Body meridian clock, that's why.
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They have an entirely different mentality on longevity, on where and how it can run, plus it supports scripting instead of the utterly disgusting YAML thing in HA.
It's building automation. When it's over a decade, then it's starting to be OK.
At first, in the YAML era, because it was insanely hard to create heating automation (not HVAC, just heating).
Second when HA decided that their supported Python version was greater, than Debian Stable's and FreeBSD stable's Python version.
Third when it became near impossible to install manually, especially on something not linux, FreeBSD.
HA might be a great system when set up once and left alone, but nobody seems to be doing that.
I'll stick to my domoticz for the "if it ain't broken..." approach.
Never thought that once we had Skype we'll still not solve video calls cross-platform on every bloody device by 2025, including, but not limited to, linux, TVs, Android boxes, Chromecast with Google TV, and so on.
I really want to get off Whatsapp, but everyone simply refuses to do so out of simplicity, lazyness, and ignorance.
Signal is the easy and obvious alternative.
XMPP/Matrix are different paths that also work (and both rely on TURN/STUN, like everything), but that requires someone running those servers in your vicinity of friends.
Texas, on the other hand, which is easily the size of a country...
from: https://news.sky.com/story/large-parts-of-spain-and-portugal...
This is literally the whistleblowers about cashless society have been warning everyone about for well over a decade now.
I added these in nginx.conf:
map $http_user_agent $blocked_user_agent {
default 0;
"~*AI2Bot" 1;
"~*AI2Bot-Dolma" 1;
"~*Amazonbot" 1;
"~*anthropic-ai" 1;
"~*anthropic.com" 1;
"~*Applebot" 1;
"~*Applebot-Extended" 1;
"~*AwarioBot" 1;
"~*AwarioRssBot" 1;
"~*AwarioSmartBot" 1;
"~*Bytespider" 1;
"~*CCBot" 1;
"~*ChatGPT-User" 1;
"~*ClaudeBot" 1;
"~*Claude-Web" 1;
"~*cohere-ai" 1;
"~*cohere-training-data-crawler" 1;
"~*DataForSeoBot" 1;
"~*Diffbot" 1;
"~*DuckAssistBot" 1;
"~*FacebookBot" 1;
"~*FriendlyCrawler" 1;
"~*Googlebot-Extended" 1;
"~*Google-CloudVertexBot" 1;
"~*Google-Extended" 1;
"~*GoogleOther" 1;
"~*GoogleOther-Image" 1;
"~*GoogleOther-Video" 1;
"~*GPTBot" 1;
"~*iaskspider/2.0" 1;
"~*ICC-Crawler" 1;
"~*ImagesiftBot" 1;
"~*img2dataset" 1;
"~*ISSCyberRiskCrawler" 1;
"~*Kangaroo Bot" 1;
"~*Meltwater" 1;
"~*Meta-ExternalAgent" 1;
"~*Meta-ExternalFetcher" 1;
"~*OAI-SearchBot" 1;
"~*Omgili" 1;
"~*Omgilibot" 1;
"~*openai.com" 1;
"~*PanguBot" 1;
"~*peer39_crawler" 1;
"~*PerplexityBot" 1;
"~*PetalBot" 1;
"~*Scrapy" 1;
"~*Seekr" 1;
"~*SemrushBot" 1;
"~*SemrushBot-OCOB" 1;
"~*Sentibot" 1;
"~*Sidetrade indexer bot" 1;
"~*Timpibot" 1;
"~*TurnitinBot" 1;
"~*VelenPublicWebCrawler" 1;
"~*webmeup-crawler.com" 1;
"~*Webzio-Extended" 1;
"~*YouBot" 1;
}
location / {
if ($blocked_user_agent) {
access_log /var/log/nginx/blockedbot.log ncsa;
return 401;
}
FAQ:
Yes, you can run self hosted mail.
Yes, it's complex.
No, it's not hard, but it takes time, as it is complex - if you want to understand it. If not, go for something like https://maddy.email/
Yes, I have a fixed IP address with a reverse DNS entry configured.
My ISP is zen.co.uk.
Yes, I have reverse DNS, DKIM, DMARC, SPF, even mta-sts.
No, I'm not switching from XMPP to Matrix - it's too server heavy, XMPP is more client oriented, which is my preference.
I know about the UK's online safecty act, I used https://onlinesafetyact.co.uk/ra_my_self_hosted_single_user_... as a template to create mine. I think the act itself is basically useless and just paperwork, but something along it's ideas is actually needed.
I block many AI crawlers from accessing code and photos, as eg. Claude is so aggressive that it's code crawlers makes my system sluggish, and I have no will to let anyone use my photos beyond printing them for their wall as decoration.