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Achievement unlocked! I joined the Vergecast to discuss the Matter smart home standard 😎

https://youtu.be/0Y75XEXAXfY?t=3494

#homeassistant
https://youtu.be/0Y75XEXAXfY?t=3494

The Vergecast Matter Holiday Spec-Tacular | The Vergecast

YouTube

Z-Wave is not dead! Last week, we attended the Z-Wave Alliance Member meeting in Austin, TX - the first since @homeassistant became a member.

We presented a keynote about the steps we think are critical to see it thrive into the future. Read more about our vision of making Z-Wave a successful consumer-facing product:
https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2024/05/08/zwave-is-not-dead/

Z-Wave is not dead

Z-Wave is alive and well, partly due to a strong community that is building new open-source resources.

Home Assistant
Uh oh! Someone done fucked up!

Great article about Moxie, the founder of Signal. A little late to share, but better late than never!

Taking Back Our Privacy

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/10/26/taking-back-our-privacy

Moxie Marlinspike Has a Plan to Reclaim Our Privacy 

Anna Wiener on the founder of the end-to-end encrypted messaging service Signal, who wants to bring secure communication to the masses.

The New Yorker

Anyone know of a Pixelfed iOS app? Either published or currently in development looking for contributors? I’m using Mast for Mastodon and it doesn’t work with Pixelfed at the moment.

#pixelfed

@danyspin97 @ndegruchy @nebunez And that is a mistake! Solid documentation comes before solid features!
Now that I’ve begun the task of wiring my house, I finally pulled the trigger on some new networking gear from Ubiquiti! Can’t wait for it to get here. My network has been in dire need of an upgrade. #ubiquiti #ui #networking #homelab

In light of the ongoing #COVID19 pandemic, we now have an ongoing initiative to donate surgical masks to local communities.

If you are involved in our community (or one of the many partner projects), come take a look at this thread: https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=9544

COVID-19 help: Donating masks to you local community on your behalf

I just took part in an Electronic Frontier Foundation campaign titled "Protect our Speech and Security Online: Reject the Graham-Blumenthal Bill".

Will you join me? Take action here: https://act.eff.org/action/protect-our-speech-and-security-online-reject-the-graham-blumenthal-bill

Finally finished my latest blog post. This time it’s about work-life balance.

#work #stress

https://blog.iamthefij.com/2020/02/25/more-to-life-than-work/

More to life than work

Balancing your work and life is important to keep stress in check and improve ones productivity and long-term happiness at work. Many people talk about work-life balance but also struggle with maintaining it. It can be hard, especially a world of smartphones constantly buzzing and dinging with the latest notification