These watches appear to be ripoffs of famous designs. Likely from some factory that normally produces "homage" watches and they just swapped out the branding.

Should work with any other IR setup as well, of course, this just happens to be the one I already have integrated!

Discovered our HEMA (Dutch department store) sells rechargeable LED tealights that you can turn on and off using a simple remote control.

Used my Harmony hub to learn the remote’s IR codes, now I can control them in Home Assistant and I have smart(ish) tealights 😄

www.hema.nl/wonen-slapen...

One of the world’s great indignities is the “we tried to deliver your package” lie and you’ve been there all day and have a camera out front. Bro I was legit sitting on the stoop when I got the “we tried” text

An under-appreciated classic. Cabin In The Woods next?

Oh yeah 2/TPS much better than 3. But at least 3 still tried, even though it couldnt match any of the Handsome Jack storyline. And now in 4… I honestly couldn’t tell you what the main plot is about and I was just playing the game 10 minutes ago.

It feels like they took everything that made Borderlands 2/3 era fun and special and threw that in the dumpster, but what remains still has enough dopamine loop that I’ll finish it against my will.

I'm not a big fan of Jack Dorsey but I have to admit that one of his better ideas was, instead of getting into posting wars with users, he would go off to a yoga castle and eat hallucinogens for two weeks

It would be good if this was matched with a call for embedding critical thinking skills in primary and secondary education across Europe.

imagine if a family of beavers randomly showed up right now and finished whatever thing you've been putting off

we have gone from a world in which we were told not to cite wikipedia because it was unreliable to a world where wikipedia might be the only reliable source left on the internet and we all owe a lot to the pedantic nerds who got us there

In a major win for brand safety, Amazon ends its’ commingling program after years of complaints from brands and sellers

Samsung has rolled out a software update to its smart fridges that will display ads, despite saying they had "no plans" to do so. We're headed for a future where you will have to pay extra for appliances without ads.

The internet was never a perfect place, but at least a lot of these media companies gave a darn about kids and gave them safe, fun spaces to be fully entertained online.

Alas, this generation will never have that experience. Maybe those that had these places will bring them back for the next one.

It was SO good. I can still hum the theme song even though I haven’t seen the show in ages.

Sometimes I worry that I've wasted my life.

Then I think about how many people I've managed to reach through social media, and realise I've probably wasted thousands of lives.

"You can't policy your way out of a propaganda problem" is such a good line.

Policy matters, but how you communicate stuff matters more right now.

The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.

enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits

If I was an engineer at Coinbase and heard this mandate, I’d just start to review AI code less rigorously and let it rip.

The stated goal is to increase AI generation numbers, and nothing about quality, maintainability, correctness, lack of duplication - right?

Give devs a goal and they meet it

We're kicking September off with a new WWHA partner - please welcome frient to the program! 🎉

They're bringing an extensive line of Zigbee devices known for their sleek, unobtrusive designs with a high Home Approval Factor. Read more about our newest frient 😏 on our blog 👇🏼

#HomeAutomation

The boom bust cycle applied to online content: The content must become so shit, that people will have to look for quality again.

replacing Batman fight onomatopoeiae with old midwestern brewery names

If you are building a product with a feature that had previously been scrapped because of "ethical concerns" and the company has suddenly decided to just shrug and do it anyway, you are building the Torment Nexus and you should fucking stop.