Dexcom T1 diabetes glucose monitoring devices suffer major outage
This is really shocking ineptitude. The level of incident response would have been poor for a gaming company, never mind one selling vital healthcare appliances on which peoples’ lives depend.
(tags: healthcare incident-response outages fail dexcom diabetes hardware iot devices internet-of-shit grim-meathook-future)
CMIP6 increases estimated effects of climate change
The RCP8.5 “business as usual” scenario is now up to an estimated average of 5.5 degrees C, which would be arguably civilization-ending IMO
(tags: rcp8.5 climate-change climate estimates future cmip6)
Home Automation Without The Cloud
some recommendations from Aaron Parecki, via Nelson
(tags: via:nelson house home automation iot cloud-free)
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‘You’re free to use this package, but if it makes it to your production environment I would highly appreciate you buying the world a tree. It’s now common knowledge that one of the best tools to tackle the climate crisis and keep our temperatures from rising above 1.5C is to plant trees. If you contribute to my forest you’ll be creating employment for local families and restoring wildlife habitats.’
Using offset.earth.(tags: treeware open-source shareware software offsetting carbon-capture trees)