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  • Home Assistant 2026.3: A clean sweep

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  • I’d say they are focussed on making well engineered software over making money.

    I think you must have a different idea of what "well engineered software" means because to me, nothing you've said implies a focus on making well engineered software.

    Writing software without remuneration doesn't imply a focus on well engineered software. A person can write software without remuneration with a focus on anything, not necessarily good engineering. For example, one can write software without remuneration with a focus on financial reward in future. Which is exactly what appears to have happened. Working without pay to build a business with the expectation that the business will be profitable in future doesn't imply that the business will be built on good engineering.

    Helping secure remote access for those who don't know how to do it themselves doesn't imply a focus on well engineered software. Educating people isn't the same thing as engineering software, let alone engineering software well. Ease of use isn't the same thing as good engineering; one can engineer easy to use software well and one can engineer easy to use software poorly. Nabu Casa Inc. have done the latter.

  • Home Assistant 2026.3: A clean sweep

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  • Eh?

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  • The software is free, but no dev works for free.

    It's possible to engineer software well and still earn a living.

    That said, engineering software poorly is often a choice, usually made by people who are poor engineers. In some cases, and I suspect this may be the case for Nabu Casa Inc., the people are such poor engineers that they aren't even aware that their software is poorly engineered. Many technology companies are better at business than they are engineering.

    Edit: actually no, I don't think Nabu Casa Inc. are unaware of their poor engineering, I think they just don't care. They're far more concerned with maintaining their company's profits.

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  • Why so negative?

    It's clear that the Nabu Casa Inc. people, who also happen to be the Home Assistant project leaders, are focussed on making money over making well engineered software.

    For example, Home Assistant's settings page includes an entry for Nabu Casa Inc.'s cloud services product as the first entry in the list and there's no option to switch it off.

    Home Assistant is engineered in such a way as to make it difficult to install on operating systems that aren't under control of Nabu Casa Inc., like Home Assistant OS or Home Assistant Container. If Home Assistant were engineered well, it would be simple to take individual Home Assistant packages and build and install them on any distribution, as has been customary in the free software community for decades. As far as I know, there's no reason Home Assistant must be an operating system rather than simply individual packages. See https://feddit.uk/post/17543373 and especially https://feddit.uk/post/17543373/12207671 .

    Bands also makes merch to increase their income, should we hate on them as well?

    If a band makes selling merch their purpose, over and above making decent music, then I would likewise scorn them.

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  • Oh, and before I forget: have you seen our brand new merch store?

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  • Stargate AI data centers for OpenAI reportedly delayed by squabbles between partners — sources say OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank disagreed on who would have ultimate control of the planned data centers

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  • "It's my data centre!"

    "No it's MINE!!"

  • It’s Not Just Andrew, the Entire Monarchy Is Rotten

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  • It’s Not Just Andrew, the Entire Monarchy Is Rotten

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  • Is parliament rotten?

    To the fucking core.

  • It’s Not Just Andrew, the Entire Monarchy Is Rotten

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  • Downvoters, why are you downvoting? Explain yourselves or be branded spineless, dirty monarchists!

  • Quantum teleportation demonstrated over existing fiber networks — Deutsche Telekom’s T‑Labs used commercially available Qunnect hardware for the demo, claims 90% average accuracy

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  • Quantum teleportation demonstrated over existing fiber networks — Deutsche Telekom’s T‑Labs used commercially available Qunnect hardware for the demo, claims 90% average accuracy

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  • Hence, the Orch OR model is not a feasible explanation of the origin of consciousness.

    One paper claiming that the Orch OR model is not a feasible explanation of the origin of consciousness does not mean that the Orch OR model is not a feasible explanation of the origin of consciousness.

    it seems my memory is better than yours

    I'm not sure why you think my memory is in any way relevant.

    Published 13 August, 2009

    There's a significant journey from being published in a paper to being taught in classes. I was taught Orch OR somewhere between 2008 and 2010 so there's no reason to think memory comes into it.

  • Quantum teleportation demonstrated over existing fiber networks — Deutsche Telekom’s T‑Labs used commercially available Qunnect hardware for the demo, claims 90% average accuracy

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  • Then you were also taught that there was no way the brain could maintain sustained quantum entanglement

    No. I've no idea what could have possibly brought you to that conclusion.

    Please don't try to tell me what brought you to that conclusion while multitasking. For that matter, please don't try to tell me at all.

  • Quantum teleportation demonstrated over existing fiber networks — Deutsche Telekom’s T‑Labs used commercially available Qunnect hardware for the demo, claims 90% average accuracy

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  • Which is why I said hypothetically…

    I think you may have misused the word "hypothetically" then.

    up until a year ago the very idea that quantum entanglement could happen in the brain was treated as a joke for like 30 years

    I was taught Orch OR theory at university about 17 years ago.

    that’s why the larger theory was instantly dismissed

    Instantly dismissed by who? It's a new theory, there will always be detractors and critics of new theories (see, for example: oxygen theory of combustion). That's very different from being "instantly dismissed".

  • Quantum teleportation demonstrated over existing fiber networks — Deutsche Telekom’s T‑Labs used commercially available Qunnect hardware for the demo, claims 90% average accuracy

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  • what actually makes consciousness in a brain is (hypothetically, technically) microtubules

    This is only a proposed theory, it's very far from accepted fact.

  • Quantum teleportation demonstrated over existing fiber networks — Deutsche Telekom’s T‑Labs used commercially available Qunnect hardware for the demo, claims 90% average accuracy

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  • when we observe them they will always be in the same state?

    The two particles are in different but directly related states. For example in some circumstances with two entangled photons, it will necessarily be the case that one photon has horizontal polarisation and the other vertical polarisation. The two will never have the same polarisation.

    You can't know which photon is in which state without measuring one. The effect of taking the measurement travels faster than the speed of light. Measurement is not manipulating though; you can't say "I want this photon to be measured as vertically polarised", you can only ask "what is the polarisation of this photon?". So you can't transmit information faster than light, unfortunately.

  • Bothwell: the affluent Glasgow town that has become UK’s ‘firebomb capital’

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  • Brushing fraud: Britons told to beware of mystery parcels as new scam soars

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  • ‘Nobody above law,’ says DPP amid claims against Andrew

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  • Except for the monarch who is actually above the law.

  • 58 UK public libraries have parenting books with advice to encourage children to detransition

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  • David Icke

    KKK

    Wait what? What does David Icke have to do with the KKK? Did I miss something?

    Edit: LOL I think you might be confusing David Icke and David Duke?