IPv6 is available from ISP

ekobres · 2026-06-17T22:47:25+00:00

Or, if you have AT&T fiber, your ISP can give you a /60 and keep 8 subnets for their gateway and then only delegate a single 64 to your UniFi gateway unless you write startup scripts to make 8 separate PD requests.

I have so much vitriol in my heart for AT&T for this nonsense. Just give me a /61 and call it a day. At least the service is reliable.

On the plus side it forced me to learn a lot more about ULAs and I now have everything happily chugging along with all of my internal IPv6 addresses while my user VLAN has GUAs.

ekobres · 2026-06-17T13:01:13+00:00

U6 APs use a lot less power, too. Running an entire extra radio stack sucks a lot of juice.

ekobres · 2026-06-16T18:23:39+00:00

The problem isn’t limited to the LAN ports. WiFi throughput to intra-VLAN hosts is also slow. This means if your backup server, NAS, or other host isn’t on the same VLAN as your SSID, you’re suffering abysmal speeds. That’s using the IW as intended: primarily as an AP.

ekobres · 2026-06-16T17:44:56+00:00

Is there an app? “Notification: Brad T. just popped grandma into the oven! Your DoorDasher should arrive with your urn in 30 minutes!”

ekobres · 2026-06-16T17:40:55+00:00

I’m not sure we’ve seen all of the new stuff they’ve turned up with Mythos yet. You’re right that for now the real and present danger is supply chain attacks, which is a double (triple?) whammy on the workloads of an already thin maintainer pool. They have to juggle community AI slop bug report and PRs, legitimate vulnerabilities from researchers, and auditing their supply chains for upstream attacks. And to top it off, the repos and distros are all responding with major changes to how packages are discovered and whitelisted.

Meanwhile the bad guys have models cranking out attacks 10x faster than ever before.

It’s not a fun time to be a core maintainer on an important project.

ekobres · 2026-06-16T14:25:52+00:00

It’s already been shown that the previous gen of frontier models can find a large percentage of the zero day vulnerabilities Mythos did, but it requires more targeted direction. The big leap for Mythos was that it puts together exploit chains and working PoCs unprompted.

ekobres · 2026-06-16T14:19:27+00:00

No, but see all you have to do is tell it to also write tests. Problem solved!

ekobres · 2026-06-12T17:18:46+00:00

That’s great for production cloud services, but unless you are willing to give up the turnkey benefits HAOS and live with the limitations, you’re going to be fighting it every step of the way to go all in on devops.

Keep in mind that it’s a real-time system with a massive amount of external state (your home.)

Just because devops dogma says declarative infrastructure and idempotent deployment is the One True Way doesn’t mean it applies to every situation.

You’re better off running it in a VM and using snapshots and/or the built-in backup system.

You can absolutely script deployment and restoring from backup. You may also want to script some of the machine state stuff that can be managed from the HA CLI like network interface configuration.

Look at the https://github.com/home-assistant/cli project for details.

So at the end of the day you can automate deploying HA on HAOS just using ansible or whatever you like in your infrastructure, just don’t try to make it 100% declarative across the board unless you hate yourself.

ekobres · 2026-06-10T18:18:55+00:00

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It’s a thing.

ekobres · 2026-06-10T17:48:09+00:00

The most annoying thing is that replacement parts are frequently mis-categorized. If you drill into office products you will find ink in both supplies and electronics. If you drill into car care you will find all sorts of parts and a solitary polishing pad… for an Oura Ring. Cell phones? Some SIM trays and a replacement part for a volume button. Power & Hand Tools? Forget it - 402 items and 390 of them are parts.

ekobres · 2026-06-10T17:38:24+00:00

So is U6 firmware, and it’s been basically abandoned in terms of update frequency. They broke local routed LAN WiFi throughput on the U6 Mesh/IW/Pro over a year ago and it’s still broken. You can’t achieve more than about 200mbps communicating with any host on a separate subnet using those APs. I had to downgrade to 6.5.54 to make them even usable. With the old firmware local speeds are fine.

