About 10 years ago i had HomeAssistant running and thacking my bluetooth devices. It does so per default by jus memorizing a mac adress an recording when it's visible and when not. No need for pairing or anythung. It also stores the custom name if available.
Anyway, the default dashboard also automatically generated a view when my neighbours "Katie's iPhone' was at home and when not, until I actively deleted it and the data it stored.
My Main Problem is To keep the bridges up to date. I just switched my phone number in WhatsApp and Signal and that lead to a huge ton of trouble for my bridges. After a month of fiddling with it, deleting things, updating, logging in and out of accounts and puppets, I still don't get any messages from signal into element. While it was working for years just fine it gives me the most trouble now that my dad is in the hospital in another country and I have to coordinate with my siblings a lot.
I never thought that the writing HTML is the hard part. Instead where my Sister struggled was to get a domain, get a server, deal with DNS pointing to that server. That shit is also omitted on posts like that one because it's done differently for each domain registrar and you need quite some knowledge in network stuff to be able to understand what you need to do.
Yup. Though I recently learned you can manually upload a local folder (with an index.html etc) to cloudflare pages. They will of course sell you a domain too.
I did not expect how bad this was handled in the article:
> It’s easy to forget how simple a website can be.
> ...
> If you don’t have a domain or hosting yet, now’s the time to buckle down and do that. Unfortunately, I don’t have good advice for you here. Just know that it’s going to be stupid and tedious and bad and unfun. That’s just the way this is.
Yup, it blatantly left out the hard part, and at the same time contradicted the initial claim almost literally.
Kinda reminds me of reading a dozen articles that went, "Learning how to typeset a document with LaTeX. This article assumes that you have LaTeX installed already." ages ago.
Kinda makes me wonder: If the point isn't to show how to make a website, or typeset a LaTeX document.... what IS the point?
> Kinda makes me wonder: If the point isn't to show how to make a website, or typeset a LaTeX document.... what IS the point?
The point of those articles is how to make a website or typeset a LaTeX document. If you read one and find out you don't have a prerequisite, go google for an article on how to get a domain name or install LaTeX --- there is plenty of those too.
I found it odd they specifically said not to make a git repo for the page, GitHub is one of the easiest ways I know to publish a website. It just can't be commercial etc
It's an example where it can't really help unless you already have some idea what you've got to do. LLM will spit out everything from CPanel instructions to port forwarding when in the end the best way for a non-tech person would be to just dump the files on Neocities.
I was afraid of trying any online models with opencode because per default it has full access to your computer. I also never want the AI to push code anywhere, I want to do it myself to keep this control, afterall it's easy just to nuke the local repo.
This is where I came up with this docker container for it and a alias which opens opencode in the docker container and mounts things, etc. I'm just afraid I missed some safety things, because I'm not good at it.
And until now without AI, but I'm kind of curious but afraid that it will bring my servers down and then I can't roll back :D But perhaps if I would move over to NixOS, then it would be easy to roll back.
I'm not sure if it's abandon ware but I found a gist which attempted to get pictures from this Korean Kindergarten app for backup which we also use.
I tried it and it only half worked and you had to copy a cookie out of the browser which would expire after a couple of days.
I took it and extended it added a login with selenium or what it is called and now I can run it daily and get those pictures out and into my immich. Instance.
Then they are also not responsible enough to work at the office, you can't pay a nanny who sith with them and tells them to keep working 8 hours a day at the office anyway. Those people need to be let go because you can't trust them.
Actually, having people at the office often works like peer pressure in that people at least pretend to work around their co-workers. Something which doesn't exist at home.
Anyway, the default dashboard also automatically generated a view when my neighbours "Katie's iPhone' was at home and when not, until I actively deleted it and the data it stored.