Can't happen soon enough. Personally, I'd wish this would go much further and would allow every device to be flashable, with only a few exceptions for safety, like cars.
There's also a certain irony that certain other places will go to bat for right to repair, and then turn around and say "Actually, I want to live in a walled garden.", not realizing that these are two sides of the same coin.
The space before punctuation thingy is called "Plenken" in Germany and still sometimes used by people who learned on typewriters. Same thing with repeated spaces or dots... to indicate pauses.
But yeah, pretty unprofessional.
Maybe I'm missing something obvious, but I'm having a hard time thinking of something that could reasonably have slow internet, is not a PC or smartphone, and also modern enough to handle current encryption standards.
A computer at a public library is the closest I've come, but I can't imagine those having such slow connections.
Playing devils advocate for a bit, wouldn't the people worrying about keeping network traffic to a minimum be better off with a proper mail client anyway?
To start off, you'll want to have Home Assistant running on a local server or Raspberry Pi and a Zigbee USB dongle, like the Conbee II or SkyConnect. If you've never worked with Home Assistant, their Getting Started guide is pretty comprehensive.
To migrate the apps off the Hue gateway, there's a section describing various methods to do so in the Home Assistant Zigbee guide.
I'll mention that there's also a whole bunch of other Zigbee gateways out there that work similar to the Hue Bridge, but these could all eventually share the same fate as Hue, if they aren't already forced to be online.
To be safe long-term I would probably suggest to throw away the Hue hub entirely and get a Zigbee USB dongle for your Home Assistant server. Personally I've had no issues with the ConBee II. Home Assistant also released their own dongle earlier this year, called SkyConnect, which I've heard is pretty good as well.
(This is assuming that all Hue devices are based on ZigBee, which I believe they all are, based on this useful database.)
Thankfully, while I have a smart plug from them, I've made sure that it's a Zigbee powered one, meaning it's directly connected to my Home Assistant server over it's own frequency/protocol, no app required. Guess that choice is paying off now.
Also, someone should tell whoever is managing that Twitter support account that you should never use the phrase "We're sorry you feel that way", even when you're going for a non-apology.
Same. I've been slowly adding more and more smart devices to my Home Assistant instance and seeing it all interact is super neat. That said, the search for products that work 100% local and don't depend on the cloud is a total pain, outside of some products using the Zigbee standard and such.
What would be interesting to know is whether this would also work when translating the idiom as part of a larger text or if this only works when specifically prompted to translate a single idiom.
Then they could recreate their own input field by recreating their own "totally-not-an-input-field" with a canvas element and a bit of JS. Or, if that also gets blocked, just straight up redirect the user to a phishing site by replacing the login button or some other means. Plenty of people probably wouldn't notice in time.
The problem then becomes that extensions are still in control of everything else on the website: A malicious extension could simply hide or move the input field away and then create a new one in its place.
Personally, I don't see how one could make extensions secure without severely crippling their functionality or turning it into a game of cat and mouse.
Beyond pure principle, flashing would be very useful when it comes to extending the lifecycle of the device beyond its original purpose. They're quite powerful and could be turned into a small server for example, similar to a Raspberry Pi. While lacking in ports, they do come with a battery, wifi+cellular and multiple cameras already built in.