Michael Harley

@michaelharley@infosec.exchange
538 Followers
107 Following
155 Posts

Just a guy, a computer, and an ongoing attempt to work less and live more.

For fun: #homeassistant, #factorio, #foosball, metal shows, grilling, and reading about spaceships fighting.

We have five cats, which are henceforth referred to as The Goblins.

📍 Richmond, VA, US

webhttps://michaelharley.net
Show threadMichael Harley3d ago
I'm thinking about switching out my Unifi gear.. OPNSense firewall/router, reolink cams, etc
Michael Harley3d ago
Y'all why are the #Reolink cameras so much cheaper than #Unifi cameras? Would really love to play around with the Reolink cameras, especially as it relates to #HomeAssistant integration.
Michael Harley4d ago

Never used pocket so nbd here. In fact, I was always kind of annoyed at how it was pushed on me in Firefox.

I don't do much read later bookmarking, but I've been a pinboard.in customer for a long time. It's just a guy with a couple servers in a data center somewhere. As far as I can tell, he's not really updating it any these days as it seems the same as always and that's fine with me.

Michael HarleyMay 13

Hey #HomeAssistant folks, what off the shelf LED light strips do we like? Here are my requirements:

  • Warm white, dimmable. I do not need RGB or individually addressable.
  • Works locally with Home Assistant.
  • Prefer zigbee or zwave but will settle for wifi.

The perfect light strip would connect to zigbee, allow me to easily cut it to length and stick it up somewhere and then it just works forever. Thank you please.

Michael HarleyMay 13
Was thinking of going to a smaller, regional specific mastodon instance but the way discoverability works means I will miss content if I'm following hashtags. I followed hashtags on both this larger instance and the new small instance and there's def a difference.
Michael HarleyMay 12

I love #HomeAssistant. Really. I enjoy tinkering and building automations.

The problem is that it just takes constant upkeep. I don't even mean the crazy amount of updates that are always being pushed down but the devices too.

I'm not a great DIY'er and I have no less than 3 WLED light projects that are not working. The reason they're not working varies but I just haven't yet found the energy to go troubleshoot why these devices are not working. It's mostly physically connectivity issues, like I've just did a poor job of physically connecting things so it's come loose and stopped working.

Plus I have the motion sensor that keeps falling and when it hits the ground it kind of goes all to pieces.

I updated HA and my Unifi devices lately and now I have two Shelly devices that are not initializing. :\

I either need to get better and DIY'ing or buy more off the shelf stuff that doesn't require me to be a person who can solder things.

Show threadMichael HarleyMay 12
I think if I were 16 again, I'd def study Engineering with a major focus on robotics. I think it would be fun and interesting to build mostly autonomous factories. Or to work on/with the robots used in construction.
Show threadMichael HarleyMay 12

There's a burger king near me that is new and does not have inside seating. I think there are probably opportunities to automate a lot of the internal workings of the place and you just need 1 or 2 people to make sure the Whopper making robot doesn't get gummed up, and the machines are all topped off with their ingredients.

I think little caesars pizza could also be highly automated.

But then what does the person displaced by the Whopper Maker 1000 supposed to do? Time to learn about robot repair I guess?

Michael HarleyMay 12
I like hashtags and I suppose they could be considered "seo games" but I follow several and doing so surfaces content I would not see otherwise. I think hashtags are critical if there is no algo.
Michael HarleyMay 12

I've often wondered why there aren't more mostly autonomous assembly lines for manufacturing things but I think it boils down to one thing: Cost.

It's cheaper to get a bunch of desperately poor people to build your iPhone than it is to invest in the research and buy the robots that could do it.

Then you have people like Musk saying that AI and robots are going to do all labor, while simultaneously saying entitlements are a huge drain on society. If you take away all the jobs with your robots so you can capture their salaries, and delete all the social safety nets and guardrails provided by government, what are people supposed to do exactly?