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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 afiodorov »

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…

>spiting on a cake is never how one can secure the cake for themself,

Not sure the analogy holds, Putin got a slice for himself and spits on the rest.

> War is the single most unproductive activity humans can do.

This war is a conflict about values; conflicting sides think human lives are worth sacrificing for the values let alone economical output.

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

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Post by mciancia »

smolder wrote: post #34
mschuster91 wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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What would you do? Install a favorable dictator? Thanks to warmongering there isn't much of a diplomatic route to peace where we still need it. Petty ulterior motives held by world 'leaders' have made it hard.

A ton more sanctions, becoming less dependand on russian oil and gas, killing nordstream. But in 2014, not 2022. Probably would have helped

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

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Post by _xnmw »

To see some statistics about the number and duration of air alerts in all regions of Ukraine, including number of media-reported explosions by region and time period, check out https://alerts.in.ua/en, they have a statistical summary section there. Click the hourglass button on bottom of the screen, then filter by time period.

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

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Post by waffleiron »

wood_spirit wrote: post #39
dgoldstein0 wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And how would you propose deterring them from doing this while also avoiding escalation?

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 countries should have attacked the US when it committed it's illegal wars in the middle east, to stop emboldening the aggressor? I don't think that would have created a better world.

It's easy to say things like this about your geopolitical enemies, but allies get away with it all the time.

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

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Post by alias_neo »

elric wrote: post #3

> Home Assistant has a built-in Ukraine Alarm integration. It monitors the nation-wide system of air alarms and toggles safety sensors in HA. I don't know anything about the HA community, but I would be very wary of any new commits impacting this plugin...

I'm not sure what your implication is exactly regarding the HA community, but that aside;

I work in an industry that puts huge emphasis on the risks of software supply chain attacks; regardless of the community, in an ideal world, and in this situation, I too would be making sure any such code was very carefully reviewed by a trusted group of peers (including myself) and using signatures et al to ensure everyone is "getting what they paid for", so to speak.

This might not be relied on to the extent people's lives depend on it, but if it's important enough to use, it's important enough to be sure.

All of that said, it's easy enough for me to say when there isn't such a terrifying list of munitions raining down on my home when I'm trying to get some rest, so a simple step such as "not updating from a known-good configuration" might be enough.

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

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Post by 5e92cb50239222b »

smolder wrote: post #34
mschuster91 wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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What would you do? Install a favorable dictator? Thanks to warmongering there isn't much of a diplomatic route to peace where we still need it. Petty ulterior motives held by world 'leaders' have made it hard.

Well, the EU could have put a ban on selling riot control gear to Putin's forces back in 2012 when he used it to suppress massive pro-democracy protests in Moscow, not in October of 2022 like they actually did. This set the tone for everything that happened afterwards.

I said this already under a (now flagged and dead) comment, but it's worth repeating — "your" (not your personally) one-sided propaganda and continuing support for Putin (if indirect) have made "you" lose whatever anti-war and pro-West opposition there was in Russia. I only wish we'd seen how convenient Putin is for "the West" a decade earlier. This was particularly obvious in June 2023 during the short and failed putsch of Wagner PMC. If you care at all, you can dig into my comment history from the beginning of 2022 and see how my own opinion has changed. It's a pretty typical example, I think.

https://russiafossiltracker.com

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

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Post by H8crilA »

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.

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

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Post by toenail »

palata wrote: post #31
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. Let's wait a few decades and see the results of global warming, shall we?

Not sure what you're trying to say. Global warming is a human activity, global warming is unproductive, global warming is caused by one human activity, that activity is unproductive?

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

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Post by 5e92cb50239222b »

moffkalast wrote: post #16
thefz wrote: post #4

The fact that this exists is at he same time chilling and inspiring.

I didn't think I'd ever read a programming tutorial on string matching Tu-95 take-offs and Kalibr launches in anything but a fictional setting, holy shit it feels so surreal. Like a modding guide for Cold Waters or something.

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