originalvichy

Somewhat paradoxiacally, the battery might be the highest quality and maintaibable component of the car, but everything else is a concern.

>Capitalism is frequently misrepresented as a “natural” system, civilization’s base state, absent government involvement.

The younger you are when you learn or realize this, the healthier will your spirit be.

A coworker assumed I shared AI slop because I wrote about 200-300 words of text with nice formatting: different heading text levels, monospace formatting for variable names, used different highlight colours, etc.

Can’t even write pleasant technical documentation by hand after memorizing hotkeys without being falsely accused…

The current US administration and its voting population is making sure that this won't be the case soon. It's gonna be hard to win back the good will that was built through decades of diplomacy and trade. Even harder when their conventional armed forces have been underwhelming in the attack on Iran.

It cannot be disconnected from politics. The other poster mentioned independence.

Norway is one of the few countries in the world that has ”fuck you” money and a functioning representative electoral system. If the parliament appoints the committee, I find it politically suicidal for any representative to dare to directly interfere with the commissions deliberation and choices. There’s hardly anything positive to gain from it for a representative.

Unfortunately, the stuff they are taking screenshots of is already being spied on.

I've been using network-level limits on all my entertainment devices I don't want accessing the internet. If they truly dump data over foreign WiFi networks, it'd be difficult to understand how they dare to do that in the EU.

My simplest solution to this is buying a TV panel. If all your OS-level and panel-level mitigations fail, and any burn-in bothers you too much, just sell it on the used market. I specifically bought an LG C-series 42" OLED TV for my gaming/work monitor use, and if/when burn-in becomes unbearable, I'm certain it can be sold to someone for a reasonable price. They'll likely use it as a plain TV and sit too far away to even notice any burn-in. Might be more difficult to pull off if you buy gaming-oriented smaller panels, so I advise against that.

They’re also a cheap way to get into BirdNET and Apple HomeKit Secure Video if you get their cheapest security cams that have some weather proofing. You can get a microphone (and camera) outdoors without having to shell out a lot of money for a Raspberry Pi + microphone + all the protective casing required to keep it from breaking.

With software like Scrypted or Frigate, I was able to use an Apple TV 4K to get a security feed into my Apple Home with iCloud+. You don’t need to buy Homekit certified product.

Ruuvi Air is perhaps the most open source device I've seen that measures CO2 etc. and is not set up to be an online device. The company itself (Ruuvi) does pretty much all their development in the open, and the Ruuvi Air sensor is the same. Uses a pretty high quality sensor module that includes actual CO2 and PM among others. I went for it after buying a cheaper sensor that only had a cheap sensor and algorithm based estimate of CO2, not a real measurement. Additionally it required an app so it was already a headache. Ruuvi Air only uses BLE so it shouldn't be able to send anything outside your BT range. The iOS/Android companion apps only include local push alerts when a measurement crosses over your set threshold.

One of the most fortunate things I experienced in my career was a few years in the operations/hosting side of software. Working there actually helped me understand how many things are necessary to align so that a simple application works as intended to serve a number of users 24/7. Due to an increasing number of abstractions (mainly cloud/saas providers), I’m confident that this skill has been deteriorating in the IT space, and it’s the reason these dev-adjacent speakers love these doomsday scenarios.

They can imagine their code doing a million crazy things, but they hardly think about the incredible amount of things that need to exist and operate at 100% before a single line of code can be run on a VPS.

How many of these guys have had to tell a customer something silly like ”we lost connectivity to the DC because a farmer decided to do some digging and cut fibre lines connecting the DC to the internet”? If they knew that this was in the realm of possibilities, they wouldn’t be so confident about a program being able to somehow run amok and simultaneously feed itself all the resources and components it needs to run, as you mentioned.

It was only mandatory so that teams wouldn’t feel like they were disadvantaged if a rival got breaks during games that crossed a set temperature limit and they did not. League game fixtures are so random that this would not be an advantage, but for a short cup tournament like this it could be a big tactical/performance advantage, especially in the knockout phase.

Yeah that’s definitely going to be messy. Based on your region, there should hopefully be generic security cams that can even work with a batter and solar. That combined with wifi if it can reach your house can hopefully steer the blast zone way further :D There’s a few TP-Link cameras on discount around 100€ that have 2k res. Feels a lot easier this way rather than taping together a weatherproof box for various components like the Pi and a mic. So far I’ve only used a plug-powered one since I have a IP-rated socket outside and the TP-link cam has a magnet for my wall. Hope you find a nice solution!

Thanks for sharing. Didn’t know about this project. Have you used it yourself? I’ve only experimented with Scrypted for fun, but Frigate sounds like I could operate birdsong analysis without a separate BirdNET container.

What do you mean specifically? These birdsong analyzers are sensitive enough that they do not rely on setting up a feeder. It’s obviously dependent on where you live, but in the Nordics, living outside city centres is good enough for both background noise and birdsong from nearby trees/parks/forests. Privacy matters aside, setting a mic up on a balcony or window is enough. Another solution is feeding data from a cheap security camera with a mic through wifi. This way the camera can stay outside in different weather, it’s not super close to you actual living area and splitting audio from the RTSP stream should be relatively easy to be analyzed by BirdNET.