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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I was honestly leaning more and more toward an off the shelf solution like this. I kindof agree with you about it not being worth it to use a fiddly roll-your-own setup like this, especially with such short notice. Plug and play sounds really attractive.

How do you like the Amcrest cameras and remote monitoring solution? Do they have a good reputation for security I hope? I'm afraid I'm completely in the dark about these types of security camera companies.

Edit: just reread this and saw that you're running the Amcrest cameras through Frigate. Was that setup something that you think could be done in an afternoon? Or have you had to mess with things often? Simplicity and ease of setup are probably my highest priorities for this.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Does zoneminder handle secure remote connections on it's own somehow? Or will I need a separate solution to access my LAN while away?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Respectfully, I really dont want this thread to be about my cat so much as the question at hand.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I've never messed with home assistant. Is it very simple to set up for a live stream like this? I agree that that the NVR solutions seem like overkill for my needs.

I've done some reading on setting up wiregaurd in the past, but havent actually deployed it before either. For a short term solution, opening up a port for it seems like a good compromise.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It is actually a technology question. My cat's care is being taken care of separately from this solution. This is just a supplementary setup that we'd like to have to be able to see her sometimes while we're away.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

I'm not expecting an ad-hoc camera system to care for our cat while we're away. We have friends who will be visiting and spending time with her every day while we're gone. This is just so that we can check on her occasionally while we're away. Her illness is long term and managed with medications, but that doesnt stop my partner and I from worrying.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Respectfully, I already have separate plans for keeping the cat taken care of. This is just so that my partner, who will miss her very much while we're away for a few days, can see her occasionally while we're away.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

We have a care plan for the cat. This is just for our peace of mind.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (3 children)

We have a pet sitter that lives down the road and our neighbors are also aware of the issues in case of an emergency. This isnt really for the cat's wellbeing so much as a bandaid for how much we'll miss her.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

I mean, yea. Of course. But trans kids in particular are under greater threat.

This has big "all lives matter" energy.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Without knowing where you're located, Food Not Bombs has locations all over. Otherwise, find local groups that are doing mutual aid work and join them. Most of that type of work is being done on a small scale local level, so it would be hard to say.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

Abdula Ocalan has been in solitary confinement for what, a decade? Two? Literally every message "from him" has to be considered under duress.

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"Tenth text in the series commemorating the 30th anniversary of the Zapatista uprising. This time, the author gives relevance to the concept of the non-binary “otroa” of Zapatismo because it focuses on the other, the external, the discriminated, in order to establish a political definition from that place."

 

Land back

 

Thought I'd contribute something other than memes here.

I don't expect there's anything new in this article to most of the people here, but Margaret Killjoy's blog is always a joy to read.

 

First, some background -

I work in technical support for a Chinese manufacturer making (among other things) home monitoring devices. I'm our resident open source enthusiast in the North American market, not that any of my bosses know or care. My background is not in comp sci or networking, so the only applicable knowledge I have is from my meager experience with my own home lab.

We have a product (I'll refer to it here as the Brain) that communicates wirelessly with our other devices, takes the data from them, sends the data encrypted to our servers, and is available to our customers through our web portal or phone app.

We got a support ticket recently from a customer (and software developer) asking technical questions about the communication protocol from the Brain to our servers. This customer was trying to work on Home Assistant integration for our product stack, but was hitting some roadblock that I can't even pretend to understand. To my understanding, the integration would allow a Home Assistant server to locally gather the same information sent to our servers.

After escalating the issue to our HQ team and some back and forth there, eventually the answer was that the data transfer is encrypted and we aren't going to share any details about it. We don't officially support this type of integration and have no plans to. Our tech contact at HQ offered to sell API access to this customer, but obviously that isn't what he was hoping to hear.

The customer replied that this answer didn't surprise him, but that he would be happy to develop the Home Assistant integration if we made the necessary information available to him.

So, here's my questions - How can I advocate from within my company to open up this aspect of our platform for open source devs to integrate our products into Home Assistant and other open source IOT platforms? Has anyone successfully made a case for this kind of thing within their own companies? What talking points can I use that my higher ups will actually listen to and understand?

I'm considering reaching out to the customer privately to seek a better understanding of what he needs from our platform. Does that seem ill-advised to anyone here?

TLDR - My employer manufactures IOT devices and locks down the platform with proprietary networking protocols. A customer and developer is seeking to write an integration for our products to work locally with Home Assistant. My higher ups said that isn't possible and I want to convince them to make the changes necessary for it to work.

 

As the title says, I'm looking for a private tracker with a good sized library of 1080p AV1 encodes. I'm on LST.gg and there's a handful of uploaders and encoders there that have given me the opportunity to upgrade some of my library to AV1, but I keep hearing about how great AV1 is for anime and there isn't really any anime in AV1 there. An anime specific tracker would be great if they have a decent amount of AV1, but I'm also interested in general cartoons and live action TV/movies.

I have access to a MAM's invite forum and have a well established ratio on several trackers, so once I know where to go hopefully I'll be able to get in.

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There's hope, kids!

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My favorite author posted this for May Day. I think its an important message in the midst of anti-genocide protests on college campuses and around the world.

Never lose hope!

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Happy May Day! (margaretkilljoy.substack.com)
 

My favorite author posted this for May Day. I think its an important message in the midst of anti-genocide protests on college campuses and around the world.

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