I stopped yelling at my smart home assistant by enabling an obscure Amazon Echo feature

After yelling at Alexa like a crazy person for the third or fourth time in one day, I figured something had to change. It was ...
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3 hilariously pointless Home Assistant projects to try this weekend (Jul 3-5)

Dumb projects for your smart home.
Maison et Domotique

Update 2026.7: Home Assistant finally fixes one of its biggest flaws

Home Assistant 2026.7 simplifies automation with new intuitive triggers, an activity timeline, grouped updates, and many integrations.

Ball python found in Southbury was in danger of being roadkill, animal control says

SOUTHBURY - A ball python found outside a Southbury movie theater Wednesday was in danger of being squashed in the road, an official said. Animal Control Officer Kristin Cedor sai ...

On the prowl for invasive pythons, researchers are interrupting snake orgies

For months, he and his team had watched the snake using a transmitter and a trail camera. “I’m just kind of following this ...

Malicious PyPI packages give hackers control of Telegram bot servers

A campaign active since last November has been targeting Python developers building Telegram bots with trojanized Pyrogram ...
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Local LLMs finally beat cloud AI for coding, automation, and brainstorming — here's which ones I use

There's always a local model that can replace your AI subscription ...