+1 for Amcrest PoE.

I also use a Reolink Doorbell PoE and it’s better than any Nest or Ring doorbell, without the cloud bullshit attached.

My only issue with the amcrest is that they get bad IR pollution at night and are sometimes unusable. But that’s apparently an issue with most dome cameras at night.

Personally I use other platforms for uncensored discussions.

Unfortunately they’re filled with insufferable twats like yourself, but that’s the price we pay for free speech.

It’s obvious for everybody except for you, that Lemmy isn’t intended as a free speech platform, but a means to form your own community based on shared interests and values. That inherently comes with some amount of censorship at the discretion of instance operators. I’m a free speech advocate, but I value and respect individuals’ right to maintain their property (Lemmy instance) as they see fit.

If you want free speech, hop on Simplex where you can yell racial slurs until you’ve satisfied yourself.

Or spin up your own lemmy instance. I’d be happy to join and engage in some debates.

Electrical code and common practice has changed and improved drastically since ungrounded wiring was the norm.

I’ve worked on many houses and each one was a potential disaster waiting to happen.

Just sayin. Be safe.

I had a few issues with pairing. Besides that, Phillips has made some controversial changes in the past that were anti-consumer.

But bypassing their hub and therefore the app and online account by using a ZigBee hub avoided those concerns for me.

Connecting and setting up a ZigBee hub was very simple. But I’m also using Home assistant so can’t vouch for the process with Google.

I would urge you to have an electrician sort out your electrical issues first.

I helped a friend gut and rewire his kitchen and besides not being grounded, the wiring was very poorly done. I told him it was a miracle he didn’t have a fire.

Their microwave would flip a breaker if anything else was on in the kitchen. I traced the circuit to a pull string light in the basement. The ENTIRE kitchen circuit was passing through a rusty old screw terminal on the light fixture. The wire’s sheathing had completely melted back exposing 4" of bare hot wire.

Don’t trust that old wiring at all. And if you can’t afford to fix it asap, at least stock up on smoke alarms and have an escape plan.

Expensive but the color quality is the best on the market.

Wasn’t a fan of their hub so I connect the bulbs directly to my ZigBee hub/dongle.

I won’t get on too high of a soap box, but strongly considering moving away from Google especially for home automation. Support open source privacy respecting systems and products (or at least products that don’t push anti-consumer practices).

I know Phillips doesn’t fit that by any means, but any device that supports a local API/ZigBee/z-wave/matter is fine in my book.

Not sure. I think without having the integration explore page it would be hard to hit the limit, unless you have a serious amount of custom components.

My personal anecdote:

Z-wave is king. ZigBee is a far second place and WiFi / Bluetooth are a last resort.

I’m a huge fan of Zooz products having tested many other brands and been disappointed.

My biggest failure rate has been with Shelly products. Sonoff is alright but have also had issues here and there. I’ve yet to have any issues with my Zooz switches and smart plugs and I have close to 50 of them.

Join lat-team private tracker. They have everything you’d ever want.

Your first suggestion is a clever one.

I can imagine writing a small script on the host machine to listen for subdomains, forward them to pfsense to update the aliases, and possibly set them to expire after a few days for security reasons.

Surely something like this exists. How to find it…?

There’s a few apps I need to split out. Top priority is the signiant app which according to their documentation requires various AWS subdomains as well as their own. Specific subdomains are not specified and are implied to change regularly/on demand.

In an ideal world I would do my split tunneling on the device itself, but I don’t trust Windows and thus I run my VPN at the router level.

This isn’t a problem for most things, but I need to utilize my full bandwidth to transfer large files to clients in a timely manner, and a VPN becomes a massive bottleneck.

Pfsense lets you alias by domain name (I believe it regularly resolves down to an IP and uses that for filtering), but again, you need to supply the exact subdomain.

Just wondering if there’s an alternative solution to this issue. If it’s external to pfsense that’s not the end of the world.

Worst case scenario, I would set up a dedicated Linux box or maybe even a VM which could share access to the file transfer NAS and split tunnel the entire box around the VPN. Definitely less convenient.

The question is whether they were using infrared to see through normal sunglasses. IR blocking sunglasses prevent “night vision” from seeing through the lenses. Under infared, you can see through normal dark sunglasses like they aren’t even there.

Got any further info about these more advanced methods?

I haven’t seen anything beyond the feature distance models. I have seen the models that essentially recreate you entire anatomy in 3D, place it in a database, then use that profile to match to in the future–almost like a 3D match move artist would do for visual effects. Not sure if this is just a proof of concept though.

I wouldn’t be surprised if the millimeter wave scanners at airports have been collecting 3D models of us for this database over the last decades.

IR blocking sunglasses are the simplest and most practical solution.

Facial recognition systems compare the distance ratios between your eyes and nose primarily. Hiding your eyes is very effective towards fucking that up. A mask alone is typically not enough.

That immediately came to mind. But is there a way to have it reroute to a different platform if the video is on an alternative platform? I follow a few youtubers in grayjay that I only recently discovered mirror on peer tube. Grayjay didn’t give any hints.

I’m not sure whether you’re asking why to use a frontend vs YouTube rawdog or conflating Odysee/Peertube with a YouTube frontend. I thought they were frontends as well for a long time.

If you’re asking why to use a frontend proxy for YouTube, there could be a few reasons. The obvious being privacy concerns, but other people prefer the less cluttered interface, no ads, no YouTube premium or sign in with google popups, no manipulative algorithm.

This is actually a brilliant idea.

To play devil’s advocate, I could argue the monetization of YouTube has lead to all of the quirks of the platform people like us hate.

• Shilling scams and shitty products
• Biased reviews
• Corporate pressured censorship
• Age restriction
• Algorithm optimized content
• The general corporatization of YT (see YouTube Rewind feature Will Smith and a bunch if other celebrities)

The list goes on.

Although I agree there should at least be some way for creators to recoup the expenses they put towards producing videos. An ad-free patreon style donation system seems the most practical and balanced from what Ive experienced.

Fair point. I’m sure many would disagree with me, but for web video anything more than HD is pointless except for very niche content. But even HD streaming at scale is taxing and expensive.

Airlines make the majority of their money from a small percentage of flyers paying business and 1st class. I think there’s a world where this principal can be applied to something like peertube hosting in some form.

Do you mind sharing your channel? EDIT: Nvm found it. Added the new hyprland video to my watch list.

And can I ask how you find other interesting channels?

I’m sure you weighed the pros and cons of Peertube vs Odysee. What made you choose peertube?