I honestly think that a lot of suburban white people have no concept of how to interact with black people (or any non-white, really)nowadays. They spend their first 20 years in a community where there’s 3 black kids in their high school, no Latinx kids, and maybe an exchange student from Turkey or something, and by…

That’s what we’ve been saying about Black people for like 300 years.

Why use a VPN outbound if the communication is all TLS?

Out setups are very similar.
I am in the process of moving away from Smartthings right now though.

If you replaced your Wemo outlets with Lifx bulbs our setups would be near identical. Google Homes (My echo is gather dust) Harmony hubs, GE Zwave switches, dimmers, IRIS motion sensors, Nest Thermostat, a few…

You read that wrong.
This is talking about an uptick in malware using 44s to encrypt its outbound traffic.

So wait, let me get this right.
You have more vlans in your home that most mid-size business utilize in a region. BUT you are not down with a bit of DIY modifications to a chipset that is so popular that you can pick them up for a few bucks each if you buy them by the dozen.

For instance take a look at this little…

Na na, you got it backwards.
The VPN is for outbound, but its not really needed. You can get a reputable VPN that does not snoop/collect/sell your data and that was only suggested since the author was talking about some of the sneaky shit that ISPs are pulling now days. It should not matter to much anyway since any…

Are you using the Hue API or the Hue Bridge in HASS?

100% agree with this.
I’ve been burned in the past with this, so I generally try to make sure that the device can function without the cloud, can do its extra features locally as well as the cloud, or is popular enough where a group of geeks might try to hack it to do something close.

This is happening as we speak to…

So here are the basic nuts and bolts.
You can read my reply above to another user if you want some extra info on DIY projects to remove the cloud portion of a bunch of devices and connect directly to them. https://gizmodo.com/1822825587

The first part is going to be running a hub on your LAN only. Devices like Wink and…

I know what a Tb is and I know what a tb is, but Im not sure how much salt a TB is. Is it just as Salty as your comment? :º)

Jokes aside, I never claimed this is a SECURE setup. I did claim that she can mitigate the data leakage via the methods described and I stand by that.

I dont really care how badass you are at…

So this all depends on what you want to do with your automations or more specifically what you want to automate.

802.1x is not so much an issue with the hubs as it is the devices.
There is no reason you could not take a DIY approach to this, Im pretty positive the ESP8266 chip supports it, you can then setup the…

Hi Jason,
This is not going to work the way you think it does.

Outbound ports are usually very similar from device to device, and there is a good change most are sending data over a common port like 80 for non-encrypted data or 443 for encrypted data.
Blocking these ports is doable, but you will basically kill your…

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This is a pretty interesting article, thanks for the write up.

It should be pointed out that you could have gone with local network only devices such as Zigbee/Z-wave paired with a local hub to control everything. There are a few such hub softwares. I currently use Home-Assistant running on a Raspberry-Pi with a…

And if we have been doing that?

There is not a single thing in your very long list that I have every stood in opposition to and in instances actively campaigned for or championed. So why the fuck should I shut up again?

No talking, just listen, is a recent development among the left.
It’s not a valid strategy and will…

Nice strawman you got there.

You have been telling us you want different things throughout the generations. You should maybe be aware of that. Feminism of today is not your mother’s feminism.

Yeah we all just ignore it! Thats it, I mean that has to be it.

It’s not like there are no good people on the moral side of ANY social issue, yet we still have to fight these social issues year after year, decade after decade.

You can man hate all you want and take a myopic view of your surroundings if you like, but…

I didnt say you did say that. I was just pointing out that making China use the same environmental standards as the US would not change their prices to a degree that would all us to compete.

Malaysia I do not believe can compete with China in scale, which might explain the price difference in that scenario.

Overall…

The lack of environmental standards is not the leading reason for cheap products. That would be cheap labor. So even if Chinese manufactures adhere to stricter standards that we do, they would still produce cheaper products. You are talking about a country that is undergoing its industrial and technological…