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Haier hits Home Assistant plugin dev with takedown notice (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

submitted 9 months ago by thecookingsenpai to c/technology

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/10904853

cross-posted from: https://poptalk.scrubbles.tech/post/567593

Haier hits Home Assistant plugin dev with takedown notice

I'm not really big on "let's make a movement", but this independent dev has been hit with a cease-and-desist from making a FOSS Home Assistant addon for their Haier air conditioners.

Haier claims that they are losing out on millions of dollars due to this plugin which... lets you control their air conditions from home assistant. They haven't bothered to explain how that's possibly worth millions of dollars - they're just claiming it.

So of course they hit the Streisand button and are demanding that he takes it down. He of course is complying... in a couple of days. Maybe you see where this is going.

It would be an absolute shame if any of you just happened to create a fork, or clone the code, or mirror it in your own instance. An absolute shame.

Just so everyone here knows which repositories NOT to clone or fork, here are the two links:

https://github.com/Andre0512/hon

https://github.com/Andre0512/pyhOn

and please, don't repost this anywhere, or share it in other communities, or anything like that. It's a shame that so many people already know and are making clones. I'm just letting you know so you don't do anything like telling others who may make their own copies.

(sidenote: Haier owns GE Appliance, so for our American folks it may affect you folks too)

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Dudes so stressed his eyebrows are going bald.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The dark circles around his eyes tell me he doesn't sleep.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

He explains in one of the videos that he went to the doctor about it and was told he is fine and just looks like that.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Lmao "doctor what's wrong with me?"

"Sorry bro you just look weird"

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

I have a similar issue. Dark circles under my eyes no matter how much sleep I get. Wearing glasses does a good job hiding it though, thankfully.

[–] Yoz 2 points 9 months ago

He's a multi millionaire and doing charitable work and running a business. What do you expect? Some people are build for stuff like this hence hes his own boss. He can do 9-5 but he chose not to #respect