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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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Post by victorbjorklund »

throw38228374 wrote: post #15
mschuster91 wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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We already have dozens of military bases surrounding China. There's not much more to do since China is not currently attacking foreign soil.

They are indeed violating other countries waters though.

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

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Post by nirui »

It's 2024, instead of riding our personal spaceships to habitat on Mars, we use Home Assistant software to alert us about incoming missile attacks.

War is the single most unproductive activity humans can do. Sure, maybe Putin has his rationale, but spiting on a cake is never how one can secure the cake for themself, because guess what, others can also spit on it and then the cake is ruined. A greater leader knows that the only way to really solve a problem is to do something that adds (instead of removes) value, sadly some leaders never care to learn it.

Rant aside, I want to ask a question: based on the article, it seemed that the system requires Telegram (thus Internet) and open source intel to work. Is it possible to make the system self-sustained? Is it physically possible to detect imminent attack based on soundwave/light signals? Because after the war started, Internet access maybe a difficult privilege.

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

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Post by exe34 »

nirui wrote: post #22

It's 2024, instead of riding our personal spaceships to habitat on Mars, we use Home Assistant software to alert us about incoming missile attacks. War is the single most unproductive activity humans can do. Sure, maybe Putin has his rationale, but spiting on a cake is never how one can secure the cake for themself, because guess what, others can also spit on it and then the cake is ruined. A greater leader knows tha…

> War is the single most unproductive activity humans can do

https://science.howstuffworks.com/war-drive-technological-ad...

war leads to technological progress. peace leads to kerfuffles over pronouns.

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

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Post by Hamuko »

dueyfinster wrote: post #19

Fascinating use of HomeAssistant. He mentioned uptime monitor in the next section - I wonder what he uses to ensure it stays online? I would guess some sort of UPS or battery backup.

I imagine UPS are necessary anyways in Ukraine since the power grid is getting constantly attacked.

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

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Post by multjoy »

exe34 wrote: post #27
nirui wrote: post #22

It's 2024, instead of riding our personal spaceships to habitat on Mars, we use Home Assistant software to alert us about incoming missile attacks. War is the single most unproductive activity humans can do. Sure, maybe Putin has his rationale, but spiting on a cake is never how one can secure the cake for themself, because guess what, others can also spit on it and then the cake is ruined. A greater leader knows tha…

> War is the single most unproductive activity humans can do https://science.howstuffworks.com/war-drive-technological-ad... war leads to technological progress. peace leads to kerfuffles over pronouns.

Directed with unerring accuracy by Moscow specifically to seed discord and division.

The idea that this the inevitable direction of peace ignores the fact that the rise of the so-called culture war is part of an asymmetric conflict.

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