How do manufacturers print QR codes on packaging that potentially could change daily, like in the case for expiration dates? 1D barcodes don't ever change so they can be easily printed in mass on the packaging.
If I start doing odd jobs on the side for cash, there's zero papertrail of my income other than maybe text messages between me and customers. How would the government know how much money I make? Should I force my customers to file a 1099-NEC? Should I be required to get an EIN because I want to mow my neighbors lawn for cash?
If you're working a W2 job or contracting for a big company, the government is probably aware of your income and that's where we should be focused on automating tax returns but if your income comes from regular people, they likely have no idea.
Unless you turn the entire national security apparatus around to surveil citizens' income, I don't think it's ever possible for the government to know everything.
How it should work is that the government should show you everything they already know and prompt you to fill out anything they don't and then you submit it. The majority of people would immediately benefit from this. They don't do this for a few reasons: number one being the tax prep lobby that wants to make doing your taxes a burden such that even regular people feel the need to spend money or have their personal financial information gathered by private companies. The second reason is that if the government is already aware of how much you've made, chances are you've already paid your taxes and would either be looking at a refund or other tax credits, the government is effectively spending money to make it easier for you to take money away from it.
I agree with this fully, this is how a lot of civilized countries work.
For 90% of the population, taxes are automatic, and the few people who do side-jobs or have lemonade stands or deal drugs have to file their own taxes separately.
I'm not opposed to that, I just want the 90% case of "single or normal family + W2 employer(s)" to be covered automatically.
It was much easier to assign blocks of IPs to an ISP rather than a 4.3B line lookup table. And how would you ensure that an address has been rotated? How do you determine who the real owner of an IP is when collisions occur? You're asking for a worldwide atomic database propagated to all routers in the days where a 32bit number was considered massive.
Cloudflare offers 10GB of free R2 storage. HA has a backup plugin for Cloudflare R2.
HA already has many plugins for doing voice processing locally or through other cloud providers (freely or cheaply)
A cloudflare tunnel would also give you direct access to WebRTC streams, just like being at home. HA Cloud just offers relay servers so you don't have to directly connect.
If you want to give HA money, go ahead but there's nothing truly compelling it offers that I couldn't get elsewhere for much less.
It's not really a cloud service, maybe some of the add on features are but the major feature is the tunnel. I signed up for the trial and it didn't really give me anything I actually needed. The tunnel makes things simpler but I already had tailscale on another box so what's the point? Plus, I so rarely ever need to access my HA dashboard. I don't really want to pickup my phone to turn a light on. The whole point of HA is automation, not bypassing a vendor's app. Once things are operating how I want, I don't need to fiddle with it so why do I need to pay money to fiddle with it remotely?
I don't understand, why is it a joke? HA permissions are just to lock certain users or groups out of controlling certain things. You wouldn't be randomly giving out accounts to people you don't know or trust. It's the controls to your smarthome after all, not a shell account on an open sign-up server.
> HA permissions are just to lock certain users or groups out of controlling certain things
Yes, but only very coarsly granular things.
- Permissions only work with entities. There are about ten different kinds of objects besides entities, that would also benefit a lot from being part of a uniform permission system.
- Permissions can only be defined for groups, not users, which is quite annoying if you want granular permissions
- With permissions only acting on groups, it also isn't possible to base permissions on user attributes. So you ultimately always have to model a permission set as a group, and then essentially have to have a synchronization mechanism that ensures that the right people are in the right groups
- This also makes scoped integration access impossible. You can't grant a third party app access to e.g. only your energy sensor data.
The suits they make for bodyguards often have hidden stretch panels for greater mobility.
In reality, the sport coat was originally designed for equestrian sports. Modern fashion has turned the sporty features into aesthetic features. A equestrian wouldn't buy a normal sport coat and someone looking for a nice jacket to wear to brunch wouldn't buy a polo jacket.
This slightly resembles what I'd buy as a sport coat but the cut is a bit different because this coat is actually intended for horseback riding whereas my sport coat is cut for general comfort.
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