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Cake day: December 2nd, 2023

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  • Lemmy.ml seems to have a clone of most of the “top reddits”, somehow the most subscribed communities out there, and all dominated by one or two posters who post pro-China/pro-DPRK/anti-Western content all day long.

    It definitely is going to confuse newcomers and make a bad first impression. I wonder if they auto subscribe people to those so their propaganda ends up at the top of the communities list.

    Part of the solution is to better inform new users the part of the community name is the host, just like Main St in one city is different from Main St in another city. You choose the city you want to live in first.

    But, it may also be interesting to have the ability for admins to selectively merge like-named communities with other agreeable instance admins, and count subscribers to both as one group.





  • Zigbee or Zwave temperature/humidity sensors are common. Add a 3-circuit relay box and you can simulate the behavior of pretty much any thermostat with a few rules.

    HA or any other system that can toggle outputs based on sensor thresholds would work just fine.

    there are some subtleties with real HVAC thermostats, like running your AC compressor at least five minutes and ensuring that it stays off for at least 5 minutes when it’s turned off.


  • Both my Google and At&t gigabit fiber plans have been symmetric and post about 850-900mbit both ways.

    Cable (DOCSIS) customers will always have lower UL because of the limited shared upload channel compared to multiple bonded download channels.

    ADSL customers are in a similar situation, with the modems configured to allocate 90% of the channel to downstream (which makes sense for the vast majority of users).

    Cellular customers will always have lower UL because of handset power/antenna limitations and transmit power ranging.