shork @noiob@awoo.space

The #EU has reached an agreement on #eIDAS, rolling back the state of Internet security by 12 years, and by forcing browser vendors / root store operators to include government Root CA, disallowing #CertificateTransparency and making it illegal to fix (unless you can influence #ETSI, which is conveniently government friendly when it comes to surveillance).

This is bad. Really bad. It enables surveillance.

Technical background: https://scotthelme.co.uk/what-the-qwac/

Finally assembled my 2nd server rack in the office. Meraki mx85, Cisco 9300, some servers.

Japanese capsule toy edition, slightly but not just barely overly expensive Japanese eBay find 😅

Former Kotaku writers are launching a new video game site — and they own it this time https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/7/23949269/aftermath-video-games-kotaku-defector?utm_content=bufferd82b4&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bufferapp.com&utm_campaign=buffer

oops, I improved the Tetris game for the Flipper Zero because it annoyed me that it had the wrong play field size and no 7-bag https://github.com/xMasterX/all-the-plugins/pull/25

What are folks using for text-to-speech with #HomeAssistant?

I'm experimenting with #picotts and running into https://github.com/home-assistant/core/issues/93456, so not going great.

Everything that's better supported seems to be a Cloud service? 😕

#tts

LB: okay *now* things are kind of dire. ive got like $80 left in my bank account total. i think ill be okay til my next paycheck in a couple weeks if need be, but any donation would be really helpful right now. that link again is https://ko-fi.com/kasran