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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 pjc50 »

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…

> Because after the war started, Internet access maybe a difficult privilege.

? The war is on and people are continuing to use the internet.

> Is it physically possible to detect imminent attack based on soundwave/light signals?

You cannot hear a hypersonic missile coming. Horizons prevent you seeing it. You need to listen to the AWACS https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/flying-with-nato-awacs-1.66194...

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

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Post by pjc50 »

5e92cb50239222b wrote: post #50
moffkalast wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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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> Western media tend to portrait Israel in a negative light

Western media bend over backwards to report the official Israeli spin on events as often as possible and they still end up looking bad, mostly because people can get information from non-MSM sources as well.

The problem with the Palestine conflict is that there are way more than just two sides involved. People keep overlooking Iran. And the Syria disaster.

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

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Post by pjc50 »

ajuc wrote: post #52
smolder wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Accept Ukraine to NATO in 2008 and none of this would have happened. Thank France and Germany for blocking it.

As well as not building either Nordstream, but who can turn down cheap energy?

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

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Post by INTPenis »

H8crilA wrote: 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.

Any single API for this would be constantly attacked.

They're distributing the attack surface by using other services.

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

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Post by hcfman »

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…

Nice to see people able to use tech to help reduce/manage their stress/trauma in such horrific situations.

Good point about telegram. As much local control as possible is desirable. Do the text to speech interfaces work offline with the chosen devices ? If so, I’ll likely have a play.

I have a project that might be able to help with your situation. A Raspberry Pi based sound localization system. It’s very accurate. Last weekend I localized an explosion (fireworks) to within 20m from the actual location with 4 recorders. two of which were 3km from each other.

Unlike most ARUs (autonomous recording units) which are based on microcontrollers and need post processing to determine an event start time, the Pi system could be used as the basis for a real time localization system as the system times is sub microsecond accurate.

With likely a small amount of new development and co-operation with your friends you could be alerted in real time when artillery or gunfire is getting close to you. Along with a map location of where it was fired from

My license forbids government use (attaching consequences to the small developer unfriendly cyber resilience act that is stealing from small developers and giving to rich ones) but personal civilian use is just fine.

https://github.com/hcfman/sbts-aru

(PS. I agree on with the sentiments of the above authors about war. It’s sad that our governments instead of putting everything into driving to peace are spending our future climate change defence money on destruction and they are gunning for it with an insane appetite)

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

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Post by 5e92cb50239222b »

mschuster91 wrote: post #56
smolder wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

> What would you do? Install a favorable dictator? Oh, there's a lot between not doing anything at all and repeating the mistakes from Iranian days: - provide economic / humanitarian aid contingent on progress in democratic values and actually audit where the money goes. This ended being effective around 2010 when China began hitting the global stage though. - supporting countries or democratic, pro-Western parties/g…

> supporting countries or democratic, pro-Western parties/groups that are threatened by an aggressor (e.g. every former Soviet state)

Every one? I am from one of those states, and most of them are even worse democracy-wise than Russia.

The only thing we have over Russia is not going after neighbors' territories, and even that's debatable (see conflicts between Armenia and Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan vs Tajikistan).

Your governments do overlook serious human rights violations, though, when it suits them. We had widespread protests in January 2022 that were brutally suppressed by the government, which ended up killing more than 300 protesters (that's according to official figures that are thought to be undercounted).

No fucks given by Western propaganda or government talking heads because several European, US, and Canadian companies have massive investments in our oil, gas, and minerals industry.

About six months ago Macron visited Astana to beg for uranium fuel after France got kicked off from Niger, and a group of political activists tried to seize the rare moment and did everything they could to meet him for a few minutes and talk about human rights violations in our country. You can probably guess the result of that endeavor.

One of the major gas projects (managed by Shell IIRC) ends in 2030, and I have a strong suspicion "human rights violations" will become a permanent theme in our relations right after that moment.

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

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Post by jakjak123 »

mciancia wrote: post #42
smolder wrote: post #34

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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

Some form of action should have been taken when they invaded Crimea in 2014 and Georgia 2008. But even in retrospect its hard to say what except shutting down Nordstream and stopping investments. I still find it difficult for Europe to accept going to war with Russia over Crimea, but I guess this timeline is worse. Sanctions has limits, like we see with North Korea and Venezuela. The worst part of this timeline is that we guarantee that the only way a autocrat is safe, is when he has nukes.

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

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Post by onethought »

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

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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 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.

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