dr_analog
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dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
8hr ago
What is the evidence that they were planning to do anything more aggressive than set off fireworks and make noise and vandalize stuff? The guy who shot at the police officer is obviously a dangerous criminal but what about the rest of them? Why couldn't they have all been planning to simply protest? The Wikipedia article says guns and body armor were recovered from the suspects (not clear if they all brought that with them to they protest or they found that at their homes) but how much are we allowed to read into that in Texas?
Good idea. Most of them do, with perhaps the exception of the sprinklers until it's replaced with OpenSprinkler. Once I get my home server rack up and running I'll probably vibeslop a single simple dashboard that uses the drivers from HA. For push notifications I'll probably use a Telegram bot to DM me directly any pics or questions.
Gradually moving into my new house
I got my Linux router and an Omada switch and one AP over PoE going. The one AP seems to cover the whole house and front and back yard well enough that I'm holding off adding more for now until we're more fully moved in and have every device online.
In the meantime I'm legit losing sleep over all of the smart features in this house.
Two things that are making me especially crazy are the sprinklers and the outdoor lighting, both which require cloud accounts to fully control, both have failed in one way or another to transfer from the previous owner. We've spent hours on this now and we are not done.
I'm so sick of this already that I'm going to rip the sprinkler controller out and replace it with OpenSprinkler. That path seems well worn and easy.
The outdoor lights seem more complicated, and offensively stupid to me. There's no physical switch for the outdoor lights, you must use an app. I want to rip the control box and make it much simpler (and not cloud only) but I still need to do more research because it runs some proprietary protocol and the lights themselves might not cooperate, though they possibly can be driven over PWM at their core. A single ESP32 with a buck converter and MOSFET might be all I need. Maybe I can swing some over to a real physical dinner switch too, which would be great for the lights above the BBQ. Not sure why the BBQ lights need to be smart in any way.
Some of the lights are deep underneath floating concrete slabs and seem impossible to service, but getting my phone camera in there suggests it's like a 4" piece of the proprietary LED strip just snugged into a mounting bracket which may not be hopeless. Might be able to fashion my own thing here if I really need to replace them to do a DIY setup without cloud garbage.
The other smart stuff is a bit less horrible but I never would have bought any of it.
The house came with a Reolink doorbell that seems like it could work well with self hosting and blocking from the Internet but I'm not sure I want it at all. I really don't care if someone knocks on my door when I'm not home? If they know me they can text. If they don't they are probably an annoyance. It may be able to work as a security camera but if that's what I want I should just get actual security cameras. Mostly it just spuriously alerts me about squirrels or people walking by. It is not any good for porch pirate deterrence since I live in a blue town where the police completely ignore these videos.
My HVAC system let's me set the thermostat remotely. Not sure this is that helpful? Maybe if I forget to set myself away before a trip I can save a few bucks a day.
The house has Philips Hue lights but I'm so bored of the idea I can't be bothered to install the app. It might be neat if all of the lights shifted towards red after sunset but if it's not easy to instantly override that it might get aggravating.
Meanwhile the two smart features I actually would like the house doesn't have. I would like smart locks so I don't have to dick with distributing physical keys or being home to let service people in.
I would like under-sink and under-washer leak sensors that auto closed the mains. The house has 3 bathrooms and two additional utility sinks. Odds of leak are actually non-trivial. But nope, sorry.
There's a radon mitigation system. I keep forgetting to check to see if this has an app.
Anyway, in theory smart homes should be awesome and I want it. In practice all of the apps are so enshittified or are such gimmicks I can't help but come off as a luddite.
UPDATE: The lighting controller was actually configured as owned by the installer instead of the previous home owner so he had to be woken up and told to release it to me. The sprinklers required attempting to pair something like 15 times over bluetooth before it worked reliably enough to let us configure the WiFi and acknowledge the new owner. Still angry enough to want to replace them out of spite.
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
5d ago
We should encourage Israelis to forget about their ancestral homeland and resettle in Florida and start a new defense hub with a specialty in cyber arms. Also maybe try to improve the food situation.
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
7d ago
There are kids at burning man? Like not in the teenagers sense, but actual kids?
Yes, absolutely.
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
8d ago
Moreso than Burning Man? I've never come across more people that seem to have rape fantasies and not the cnc kind than at Burner adjacent communities.
