Yeah? Their specialised immigration police? Interesting, I didn’t know that. /s

Yeah, I don’t know what he’s talking about. Forever Canadian got over 400k signatures before the rules got changed to make it easier. I signed it while wandering around a festival where they had a booth set up. That signature was not exciting, but it was no-brainer.

The sepratists have a rabid fan base that will line up around the block to sign, but that’s it. After that they have nothing. They are firmly in the minority with only 20-30% considering it. That tracks with the average for idiots in a population that will vote for anything.

I got a doorbell camera with full Home Assistant support and a 180 fisheye camera for around $100 each (don’t remember the exact price). I could use the built in recording until i got my NVR setup and it scaled with me. I thought they were great value.

Now, if you want just a bunch of standard cameras to cover your house with, maybe those other options are better, I’ll save your post and take a look if I’m ever in the market. I’m not a camera expert, just a tech/home auto enthusiast so they work for what I want.

Initial setup with Reolink is hit or miss. You’re right that those settings are off by default, which sucks. The better cameras host their own WebUI with which you can login and make changes with no app required, but the cheaper ones cut that corner and need the app. With that said, yes it is an initial hoop you might have to jump through, but once done and isolated you’ll never have to deal with it again. It’s a worthy trade off for the affordability and featureset IMO, but of course it could always be better.

Uh oh, you need to look into that right away. Most of the camera brands we’re talking about CAN be run local, by which we mean you can sever their internet connection with firewall rules and they’ll still operate. You have to do that though. They’ll almost all connect to the internet if allowed to.

There’s nothing out there

Yeah, I understand the limitations of the frequency and the compromises mesh networks have to make. I wouldn’t expect it to be an internet substitute. My point is, and I do apologise because I cannot remember the source, I recall hearing about a convention or a protest or some larger gathering where people tried to use Meshtastic and it cratered due to load.

If that above case actually did happen and I’m not mis-remembering, then it doesn’t bode well for adoption by the non-tech savvy. You get into this odd area where you have tech and RF hobbiests that think this is cool beans, but they don’t make up enough people for a robust network. However the more people you bring on that don’t understand radio settings the more succeptible you are to poor performance. Then if it ever does it mass adoption it is likely oitside the abilities of the tech and scale just isn’t possible. You need this sweet spot.

With ham or something else you can have a few people in more remote locations because of superior range, but with low powered RF like Meshtastic you really want portable devices for people on the ground. All this is to say I love the idea of being able to give something like this to a loved one going to a protest or something, but I’m just not sure if it’s more than a toy yet.

I’m not sure what they could do to keep this open while ensuring stability unless they start to add dynamic settings to tje protocol. Something that detects if there’s too much congestion, or if signals are too strong to automatically switch from LongFast to something more applicable to a the dense group you’re in. Then manual settings get hidden behind an advanced menu? But that would be entirely on tje firmware to control.

Anyway, I’m rambling and trying to solution without actually owning one, so I could be way off. I just really like the idea of short range personal communication and want this to be more than a tinker tech.

Do you need the doorbell hardware itself to be open source? Or just compatible with self hosted open source software?

If just the latter take a look at Reolink products. You can block their internet access and they still work great locally with Home Assistant and whatever NVR you want. DoorBird and a few others have HA support as well.

Leave him alone, he hasn’t even crossed the $200,000,000,000 threshold. He’s basically a poor. Can only afford one jacket :(

How resilient is something like Meshtastic? My understanding is that anyone can configure their device poorly so that it can become overly chatty, congesting the network. Even in ideal an ideal scenario with properly configured nodes, could this actually survive if it saw more than hobbiest adoption?

I think it’s really cool and i like having this idea of a backup communication system, but if has serious range limitations and is likely to be overwhelmed in a no-cell scenario is it even worth it, or is it just fun to play around with?

I don’t know if I’d sat left to rot. I still use it almost every other day, and Google is working on a version for the Pixel phones as well.

I think the Moto Atrix and Dex were probably a bit ahead of their time, but likely going to make a comeback soon.

Every new law changes the rules of the game. Every new rule presents an opportunity to those who can circumvent it.

The wealthy have always succeded by gaming the system.

Look, I know nothing about this incident, I just happened across this thread in my feed. So I say without knowing any context, that no, attacking a single person doesn’t sound like the appropriate use of the word terrorism.

Assault, yes. Atempted murder, maybe. But for me terrorism needs to have a broad scope and target innocent people. If any assault was terrorism then all organized crime would be terrorism. Protests that devolve into violence would be terrorism. It weakens the word to use it like this.

Now if that group went down to the local coffee shop and started beating everyone and claiming it’s for their cause, terrorism. If they go on social media and call for everyone at home to grab their hammers and kill people indiscriminately in their name, terrorism.

Same with a pressure cooker bomb being called a WMD. It’s ridiculous to put a crappy improvised explosive in with nukes and chemical weapons. When you trump up charges is fucks witj everything, like we’re seeing here where a peaceful protestor is now being unlawfully detained.

In the car manufacturers mind, these are all uncommon issues because you should be using cloud services for everything.

Well the boys were 15 and 16, past puberty, so it’s not paedophilia. She still belongs behind bars, I’m your friendly neighbourhood language officer.

I dunno. I almost think there should be a different term or word for it. I’m not saying it’s OK at all, I just think bundling so many sexual crimes under one name isn’t great.

For example; I was a horny teen and probably would have been into a teacher like that. It would have been wrong and it likely would have messed up different aspects of my life. I’m not condoning it or trying to downplaying it, but I feel if I had been violently penetrated against my will by a male teacher the trauma would be a whole different kind.

So yeah, I don’t know if we should call it rape, but I recognize the boys were underage and taken advantage of, and the crime absolutely deserves to be punished. I’m also the person who get’s all worked up by modern loose usage of terms like WMD and many others, so I know I can be a handful.

I don’t think he could rape a child on the Whitehouse lawn. I know you’re being over the top for the sake of the example, but the reason that wouldn’t work out for him is that:

1. People can see it
2. It’s close to home
3. His supporters can’t justify it

Lose any of those criteria and he’d get away with it, but all three? I think that’s too much. His supporters are low information narcissists who happily drink spin with every meal. But if you force them to confront something that actually affects them, or that they can actually feel, then the spell starts to break. Half the problem with everything he does is that it’s missing one of the above, or it takes too long for the negative effects to be felt.

Nor would I, but if apps were actually optimized instead of the Electron nonsense we have now we’d be in a better place. I really hope this forces us to finally build better again instead of relying on infinite resources.

I don’t disagree with you, but if you’re going to take that position you have to include work as a whole, not just sex work. There are differences, sure, but we’re all selling our minds, bodies, and time just to stay alive.

That’s still of no concern. If it all collapses and they need to start selling to consumers again, gamers will be desperate for the upgrade and pay top dollar. Screwing us over is a win-win for them.