Dave
@Dave@lemmy.nz
- Comment on Big Brother just got an upgrade. Starting December, Amazon’s Ring cameras will scan and recognize faces. Don’t want to be in their database? Too bad — walk past a Ring and your face can be stored... 2 days ago:
I found this page explaining that it’s not that it’s illegal (necessarily, keep reading), but that there is a GDPR exemption for private property and if you’re filming areas the public access then you need to comply with GDPR. The page says for dashcams you need to comply with GDPR as well.
This page says it’s generally not allowed to record, but if you read the Swedish version is has a flow chart (that I can’t read 😅).
What most interests me is that it keeps referring to the GDPR as the reason why you can’t record public areas (or your neighbours). I’m not in Europe and don’t know much about the GDPR but why is Sweden special with these rules, why aren’t all countries in the European Union limiting the use of security cameras on public areas?
- Comment on Big Brother just got an upgrade. Starting December, Amazon’s Ring cameras will scan and recognize faces. Don’t want to be in their database? Too bad — walk past a Ring and your face can be stored... 2 days ago:
That’s really interesting. Is it specifically security cameras?
Can you generally take videos of people in public places? Photos?
- Comment on Security camera recommendations? 1 week ago:
Can confirm, I’ve recently got some cameras and set up Frigate and it’s been great. Not using Reolink but the ones I have work well enough. I have a TPLink that I like, and a Hilook starlight camera that I am not convinced on as it doesn’t seem to have auto-exposure adjustment. Both work well for object detection, though there’s a bit of a learning curve with frigate needing to be configured via YAML for a lot of things.
I’ve also started playing with Frigate’s face detection but I don’t think the cameras are really positioned for it. It probably makes more sense for a front door camera getting a good view of the person.
I’ve also got Home Assistant picking up the frigate camera streams which works well too.
- Comment on Cooking 😋 1 week ago:
Heaps of servings in the dish, but only one meal haha.
I once read it can be hard to put as much salt in your home cooked meals as what you get in fast food or processed food. And if you’re shaking the salt on top, it may be negligible no matter how much you put on.
- Comment on Cooking 😋 1 week ago:
Well aware that excessive salt can be unhealthy 😅. I don’t even track what I eat too closely. I might make a big dish of lasagne, maybe the meat has 3 or 4 teaspoons of salt, then the pasta has some, the sauce has some, I might also throw in some soy sauce, the cheese has some, etc. Then out of this giant dish, I serve up one scoop, throw on some tomato sauce that has salt in it, and serve alongside vegetables that have their own salt content depending on how they were cooked.
I honestly have no idea if I eat 2, 5, or 15 teaspoons of salt a day 😆
- Comment on Cooking 😋 1 week ago:
I’d be curious to know how much salt you actually end up eating. It’s all fine to say no more than 5 grams, but how do you go about working out how much you actually had?
E.g. I cook pasta with heaps of salt in the water, salty like the sea, but the vast majority of the salt goes down the drain when the pasta is strained.
- Comment on Cooking 😋 1 week ago:
Who told you she over salted it, the people making the bland food? 😅
- Comment on Jeebuz Rode A Velocirapture 1 week ago:
And only 41% believe it!
- Comment on Cooking 😋 1 week ago:
I want some big, strong kidneys! Got to train them every day.
- Comment on Cooking 😋 1 week ago:
Taste as you go!
Though I have definitely been caught out by salting it perfectly then it reduces and is then too salty.
- Comment on Immich mobile app sync V2 1 week ago:
Yup, seems the issue for this is still open.
I have local storage for my photos, then backup to object storage using Borgmatic and Rclone to B2. But you’re right, you can’t directly use object storage with Immich.
- Comment on Cooking 😋 1 week ago:
Honestly, salt is my secret ingredient. Way more than anyone else is brave enough to put in, but it makes things delicious.
- Comment on Immich mobile app sync V2 1 week ago:
Local storage on a VPS is expensive. Personally I self-host and send a backup to Backblaze B2 for offsite (using Rclone).
I use Borgmatic for incremental, deduplicated backups but make sure you save your encryption key somewhere you can access it if your house burns down.
- Comment on Immich mobile app sync V2 1 week ago:
I think you might be right. Others are talking about a rocky start but reading through the recent release notes it seems like a potentially unrelated issue with a release of a new timeline.
- Comment on Immich mobile app sync V2 1 week ago:
I’m really happy to see this post acknowledge speed issues where there are many items, 100k+. I have around this and have always found Immich to be laggy, while others say how it’s the fastest ever.
I will have to give it another go.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
I’m feeling very lucky now!
We have a national grid that is shared by all power companies, and is open to all. Power companies just buy and sell power on the grid based on a spot pricing system. Because of this, we have very easy movement between power companies, and have dozens to choose from, leading to a lot of competition. Mine is a tiny company that specialises in solar, having sell to grid rates well above most companies.
