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The web interface has an 'update all' button thats just as convenient. I find if theres ones i want to not update i just temp break their yaml file with an unexpected keyword and it fails to compile and then update.


Hm, I wasn't aware of this web interface. Is it some sort of management panel? Do I have to deploy it on prem?


I think he's talking about the ESPHome web app - it's a Python app you run on a server which provides a web-based IDE to manage your ESPHome devices.

To be clear, it is not hosted by the ESPHome devices themselves, it's a separate component.


I wrote an integration to make this available as part of kroki, if anyone wants to use this as a service.


hey there, how can i check out this integration?



I think https://kroki.io/ deserves its own submission.


Your wish showing up in the face of a submission just 14 days ago and then another 29 days ago must be indicative of why there are so many dupes all the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=kroki.io

You can feel free to submit the GH repo, as that one doesn't seem to have been submitted before https://github.com/yuzutech/kroki


This is great, thank you. I wish there was a way to activate "zen mode" in the URL so that it could be bookmarked


As a person with EDS, i would counter that it is way more common than realised. As its a systemic genetic driven inability to produce collagen correctly, the only cure will be when we can rewrite and organisms genetics wholesale, which we are not exactly close to.

Treatments are poor, the condition itself and its systemic effects are almost unstudied. Most doctors either dont know about it or their knowledge stops at 'flexible'. Some doctors (surgeons esp) may even decline to work with you if you disclose EDS.

CSF leak, either from a lumbar puncture, or from things like chiari malformation and other cervical abnormalities are a well known phenomenon within the community. A person complaining of persistent postural headaches usually gets csf leak as the first response from said community. It is however, incredibly difficult to get a doctor to be willing to diagnose it, to have it competently found, and then patched.


Yeah thats not what happened, if we are referring to the same incident.

He had had a close friend pass recently and he had, within the last few weeks, used mushrooms to help treat the depression/grief. Ie he did not crash the plane mid psychotic break slash psychadelic trip.


I never claimed that he was mid-trip? But by his own admission, the use of mushrooms induced some form of psychosis that distorted his ability to perceive time or understand what and what is not reality. I fully support decriminalization of psychedelics, but I also don’t think they’re free from harms, especially for those with mental health problems.


Huh, didnt realise they had one to use. Every time we have tried to pay with card in japan it has been either impossible or a huge song and dance, even involving the old click clack slide impression carbon paper tools.


When's the last time you were in Japan? I can't remember the last time I carried cash in JP unless I knew, ahead of time, that I was going to a ramen joint that used a vending machine. Between Suica on your phone and a credit card, you rarely ever need cash in big cities.

Smaller towns are a bit of a different story though.


I was in Tokyo a few months ago and I could pay with my foreign credit card in most stores (supermarkets, department stores, chain stores, ...) Even NFC and Google Pay worked, which still don't in Korea for instance.

The Tokyo Metro booth at Haneda doesn't accept credit cards though, I had to withdraw cash in order to get a Pasmo (the JR booth was already closed for the evening).

At restaurants, cafés and small stores it was usually either cash only, or cash plus a combination among the dozen mobile payments solutions that exist in Japan. Very confusing.


Nowadays it should be more seameless, but yes a while ago foreign credit cards were a PITA to use in most places. And there's still many services that aren't set to trigger 3Dsecure at payment, making EU cards virtually unusable.


Is the European 3DSecure verification only for non-card present transactions or for all? Otherwise, businesses using NFC readers shouldn't pose a problem for european tourists.


How do you make clones of a yubikey? Is this normal functionality I've missed or a hack?


Most likely they just mean that every time they register a new account, they get their backup yubikey out and add the account to it too

It's not possible to clone yubikeys


Would fusionauth meet all these needs?


Unfortunately not. It's capabilities are good but missing the same as the other popular options. So it can do everything our current platform can, but we need extra "stuff" to justify the migration.


I work for FusionAuth and responded to your comment elsewhere.

Would love to know what particular things FusionAuth lacked, or what is a dealbreaker. Based on your requirements, I didn't see any issue, but maybe I'm missing something?

My email is in my profile if you'd prefer to use that.


Yes, agree totally because thats me and a few other core people. As a very much self starter it can be hard to build systems that are enough support but not too much for those who aren't as comfortable or 'entitled' as you put it.

We absolutely run into this issue of new people floating ideas and the old hats going 'for the 100th time that will not work because x y z' and the new person going 'jesus, ok then'. Theres a lot of history and learnings thats hard to solidify and pass on and get people into the same book, not even the same page. I still haven't cracked this nut, it feels like i should write a bunch of documentation but i suspect it will not be read.

I've been the polite but chronic reminder/nagger. It does work but its extremely wearing on all participants. I've found the best way to do it is to pair or more people up, in a physical location at the same time to do things. Body doubling is like crack to my audhd brain but it works great for most people as well. Bonus points if you feed them. However, thats a high level of organisation and it can be really tricky to pull it off with the regularity and scale the organisation might require.

I've said in other comments i'd do unseemly things for a volunteer coordinator, but i'd make the devil blush if i could pin down a project manager. Most people just need structure, thats just the long and short of it I've found. You've gotta provide it some way or another, and doing it effectively is a full role and I have enough hats as it is.

How do you combat the old knowledge vs new (naive?) ideas issue? Do you try to reevaluate that 'old knowledge'? Just let the new idea down gently and explain the history? Talk about what you havent tried that might be relevant?


Huh, I had not considered that failing their own expectations of what they can volunteer might be a factor in leaving. I'm going to have to think on that for a bit.

We definitely caution against taking on too much at first, or we give them clear deescalation paths should they struggle.

Hey, hey don't call me out like that. I'm the problem, its me. I absolutely have a tendency to do most of the work but want to run/control things tightly. Always pushing back on myself to try and chill out.

What do you think the main reasons volunteers quit are?


I recently had a new person, strong neurodivergent who struggled greatly with the fact we were/are an organisation with many flaws we are working on. They came to me after their first week with a 9 point plan to fix volunteering. Point 1: Get a volunteer coordinator. I felt like hank scorpio palm to forehead, a volunteer coordinator, why didn't I think of that? We were of course super aware of it, nearly impossible role to fill. I'd give a limb for one almost.

Burnout is _the_ monster that I'm trying to fight, more people, smaller workloads. Predicated on getting more people however.

Setting tasks is... well you learn that you have to train people how to do it. And how SMART Goals are one thing, and actionable tasks are another (subset thing). If you write the task as a Goal, when it comes time to assess if its done, you play the interpretation game and it gets a bit rough.

I think skill building is a big factor that, while we talk about it, we should highlight it more front and center.

Recognition is definitely powerful, as I said in another comment, the issue I've found with it is that if you miss just one person, they tend to feel much worse than if you thank no-one. Hard to catch everyone in that net.

We have been talking about gamification ideas lately, letting volunteers get some form of karma point for doing certain tasks, letting volunteers 'fist bump' each other to tip karma as thanks for a job. Then its a self reporting issue and harder to be left out. Still chewing the idea over, feels like capitalism with extra steps.

Volunteers are definitely hard. If i ever get a coordinator i may nail them to the floorboards.

How did you organise your charity? heirarchical, groups by area or topic? how did they work together?

Do you have any tips on how to get people to do the boring jobs. "Please update the asset register for your area with the msds for anything you keep in stock" 2 hour job. Like pulling teeth, but i need it for compliance.


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