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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 H8crilA »

INTPenis wrote: post #65
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.

Let's not exaggerate. There are APIs that distribute the list of oblasts (regions) that are deemed to be under attack (for example https://alerts.com.ua/). The only problem is that you don't know if the attack is expected in 10 minutes, or 6 hours, and this is something that the military intelligence has, and could share with a small amount of effort. They effectively already share it via people running those channels.

Also, nothing stops you from redistributing the structured messages through multiple channels.

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

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Post by mschuster91 »

5e92cb50239222b wrote: post #67
mschuster91 wrote: post #56

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> 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 g…

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

I agree, and part of the cause is that us Western countries don't give a shit. We don't even give a shit about those countries right on our border like Ukraine or Bosnia.

> 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.

Or because they were bought off such as in the case with the massive corruption by Azerbaijan.

> 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.

My opinion of Macron is probably just as low as yours, the only thing the guy can do is talk. All talk, no act.

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

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Post by mschuster91 »

GordonS wrote: post #68
mschuster91 wrote: post #6

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> And please stop spreading anti-Chinese sentiment - it's bordering on racism. When was the last time China invaded another country? What are they actually doing wrong on the world stage, other than being more economically powerful than the US?

There's boatloads of evidence of Chinese fishing fleet fishing illegally (and way too much) even as far away as Africa [1]. Then there's the constant saber rattling around Taiwan, going as far as to "punish" Taiwan for having a clean, fair election just recently. And then there's the territorial takeover of Philippine land [2].

[1] https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2024/04/11/...

[2] https://fsi.gov.ph/philippines-china-relations-beyond-the-te...

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

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Post by IsTom »

GordonS wrote: post #68
mschuster91 wrote: post #6

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There was a peace deal before (Minsk agreement). Agreements with Russia are not worth the paper they're signed on. Any peace deal Putin is willing to sign is just to consolidate his gains and get more time to prepare for another attack.

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

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Post by pydry »

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.

It also showed us that you shouldn't support Nazis, but in Ukraine Right Sector and Azov have our full backing.

I also showed us that stopping genocide matters more than anything - more than national borders, but we still support Israel's genocide.

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

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Post by excieve »

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.

Most of us have something in place since the winter of 2022 when the power outages were systematic due to russian strikes on civilians and infrastructure, amplified by lack of air defence. Most of us needed to work though so some got UPS, EcoFlows, generators, solar systems, even DIY batteries if the budget is low. This year it's more of the same.

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

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Post by pydry »

ajuc wrote: post #54
waffleiron wrote: post #44

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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.

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.

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Post by palata »

toenail wrote: post #49
palata wrote: post #31

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> 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?

Not sure if you are writing this in good faith or not, but let me assume you are:

The parent said "War is the single most unproductive activity humans can do", without giving much details about a metric (it is very productive if your business is to build weapons, but counter-productive if your business is to save lives).

But assuming that the metric was something along the lines of "doing good for society", then global warming is a lot more counter-productive than wars. Global warming and wars are the result of human activities (in case that was not clear).

So yeah, we would certainly save more human lives by keeping our wars (I mean, without nuking the whole planet) but working all together to reduce the impact of global warming. Meaning that IMHO, "war is NOT the single most unproductive activity humans can do". Not that it is good, quite obviously.

Does that answer your question?

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Post by seszett »

GordonS wrote: post #68
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> What are they actually doing wrong on the world stage

Threatening their peaceful, democratic and de facto independent neighbour, Taiwan, might count. They're doing it right now, encircling the island with military vessels.

I don't know which government is yours, but in Taiwan there's no need for any FUD, China does everything it can to make people fear it.

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