Home Automations, with Fredrik Alm

We've got Fredrik Alm, Infrastructure Architect from Sweden on, to talk about Smart Home setups.

• Michael goes on mute, leading to widespread panic
• DIY Dishwasher APIs
• Everyone hates JFrog, but not as much as Mark
• We've got Jarvis at home!
• Don't touch the mirror

Smart Homes is our big topic

Do we trust Eero? Do we trust China?
Home experiments.
Having guests in your smart home.

Never Mind the AI-BuzzCocks

In the news:

1. Confess your sins to AI Jesus
2. Mac Mini Clusters for LLMs
3. Fancy Bear 'Nearest Neighbour' attack
4. Big Cisco Brother is watching you
5. NHS gets blasted for the 3rd time this year, they're using pen and paper
6. LinkedInfluencers are mostly AI
7. Indonesia doesn't care about the latest iPhone, just give them the money

Recommendations

Smart Home Equipment

• Fred recommends this Homey system, which he can't recommend enough. "It just works, but with everything"
• Aqara Doorbell

Music

• Even more Father John Misty: Mahashmashana
• Ghosting Season

Blogs

• Michael has started a blog
• Mark's existing blog

Books

• Observability Engineering, by Charity Majors, Liz Fong-Jones, George Miranda
• The Standard for Program Management

Movies

• The Platform & The Platform 2
• The Day of the Jackal, 1973