The entire company seems to have abruptly shut down just before the weekend, breaking users’ cloud-dependent smart-home setups without warning. Users say the service has been down for three days now despite the company status page saying, “All Services Online.” The company forums are down, and no one is replying to users on social media.
As Internet of Things reporter Stacey Higginbotham points out, high-ranking Insteon executives, including CEO Rob Lilleness, have scrubbed the company from their LinkedIn accounts. In the time it took to write this article, Lilleness also removed his name and picture from his LinkedIn profile. It seems like that is the most communication longtime Insteon customers are going to get.
I loved the old X-10 tech, had the old house wired with it. Very dependable. Never interested in any “Smart-House” system that depended on the internet or the “Cloud”.
All remaining X-10 products are made in China now and are useless, so the new house is ‘dumber’ than the old house.
With its servers down, the Insteon app appears worthless, and users’ automations and schedules have stopped working. Many of Insteon’s wall switches were actual electrical switches, so the worst that will ever happen is that they become dumb switches.
“Dumb Switches” that cost the homeowner $25 apiece instead of $3.
Some company located probably in China will buy out the Insteon network and set their own prices for customers to regain access. The problem I’ve found with Chinese apps is they all demand you give them access to your home wifi network to function. If you do that, then strange things can start happening at your house. I had one wifi security camera, I set it up to scan outside and the driveway, but every morning when I came down it was pointed 180 degrees and was scanning the interior of the house.
Price of corn hits 9-year high as surge in commodities continues.
And: Rising Fertilizer Costs are Catching up to Rice Farmers, Threatening Supplies.
If elections have consequences, stolen elections have the worst consequences.
Joe Biden’s decision to release 180 million barrels of oil from the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve – one million barrels per day for 180 days, ending just before the midterm elections which the Democrats will lose in an avalanche – was meant to help lower US gasoline prices. Instead, it is heading for Europe.
According to Bloomberg, citing a person familiar with the matter, the Suezmax ship Advantage Spring – sailing for Rotterdam, according to ship-tracking data compiled by Bloomberg – received emergency SPR sweet crude from Energy Transfer’s Nederland oil facility around April 1 for export.
According to Matt Smith, oil analyst at commodity data firm Kpler, this is the first export of SPR crude since last November. Which means the oil was apportioned from Biden’s shock SPR release.
They will tell you that this doesn’t mean what you think it means, that oil is ‘fungible’, meaning that a million barrels shipped to the EU is the same as sending that oil to an American refinery.
Do you buy that?
The oil is going to Europe because they are pinched for supplies of Russian oil and what oil they can buy from Russia they must agree to buy in the Russian ruble. If the EU starts buying oil in rubles instead of dollars the days of the American dollar reigning supreme will be threatened. This is a problem, a very serious problem, that is new and entirely the fault of the Biden Administration.
In the meantime, to continue operation at the level needed, American refineries are buying on the ‘spot market’ at premium prices.
Don’t hold your breath waiting to hear this story covered or explained by the MSM,
The job of the MSM is to cover stories…
… with a pillow, until they stop breathing.
Tax Day is delayed in Massachusetts.
Most don’t know why.
We don’t teach History anymore. Today I was at my PT for spinal, I asked the young therapist if she knew why the race in Boston is called the “Marathon”. She didn’t so I talked to her for five minutes about the Persians, the Greeks, and the battlefield of Marathon. And of an Athenian runner named Pheidippides. We were twenty miles south of Boston. Boston, the “Athens of American”.
Patriots Day should mean something more than, no trash collection, delayed one day.
From the comments at Knuckledragin:
Gasoline contains 20,000 BTUs per pound and ethanol contains 12,800 BTUs per pound. When you buy fuel at the pump, you are buying energy. E 15 contains about 2% less energy than E 10, So your gas mileage will be about 2% less. The Biden administration expects this move to lower gas prices by about $.10 a gallon. So, if gas is $4.00 per gallon, 2% of that is 8 cents a gallon, so the real reduction in prove is about 2 cents a gallon. Let’s go Brandon!
Of course the (Unimportant Side Effect) will be third world starvation, revolutions, and actual hunger in The United States. And for many budgets, meat will be off the table as animal feed becomes to expensive.
UKRAINE LEARNS THE ISRAEL LESSON:
Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelensky declared Tuesday that, when the war is finally over, Ukraine would emerge from the rubble a “big Israel.”
He meant that the war would never really be over, that Ukraine would be on a permanent war footing, just as the Jewish state is. He meant that it would view its neighbors the way Israel has long viewed its own: As enemies waiting to pounce. Most importantly, he meant that Ukraine would never again rely on anyone else for its security: not the West, not the international community, not the so-called liberal order. It would be, like Israel, a nation apart, answering to no one but its people, in control of its own destiny.
It said something heroic about Ukraine, which has gone from pleading with NATO to save it from imminent destruction to fighting—forcing—the Russians into peace talks in a matter of weeks.
Something tells me that Hunter Biden has cashed his last check from the Ukraine. And that it isn’t just Russian military power that has proved to be hollow, but also the leadership of America and Europe.
Marine Beaches in Massachusetts
“The energy needed to refute BS is of an order of magnitude greater than the effort needed to produce the BS in the first place. ”
Brandolini’s law
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