surprise neubot update because I’m bored: 2026.06.30!
Even better Home Assistant - Home Assistant integration just got more useful! Ask what the temperature is in the living room, or if anyone's at the front door. Lights and switches now have new widgets allowing you to control them manually without asking neubot again.
Conversational Awareness - You can now ask neubot to turn the lights on, then ask it to set them to a different colour without repeating the name.
More Conversational - neubot is now more conversational with friendlier responses and better understanding of your requests.
Personal Context - Responses can now be more personal, now that neubot has access to your name and email. You can ask neubot to turn the lights off in your bedroom, and it uses your personal context to determine the correct room.
JoshAtticusID - JoshAtticusID has been added back as a sign in option.
Show Mode Removed - Show Mode [BETA] has been removed due to lack of functionality and very little usage.
for all 2 people who are interested: https://neubot.joshattic.us/
This is a paid post.Homosexuality is not something you “struggle with,” it is something you are born with. If you are “struggling” with it, you’re probably just in denial, which then of course leads to internalised homophobia and therefore projections.
The part of the bible saying it is a sin to lie with a man as one a woman is an abomination is actually a mistranslation. This did not appear in any English translation of the bible until 1946. In ancient Greek and historical German translations (such as Martin Luther’s 1534 Bible), the terms used like “arsenokoitai” and “knabenschander” referred explicitly to exploitative relationships, such as child molestation, master-slave rape, or temple prostitution.
Passages in Leviticus (such as Leviticus 18:22) are part of holiness codes that also ban eating shellfish or wearing mixed fabrics. How come you would choose to selectively enforce the passages that benefit you but not the others?
Matthew 7:1–2: "Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged..."
John 8:7: Jesus explicitly challenges a crowd looking to punish a woman by saying, "Let him who is without sin among you be the first to throw a stone at her."
Romans 2:1: "You, therefore, have no excuse, you who pass judgment on someone else, for at whatever point you judge another, you are condemning yourself..."
I've never let blatant homophobia, transphobia etc get to me before but it starts to get really degrading when that's all that's getting pushed to my feed.
To all homophobes and transphobes, I hope you have a truly terrible pride month
made the comments on my blog less crap on mobile (also desktop but mostly mobile)
blog traffic up 22400% after posting this on r/Android
New Blog Post — Your ZTE phone is likely spying on you, which ZTE says is "compliant"
https://blog.joshattic.us/posts/2026-05-31-your-zte-phone-is-spying-on-you
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Happy pride month! Regardless of who you are, you are loved, deeply cared about and appreciated, don’t let anyone say otherwise 
New Blog Post — Your ZTE phone is likely spying on you, which ZTE says is "compliant"
https://blog.joshattic.us/posts/2026-05-31-your-zte-phone-is-spying-on-you
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New Blog Post — Budget phones are so scarily good now I am writing a blog post about it
https://blog.joshattic.us/posts/2026-05-15-budget-phones-are-scary
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