The company that did our solar install had their top recommended companies, they worked out the best for us, and organised getting set up with them. Was I pretty nice experience to have everything taken care of like that!
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Interesting! Your power seems super expensive.
We pay a daily lines maintenance charge of 60c, 29c/kWh during the day and a little under 27c for off peak night time. Then add 15% tax to these. These are in NZD, so almost halve them to get USD (e.g. 60cNZD is 35cUSD)
We also get about 17.5c for each kWh sold to the grid. So to sell it in the day and buy back at night is a 10c additional cost. A 10kWh battery can save a max of $1 per night, meaning it’s really hard to make your money back on a battery that’s $10-15k NZD on it’s own.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
What an odd pricing structure! I would normally expect higher usage to mean lower prices per unit.
I guess that gives you a large incentive to have at least a little solar, as there would be a big financial benefit.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Wait, it gets more expensive when you use more?
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Net metering is potentially better, as you are effectively getting free night usage based ob day generation. My setup pays me, but I get paid 20c pwr Kw and pay about 30c to buy, so there’s a 10c difference. Just as long as whatever you lose on 31st Dec is not too high, you’d be better off than me.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
I recently got a solar system and came to the conclusion that if you can sell power back to the grid (not everyone can) for some reasonable percentage of what it costs to buy it, then it will always be worth it to be connected (assuming you already are).
Quite simply, if you have enough solar capacity to get you through the winter (no house is going to have months of battery storage), then you will always be creating far more than you need in the summer. Selling this excess will easily cover any costs associated to being on the grid.
Also at current prices batteries are good for backup power only, it’s always cheaper to sell excess power to the grid in the day and buy it back at night than it is to have battery capacity to get through the night. I worked out it would take 40 years for our battery to pay for itself (assuming the battery kept a constant battery capacity for 40 years…) but less than 10 years for the rest of the system to pay for itself.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
Made up spellings are bad, but good luck searching for anything that isn’t a made up spelling or two words put together.
- Comment on Backup/Server Options - is Syncthing / Nextcloud really the go? 5 weeks ago:
I think versioning is the better option.
are you writing about losing the backUp drive?
No, losing your main version. Imagine you have a computer with syncthing and a server where it syncs to. If you chose no deletions, then it will sync all files to the server but all the stuff you deleted (draft documents, random files, photos from that time your kid held the camera button on your phone down and took 3000 photos in 30 seconds) will be deleted from your computer but still there on your server.
When you computer gets struck by lightning and everything is destroyed but the server is fine, now you have to re-sort out all your files because all the stuff you deleted is still on the server version.
Your suggestion of enabling the option to keep previous versions is probably cleaner. Personally I prefer to keep previous versions and deduplicate to save space.
- Comment on Backup/Server Options - is Syncthing / Nextcloud really the go? 5 weeks ago:
Yes, if you go with something like syncthing, have it also sync to a server where you run borg backup so you get the incremental backup.
- Comment on Backup/Server Options - is Syncthing / Nextcloud really the go? 5 weeks ago:
Yip you can do that but then it’s messy! And what if you overwrite a file by accident?
And if you do lose your hard drive then you have a weird state to restore from.
I’d much prefer the ability to restore to a point in time that comes with something like borg.
- Comment on Backup/Server Options - is Syncthing / Nextcloud really the go? 5 weeks ago:
Remember sync isn’t a good backup. You’re thinking of loss of drives but if this is important data you need to also consider mistakes.
If you accidentally delete files you shouldn’t, you don’t want this deletion to sync to all your copies so it’s gone for good and the backup doesn’t help.
Personally I use borgmatic to keep incremental, deduplicated backups. Then I can go back to previous states.
If you install nextcloud all in one, it comes with a backup solution (also borg based). Then devices don’t need a copy of every file. But you’ll want your server to have a backup drive for this.
I then sync my borg backup to a backblaze b2 bucket for offsite, encrypted backup using rclone. That then meets the 3 2 1 backup plan.
I notice you mention Jellyfin. I don’t back up my Jellyfin media, the cloud storage for that could get very expensive and I could get it again if I needed it.
- Comment on android 5 weeks ago:
Can confirm, my banking app works fine.
- Comment on LOL GitHub [2018] 1 month ago:
I love that he’s like “I co founded Netscape and Mozilla, now I run a dance club and pizzeria”.
Dude’s living the dream.
- Comment on 🚀 Boost for Lemmy 1.0.20 - PieFed Support 1 month ago:
I think PieFed has only recently got an API for apps to connect to, hence the surge.
- Comment on Google search boss says AI isn’t killing search clicks 1 month ago:
Holy crap, I hadn’t considered that we have the technology to create articles on the fly based on search terms.
That could be a serious weapon of war - you get your site to the top through SEO, then show each user personalised propoganda. You show googlebot the genuine page but adjust the page based on what you know about the user.