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Owners of smart lightning, IOT (and more specifically Philips Hue): Am I doing a grave mistake if I install these in my home? While somewhat pricey, they are cheaper than getting an electrician to install it all.

And with the Mozilla IOT effort, I'm seeing some hope in creating a lasting ecosystem.

Then again, the existing lightning in my house is probably many decades old. I'm expecting smart-house-stuff getting outdated after just a few years.

Looking to give Linux a try this summer. Trying to decide between Solus and Elementary. Choices, while incredibly nice to have, can be tough :P

Still no news on Samsung's Linux on Galaxy thing :/

Anyone know of a way to stream just the audio from a YouTube live stream? Maybe pipe it into something like VLC?

Is it bad that now that I've changed my phone's alarm sound I'm kinda excited about waking up tomorrow morning?

Today's as good as any day to give the Vivaldi browser a fresh new try. I'll do just that.

Anyone have a recommendation on IRC bouncer setups? I've been looking at Quassel deployed on Vultr, but their $2.50/month offering is sold out at the moment :(

While I'm not really gonna go cancel my GitHub account unless things actually go sour (I'm guessing they won't, Microsoft is doing good OS work these days), the new buzz around GitLab-as-a-replacement has inspired me to give it a new whirl. Supposedly a lot of the growing pains it had when I last tried it has been fixed.

Had the pleasure of playing around with preact and preact-cli this weekend. It seems to not only have kept the best part of react, it has ahead some of the more questionable design choices.

Said yes to hold a 5 minute lightning talk. Obvious first step: spend weekend creating web based slide deck powered by web components, gamepad API, and webassembly.

I miss being able to use third-party clients for messaging apps 😞

I'm not sure it's a good way to choose a mail service provider, but the way that the CEO of Fastmail is to be seen participating in every email-related hacker news story gives me confidence. These guys are _passionate_ about email.

Oh, hey, .app domain names are becoming available. From the product description it kinda looks like they are more meant for downloadable apps, but I'd reckon that they'd be perfect for PWAs.

https://get.app/

OK, this is just awful and disgusting. A coal power plant is being reopened to mine flipping bitcoin. https://www.cnet.com/google-amp/news/australian-coal-power-plant-reopened-blockchain-bitcoin-applications/?__twitter_impression=true

In my journey to rekindle my love for RSS I discovered feedbin.com. Killer feature: ability to subscribe to email newsletters and twitter feeds.

I have a hope that those two could make it hit my personal sweet spot between a firehose and a (semi-) humanly curated stream of things to read.