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    Rat King

    Ah, that’s what that blue bull with yellow hair is.

    some additional details

    Gargoyle - always spawns in orthogonally (vertically or horizontally) adjacent pairs

    And they always face each other.

    Minotaur - a treasure chest always spawns in one of the 8 spaces surrounding him

    And they always face away from the chest, but turn towards it when you open the chest.

    Dragon - Defeat it to end the game with a win.

    Defeat it to get 13 gold, pick up gold to reveal crown, pick up crown to end game. But if you’re trying to collect all the gold you can, it’s OK to defeat the dragon and keep going a little.

    Romeo and Juliet

    Face each other equidistant from the center line.

    P.S. Syntax for spoiler markdown.















  • pageflight@lemmy.worldtohomeassistant@lemmy.worldZigBee and Zwave?
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    10 days ago

    I very briefly tried a couple zwave light bulbs with a USB zwave adapter for Home Assistant, but couldn’t get it reliable. I do like the mesh + low power idea though and played around with ZigBee dev boards previously.

    I have settled on mostly Tasmota firmware on ESP8266 based devices. Lots of switches (from the CloudFree shop among others), smart plugs, and other devices. I also like to assemble my own sensor/relay boards, which Tasmota is great for. I did have to set a fixed 2.4Ghz channel on one router, and later set “IoT mode” on my Unifi network, to avoid devices falling off the network. I also have flashed most of the devices, but am happy to do that (not so different from uploading an Arduino sketch once you’re used to it).



  • We are also hustling to streamline and reduce redundancy in how Americans’ privacy is violated. Experian breaches, dark web data brokers, unregulated social media, Chinese PLA hacking? Who has time for it all? Now, we can get this done in one fell swoop by putting every US citizen’s Social Security number on a public Google Sheet administered by the nineteen-year-old who programmed Grok’s sense of humor.

    Ugh. Isn’t satire supposed to be different from reality?

    Edit: picked my pull quote too soon:

    I promise, America will soon be the Cybertruck of countries—uglier than you could have imagined, built for rich chuds, borderline inoperable, and on fire.


  • Akash Bobba, 21, a student at the University of California, Berkeley; Edward Coristine, 19, a student at Northeastern University in Boston; and Ethan Shaotran, 22, who said in September he was a senior at Harvard.

    The ones who actually have degrees, or at least have left college, are: Luke Farritor, 23, who attended the University of Nebraska without graduating; Gautier Cole Killian, a 24-year-old who attended McGill University; and Gavin Kliger, a 25-year-old who attended Berkeley;


  • For better or worse, reading the linked article does not expose you to the fake images.

    Interesting hack:

    The hack exploits the random combination of numbers and letters used in such short codes, making it impossible to know where it’s leading until you get there. When customizing such links, the platform will stop you duplicating an existing shortcode, But Binder explains that “it appears that there was a bug in Bitly that allowed users to create a custom back-half that was previously in use if the original link or Bitly account that created the link was deleted or deactivated.”