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Tell me your most exotic selfhosted solution, the crazier, the better, no 0815 solutions! (alien.top)
submitted 11 months ago by ElevenNotes@alien.top to c/main@selfhosted.forum
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I don’t want to hear about your Plex, your NPM, your notes application or science forbid, your budgeting application. I want to hear the most exotic thing you setup to selfhost, that probably only you and a hand full of people around the world actually use or even need. A problem that you solved in a way, that makes people go WTF. Go!

I’ll start: I live in the mountains, and there is snow, lots of snow. I often tell people “We had 3m of snow last year”, but is that really true? So, I thought to myself: Can you measure snowfall? It seems you can, so I setup a USH-9 ultra sound measuring device, connected it via IC2 to my Home Assistant and now I can tell people with confidence, that we had a total of 3.45m of snowfall last season, with max snow height of 60cm on January 5th.

Future project: I have chickens. They lay eggs. I have cameras. I want to know which hen lays how many eggs. Solution? AI image recognition of the hens (who is who) and if they have laid an egg. Any inputs welcome.

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[–] liamcottle@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (5 children)

In 2016 purchased and jailbroke 20 iPhone 4, and later upgraded to 30 iPhone 5s on iOS 9.3
I wrote a custom theos tweak which injected an HTTP server into Snapchat.
A raspberry pi was running an nginx server as a load balancer across the 30 iPhones.
I developed an Android app called "Casper", which was a 3rd party Snapchat client. It sent http requests to my load balancer server to fetch signed security tokens from a random iPhone, which spoofed that it was the official Snapchat app.
The Snapchat APIs believed my app was the real app, so it could download and view snaps without the sender knowing it was even opened.
Self hosted an iPhone farm :)
Here's a link to my tweet with photos and videos of the setup for anyone interested!
https://twitter.com/LiamCottle/status/1406616490783117322

[–] Stoned420Man@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

I used to use Casper! Loved that app! Never realised how much effort it was to make that work. Thank you so much!

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