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Idk about that. EEUU is how you abbreviate USA and Estados Unidenses is how it's usually written - They drop the "of America" and just say/write United States.

But I only have schooling in Spanish - no real world experience.

For better or worse in the anglosphere America = USA.

FWIW that's also true in Italian.

It's only Spanish speakers who make the distinction afaik (maybe also Portuguese but I don't speak the language so I'm not sure).

Yeah it took a bit to get it all working. Zigbee2mqtt runs on an rasp-pi in the middle of the apartment for good coverage. The mosquitto broker is on the same box as HA but it took a couple tries to figure out how to get it to talk to HA.

Once it was set up it was pretty great. Occasionally I'll have to restart the rpi to fix some communication breakdown or another.

The main non-userfriendly aspect is that I have to ssh into the rpi and edit a text file then restart the docker container to accept new devices into the network, then change the file back at the end.

No other option though: I live in an apartment complex. I can't just blindly accept new devices.

Yeah but downside: I rent

So everything I'm doing is with smart sockets haha

Zigbee2mqtt + homeassistant = all I need at home and away.

All my zigbee devices just report in and I automate my home that way.

I have high hopes for matter but in the interim: I've got shit working great. Window sensors to automate air filters going on and off, a humidifier running in response to a few sensors around the apartment, grow lights on and off on some simple timers.

More complicated things like fans and lights for a 3d printing enclosure? Easy: octoprint has a homeassistant hook and I can listen in for printer start/stop.

Local control will always beat out the "easy solution" IMO. It's just a bit more setup.

But it's not a solution I could hand off to technically illiterate grandparents.

Of course they don't.

But you have to contend with the fact that the overwhelming majority of people are apathetic or in favor of these kind of measures.

The morality police of the Christian right are campaigning for this. Many moderates don't care.

If it's coming, and it is, we should be sure to be part of a solution that makes it at least somewhat private.

I get it: but that's a minority opinion unfortunately.

Proof of personhood will be a major requirement in the future. Age verification will only be part of the combat against llm chat bots and malicious actors.

If the government is going to do it eventually we might as well weigh in on the right way to do it. As private and easy as possible.

You've got cause and effect backwards, and if you read the very approachable and easy to read article you'd know that.

Your gut vs meta-analysis of 70+ studies

Yeah good idea trust your gut you sure can't trust those scientist types. Hope you didn't get vaccinated.

I quite like shadow weather and toss the dev $12/yr to maintain it. It has forecasts as well as radar

It's definitely a question for our times though. I don't want the government to know every time I need age verification but I also don't want companies to have all my private data.

It seems like the government would need to provide a form of id which also includes digital proof and proof of ownership. Something like a yubikey.

Passports already have something sorta like this but it's inaccessible to a standard user. You need to read the MRZ off the passport then use that to unlock the NFC chip on the back page to get biometrics off it.

A public read-only repository of public keys for every citizen could then be hosted where signatures from this theoretical id could be validated.

The signing id would contain basic biometric information that would be uploaded depending on what the company legally needs to know.

Scan this id with an NFC reader and enter in some piece of private information to unlock the NFC chip, send it the requests and receive back a signed package of the data.

Apophenia amigo. It's not happening, you just want it to be.