Notices by Eleanor Saitta (dymaxion@infosec.exchange), page 2

@jollyorc
@akareilly I'll go HA once Hue is broken, but not before — I was going to have to do it to get integration with the DMX side, but now that I'm moving to MA3, I can just write Lua against the hue API library, which is actually going to be better in the end when it comes to representing what the hues can actually do.

I just chucked my Sonos pair because they were irretrievably shit. I can't actually recommend buying an Allen & Heath SQ6, the Dante card, and eight two channel Audinate Dante dongles to anyone who isn't either insane or actually running a venue, but it has solved that problem in a sufficiently final way. Of course, I still have a Wiim box hooked up to all that to get audio in 🤣

@jollyorc
Yes, but afaik they're all still third party, which means intentional compatibility issues from the Hue side. Also, in my particular weird-ass use case I need to be able to lock out all the lights witches every time we have a party, so if switched to those, I'd also have to move to home assistant — at least the annoying come off the wall switches let me just take them all and shove them in a drawer.
@akareilly

@nonlinear
Building these systems isn't really my hobby, so I'm buying on the basis of software stack quality and reliability alone, which has meant nothing but Hue. I'm aware that at some point I'll be forced to replace all five bridges with a couple of home assistant installs, but this side of the house has already taken an order of magnitude more time than the professional side, so I'm really uninterested in sysadmining it harder. Otoh, the professional gear takes six weeks to get and costs a grand or more a fixture, while I can buy Hue bulbs at the hardware store.

The hardware layer won't get less crap until the business model/consumer expectations change, and thus the only real place for usability improvements is at the software layer, aka where the enshitification is happening.
@akareilly

@nonlinear
I've very carefully only touched lighting when it comes to consumer home automation — I run our house as a professional event venue, but not at a level where the professional venue lighting options would be accessible. Of the three landlord-installed smart devices, one immediately broke to a degree where it had to be removed and the other two have had intermittent failures. Everything else is either as dumb as it came, or automated with decoupled professional control layers (e.g. Dante and Artnet). It still takes an inconvenient amount of at unplanned times.
@akareilly

@deviantollam @Tarah
It's so sweet when cross-cultural relationships work

@akareilly
There's an annoying market trap here. In-wall stuff almost always means an electrician is installing it, so companies there target whole-house systems with custom wiring, which is only relevant for rich folks. Because this moves at architect speed, these systems are generally still dimming only, and if you want full color, you're looking at stuff built for professional event spaces. All of the nice wireless color stuff is targeting the lowest possible bar for end user installs, which means switches can't be attached by anything other than a command strip and have to be battery powered, hence removable.

There's no reason why someone couldn't make a box that replaces the in-wall switch, leaves the circuit always on, powers the transmitter off wall power, and gives the user nice firm predictable tactile buttons like they're familiar with, but it would need a lot more regulatory approval and in make markets a professional install, so it would cost ~8 times as much to the consumer, making it a specialty product relevant for maybe .5% of their customers, and thus not worth building. It's also a conceptually weird object, so it would take a lot of user education, making it a hard sell even for that .5%.

And thus, the world will continue to be awful.

@SecurityWriter
Regulators are starting to demand physical buttons for basic functions in some countries, which will shift designs globally for at least some vehicles
@akareilly

@quinn
I think it might be useful to frame it more as "so we know this isn't Christianity in any meaningful sense, but what do they get from this", in the "help folks see these people as human and what they can do to get them back to the real world"

@ErosBlog
It's very difficult to find prosocial outcomes for communities when griefers are trying to exploit all possible weaknesses. I think it would be a much easier conversation if hedge-fund driven media companies and platforms didn't exist, and I think it may be an impossible problem otherwise. Some things simply cannot be built within an adversarial frame.

@quinn
We can also hate disabled folks!

@willowbl00
Kind of the same ones you have — how to prescreen, maybe how to convert when that's possible

One of the complexities of thinking about resilience in an adversarial space like security is that we don't have cross-domain models with the same kind of structural utility — our intellectual peers are either scared 19 year olds trying not to get shot, their commanders who are trying to define behavior at scale via rigid rules to be executed by those scared kids, sociopaths in the business world who confuse ego and luck, spooks and criminals who can't or won't talk about their work, or football players with concussions.

There are models out there, but it's much harder to glean useful frames. Thankfully, we can lean heavily on work in the larger resilience engineering community.

[And yes, I, working in a field so young as to barely deserve the name, am absolutely selling everyone named above short, but hopefully even-handedly]

This piece from John is great as always: https://hachyderm.io/@allspaw/112962065290817895

I have jury duty next week.

Covid is running rampant in the Bay Area.

I'm at higher risk.

I will wear a mask, and attempt to distance myself from others. (I wear a mask in all indoor settings.)

I revere jury duty (though I've never made it past voir dire).

It absolutely sucks that crowded jury rooms don't have mask mandates.

Masks aren't perfect (or close to perfect) protection. But they are vastly, vastly better than nothing.

@kissane
Oh, this is really useful! I've never seen a clear "this is how to do a good fit test" description before.

Which, thinking of it, is kind of weird.
@dangillmor

@lorenzofb
Welp, I guess someone's gonna have to mass-own all their vacuum cleaners at once, just to make the point.

@willowbl00
Interested in seeing where this conversation goes

@sng
I mean, you can just wear the clothes and pointedly not ask the questions
@jack_daniel @hacks4pancakes

@stormsweeper
Yeah, there are lots of options. I think "field tested" or maybe better "field proven" comes as close to the specific nuance without suggesting anyone on the ops team got shot in the process.
@gallego

@gallego
Field tested is better