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aag01··on EcoFlow asks developers of open Home Assistant integration to stop development
"... in short they want us to stop the operations on this project, because the integration uses their ble protocol, which is for some reason is unsafe."
aag01··on Lighting the way for electric vehicles by using streetlamps as chargers
sounds like what https://www.voltpost.com/ and https://beamforall.com/product/beamspot/ are banking on...
aag01··on Thingino: Open-Source Firmware for IP Cameras
thingino works pretty well (why? it's linux!)

I should know, I help make it!

Combine thingino, friagte and go2rtc, with home assistant, and you can have a sweet setup with recording, and low latency playback. The family loves it.

aag01··on Canon selphy cp1500 privacy concerns
This occurs on almost every dye sublimation printer that uses those disposable cartridges. I recall seeing this on a Sony printer from the mid 90s. It's not specific to canon.
aag01··on Hotline for modern Apple systems
Java animated development environment. Strange days.
aag01··on USCSB Video: Chemical Release at Wacker Polysilicon
love the CSB! they need more funding for added exposure from more entertaining videos.
aag01··on GitHub was down
back up
aag01··on Reverse-Engineering an IP Camera (2019)
https://github.com/themactep/thingino-firmware for the repo
aag01··on Raspberry Pi 5 has no hardware video encoding and only HEVC decoding
They should partner with qualcomm, not broadcom.

Too bad it's because of the former broadcom employees within the foundation.

aag01··on Raspberry Pi 5 has no hardware video encoding and only HEVC decoding
"In future we’ll have to do something, but for Pi 5 we feel the hardware encode is a mm^2 too far."

is corporate speech for "broadcom decided not to let us use their video IP cores for low cost/no cost any longer"

aag01··on The Danger of Popcorn Polymer: Incident at the TPC Group Chemical Plant [video]
Very sad time when the trump administration and Republicans wanted to ELIMINATE the USCSB.

They do great work.

aag01··on What's the best strategy to promote your product and gain engagement on Twitter?
Switch to threads
aag01··on Ask HN: What Prompt are you using ChatGPT and Browser Plugin?
which plugin?
aag01··on Ask HN: What are you doing about A2P 10DLC for hobby projects?
Why not run it over something like Telegram? The Bot API works well for such use cases.