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- I wrote my own smart home software https://renato.athaydes.com/posts/writing-your-own-smarthome-manager.html 211 comments
- My CAD software called home, and no-one answered, so it shut down https://www.reddit.com/r/electronics/comments/5upft3/my_cad_software_called_home_and_noone_answered_so/ 103 comments
- Apple said to be prepping smart home software platform for WWDC http://techcrunch.com/2014/05/26/apple-said-to-be-prepping-smart-home-software-platform-for-wwdc-reveal/ 78 comments
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- Cool software for home network....? https://www.reddit.com/r/HomeNetworking/comments/e7sp3k/cool_software_to_have_on_home_network/ 4 comments selfhosted
- Home Loan: The biggest enemy of software engineers? http://guruprasad.net/posts/home-loan-biggest-enemy-software-engineers/ 30 comments india
- Impact of working from home on software engineering throughput https://www.staticobject.com/blog/engineers_working_from_home_productivity_impact 8 comments programming
- Software Engineer at Home Depot https://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/78ijr3/software_engineer_at_home_depot/ 25 comments cscareerquestions
- Software glitch to blame for blackout of extra 60,000 South Australia homes in heatwave https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/feb/21/software-glitch-to-blame-for-blackout-of-extra-60000-sa-homes-in-heatwave 3 comments worldnews
- Is There Any Software For Online "Home games"? https://www.reddit.com/r/poker/comments/5bnlwr/is_there_any_software_for_online_home_games/ 7 comments poker
- Macrium vs EASEUS vs TrueImage - Best *free* home backup software? http://www.todo-backup.com/products/home/free-backup-software.htm 17 comments sysadmin
- I consider Microsoft an excellent home for the software wizard because: ... (as written in 1984) http://groups.google.com/group/net.jobs/msg/4f2cf440919eeda9 48 comments programming
- Managers turn to surveillance software, always-on webcams to ensure employees are (really) working from home https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/04/30/work-from-home-surveillance/ 6 comments technology
- Facial recognition software helps track down suspect in theft at Lowe’s - Facial recognition software helped track down a suspect in a theft at a Lowe’s home improvement store. https://www.villages-news.com/2024/02/08/facial-recognition-software-helps-track-down-suspect-in-theft-at-lowes/ 5 comments futurology
- Students, university clash over forced installation of remote exam monitoring software on home PCs https://www.zdnet.com/article/students-university-clash-over-plans-to-install-remote-exam-monitoring-software-on-home-pcs/ 13 comments privacy
- Your Boss Is Spying on You — With millions of people now working from their homes, frantic bosses are buying high-tech surveillance software to track their employees’ every keystroke. It’s the latest example of how capitalism is built on employer despotism. https://jacobinmag.com/2020/04/worker-surveillance-work-from-home-employee-monitoring-software 76 comments technology
- Grand Theft Auto 'cheats' homes raided. A court grants search warrants and freezes the assets of five people accused of making cheat software. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-45891126 4 comments technology
- Russian Military Spy Software is on Hundreds of Thousands of Home Routers https://www.defenseone.com/technology/2018/08/russian-military-spy-software-hundreds-thousands-home-routers/150474/ 17 comments technology
- Google’s Home Mini needed a software patch to stop some of them from recording everything https://www.theverge.com/2017/10/10/16456050/google-home-mini-always-recording-bug 4 comments technology
- Cable giants step up piracy battle by interrogating Montreal software developer and searching his home http://www.cbc.ca/1.4231340 109 comments worldnews
- Cable giants step up piracy battle by interrogating Montreal software developer and searching his home http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/tvaddons-piracy-rogers-bell-videotron-court-1.4231340 2042 comments technology
- Ham Radio Deluxe Support disabled the software of a ham who wrote a bad review - Why you should never buy software that "phones home" https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/5ip8ux/ham_radio_deluxe_support_disabled_the_software_of/ 3 comments technology
- Any software or coder types should have a look at this: guy I know in UK is designing a particle accelerator Seti@Home style http://stephenbrooks.org/muon1/ 5 comments programming
- Using High-Resolution Virtual Reality Headsets for the Home Office | Proceedings of the 29th ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3611659.3615680 9 comments science
