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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • Most security systems these days are just whitelabeled zwave etc sensors with a proprietary hub and a monthly charge.

    The nice thing about HA is that you can pull almost everything into it and then add whatever automations you want. Recent example was my SO complaining about how dark it was going to the car when they leave in the morning. Super easy to set up an automation that turns on the floodlight switches when the front door opens between dusk and dawn. All kinds of stuff like that that’s really useful.





  • Restricts Freedom to Use the Software

    I’ve always found this particular one somewhat frustrating. It’s essentially the intolerance paradox repackaged into a software licensing analog:

    “You are restricting the freedom of users by taking away their ability to close the code and restrict the freedom of other users!”

    It’s always read very “I got mine” to me.

    That said, while I lean copyleft, I also don’t find just barring commercial use entirely interesting. The goal is to ensure source code remains available to users; I think there are better ways of addressing that than trying to delineate and exclude commercial use.