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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • I really don’t like the idea of every device automatically having a publicly reachable IP.

    There’s certainly situations where that would be nice; but I’m quite fond of most equipment and services being behind a router and it’s firewall, requiring explicit configuration to be exposed to the open net.

    Nobody outside my home network ever needs access to my toaster… (btw, why tf is my toaster wifi enabled…?)





  • Can always go with RGB and pick colours on demand. I just like the color red. Blue light wakes/keeps me up.

    I have RGBW tape on the underside of my kitchen cabinets, inside some nice tracks to keep them out of direct line of sight. White during the day for counter top lighting; red at night for nightlighting that doesn’t wake you up when you go for a late night snack. And random disco colours for parties, just because…


  • Red LED tape on the underside of my desk, dresser, and shelves. Keeps a nice dull red glow in my room, just enough to see around, but low enough that I can sleep through it. Smart plug for scheduling.

    There’s a lava lamp on a smart plug that turns itself on ~1hr before I go to bed (so it’s movin and groovin by the time I’m in there). It’ll also turn off after 8hrs regardless of whether it was turned on manually/automatically. Saftey/longevity of the lamp.

    Finally a regular bedside lamp, with a dimmable smart bulb.

    The smart controls let me set schedules so the desired lights come on as I’m going to bed or with my morning alarm, and making sure that they’re off when I leave for work. Plus I can turn them on/off or set brightness from my phone without getting up from bed.








  • Much of the data on your phone, including critical information that’s required to run the operating system and make the device function, is fully encrypted when the device is off/rebooted.

    While in this locked down state, nothing can run. You don’t receive notifications, applications can’t run in the background, even just accessing the device yourself is slow as you have to wait for the whole system to decrypt and start up.

    When you unlock the device for the first time; much of that data is decrypted so that it can be used, and the keys required to unlock the rest of the data get stored in memory where they can be quickly accessed and used. This also makes the device more vulnerable to attacks.

    There’s always a trade off between convenience and security. The more secure a system, the less convenient it is to use.