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My parent’s over-engineered smart home

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My parent’s over-engineered smart home

You want the best for the people you love. When my parents were quoted over 12,000 CHF for a lame proprietary smart home system for their new house, I had to jump in. I suggested they purchase hardware for a quarter of that sum and create a much better

Paléo vous observe

Paléo vous observe

Version Courte: L’application Paléo Tickets, maintenant obligatoire pour entrer au festival, contient le traqueur Kontakt, spécialisé dans la localisation de personnes et objets en intérieur. Son utilisation fonctionne également pour des festivals et peut être utile au Paléo pour suivre le mouvement des foules en temps réel. Mais elle

Paléo is watching you

Paléo is watching you

TL;DR: The Paléo Tickets app, now mandatory to enter the festival, uses the location tracker Kontakt, specialised in tracking people and devices indoors. This also works with festivals and can be useful to the Paléo for measuring attendance in certain areas in real time. But can also easily be

Stop coin mining in the browser with No Coin

Stop coin mining in the browser with No Coin

I recently stumbled across an interesting service while browsing HackerNews. Named Coinhive, it provides you with a way to let visitors of your website mine coins for you using their computer resources. I fell in love with the idea, what a great alternative to ads for monetizing content. Coinhive gives