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
8d ago
My no evidence inclination is that events like Burning Man have lower incidence of child sex abuse not because of any enlightened attitudes about nudity and sex but because it's such a challenging logistical and environmental ordeal to attend that it filters out a lot of low class dirtbags that would do child sex abuse.
Vibecamp is probably a similar demographic argument. I think it's plainly true that no sex tent or nudity would reduce sex abuse further. But I'm not sure the rates meaningfully matter once you've filtered all of the shitty people out to begin with.
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
9d ago
If they had secular goals, maybe. But, they're ruled by theocrats trying to advance the Islamic revolution. They're not gonna kill all the Jews and the rest of the infidels with conventional weapons.
So it seems we were lucky to return to the pre-war status quo, even Trump had to tepidly admit that he bit off more than he can chew and Iran's regional dominance is not going anywhere.
Not that this was anyone's plan but we learned/reconfirned some things.
- Alternate oil routes: solid idea.
- Anti-mining tech: in
- Anti-drone tech: in
- If you're going to decapitation strike a regime do it before they brutally suppress a popular uprising
- The Gulf states seem pretty useless
- Europe seems pretty useless
- Starlink: seems easily jammed
- Can we develop alternate energy faster already
- Blockading Iran's blockade: seems like reasonably good counter-leverage
Iran learned some things too
- SOH blockade: surprisingly good leverage, invest heavily in that tech
- Houthi relationship: develop at all costs, must be able to shut down red sea route
- Moar ballistic missiles
- Moar drones
- Hamas attack on Israel: pretty costly!
- Nuclear program: yes
- Internet blackouts: very effective
- China: probably a great economic ally on a lot of gear
- Russia: useless
All in, I think life for Iranians gets steadily worse from here but at least they can say they're scoring points for the Islamic revolution.
Iran can blockade the strait to cause pain but it's not limitless. We can blockade them back and inflict pain too. Eventually both sides lose the will to keep going, but it might be an inconvenience to Trump whereas it's a lot more punishing for Iran.
Anyway, maybe we can try a decapitation strike again in a few years and see if we do any better at
dr_analog
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11d ago
I'm grinding through a several week long session now. Opus is doing a better than human job but in little bits and bobs, but I was able to switch to Fable a few days ago and it was just chewing through it. It would sit and think for 10 minutes and then rip out a 700 line delta across 6 C++ files that would compile the first time and nail the feature in an iteration or two. It just kept that pace up.
Two days later Fable was yanked away from me while it was in the middle of implementing a feature and Opus couldn't figure out how to finish it with the uncommitted code that Fable had left. It just stashed it and started over and I told it it's late and to go to bed.
I feel a bit of loss over it
Opus has been doing a fine job but after a day or so with it it was clear Fable was significantly better.
To whitepillers: is there an argument for why I'm wrong that doesn't boil down to "you don't get it, chud, it's the New Economy! The Singularity is just around the corner! All the rules are obsolete!"? This argument is verboten, because this is pretty much what people say with every bubble.
The AI boom is mostly funded by private capital so the blast radius should be limited. Does anyone need to bail out Google or Facebook or Microsoft or Oracle? Nah.
The 2008 crash saw banks imploding due to correlated defaults and the government needed to bail them out because the economy needs banks to exist. This was pretty bad but the crash was only about 50% from a 2007 high and recovered within 5 years.
A crash to pre-AI markets in 2023 is one possible regression, which would be about a 40% drop. But this would mean ignoring all utility provided by AI aside from speculative gains.
The biggest unknowns are if a mildly bad crash causes a general mood of fear and depression to set in and make things much worse. Also, a big implosion in private capital could reveal unanticipated systemic risks.
I can't really get a clear picture either way.
Thanks for the detailed response!
What router OS are you planning on using for the Linux box?
Debian. Seems like I just need dnsmasq, nftables, wireguard and networkd to party.
Might convince myself glibc is too risky for an internet facing host and switch to Alpine.
You could use one of the technically-standard home networking wall panels, but they are NOT deep, and I wouldn't put much equipment in it if any at all.
Oh, I think I'd probably just put a patch panel on the wall so that the runs between the switch and the jacks don't directly tug on the switch itself. The switch could go in an 16U cabinet or some such.
and not have to worry about your equipment being out in the cold.
