Dimand

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[–] Dimand@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

+1 to this. A steel frame 90s mountain bike with 26" wheels, some maintenance know how and about $100 in parts will get you thousands of km of riding with much less trouble compared to a fancy aluminium/carbon frame with hydraulic breaks and a drivetrain that locks the moment something goes slightly out of tolerance.

Only caveat is needing to buy some tools, but good tools will last.

[–] Dimand@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Old school YouTube here. Short niche content, no clickbait or algorithm pushing. Nice birds, love it. I feel like you haven't been able to browse and just watch simple original content like this since 2015.

My only complaint is it's three pages down on videos.

[–] Dimand@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

+1 for frigate. I have some old V2 wyze cameras with openmiko for rtsp functionality.

https://github.com/openmiko/openmiko

[–] Dimand@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago
[–] Dimand@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Wow. Thank fuck I love somewhere where unions are an accepted and appreciated concept.

[–] Dimand@lemmy.world 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I think this is rather location dependent. Here in Aus a lot of people I know use them. Just some more anecdotal evidence.

[–] Dimand@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago

Pretty much this, look up Kalman filters if you want details. The most likely explanation is that they are tuned to effectively trust GPS more than the internal IMU for long periods of time. Really good IMUs are very expensive and still drift but have high speed output. When it works well, GPS is cheap and doesn't drift but with a slow update rate. The cost optimisation probably means that the IMU data is usually only trusted for a few seconds, probably 10 min at most before it takes whatever the GPS says as truth. If they lost gps signal through jamming, then they would keep navigation on the less certain IMU data, but the GPS sensor thinks all is well so they shift position.

There is probably a software upgrade to the filter that could be used to limit these attacks, but I imagine it's an active area or research.

[–] Dimand@lemmy.world 12 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I can't see how omega and similar were not just as susceptible to this type of attack. Active outside in positioning almost always has this vulnerability.

[–] Dimand@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm not an expert in this stuff but my whole life I have been told to avoid eating mammals that primarily eat meat. Eating a fox just seems wrong, especially when there are so many good to eat rabbits.

[–] Dimand@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Plus you can flash wrt to a lot of the TP-Link stuff including the access points. I haven't looked in ages but I remember that most or all ubiquity stuff was locked down.

[–] Dimand@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Purely anecdotal but in my experience unify is overpriced garbage. Had a dream machine die at 13 months and could only get an, it's out of warranty, buy a new one response. Looking at the internals it was pretty clear they were never designed with any service in mind.

They also force you into plenty of cloud bullshit. They lost my password hash for my local device because they fucked up some cloud transfer. If I didn't have an SSH key I would have been screwed.

It takes a bunch of time and tech know-how but foss has been a much better solution. Have a openwrt pi4 router, truenas server and switched my Wyze cams to openmiko firmware. Far better than anything offered by these prosumer companies.

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