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Not yet, but I used VLMs to read out water meters with mixed results. It is definitely the easiest approach to prototype. For my balcony, all vision based approaches are limited by…

Cool! Do you have the STLs of the turret online somewhere? My setup also had its occasional false positives but that’s not a problem if all you do is spray a bit of water around. I…

Hey, author here — thanks for posting it again! As of 2025 the pigeons are back and version 2 with aiming and a microphone array for target acquisition is still work-in-progress. I…

Hi mbreeze! > this seems to just be a SQLite database with values in fields? Sqlite is used as a storage format ("SQLite competes with fopen()"). The key-value pairs are stored as …

SQLite allows me to keep multiple versions of the same entry, which is convenient for state merging. Half the sync logic is actually implemented in SQL. Other than that, I’m alread…

Redis is in-memory so it's prohibitive for big files. Also kvass still works if its disconnected from the server. This is important, if you want to use it for config files. On the …

Cool! If this gets implemented, I'll definitely use is instead of raw AES.

Mainly self-hosting and generating share-able urls. If your key's end in ".html" the mime type is even set accordingly and you can use it for toy-websites ;) This is by no means me…

I think it's fair to say that skate is the more mature tool. Kvass on the other hand is more focused and simpler. Especially self-hosting kvass is even simpler than skate, and I ha…

Thanks for the critique! I wanted to use symmetric crypto as its trivial to use without domains and certificates. The possibility of replays is a non-issue, as the key-value store …

The primary use case is for shuffling around files or clipboards between different computers. I also regularly use the url-sharing capability. Prior, I had to deal with ephemeral h…

This is pretty much what I’m doing. Except that I’m using an exponential moving average so I don’t have to mess with windowing.

Cool project!

Thanks for the hint!

I wanted to add video recording in the future to gain some lol-points. But to be honest, the still images of the pigeons + my imagination had me jumping like a child in excitement …

Actually not, but it looks similar (minus the network insanity)

I don’t aim it at all at the moment. The pigeons mostly land directly behind the railings, as documented by their… presents ;)

Interesting question! The geometry of my balcony kind of restricts the number of places that observe the pigeons without spying on my neighbors. Therefore I’m not sure where else I…

Hi HN! I commented about this project of mine a month ago [0] and decided to write a more in depth blog post about it. Feel free to ask any questions :) [0] https://news.ycombinato…

After a quick burst of manic energy during exam phase, I decided to solve the pigeon problem on my balcony once and for all (and in a humane way). So I bought a cheap electric wate…

Have you tried Spectacle? https://www.spectacleapp.com As a long time i3 user that switched to Mac, it gives me almost all the benefits while still integrating nicely with the gene…

This is really nice! I like the combination of the aesthetics and the dialogs that combine mundanity with deepness.

One thing that really improved quality of life for me as a southpaw, is the PS4(/5?) feature to remap button assignments system-wide.