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izendon Google has officially turned these Nest thermostats back into dumb thermostats

Yep it was really easy. I actually modified the NLE server so is now hosted on thermostat.local on my home network.

izendon Serbia's Vucic concedes election defeat in historic win for student movement

Eby was a lot further left than Mark Carney...

izendon Serbia's Vucic concedes election defeat in historic win for student movement

Agreed, why should serbia get a thread and not BC's massive flip from far left to conservatives with last night landslide win.

izendon Europe EV sales rose 70.3% in September, 32.6% of market share

What about data centers... or Europe is just going to live in an non-AI world or just outsource it to Kazakhstan (https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/23/nvidia-huang-investment-kaza...) just like the Germans outsourced their energy production to Russia?

izendon America has lost 200k of jobs in media, film and the arts. How much is AI?

The quality of Hollywood movies has gone down substantially.

I can barely watch anything on Netflix due to issues like this:

"Matt Damon Says Netflix Wants Movies to Restate the ‘Plot Three or Four Times in the Dialogue’ Because Viewers are on ‘Their Phones While They’re Watching’"

https://variety.com/2026/film/news/matt-damon-netflix-movies...

izendon Google has officially turned these Nest thermostats back into dumb thermostats

Could do something like oauth to gmail + OTP (or passkeys) on cloudflare workers with long lived sessions or I could vibe code an iOS app even and side load it. That would be very secure as well. I haven't decided yet.

I have a personal password manager secured like that I vibe coded to replace 1password and so far it is working great.

izendon Google has officially turned these Nest thermostats back into dumb thermostats

What a coincidence, I am working on deploying the https://nolongerevil.com/ on my 2nd Gen Nest Thermostat, my wife has bugging me for weeks to either fix it or buy a new one.

I am actually going to self-host and vibe code my own cloud service on Cloudflare.

izendon Europe EV sales rose 70.3% in September, 32.6% of market share

Europe is going to have to build more electricity generation...

izendon Why are we even doing all this?

He forgot one, "creating AI slop games that no one will ever play".

guilty

izendon Richard Garriott is officially regaining control of the Ultima series

On Napa Valley I had 1 character that was best buds with a famous PKer and another character who was his arch-nemesis. Fun times...

izendon Richard Garriott is officially regaining control of the Ultima series

The meta game experience from UO is still unmatched.

izendon Sharing AI progress in mathematics

Opus 5 is ancient history now. Move on.

izendon A 12-year sequence of telescope images of a star and four planets orbiting

I am as well and hopefully Starship allows even larger telescopes!

izendon Vermont replacing power plants with home batteries

What happens if you have a local power outage but they have drained your battery down?

izendon Alberta (Canada) slaps punitive tax on solar panels

There is a very underfunded https://www.orphanwell.ca/ program but I agree with your point.

izendon The Rise and Fall of Agent Civilizations

Why wasn't the traffic in/out of the boxes that the agents were running on monitored?

izendon New MCP Roadmap

I am very curious how many MCP servers will actually implement all of this:

"MCP authorization today is built around a person approving access in a browser. That works well for interactive clients, but more and more of the callers are agents running as cloud workloads with their own identity, acting on behalf of a user who isn’t present, or delegating narrower authority to sub-agents. We want MCP servers to have a standardized way to recognize and trust those agent identities, built on existing standards rather than pasted API keys and long-lived tokens.

The work here covers finalizing Demonstrating Proof of Possession (DPoP) and driving its adoption, and defining an opinionated path for agent identity and delegation through Workload Identity Federation, the ID-JAG grant behind Enterprise-Managed Authorization, and standard token exchange. We will also continue to grow our engagement with the OAuth standards bodies, including the IETF OAuth and WIMSE working groups, to help the underlying standards evolve with the building blocks that agent identity needs."

izendon Super El Niño Keeps Growing as New Forecasts Reach Record Territory Ahead Winter

The strongest El Niño ever caused a massive famine:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1877%E2%80%931878_El_Ni%C3%B1o...

izendon U.S. economy lost 23,000 jobs in July, a sudden reversal

Look at the M2 supply growth, it can't collapse with that growth but inflation will run quite high.

izendon U.S. economy lost 23,000 jobs in July, a sudden reversal

I have been very critical of the Federal gov (less so under Carney) and I will admit this job report actually was very good as it wasn't just majority public sector hirings which was very common under Trudeau:

Private-sector jobs: +58,000 jobs [wealthprof...ssional.ca], [retail-insider.com]

Government/public-sector jobs:-27,000 jobs (a decline) [wealthprof...ssional.ca], [retail-insider.com]

Self-employed: +44,000 jobs [wealthprof...ssional.ca], [retail-insider.com]

Part-time jobs: +36,600 jobs [money.usnews.com], [ca.finance.yahoo.com]

izendon Google will expand age checks on Android worldwide till the end of the year

It hasn't completely but she was watching TikTok style mindrot youtube videos so that least that is blocked now.

We blocked a bunch of domains on her laptop so it is just very painful for her now.

izendon Google will expand age checks on Android worldwide till the end of the year

Are you a parent?

I have personally used the parental controls on Android, iOS and ChromeOS and to be honest they are terrible. Issues with syncing changes, the terrible UX for parental access control (iOS...), issues around audit/access logs, issues around prompting the parent for access.

I am honestly shocked that Apple known for its polished experience hasn't been forced by angry parents.

My daughter's school actually advised parents to not enable parental controls on her ChromeBook because it would interfere with the school's education websites but my daughter was caught playing web games in class so we decided to lock her down anyways.

izendon First atmosphere found on Earth-like planet in habitable zone of distant star

LHS 1140 b has about 5.6 times Earth’s mass

izendon DOGE is done. What happened to its records?

Why did Bill Clinton execute the largest Federal cuts in the 90s and everyone said they were needed?

izendon Chat Control 1.0 and 2.0 Explained

Look at the official party stance, he is spreading misinformation.

izendon The deadly rise of giant trucks and SUVs

Vehicles accelerate a LOT faster on average than years ago, EVs and Turbo Engines...

izendon Canada in Technical Recession

There is very little opportunity right now in Canada so I am not surprised the GDP growth has come in negative. It will probably be positive next quarter due to the oil price spike.

izendon High Density Living, 2000 Years Ago: Inside the Roman Apartment Building

Another amazing series is the Master of Rome series starting with the First Man of Rome book:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_First_Man_in_Rome

izendon Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce

Prince is claiming they laid off very few SWEs, I know at least an entire team of SWEs.

https://x.com/eastdakota/status/2052560831909433554?s=20

izendon Computer Use is 45x more expensive than structured APIs

Does https://github.com/webmachinelearning/webmcp overlap ?