report at https://github.com/hacs/integration/issues
It's a little weird they don't have a download update button on the new HACS dashboard for an individual repository, now you have to go to Settings > Updates. I also wish I could hide new and available repositories and only show the ones I have installed (you can't seem to select Pending Restart, Pending Update, and Downloaded at the same time.)
As a professional software dev, I worked with pretty much every OS daily. My personal computer was a Windows, my work laptop was a Mac, and I ran my code on Linux so I was familiar with the things I liked and disliked about each. I also ran my own set of server with my websites, mail servers, and various research projects to learn and grow.
Then I decided it was time to order a new laptop and I didn't want to go to Windows 11 because I felt Microsoft was going too much into features I didn't want like Ads, more tracking, pushing AI. Don't get me wrong, I like AI, but it was too much about forcing me to use it to justify their stock valuations.
I also was working on reducing my usage of big tech, setting up self hosted services like pi-hole, Home Assistant, starting to work my own Mint alternative. It just felt natural to get a Framework laptop and try running Linux on it.
I still have a Windows desktop for games and other things, I still use Mac at work. I still like the Mac for it's power efficiency and it doesn't get as hot. Linux has some annoyances here and there, like dbus locking up, or weird GNOME issues, or for a while my screen would artifact until set some kernel params, or the fact that my wifi card would crash and I had to replace it with an Intel card, but I'll stick with it.
As if Sound Transit needs any more reasons to delay and rethink and collect community input on the West Seattle link.
Seattle Police locked down the grocery store and the corner of 15th and John after a reported exchange of gunfire at the Capitol Hill Safeway early Sunday evening.
No victims were found at the scene.
25 minutes later, a 911 caller reported a male with a gunshot wound to the leg at 12th and Fir.
Police were called to the reported 15th and John shootout just after 5 PM as people in the parking lot and customers inside the store scrambled for cover.
SPD taped off a large area around the parking lot and Williams Place Park where they reported finding multiple shell casings and at least one unspent round.
According to East Precinct radio updates, the shootout involved at least two armed assailants with one reportedly fleeing northbound on a rental scooter.
About 25 minutes after the Safeway call, police were called to 12th and Fir where a male was reported with a gunshot wound to the leg.
Seattle Fire was at the scene to treat the victim and transport him to the hospital.
It was not immediately clear if the incidents were separate shootings though at least one 911 caller described a group of possible suspects leaving the 12th and Fir scene.
There were no reported arrests.
According to a radio update, Seattle Police were investigating the possibility a Glock handgun reported stolen earlier in the day was used in the Capitol Hill shooting.
I actually have a double sided male A cable. I was shocked when I got it but I have this laptop cooler that has two A ports on it, presumably to allow a pass through but I'm always nervous that I'll plug it in and fry something.
There's two main ways of doing geo-based load balancing:
- IP Any-casting - In this case, an IP address is "homed" in multiple spots and through the magic of IP routing, it arrives at the nearest location. This is exactly how 1.1.1.1 and 8.8.8.8 work. It works fine for stateless packets like DNS, however it has some risks for stateful traffic like HTTP.
- DNS based load balancing. A server receives a request for "google.com", looks at the IP of the DNS server and/or the EDNS Client IP in the DNS query packet and returns an IP that's near. The problem is that when you're doing Wireguard, it goes phone -> pi-hole (source IP is some internal IP) -> the next hop (e.g. 1.1.1.1 or 8.8.8.8), which sees the packet is coming from your home/pi-hole's public IP. Thus it gets confused and thinks you're in a different location than you really are. Neither of these hops really knows your true location of your phone/mobile device.
Of course, this doesn't matter for companies that only have one data center.
Sorry, what do you mean route it directly? Maybe I didn't clarify well enough.
My DNS is routed over the VPN but Internet traffic is routed directly. The problem is the load balancing is done based on where the DNS server is so say Google even though the traffic egresses directly to the internet bypassing the VPN it still goes to a Google DC near my home. Not all websites do this so its not always an issue.
