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by cnst 1y ago
> https://thingino.com/ > https://github.com/themactep/thingino-firmware Nice, it actually supports several popular Amazon US "no-name" brands, including Imou and Wansview! (Plus, seve
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by cnst 1y ago
It'd be really nice if any of the $15 cams on Amazon were supported.
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by cnst 1y ago
I'm happy for anyone who can make a use out of it, and it's nice to see one of the only examples where non-US users are ahead of the US, but… Do you have any Amazon ASIN for any of these products, available for sale in the US? The
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by cnst 1y ago
I've looked into it a few years ago when I was shopping and setting up my security cams. Super cool! But, unfortunately, I wasn't able to translate any supported devices into an Amazon ASIN in the US. Normally, many services on t
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by cnst 1y ago
Yup, requiring permanent internet connection is such BS. I had one of these "no-brand" cameras that had an integrated MicroSD card, which would make you think that it'd work just fine even without the internet. We had no powe
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by cnst 1y ago
What do you think was the purpose of FreeBSD jail, Virtuozzo and Xen? https://web.archive.org/web/20011204195446/http://www.sw-sof... https://web.archive.org/web/20011224040032/
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by cnst 1y ago
> The UPS battery will not run for very many minutes, even if there is very little load. I thought the conversion from 12V to 120V isn't all that inefficient? The ratings provided by UPS vendors only specify the full load and half-
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by cnst 1y ago
OK, so, you're saying migration and remote drives over IP is the secret sauce of AWS / EC2? Per Wikipedia, live migration was added to OpenVZ in April 2006, one year after OpenVZ was open-sourced in 2005, five years after Virtuozz
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by cnst 1y ago
How do you distinguish a mirror from not a mirror on GitHub? I often have my git configured to push to multiple upstreams, this means that basically all of your mirrors can be primaries. This is a really good part about GitHub. Every copy
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by cnst 1y ago
Why use any AWS at all when the other providers offer a cheaper product with better service?
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by cnst 1y ago
Isn't that part of AI, simply because that's how the patterns work, and how we're taught to write in the writing classes? BTW, I actually use the em-dash symbols very frequently myself — on a Mac and on Android, it's ver
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by cnst 1y ago
MENA = Middle East / North Africa. (I did have to look it up.)
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by cnst 1y ago
FreeBSD jail predates Amazon Web Services, and so does SWsoft's Virtuozzo that was subsequently open-sourced as OpenVZ. For Amazon SES, DJB's qmail made it possible to send a ridiculous amount of subscription emails very efficien
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by cnst 1y ago
I honestly don't understand why companies do this. There's still SO MUCH traffic from Google for these things. I've routinely went to AnandTech EXCLUSIVELY from Google. This means that their "news" and new content
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by cnst 1y ago
To me, it seems like they're simply a monetised version of Tumblr, without the newfound censorship that all the other social media companies somehow have to have. I really don't get the whole email thing, though. Newsletters are
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by cnst 1y ago
Why would headphones need contacts permissions? Where are you getting these headphones from? I routinely deny permissions to most apps on Android, and never have any issues. In my years of using random apps, the only app I'm aware of
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by cnst 1y ago
I usually expressly don't login into any account because I simply don't want to remember which device I've logged which accounts in. It's just easier that way. On my main device, I'd use a regular Google Account.
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by cnst 1y ago
Well, that's a bit of my time gone (re)looking into GeoHot, patent trolls, and now comma.ai. Comma.AI by George Hotz sounds very interesting, it's basically a $999 "comma 3x" smartphone with an OBD-II connector and a $99
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by cnst 1y ago
Surely you're talking about Apple's design, no? With Android, I routinely prohibit random app permissions from many apps, and everything still works just fine. Does Apple even let you have as fine of a control of permissions as yo
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by cnst 1y ago
Yup, 0.01% of users at scale is indeed a lot of users. This is exactly why many big companies like Amazon, Google and Mozilla still support TLSv1.0, for example, whereas all the fancy websites would return an error unless you're using
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by cnst 1y ago
Some do that, and it's super annoying. I take a screenshot, and then silently my login doesn't work, with a weird error returned instead. Get another PIN, type it in, take a screenshot before submit, again get a nondescript erro
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by cnst 1y ago
I fail to see how your conclusion follows from the premise. Banking apps in the US don't even show any PINs for 2FA, so, why exactly is Schwab doing that again? BTW, Google Wallet does let you take screenshots of all the views except f
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by cnst 1y ago
I simply delete and rate 1* any app that doesn't work, including Schwab. Schwab's mobile website is actually decent, and, basically, works better than their app in every way. I'm honestly disappointed Android doesn't do
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by cnst 1y ago
That's a nice trick to get a fresh Google Account without any verifications! But why would you need so many Google accounts? I think at one point it may simply become cumbersome to keep track of all the accounts, so, using an account-
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by cnst 1y ago
A screenshot develops evidence of something happening or not happening according to the person who took the screenshot. If you start claiming that it can be photoshopped, well, what prevents anyone from photoshopping a real camera shot? Or
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by cnst 1y ago
There's always a "later" or equivalent button in all of these setups, sometimes it does have a few prompts. I personally have iPhone, Google Pixel, OnePlus, Motorola and Samsung devices, without any accounts on them. The iPh
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by cnst 1y ago
> "Additionally, the app prevents devices from taking screenshots." Why do the "security" apps ALWAYS have to have this anti-feature? It's especially annoying when employed by the banking apps. Famously, Schwab
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by cnst 1y ago
The F-Droid app store app is usually already the first app I ever install on any Android device: https://f-droid.org/ The second app is often the Aurora Store app store app, from within the F-Droid app, which then lets you
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by cnst 1y ago
What if the founder had a really nice deep voice to convince everyone that they're legit?
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by cnst 1y ago
I think a bigger issue is that AI is being used to censor footage from the owners of the camera themselves. There's been stories about gunshots being censored from the owners of the camera by Ring. Why would you pay for a security dev

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