‘People have no idea’: How smart devices spy on us and reveal information about our homes
corroded @ corroded @lemmy.world Posts 26Comments 409Joined 2 yr. ago
It seems like "we're protecting the CHILDREN!" is supposed to make any kind of bullshit legislation acceptable. It's the parents' job to protect the children. It's the government's job to maintain order, provide public services, and ensure the security of the country.
If you want to protect children from "legal but harmful" content online, maybe don't allow your 12-year-old to have a smartphone. How about blocking sites like TikTok and Facebook on the devices that children do have access to. Monitor your children's online activities. I have said for years that until a child is able to purchase their own tech devices and pay for the service, let them use the family computer.
Governments should hold the parents accountable for raising the children they chose to have, and step in when they choose not to; don't enact sweeping legislation that harms everyone because the parents refuse to take accountability for their children.
I was really surprised that the Sonoff ones are so bad. I used ITEAD's custom PCB service for years (when they still offered it), and it was always fantastic. I have a lot of their plug-in switches and their temperature sensors, and all have worked perfectly. Seems like their motion sensors are the exception.
I have two Tuya mmWave sensors in my workshop; I've only had them going for a few days, but they seem to be working flawlessly; I had to use two to get full coverage, but I expected as much.
I hadn't considered these for motion sensor replacements, though. With the exception of one of my motion sensors, none are near power, and I haven't seen any microwave sensors that operate on battery power. I'm not sure how well these would work outdoors, either, but I haven't tried.
You're right, but you have to draw the line somewhere. If someone decides to light a building on fire and call it "performance art," nobody considers it anything but a crime. If someone spray-paints a vulgarity on the side of a school, few would call that "art," but a mural on the side of a concrete wall is "street art." The subject matter and the quality of the painting doesn't make the determination between art and vandalism; it's just vandalism.
Graffiti is vandalism. It is not traditional, and it's not art. It's a crime; there is no exception unless it's done on private property with permission from the property owner.
That makes sense. I was thinking no shoes = barefoot.
How is it possible to wear shoes for 30 total days in 4 years? That seems like an incredibly low number.
I am new to HA, but I have been running DIY NVR for quite a few years. I have never liked the idea of using SD cards as a recording media. Part of the reason I have security cameras is so that if something happens on my property, I can look back and review the footage.
I run BlueIris in a Virtual Machine on an old-ish 2x16-core Xeon server; for 30 cameras, you could probably get away with any modern Intel system with QuickSync enabled or a separate Nvidia GPU. Video is recorded to the local hard drive on the server in real-time; it's a fast XFS array of 10k RPM drives. As the drive on my Blue Iris VM fills up, old footage is automatically transferred to my NAS, and anything older than 30 days is removed from the NAS.
While this is overkill for a lot of situations, I would still strongly advise against recording to SD cards on each camera. Not only would finding the video you want be a huge pain, but there are so many points of failure. For me to lose any recordings, it would require at least 2 hard drives in my array to fail without me noticing and replacing them. With individual SD cards, one fails and your camera is down along with anything that was recorded.
One other thing to consider is when playing back video, I'm playing from a fast server over a 10Gbit connection. Even if your network is 1Gbit, this will still be much faster and more reliable than trying to stream video from a WiFi-attached camera.
I really do wish I had paid the extra money and got a stove with a built-in WiFi controller. I looked into ordering a replacement board for a model that is WiFi enabled and retrofitting it into mine, but even within the same brand, the interface and the physical hardware in the stove is different. When I bought my stove, I was more concerned with not freezing to death, and I didn't really think much about how I'd be using it in the future. Live and learn, I guess.
I think that's the solution I'm going to go for. While my idea of building a custom mainboard does sound like a lot of fun, my main concern is with the code. The factory mainboard has set points where it turns the hopper, disables/enables the blower, etc. I could probably get it close in my own code, but I'm sure there are edge cases the factory engineers found that I would miss. I don't much enjoy the idea of going out to my shop and finding it full of smoke or my stove jammed full of pellets, or worse the whole thing on fire.
I wasn't familiar with the Shelly 1, but that looks like a great option. I only ever run my stove in fully-on mode, so I could just set the pot to max, then use the Shelly to switch it on and off.
I'm curious about the modes you set. The potentiometer on mine goes from Off->Thermostat Controlled->Always On across the sweep of the potentiometer. I suspect it has a switch at both extremes of the range to trigger the Off/On modes, but I'll have to test it to be sure; it does have more than the standard 3 pins you'd find on a pot, so there's something unusual going on.
Is yours configured the same?
If it's really impossible to add an extra drive, are you able to attach an external drive or map a networked drive that has space for your VMs and LXCs?
In your situation, what I would probably do is back up all my VMs to my NAS, replace the hard drive in my Proxmox hypervisor, re-install a fresh copy of Proxmox on the new drive, and restore the VMs back to my new Proxmox installation. If you don't have a NAS, you could do this with a USB-attached hard drive, too.
Ideally, though, you should have separate drives for your Proxmox boot drive and your VMs. Even if you're using a SFF PC that doesn't have an extra drive bay, could you double-sided-tape a SSD to the bottom of the case and use this as your storage drive? I've certainly done it before.
The problem with this is that the induction fan is the same fan that blows the smoke out from the exhaust vent; pellet stoves don't exhaust out a chimney like a fireplace. They require forced induction. When you turn off the pellet stove with the potentiometer, the fan continues running until whatever pellets remain in the combustion chamber stop burning. Simply removing power means that the pellets continue burning, but the smoke and exhaust gases have nowhere to go. They will fill up the stove and start leaking out.
I have never read it, and I have no desire to so so.
I did go go taxpayer-funded schools. They should have been funded by taxpayers who chose to create the children in those schools, like my parents.
How is arguing that people should pay their share entitled? There are a lot of services that everybody needs. Fire, police, roads, health care. We should all share the cost, because at some point, everyone needs those services, even if not right now.
Having children is a want, not a need. Children deserve an education, but the that should be a burden that the parents take on when they make the decision to have a child.
The best solution IMO is don't let your smart devices have access to the internet. Put them on a VLAN, block them at the firewall, whatever method you prefer. Accessing your home network remotely is one thing, but your air conditioner doesn't need to INITIATE a connection to the outside world.