- Some low-cost software alternatives for building a test lab or home lab with. https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/73ogw6/some_lowcost_software_alternatives_for_building_a/ 71 comments sysadmin
- Let's say I have $10k for getting off the ground with an out-of-home software start-up. What are common areas to allocate those funds? http://streamus.com 6 comments startups
- [Software] Java updates loose all credibility when they want to "set yahoo as default home page", is java even needed anymore? https://www.reddit.com/r/techsupport/comments/4hnoqn/software_java_updates_loose_all_credibility_when/ 20 comments techsupport
- LibreOffice Productivity Suite - Replacing OpenOffice [Free college or home office software] http://www.documentfoundation.org/download/ 3 comments reddit.com
- Adobe is developing software to let home users create movie-quality 3-D graphics http://www.technologyreview.com/printer_friendly_article.aspx?id=19344 7 comments programming
- Managers turn to surveillance software, always-on webcams to ensure employees are (really) working from home - Always-on webcams, virtual “water coolers,” constant monitoring: Is the tech industry’s new dream for remote work actually a nightmare? https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/04/30/work-from-home-surveillance/ 43 comments technology
- Plex overhauls its home theater PC software with new Plex Media Player http://www.techhive.com/article/2995944/video-players/new-plex-media-player-overhauls-plexs-home-theater-pc-software.html 40 comments technology
- I love my Ioniq, but I would never buy another Hyundai¶ … a parasitic drain caused by Hyundai’s Bluelink software. It phones home a bit too much, and when you’re out of cell range, it can try aggressively enough to kill your car’s 12-volt battery overnight. https://www.digitaltrends.com/cars/hyundai-ioniq-warranty/ 65 comments programming
- Wired story on school surveillance: one high school sent teens home with Chromebooks preloaded with monitoring software. Teens plugged their phones into laptops to charge them and texted normally. The monitoring software flagged for administrators when teens sent each other nudes. https://www.wired.com/story/student-monitoring-software-privacy-in-schools/ 233 comments privacy
- We just launched PiBox: A storage server that accepts a Raspberry Pi Compute Module, two SATA SSD drives, and lets you run a ton of software at home. I'd love your feedback here, and support on Kickstarter! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pastudan/pibox-a-modular-raspberry-pi-storage-server 109 comments selfhosted
- Tenants sounded the alarm on facial recognition in their buildings. Lawmakers are listening. Imagine being locked out of your home because software selected by your landlord can’t identify your face. https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/12/26/21028494/facial-recognition-biometrics-public-housing-privacy-concerns 26 comments technology
- Mozilla's WebThings Gateway 0.10 is now out - It' s a free open source software, standards-based self-hosted home automation hub, now with support for thermostats, locks and Extension Add-ons development https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/11/thermostats-locks-and-extension-add-ons-webthings-gateway-0-10/ 52 comments selfhosted
- Wells Fargo says hundreds of customers lost homes after computer glitch; Hundreds of people had their homes foreclosed on after software used by Wells Fargo incorrectly denied them mortgage modifications https://money.cnn.com/2018/08/04/news/companies/wells-fargo-mortgage-modification/index.html 1787 comments technology
- Last year, the Supreme Court ruled that the first-sale doctrine does not apply to software, or e-books (or pretty much everything you “buy” online that isn’t shipped to your home). Yet online retailers can label their buttons "Buy" when they actually mean "Rent." And they can revoke your purchases. http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/you-dont-own-your-kindle-books-amazon-reminds-customer-1c6626211 21 comments politics
- oh give me a home where the sasquatches roam... a scientist tests his ecological niche modeling software to map bigfoot's hypothetical habitat and comes up with new insights into how to explain the cryptid's sightings http://worldofweirdthings.com/2009/07/08/where-the-sasquatches-roam/ 12 comments science
- Microsoft Mafia Confirms Greedy Windows 7 Home Plans - They get an OEM tax and then hit the customer for software that is less annoying. OEMs that don't do as they are told get taxed harder and M$ pretends they are price competitive with Free Software http://slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&id=4209841 6 comments technology