My smart home is so smart that when the sun sets it closes the curtains… which triggers a motion sensor which turns on all the lights in the un-occupied room.
21.10.2025 00:19 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1@cmdrtaco.bsky.social
When the net was new, I invented a thing called Slashdot that was pretty popular with the nerds for awhile but then they changed what cool is and it is now mostly forgotten. Today I play with tech, watch movies and try not to stare directly into the abyss.
My smart home is so smart that when the sun sets it closes the curtains… which triggers a motion sensor which turns on all the lights in the un-occupied room.
21.10.2025 00:19 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1A little story to amuse any paleo-geeks out there. April, 2000, I gave a copy of my self-published nano-bio-cyberpunk novel Acts of the Apostles to Slashdot's @cmdrtaco.bsky.social. 6 weeks later this @hemos.bsky.social review appeared. My amzn sales rank went from 1,300,000 to 54 overnight. 1/
20.10.2025 23:31 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0I’ve been robbed.
29.05.2025 23:15 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 035 Oscar nominated films on my list this year. I have 10 left to watch but The documentary category has been pretty soul crushing so far. I’m gonna need to watch Anchorman or the Naked Gun or something just to keep the shotgun out of my face.
31.01.2025 02:21 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Google is not Alphabet. Facebook is not Meta. These names exist to muddy the waters of public consciousness where it serves the company.
13.01.2025 04:02 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I just deleted another app for a place we have ordered many many meals over the last year because i was sick of getting bombarded with ads. I allowed notifications to be told when my order was ready. now i will never order from them again.
02.01.2025 14:14 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I’ve been really enjoying these live stage readings of the Star Wars prequels, and I really wish I had a reason to go to LA and watch when they do ANH. Haley Joel Osment as Anakin, Paul F Tompkins as Palps, Xanthe Tan as John Williams. Joyful fun.
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Yule Log 2. Branching out defeated red one, hot frosty, and the nutcrackers for best Christmas movie of the year. WOW.
18.12.2024 02:05 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Tonight’s argument is worst finale: game of thrones, Lost, or battlestar galactica
17.12.2024 23:34 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0It’s just mini media player
07.12.2024 02:07 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Kicking off the holiday movie watching season with Anna and the Apocalypse. Banger songs fun choreography and zombies being smashed with giant candy canes.
07.12.2024 02:04 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Current design of my Home assistant dashboard for my office
06.12.2024 02:11 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0trying to solve a couple of minor problems with my Mac OS config and the google AI has been repeatedly wrong, sending me down multiple time wasting tangents. 2024 google search is an embarrassment to the legacy of the service that brought order to the chaos of the primordial web
30.11.2024 18:47 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Penguin is really good, enjoying it more than the Batman film that birthed it. Silo season 2 is also holding up. I refuse to start Christmas media until Friday.
25.11.2024 00:33 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Doesn’t everyone graph their automated treat dispenser? How else will I know if kitty is sufficiently rewarded for adorableness?
25.11.2024 00:31 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0My work in progress home assistant dashboard. Ignore obvious debugging buttons :)
22.11.2024 00:44 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0Waaaaaaay back.
21.11.2024 22:48 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0My Benjamin button plan failed to execute properly
21.11.2024 20:42 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I invented Slashdot. It was cool for awhile.
21.11.2024 17:35 — 👍 22 🔁 1 💬 4 📌 0