Notices by Jamie Booth (jamie@boothcomputing.social)

@thanius

I haven't bought new appliances specifically for this purpose. It's mostly been as they die they get replaced. It's hard to get a new appliance that doesn't have some sort of smart app. Home Assistant can integrate with most of them.

@thanius

The sky is the limit. It really depends what you want to do with it.

I've got a notification when it's time to flip the laundry based on where the washer and dryer are in their cycles.

Lights controlled by mmwave sensors.

Leak sensors that push notifications to my phone when water is detected.

Auto-locking on my doors after x mins.

@evan

I answered "no" but I run a single user instance. So, unless I'm moderating myself, it's not an issue.

@KimPerales
@derek

Our state's major utility just got unanimous approval from the state PUC to expand three gas plants. Really depressing considering the extreme solar potential.

@evan

I took the undergrad version of that course and it was pretty good.

@evan

What class did you pick?

@thanius

Oh, wow. That's a blast from the past. I installed/swapped so many of them in the late '90s. We had a drawer full of spares. One of the things we always saved when a machine went to the recycler.

@derek

The keys for bluray are both player and volume specific. They need internet access to keep that database up to date. Technically, it should be required to play newer discs unless they are using an older key. A lot of bluray players (I thought it was all) would refuse to play if they couldn't update the database.

@derek

I'm not sure if they have, but technically they can kill a bluray. The keys are revokable which is part of why the players need internet access.

DVDs (or rip the bluray) don't have this problem.

@thanius

I'm not sure I'm following. You don't want to put a battery socket on a PCB and expose positive and negative. Are you wanting to use a PCB as some sort of structural component?

@agrinova
@chronohart @luca @PCOWandre @activitypubblueskybridge @fedidevs @fediversenews

I'm not a GDPR expert, but because the bridge isn't stateful (ie just forwards posts) I don't think you are going to apply any of the data directives. Worst case, you might have to do something for instances hosted in Europe. But whatever you do applies much more strongly to actual instance servers. Those are hosting data created by and about users.

@agrinova
@chronohart @luca @PCOWandre @activitypubblueskybridge @fedidevs @fediversenews

That takes a lot of time, and as someone in IT, most people take the defaults and are SHOCKED to learn some features exist. 😁

Having this behave like the rest of the fediverse accelerates the awareness and usefulness of the bridge.

You can more rapidly achieve the goal of allowing people to connect and converse. That is after all why the fediverse exists. The rest of this is semantics.

@HistoPol
@oliphant @snarfed @snarfed.org @luca @PCOWandre @fedidevs @fediversenews @chronohart @activitypubblueskybridge

Based on Ryan's response and some of the other descriptions, it sounds like the bridge software knows how to handle AP block requests. So, they should be the same.

@shiri
@oliphant @HistoPol @snarfed.org @luca @PCOWandre @chronohart @snarfed

From reading some of the other posts and his answer to my earlier post, it seems he is accepting AP blocks in the software. So, both the tag and a block (domain or user) should work the same way.

@chronohart
@luca @PCOWandre @activitypubblueskybridge @fedidevs @fediversenews

I don't believe the choice of network matters that much. I think the harasser is more likely to go that extra step. If not, then a simple AP block solves that problem and that's a minor cost to enable better communication between people.

If this conversation around Bridgy Fed proves anything it's that we need more, less hostile communication between people.

@chronohart
@luca @PCOWandre @activitypubblueskybridge @fedidevs @fediversenews

No, but they could also create an AP account and harass the person. This bridge doesn't make that any more or less likely. You still have the same tools to block a user even if they are over the bridge.

I think there are a lot of positives to connect people who landed on different platforms. The possibility of harassment is really a more global Internet problem not AP/BS/Threads specific.

@chronohart
@luca @PCOWandre @activitypubblueskybridge @fedidevs @fediversenews

What about if the person reaching out is from BS? If my friend on the AP side hasn't found this bridge and opted in, they won't show up when I try to add them. A lot has to go right for these people to reconnect if they have to opt in. In my case, all I have are remembered Twitter handles that I'll try to search across the bridge fir that handle. If I get results, I'll try to follow.

@oliphant
@HistoPol @snarfed
@snarfed.org @luca @PCOWandre @fedidevs @fediversenews @chronohart @activitypubblueskybridge

I'm wondering if that means there may be a functional difference between blocking the bridge vs adding the #nobridge tag?

@HistoPol
@chronohart @luca @PCOWandre @activitypubblueskybridge @fedidevs @fediversenews

This is a really good question and I don't know the answer. This is the kinda of thing I think we should be asking about the bridge.

@snarfed do you know the answer to this?

@chronohart
@luca @PCOWandre @activitypubblueskybridge @fedidevs @fediversenews

Let's be honest most people have no idea this bridge is going to exist. So, they can't opt-in. If nobody opts-in, you won't be able to search for them by their ActivityPub handles. The bridge isn't useful. People on both sides who would like to reconnect with their friends won't be able to. However, if you know you hate BS, you can add the bridge to your personal block list and it isn't an issue for you.