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NIST Standard Reference Goat @growlph.greywolf.social · 6h

The freedom to just *not* update things that are correctly performing all of their desired functions is the biggest appeal of self-hosting stuff to me.

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NIST Standard Reference Goat @growlph.greywolf.social · 6h

I try to keep in mind that what I've set up in my home is a project of passion, not a means of simplification. It is possible to make things "smart" without opting into surveillance or even using the Internet, but it's an uphill battle in the current landscape.

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NIST Standard Reference Goat @growlph.greywolf.social · 6h

Virtually everything that falls under the umbrella of "appliance control loop" could trivially be handled by a commodity microcontroller. That we've normalized the idea of it requiring a subscription to a datacenter-hosted service is utterly insane.

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NIST Standard Reference Goat @growlph.greywolf.social · 7h

Agreed. I'm an enthusiast of the curiosity, but selling energy-monitoring as a gateway to money-saving is disingenuous at best.

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NIST Standard Reference Goat @growlph.greywolf.social · 7h

I think its healthy for people to be skeptical of the surveillance, and I'll qualify my "I just think its neat!" stance on home data collection being predicated on it being fully local...which is still the exception, rather than the rule.

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NIST Standard Reference Goat @growlph.greywolf.social · 7h

For me, "ooh, can I get data from that? And can I do it without the cloud?" is kind of a fun and satisfying hobby, but I don't think you're wrong that we sometimes convince people they need this data as a way of selling them the means to collect it.

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NIST Standard Reference Goat @growlph.greywolf.social · 7h

I will wholeheartedly admit that I love to collect data that I simply don't need. I've installed a home energy monitoring system. It ultimately informs very few decisions, but provides some satisfying context for how much things cost.

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NIST Standard Reference Goat @growlph.greywolf.social · 7h

Briefly, I played with the idea of loading my smart dishwasher, and then using home automation to automatically start it when I went to bed or left the house. But even this is just as effectively served by a basic "delay start" feature. Plus, it precludes running the water hot first.

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NIST Standard Reference Goat @growlph.greywolf.social · 7h

I don't have any major issue with the automatic payment gimmick - the underlying technology is actually quite secure - I mostly just don't care that much about it. The margin of convenience is quite small, and credit cards are already a solved problem.

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NIST Standard Reference Goat @growlph.greywolf.social · 7h

It you made it my job to invent some problems for a wifi enabled dishwasher to solve, I could actually come up with some bullet points: Tell me when to change the filter, add more rinse aid, measure how much water and energy I'm using... It does none of these things.

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NIST Standard Reference Goat @growlph.greywolf.social · 7h

My place came with one! I set it up because "it was there, why not?", but it really has been the most nonsensically unnecessary cloud-connected thing I've ever interacted with. Mercifully, it has inoffensive regular controls.

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NIST Standard Reference Goat @growlph.greywolf.social · 7h

Easily my greatest frustration with early EV ownership was the app-ification of charging infrastructure. There's nothing intrinsic to EVs that demands a different kind of payment processing.

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NIST Standard Reference Goat @growlph.greywolf.social · 7h

Ironically, I'm actually a pretty big enthusiast of home automation, but I think this is too often seen as interchangeable with "connect everything to the Internet and then figure out how that's useful later". "Smart" has to begin with a use case, not a technology.

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NIST Standard Reference Goat @growlph.greywolf.social · 7h

There might be some self-selection bias, but I've noticed a shift in the zeitgeist from "Oh, it has an app!" to "Fuck, I need to use an app?" The profound unevenness of the cloud-connectivity bargain is starting to wear people's patience thin.

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NIST Standard Reference Goat @growlph.greywolf.social · 8h

It's more like heirloom china, where its implied function is mostly tradition, and you're not actually expected to eat from it. It should be displayed in a glass hutch in your (formal) dining room with the rest of your collectable popcorn bucket collection, to someday pass on to your grandchildren.

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NIST Standard Reference Goat @growlph.greywolf.social · 01/10/2026

As a professional computer toucher currently in the job market, Chick Bongo is my hero. youtu.be/-2Qn8sxEeP8?...

youtu.be

Chick Bongo Interviews Again

YouTube video by Graham Dot Zip

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NIST Standard Reference Goat @growlph.greywolf.social · 25/09/2026

Can't argue with results...I think I'm an outlier in not being a phone-person

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NIST Standard Reference Goat @growlph.greywolf.social · 25/09/2026

I actually don't mind the carousels - they mercifully showed the restraint to not have them auto-animate, so it basically just manifests as a "Hey there's more to see here" feature. Important disclaimer, though, that I almost never use bsky on my phone.

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NIST Standard Reference Goat @growlph.greywolf.social · 25/09/2026

Weirdly enough, I think I saw this entire show at least twice before learning it was a spin-off, so it made the Jungle Book a really weird watch when I finally got around to it.

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NIST Standard Reference Goat @growlph.greywolf.social · 25/09/2026

Searching maps for restaurants in my area listed a gold buyer with the heading "Seattle's Best Restaurants! (Sponsored)", and I'm starting to think maybe the Internet was a mistake.

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NIST Standard Reference Goat @growlph.greywolf.social · 25/09/2026

It's possible I only try to use it after I've already utterly cursed my repo...

