I would be interested to know if Irish and French traffic is up a comparative amount.

Interesting, learnt something new. Thanks.

To be clear, Australia is not perfect by a long stretch, but our politicians are much more discrete in their desire for enrichment, we also have a lot more guard rails in place to prevent it, while they are in office.

While there is obviously big business trying to influence government decisions, that will always happen regardless of who we vote in. My point is, if the person you vote for isn’t clearly concerned with improving the lives of their constituents you should absolutely fuck them off and not continually vote for them for decades.

As an Australian I am constantly amazed that no matter how racist, homophobic, greedy, stupid, selfish and blatantly self-serving America’s government representatives are, you continue to vote for them.

We arent so committed to the red vs blue ideology. If I vote for blue one term and they don’t perform I’ll vote red or green or independent next term.

Unfortunately, the way things are going, your vote might not make a difference for much longer.

The woman in the red dress, isn’t she the Alaskan senator that voted yes then told everyone else to vote no?

Run Home Assistant, add the integration, create a dashboard for your phone/tablet, never use the app again.

I think we are past the tipping point now, it’s downhill from here and what we do to reduce carbon emissions will only determine how fast we go down that hill.

I’m pretty sure this was in the book of revelations.

I’ve got an iPhone 13.

I used to upgrade about every 2 years because that’s how long my contract was and there was usually some killer feature I wanted. Now, new releases only have incremental improvements so I’m not in any hurry to buy a new phone.

I’ll probably keep this phone for another year or 2 as there is nothing wrong with it, even the battery life is still great.

So I’d say iPhone sales are “collapsing” because of a lack of innovation in the market, cost of living pressures, and handset durability, they just last longer.

Op was so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.

I Imagine they’ll use whatever connections are provided to them by their AI overlords.

The VPn may be necessary if their IP address ranges are being blocked, or it could be to get around an API limit?

I wouldn’t be surprised if they are doing it to block AI from hoovering up all of their data.

On your firewall block all IP addresses except Cloudlflare’s IP ranges

Configure Cloudflare’s firewall to block any connections from outside your home country.

I flashed mine over 12 months ago and haven’t had any issues since. I had noticed there hadn’t been any updates but didn’t realise he’d stopped working on it.

One less integration to manage and It doesn’t rely on the cloud to work.

I flashed my Shelly’s with the Homekit firmware from the link below and manage them via the HomeKit integration in HomeAssistant.

https://github.com/mongoose-os-apps/shelly-homekit

What are the storage implications of setting up your own instance? Are you syncing the contents of every sub or just the ones you and your friends subscribe to? I like the idea of doing it but will it be TB’s of content in a few months?

Yeah, unfortunately DS9 was already taken.

This is such an open ended question that nobody can give you an accurate answer as there are so many factors that need to be considered.

How big is the site? How much data is being stored? What is the DB backend? How does it handle failover between DB servers in the event the primary goes down? Is it being hosted in a cloud service, your own DC or a cupboard? Does the location it is being hosted already have redundant power and internet connectivity? Are they diverse, so if one provider fails the other one will remain online? You’d need to maintain separate sites in case one location goes down due to a major event like an earthquake, so you need to replicate data in real-time to your DR location.

There are so many factors to consider and I haven’t named them all. Regardless of what your answer is, it would be very expensive to maintain any server at 6 9’s level of availability. For a marketplace website with only 1000 visitors a day there is no need for that level of availability because there would be times in the day that nobody would be on it. Only a marketplace the size of Amazon would consider that level of availability.