Live Printing TTRPG Card Handouts

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Often TTRPG players only write down items on their character sheet. Cards have many advantages: easier to read, you can pass them back and forth, and they are nicer to look at. The example above shows a card for Mothership, which was printed on-demand.

Only security updates?

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At one point in the software life cycle, a project becomes legacy. Then the goal is to keep its maintenance cost at a bare minimum and “only” consume security updates. But can one actually do that without also incorporating any breaking changes? My gut feeling disagrees with that. But what does the data say?

Defaults Matter

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Last year our electricity bill was higher than expected. So I’ve decided to I need some insights into our consumption and bought a LEDVANCE Matter SMART+ plug. It can connect to my Home Assistant installation using matter, the promising new standard for IoT.

Since my Home Assistant setup runs self-managed on an Orange Pi 5B, I opted to install python-matter-server in a container alongside the Home Assistant installation. During the setup I have encountered a potential security issue that I have reported and I will now share publicly.