Home Assistant is an open source home automation platform, written in Python, which I have been running it for several years for various tasks.

I am running it using a less common method (called Home Assistant Core), which will soon not be recommended nor supported for end users. However, I have consciously decided to run it that way, rather than use a docker container, Home Assistant OS, or the other recommended versions.

These reasons for this decision include:

There has been a lot of debate on the origin of the SARS-CoV-2, the virus that caused the Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic (2019 to ~ 2022).

Whole House Bypass/Flow-Through Humidifiers

Whole house bypass/flow through humidifiers are convenient, as opposed to Drum type humidifiers. That is because they do not require regular rinsing of minerals deposited from the water supply that accumulates in a tray for drum type humidifiers.

In recent long term support (LTS) releases of Ubuntu, Canonical has been adding more and more packages that are installed using snapd.

Snapd is a package manager that relies on static linking of dependencies, contrary to over two decades of Linux managing dependencies via dynamic linking, with Debian being the pioneer of this approach.

A few months ago, Ubuntu started pushing ads for their Ubuntu Pro service to the command line interface apt command. When you run the apt command from the terminal, you see this message:

Try Ubuntu Pro beta with a free personal subscription on up to 5 machines. Learn more at https://ubuntu.com/pro

Then about a week ago, more messages were pushed about the ESM service saying that more packages that can be upgraded if you subscribe to that service.

The AirThings Wave Plus is a multi-sensor that can show CO2, Volatile Organic Compounds, Radon, Temperature, Humidity, and Pressure. The sensor is meant to be used through a phone app.

However, since it uses Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), a phone app this is not the only way to use this sensor.

The following is a list of talks and presentation that I have done on various topics.

They are sorted by the most recent first.

Almost two decades ago, I wrote about home grown terrorism in the USA. The context was the continued barrage of media focus on 'Islamic terrorism', and ignoring domestic home grown threats.

You can see how many naive and/or biased Americans have commented on the above article at the time ...

Fast forward by almost two decades, and you see that things are starting to change ...

Ivermectin has been promoted by certain factions as a miracle drug (yes, those exact words were used) against COVID-19.

But like Hydroxychloroquine, which was equally promoted before Ivermectin, neither have any effect on COVID-19.

So what is the evidence for or against Ivermectin? This article lists whatever evidence at the time of this writing.