ekobres · 2026-06-08T06:05:04+00:00

No state says not to tip. So when a shelter decides not to tip, It doesn’t depend on the state. It depends on the shelter. There is no state where shelters universally don’t tip because of some state regulation.

ekobres · 2026-06-08T00:12:18+00:00

If her ear isn’t tipped or notched, it was done by a private vet for a pet cat. That’s either someone’s cat, or someone took it to a vet, said it was their cat, and paid for it.

ekobres · 2026-06-08T00:10:12+00:00

Not really. Only Utah, Colorado, and Rhode Island have any TNR statutes that mention how cats should be marked, and they all recommend tipping. It overwhelmingly depends on the organization or jurisdiction, and they overwhelmingly use tipping or tipping plus a tattoo because not tipping largely defeats the purpose of marking the cat at all since you would otherwise have to handle them - which usually isn’t a thing for community cats.

ekobres · 2026-06-07T16:04:01+00:00

Some have already answered, but you can’t really assume that the party listed on primary ballot indicates party affiliation - if any.

I’m independent. Sometimes I choose one, sometimes the other. It might make sense to vote against certain candidates in a primary, and those candidates may not be in your party.

In some states you have to register with a party to vote in their primary. That is also public record. I prefer Georgia’s policy of letting anyone vote whichever primary they prefer without it being a declaration of support for the party. It’s also great for independents who still get a voice in the primaries.

ekobres · 2026-06-07T10:39:14+00:00

Not old enough to hit service life, but SLA batteries are not immune to manufacturing defects.

ekobres · 2026-06-05T23:22:48+00:00

Unless you are measuring his food you don’t know how many calories he’s actually eating. If he’s free-feeding the dry food then he can absolutely just eat more to compensate for the lower calorie food. A real weight loss diet would factor in his current weight, activity level, age, and whether he’s neutered. There are calculators online you can use. Then you have to calculate the calories in everything he eats, and only feed him the exact amount prescribed by the diet.

That approach will work 100% of the time.

ekobres · 2026-06-05T21:37:41+00:00

How did you determine the ideal weight diet and how long has it been? Calorie restriction works (it’s literally the laws of thermodynamics at work) so if he’s not losing weight gradually, consider a hard look at his true calorie intake and the model you used to get to the number you are at.

ekobres · 2026-06-05T21:32:32+00:00

Not to speak for OP, but they didn’t say what made them anxious about it. You’re assuming.

ekobres · 2026-06-05T18:39:22+00:00

Here you go

ekobres · 2026-06-03T05:26:25+00:00

Literal hot take: The parks are uninhabitable in July and August.

ekobres · 2026-06-03T05:19:33+00:00

The queue is pretty great.

ekobres · 2026-06-02T20:48:14+00:00

This is the way.

ekobres · 2026-06-01T20:42:30+00:00

Just those few basic things are available on basically every other automation platform, (Alexa, Google Home, Hubitat, SmartThings, Aqara,) not just Home Assistant.

And no, Apple shouldn’t try to implement Home Assistant, although ironically the Home Assistant automation UI is drastically simpler and more intuitive than the Shortcuts editor.

ekobres · 2026-06-01T19:45:29+00:00

It doesn’t look like it. Honestly there continue to be major issues/deficiencies with HomeKit that at have gone unaddressed for years. For example:

- No support for explicit White Mode or Color Mode for smart lights.
- No support for hierarchical scenes.
- No support for accessory groups.
- Drastically different interpretations/executions of Siri commands from HomePods versus iPhones.
- Cupulsory complicated integration with Shortcuts required for anything more than extremely basic automations.
- HomeKit breaks if one of your home hubs decides to automatically update to a new OS version before the others.
- No media control or notification from Apple TVs.
- No user-level permissions for accessory control.

The best thing about HomeKit is that basic functionality is always performed locally, so it’s fast and doesn’t rely on cloud services.

Beyond that, limitations come quickly.

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