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How Home Assistant is being used to protect from missile and drone attacks

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Re: How Home Assistant is being used to protect from missile and drone attacks

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The existence of this is fascinating and horrifying at the same time. I wonder how he tests it though; when writing tons of YAML for K8s or Ansible, you usually test it in a test environment before putting it in production. Unlike the other cases though, a bug in your YAML here can literally lead people to lose their lives.

The actual horrifying part is that this is more of a coping tool than a warning system, as its utility as the latter is limited even in Kyiv. If you are not at the point of accepting your fate, but have already given up on attempting to get to actual shelter, you can set this up and only hide from glass shrapnel for an hour when the cruise missiles and killer drones arrive instead of hiding for hours while they fly all over the country through the gaps of air defense.

For anywhere closer to the frontline than Kyiv this is almost completely useless. Travel time of even non-hypersonic ballistics, hell, even of glide bombs is so short you'd be listening to your alarm and the sound of explosions almost simultaneously.

Re: How Home Assistant is being used to protect from missile and drone attacks

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Isn’t history showing that letting aggressors nibble away at norms and borders and letting them get away with it ‘to avoid escalation’ is just emboldening the aggressor? Peace in our time.

So we should tell the US to stop driving its ships and planes right on the Chinese border? And directly through the Taiwan strait. Who is the aggressor in your mind here? Note: China don’t have any military assets off the US west coast… meanwhile then US has multi thousands of soldiers within staging distance of Chinese coast line from the very bottom to the very top.

US ships and aircraft stay in international waters and airspace near China, or in the territorial waters and airspace of allies who give it permission. That includes the Taiwan strait.

Allowing China to prevent US or other aircraft to operate in such international waters or airspace would amount to giving them control over it, which is why it’s important to have regular freedom of navigation sailings and flights.

Chinese ships and aircraft are violating the territorial waters and airspace of other countries in the region, especially in the South China Sea. It’s annexing territory that belongs to other countries. It’s not at all the same thing.

Re: How Home Assistant is being used to protect from missile and drone attacks

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There was no "CIA-backed coup" in Ukraine. A president that caved in to Russian pressure to back out of tighter economic relations with the EU saw massive protests in response, ordered to shoot protesters, killed over a hundred of them, and then fled the country when he understood that he would be facing criminal charges. Ukrainian parliament deposed him with votes 328-vs-0. Even members of his own party voted agains…

There was indeed a CIA-backed uprising[0], and CIA bases were in Ukraine long before the 2022 Russian invasion. [0] https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2024/04/30/...

No there wasn't, and the article you linked is from one of those bottom-feeders who keeps circulating long-debunked anti-American conspiracy theories. And the NYT article you linked earlier says that CIA provided instructors for Ukrainian commandos in 2016, which is two years AFTER Russia invaded Crimea and Donbas in 2014. 2022 was only a renewed assault on Ukraine.

Re: How Home Assistant is being used to protect from missile and drone attacks

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Any single API for this would be constantly attacked. They're distributing the attack surface by using other services.

Not sure outsourcing it to a Russia affiliated messaging app is the best choice then.

What would you choose?

Re: How Home Assistant is being used to protect from missile and drone attacks

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I don't think that would be stable. No war means losing the ability to fight which means eventually it'll be easy enough for just one small group to attack somebody much bigger but weaker. If war is solved by all attacked countries surrendering immediately so one aggressor rules the world, I'm sure factions would emerge within it who are competing for power again. Maybe a solution could come from some defensive techn…

The risk of war between sacramento and san fransisco is zero. I don’t see why we can’t make that true for the world over one day.

It's zero now. But if they ever find themselves in distinct nations then the odds will change.

Re: How Home Assistant is being used to protect from missile and drone attacks

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Not sure outsourcing it to a Russia affiliated messaging app is the best choice then.

What would you choose?

Not an easy questions as it depends what's popular in the local market, you need to be where the users are even if you don't like it in cases like this. Telegram also has a great bot API, which makes it a harder sell to use alternatives (Signal, WhatsApp) or open technology like Matrix, where it's only useful for people that like to play around with technology and not regular people.

Re: How Home Assistant is being used to protect from missile and drone attacks

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Sanctioning US back then would be interesting. BTW war in Afghanistan wasn't illegal.

> BTW war in Afghanistan wasn't illegal. and why do you say that?

Because UN approved it.

Re: How Home Assistant is being used to protect from missile and drone attacks

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Sanctioning US back then would be interesting. BTW war in Afghanistan wasn't illegal.

Sanctions barely work even if you ARE the world hegemon. In Iraq they just made Saddam's position even more secure while killing a million children. Aginst Russia they backfired spectacularly because Putin had prepared better for the sanctions contingency than Europe did. I'm struggling to think of an example where they actually led to the desired outcome.

Sanctions work on the timescale of decades. They cut your GDP growth by 1-2 percent points. After 50 years you become North Korea.

Let's see if Russia is a problem in 50 years :)

Re: How Home Assistant is being used to protect from missile and drone attacks

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post #48

The real question is why there isn't any official API that details the nature of the danger. You shouldn't have to scrape Telegram to figure out the type/speed of the air assault weapon, and the likely time on target. BTW, also check out Kropyva, it's like Uber for artillery strikes. Very helpful with deleting Russians.

> it's like Uber for artillery strikes

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Re: How Home Assistant is being used to protect from missile and drone attacks

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What a stupid and ignorant take. Russia is invading, murdering, torturing and committing genocide. The only thing a "peaceful resolution" would accomplish is: 1. Show Russia that aggression is profitable. 2. Give Russia time and opportunity to prepare for the next attack. Russia doesn't give a rats ass about any promises they make and they can and will break every single one of them if they can profit from it.

are you ignoring years of conflict before the invasion on purpose, to help your argument?

Are you paid to promote Russian propaganda or are you just a useful idiot?
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