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Because spending tens of thousands of dollars in home infrastructure to avoid fiddling with the thermostat four times a year definitely makes sense.
My heat is controlled and automated with open source software for the grand total of about fifty bucks and a free surplus server.
All of the rooms/corridors in my house except my bathrooms are covered by cameras. My initial motivation for installing them was to keep an eye on what my pets were doing when I'm not around, but I find in recent years that if I misplace something, I end up tracing back my history on the cameras and finding where I left it. It seems obvious that at some point, AI will be able to do that for me and I'll just be able t…
I would 100% prefer to lose my keys rather than letting Amazon or Google in. FYI: I have zero Alexa/Siri enabled device, zero automated home device, a degoogled phone, etc etc. So we might have different perspectives on the matter.
This is a cool project. One of my pet ideas that I haven't done is to build a home assistant where all data is stored and processed by a home "server". The biggest benefit I see is that it could truly be omnipresent. There in the background, answering questions, jumping into your conversations without prompt. And it's much less creepy if all that data isn't going to someone else's computer. Also piping in and process…
Interesting work, glad to see I am not the only crazy one left in the life logging scene after all these years. Have been lifelogging since 2004-ish, and built a few custom bits of software and hardware to support it. I don't record 24x7 anymore, but I used to. Now my recordings are limited mostly to my office environment, and when I am out and about using a Sensecam-like device with custom firmware. When in my offic…
Do you mind sharing your experience, why you started, what you want to get out of this etc? I'm interested to read your experience.
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I think that’s right, it’s a double edged sword. You would have to ask if you’re more likely to be wrongly accused or to be caught doing something wrong by your own recordings. This guy has been recording himself publicly since 2002 after ending up on a no fly list. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hasan_M._Elahi I think that’s taking it too far and would rather encrypt than publish it publicly, but doing it publicly…
You're missing an option: Wrongly accused on the basis of your own recordings. Imagine this real life situation occured, but it was your own recordings instead of surveillance cameras > A key piece of evidence in the case is video surveillance footage showing Williams’ car stopped on the 6300 block of South Stony Island Avenue at 11:46 p.m.—the time and location where police say they know Herring was shot. > How did…
In general, the shotspotter and surveillance cameras already exist, so what do you have to counteract that? Doing things like leaving no paper trail because you pay everything in cash, or no location data because you keep your phone in airplane mode, leaves little crumbs for your defense, and may create the appearance of hiding something.
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My heat is controlled and automated with open source software for the grand total of about fifty bucks and a free surplus server.
I don’t know how that can be true. Can you tell us more?
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I would 100% prefer to lose my keys rather than letting Amazon or Google in. FYI: I have zero Alexa/Siri enabled device, zero automated home device, a degoogled phone, etc etc. So we might have different perspectives on the matter.
Curious: are you concerned about data leaks or you don't trust the employees to not access your user data? Or something else?
Thus, I should only be okay with it if I’m okay with the “nothing to hide” argument, which I’m not.
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i mean you could always run a home server for the automated home things. heating/ac and lights are nice things to automate
Because spending tens of thousands of dollars in home infrastructure to avoid fiddling with the thermostat four times a year definitely makes sense.
Since everyone is interested in the hardware: https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256803349510543.html https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256803085687061.html the particular choice was for the battery and the other for the size, both are generic and come with the same software and bios, several vendors, if I could buy something better I would look for one that can have a lavalier microphone
All of the rooms/corridors in my house except my bathrooms are covered by cameras. My initial motivation for installing them was to keep an eye on what my pets were doing when I'm not around, but I find in recent years that if I misplace something, I end up tracing back my history on the cameras and finding where I left it. It seems obvious that at some point, AI will be able to do that for me and I'll just be able t…
When you do, can you invite me over to show me how it works? Then I'll test it for "Alexa, in which mattress does cameronh90 keep their savings?".