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Product Manager (Microsoft). I tinker with spreadsheets and code, and hunt for the best batch‑brew in Brno. ex‑Red Hat. he/him. Opinions my own. bexelbie.com
Home Assistant entity details screen showing an IKEA smart plug named 'tree' with the Alexa label applied in the Labels section
Tired of hand-editing YAML files just to tell Alexa which Home Assistant devices to control? I built an automation to generate the list. It makes life simpler every time I add a new smart plug. Here's how I did it.
Read more at www.bexelbie.com/2025/11/12/a...
#HomeAssistant #Automation
![Comic. PERSON 1 with white hat: How tall are you? PERSON 2: 5ft 24cm [caption] When switching to metric, make the process easier by doing it in steps.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreifptvo6h6kdpf75j3i443ospzumiii7a3pblah2urjrawmyymh3ga@jpeg)
Comic. PERSON 1 with white hat: How tall are you? PERSON 2: 5ft 24cm [caption] When switching to metric, make the process easier by doing it in steps.
Metric Tip
xkcd.com/3164/
Sort by name is a valid technical choice. Hide name in the display is a valid design choice. Placing these people this far apart in a company is a management decision.
06.11.2025 23:30 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
European Sleeper introduces Comfort Standard from December - a couchette compartment ‘converted’ to a sleeper by getting mattresses & fully-made up beds, and sold as single double or triple. A good idea!
www.europeansleeper.eu/travel-class...
I’m not stating that non-LLM OCR doesn’t exist. I’m saying the opposite. I tried to OCR some documents without using an LLM and it failed and it wasn’t some obscure format. I haven’t tested to see if an LLM OCR would’ve passed.
21.10.2025 14:22 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I read that as “mollusk” and settled in to be schooled on a genetic tree I didn’t imagine was this small.
20.10.2025 18:54 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I needed to OCR bus schedules and all the PCR engines I could find couldn’t handle the columns and headers. I haven’t tested this, but there are real non-edge cases where column seeks fail.
20.10.2025 18:52 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0you must appear to be bigger than your 10,562 unread emails
19.10.2025 03:43 — 👍 414 🔁 12 💬 11 📌 1
The one I always feel compelled to post every time I see it is this one: www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfKZ...
16.10.2025 08:00 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Instagram account Saint featured me. The first slide says: "Derek Guy - Dieworkwear. Derek Guy is a menswear writer who has written for The New York Times, Esquire, and Mr. Porter. He also runs a menswear blog called Die, Workwear"
One of the slides showing my favorite products. It's it's a big bag of Hagen pigeon food. The food is fortified with the vitamins and nutrients pigeons need.
Instagram user writes: "Why tf do i need pigeon food for my outfit." I replied: "this is what i can afford to eat after spending all my money on clothes ::sad face::"
thinking about the time a cool Instagram fashion account asked me to name my favorite products and i didn't know i was supposed to name fashion products, so i said pigeon food because i like feeding pigeons and their followers were like "why the fuck do i need pigeon food for my outfit?"
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"Why I'm handing in my Pentagon press pass" by Tom Bowman of NPR. www.npr.org/2025/10/14/g... Recommended.
A thing frequently forgotten or ignored is that journalism is one of the few professions people will die for. [Via @brianstelter.bsky.social ]
Slide: WHAT WORKS, WHAT DOES NOT. Left Side • Password based authentication • Do I realy have to comment? • Any OS level administrative access control. • They have root lits as COTS. • Cloud bases authentication services. •You cant outsource your problems, only insource others. • Fine grained access control. •No way you can understand what you are doing. • Any closed source stuff. •They have been caught so many times to sel vulnerobilties. Complex stuff. • If you cant audit it its not safe. VDI. Free beer stuff. If you are not paying for it, you are not the customer, you are the product for sale. • Pain. • If its not convenient its not secure. • Access tokens Right Side • Hord information segregation. • At the miltory work with this. • Pubic, blockchoins. • Bilions of stake, work wel. • Correctly configured crypto. • We have seen them work very hard to disoble them. • Hierorchical Keystore. • All blockchoin wolets use them. • Type 1 hypervisor. • Requirement from NCSC (Uk). • Defence in debt. • Every miltory does this. • Correctly configured 2FA. • Surprisingly. • Rust. • Guardion protocol: • TLS, SSH, GPG, IPSEC.
Per Rene Malmgren at the #OpenSSL Conference, the left side is known as easily able to be bypassed by attackers, while the right side creates trouble for attackers and is the starting point for security.
09.10.2025 12:27 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Players at a long table playing a table top game in fours
Slide: Post-quantum trails: an educational board game about migration to post-quantum cryptography by Jelizaveta Vakarjuk and Pete Muzikant
To help people better understand the risk of ignoring post-quantum cryptography and the challenges involved in getting there we got to play Post-Quantum Trails at the #OpenSSL Conference
09.10.2025 09:46 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Instapaper is awesome. I’ve been a paying subscriber and strongly recommend it. Patrick has built RSS2Instapaper if you’re interested in having feeds flow straight in.
07.10.2025 21:12 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A polar bear on a poster advertising the OpenSSL and Brno Zoo cooperation
I love how being there for the world has been acted on through #OpenSSL sponsoring and supporting the Polar Bears at the Brno Zoo
07.10.2025 12:13 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0+100
The theoretical ability to run an alternative set of relays is irrelevant, if there will never be a practical execution of it. Based on what I know about both at-proto and activitypub, one is technically interesting and the other one is more likely to achieve the stated goals.
Drew’s post is well worth reading as DSPy seems to be a missing link in thinking about LLM usage. Very readable and interesting. www.dbreunig.com/2025/06/10/l...
Thank you @simonwillison.net
Should you version your API? It’s usually a good idea. However, if anyone on the team says it isn’t necessary for some calls because they’ll never change … do not let anyone leave the meeting until those calls have been versioned. Trust me.
04.10.2025 18:38 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0It seems Brand is the primary team “on it” based on the article.
02.10.2025 14:33 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Morning ritual: walking my daughter to first grade. A short trip, full of small ceremonies — the goodbye hug, the wait, the final wave as she climbs the school stairs. Quiet, simple, meaningful.
bexelbie.com/2025/10/02/r...
#Parenting #Czechia #Life