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NIST Standard Reference Goat @growlph.greywolf.social · 25/09/2026

This seems to be the standard advice, but I have a 0% success rate with that command ever doing anything but complaining about divergent branches, uncommitted changes, or merge conflicts. It has literally never worked once. I want the functional equivalent of rm -rf'ing the repo and re-cloning it.

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NIST Standard Reference Goat @growlph.greywolf.social · 24/09/2026

I've been using git for a decade at this point and I'm convinced its not a skill issue...there needs to be a `git steamroll --yes-i-really-mean-it` command that just gets you back to origin, no questions asked, no matter what.

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NIST Standard Reference Goat @growlph.greywolf.social · 21/09/2026

Meanwhile, the bank with my retirement savings: "What's that? You want two tractors?" "Sorry, your password can't be longer than 8 characters"

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NIST Standard Reference Goat @growlph.greywolf.social · 20/09/2026

Damn I love the terrible things you do to this rat...

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NIST Standard Reference Goat @growlph.greywolf.social · 19/09/2026

I advocated for Mastodon for a while because I really believed in the idea of what it was doing, but it really does trend toward a toxic echo-chamber these days.

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NIST Standard Reference Goat @growlph.greywolf.social · 19/09/2026

Defederated for forgetting to alt-text your chickens.

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NIST Standard Reference Goat @growlph.greywolf.social · 17/09/2026

I often actually use this as a convention...

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NIST Standard Reference Goat @growlph.greywolf.social · 15/09/2026

This is about twice a week for me? Get it from a few other services, too. It's started to become just Internet background noise these days. So yeah, ALWAYS use 2FA.

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TINY at MFF @tinydragon.art · 24/08/2026

Hmmmm.... yesssss.

Value study of a nude goat demon with their arms crossed.

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RamsHornStudios @ramshornstudios.cryptoanarchy.network · 13/09/2026

One of my favorite pickups from the weekend was at @sheeleyco.com 's booth.

A bumper sticker that says "PLEASE DON'T HONK
I'm listening to The Cure and pretending to be a sad European ghost"

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NIST Standard Reference Goat @growlph.greywolf.social · 13/09/2026

@timban.greywolf.social just showed me this picture of the ALPS switch based editing console from his old photo developing lab job and I am eagerly awaiting the @cathoderaydude.bsky.social episode about whatever cursed PC this was hooked up to.

A desk with a commodity PC, keyboard, and mouse, in addition to a bespoke specialty keyboard featuring only 17 keys directly related to photolab operations.

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RiffTrax @rifftrax.com · 02/09/2026

MST3K returns to theaters next week! Don't miss the premiere of The RiffTrax Experiments on the big screen. Tickets here: www.fathomentertainment.com/releases/mst... @mst3kofficial.bsky.social

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NIST Standard Reference Goat @growlph.greywolf.social · 03/09/2026

So what you're saying is, the guy with the vacuum cleaner empire kind of sucks?

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NIST Standard Reference Goat @growlph.greywolf.social · 03/09/2026

I don't even hate the idea of "get rid of passwords". Passkeys is the closest thing we've gotten for a while, but it's still notable when an implementation *doesn't* suck

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NIST Standard Reference Goat @growlph.greywolf.social · 03/09/2026

I really did like those production illustrations at the end of Favreau's Star Wars shows, they were one of the best parts

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NIST Standard Reference Goat @growlph.greywolf.social · 03/09/2026

They're clearly going for some kind of Tim Cook energy, but the guy has this all-encompassing anti-charisma that was already funny before they surrounded him with frantically overproduced video screens of teeth.

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NIST Standard Reference Goat @growlph.greywolf.social · 03/09/2026

The fake-keynote style advertisement for Dyson's new $500 toothbrush is the most staggeringly pretentious thing I've seen wrought by human hands. It *opens* by comparing itself in social importance to the storming of the Bastille, then gets weirder. youtu.be/IuP4jZOs4sY?...

youtu.be

Dyson CameraJet™: Official launch with James Dyson

YouTube video by Dyson

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NIST Standard Reference Goat @growlph.greywolf.social · 03/09/2026

My favorites are the ones that let you use your own TOTP provider, but then still say "we emailed you a code" on the login screen when they want you to enter it.

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NIST Standard Reference Goat @growlph.greywolf.social · 02/09/2026

I am baffled and infuriated by website login workflows that START by sending unsolicited recovery codes to email/SMS and THEN asking if I'd like to use my password/2FA instead. Is anyone in the year 2026 so bad at password management that this seems easier?

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Bungee @bungee.deer.place · 26/08/2026

How to grind beans n brew espresso out in the middle of Mt Washington ☕️ 🦌 @kinter.deer.place

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NIST Standard Reference Goat @growlph.greywolf.social · 26/08/2026

My boyfriend is forcing me to pave over Mint with Arch on my laptop so that he doesn't out-beard me...

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NIST Standard Reference Goat @growlph.greywolf.social · 25/08/2026

No no you can't just come onto my timeline and activate my dentistry fetish like that..

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NIST Standard Reference Goat @growlph.greywolf.social · 24/08/2026

Yup, I'm definitely looking at the building...

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