Actually, since we're planning to put our home gym in the garage (and no cars) y'all have convinced me that me and the machines would be a lot happier with a dessicant dehumidifier. Between that and an short cabinet with top exhaust we should be good. But I wouldn't have thought of this at all without posting!
Apple gear is particularly poorly behaving in terms of dealing with complex home networks. A lot of Apple/HomeKit/AirPlay stuff assumes a mostly flat LAN and can get grumpy across VLANs unless you set up mDNS/Bonjour reflection carefully... and I couldn't tell you how to do that, I'm still figuring it out myself. IoT devices that go straight to the cloud can probably do fine just with internet access.
I don't have much Apple gear and this sounds like one more reason not to start! Thanks ^_^
People love Proxmox, I have a soft spot for XCP-NG, not because I have any love for Xen but because their management and backup platforms are more flexible.
I used to virtualize stuff on my beefy box but moved away from it since taking stable and delta efficient backups was a lot more convoluted than I'd like. I ended up moving each service into its own user and hermetically sealing their dependencies to the user account so that a top-level kopia would take efficient enough snapshots. It's not quite nix-level but close enough that I should probably ask Claude to convert each one to a nix flake. (Some things like Immich are in docker and I just live with that, the important stuff is in a mapped filesystem anyway). Efficient matters because I rsync them off-site once a month. I plan to do the backups weekly once I have fiber with better upload speeds.
One thing you could do with your BEEFY linux box is run your own DNS, with ad-block capabilities.
I'm thinking this should live on the router since I'm a lot more likely to reboot or rebuild the beefy Linux box.
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
15d ago
Ah, I didn't compute BC was a finance bro.
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
15d ago
People hate finance bros too are you kidding.
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
15d ago
Agreed, it has a lot going for it even if the lyrics are a bit try-hard.
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
15d ago
Thanks btw! Excellent advice as always! <3
I set up UniFi stuff for my brother's company but the APs weren't very reliable either, though the shininess of the rest of their stack was pretty nice. I'm mostly just going to edit iptables rules by hand like a neckbeard though.
I have a few recommendations for the Omada\ APs today in 2026 so I'll take a risk with them. I would probably just disable any smart stuff they try to do and manually set their power and see if it'll let me get away with it.
A box with a fan is a solid idea. Ditto for the UPS.
I got a new house. It's significantly bigger than my last house. I think I'm looking at like 5-10 hours of home network engineering to get it put together. Please critique my stack.
- Fiber hookup in my garage
- Router: fanless small Linux PC with dual Intel NICs in garage
- Omada 8 port PoE switch, also in garage
- Omada WiFi APs, probably 3 at various spots in the house
- One beefier Linux box for home services/storage on Ethernet: Immich, that home YouTube clone, etc
The house has existing coax cable runs to various rooms, which must go. I'm thinking of taping cat6 cable to the coax terminals and pulling them to try to re-run those paths as cat6. This way the coax jacks are replaced with Ethernet jacks. Avoids drilling new holes. Have them all terminate at the switch in the garage. Can put either full desktops or APs on the ends.
I'm planning on 2 vlans. One for the humans and home services. The other vlan for cloud-IoT shit that can only access the Internet and not even cross talk to each other.
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
17d ago
I was going through a terrible breakup that involved a big betrayal when this song came out and I couldn't listen to it without my heart rate racing. It captured that "my whole world is turned upside down" energy too well. I think that's what people are relating to.
I'm fine listening to it now.
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
19d ago
I find him a lot more relatable than anyone in Trump's orbit, that's for sure. Guessing he'd immediately relapse if he went anywhere near a tough job though
Come to think of it, I'm surprised politicians and other figures aren't caught doing crack with black prostitutes in DC constantly. They're away from their homes and families, stressed, and surrounded by poor black people.
Okay! If I was going to what I thought was a protest and the leader guy says we're all bringing guns because he's not going to jail I'd be pretty alarmed that this was not going to be an ordinary protest. I have to conclude you're either very dumb or you want to support shooting at cops if not do some shooting at cops yourself. Then you go protest and this protest is kind of rioty and the leader guy actually shoots at police. Looks bad!
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