Yes, but if you hit a company doing DNS based load balancing, DNS is going to return an IP that's near to your DNS server which may not be near your device. That's going to add to the latency.
I have Wireguard and I forward DNS and my internal traffic from my phone over the VPN to my pi-hole at home. All other traffic goes directly over the Internet, not the VPN. So that means only DNS encounters higher latency.
However, because a lot of companies do DNS based geo load balancing that means even if I'm on the east coast all my traffic gets sent to the West Coast because my DNS server is located there. That right there has the biggest impact on latency.
It's tolerable on the same continent, but once I start getting into other continents then it gets a bit slow.
The Washington State Transportation Commission (WSTC) has adopted new toll rates for the SR 520 Bridge.
Beginning August 15, 2024, toll rates will increase by an average of 10 percent, rounded to the nearest nickel. Depending on the time of day and day of week, tolls will either decrease by 10 cents or increase by up to 70 cents. In addition, the new rate schedule will feature six rate variations throughout the week instead of the current eight.
Please see the table below for a breakdown of the changes:
Weekday rate changes \(Monday-Friday\)
Weekend rate changes \(Saturday & Sunday\)
State law mandates that tolls generate sufficient revenue to meet the bridge’s financial obligations, such as operations and on-going maintenance costs, and repaying construction bonds used to build the bridge. Tolls are also required to be set in a manner that helps maintain travel time, speed, and reliability in the corridor. These rate adjustments aim to streamline the toll structure while ensuring toll revenue meets the bridge’s financial requirements.
For more information about the new toll rates and schedules please visit our website.
Windows and macOS have similar clients (Hass.Agent for Windows and Home Assistant for macOS).
I've found these kinds of clients useful because I can remotely wake-up or sleep computers, track how long they are turned on for, and automatically pause my lights and music when my webcam turns on.
Sadly, WSDOT's social media hasn't discovered Lemmy yet, so cross posting:
Good news, late-night downtown Seattle travelers – we’re about to finish one of our construction projects in the area! From 10 p.m. to 4 a.m. nightly Tuesday, July 9, through Friday morning, July 12, we’ll reduce southbound I-5 to three lanes between Yale Avenue and James Street, close the Yale Avenue/Howell Street on-ramp to southbound I-5, close the southbound I-5 off-ramp to Union Street (Exit 165B) and reduce the southbound I-5 off-ramp to James Street (Exit 165A) to one lane. The usual signed detours will be available around the Yale Avenue and Union Street ramp closures.
This work marks the last of 23 guardrails and barriers we will be updating in King or Snohomish counties as part of the Northwest Region Breakaway Cable Terminal Replacement project.
The Seattle Department of Transportation's 15th Avenue W/NW and Ballard Bridge Paving and Safety Project will include paving, maintenance and preservation work.
Google Maps is testing a new ad format that gives users the option to add a stop for a sponsored location during navigation.
Overview of Python's Package management ecosystem in 2024
MicroWakeWord v2 brings huge improvements, and we introduce advanced timers.
I thought the model of 3D printing models of the chips to be a really cool way of visualizing how these chips work.
From the YouTube summary
How does your phone track its position in space? MEMS devices! Phones use small micro mechanical chips called MEMS, to monitor accelerations and rotations. These are fabricated using semiconductor technology, but are tiny little moving mechanisms.
Today we're decapping a six axis IMU (MPU-6050, on a GY-521 breakout board, containing three accelerometers and three gyroscopes), looking at it under the SEM, printing up some models, doing some high speed video recording, and talking about how these little MEMS devices work.
CAD/STL models (fair warning, it's a very challenging print!): https://www.printables.com/model/413667-mems-model-six-axis-imu-device
Deliveries would begin in 2028 under the current timeline that will accept bids from shipyards across the country.
