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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 tomNth »

moffkalast wrote: post #84
pjc50 wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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.

The counterintuitive bit is that a lot of western support for Israel also comes from neo-nazis who see Zionism as a perfect way to effortlessly remove the Jewish population from their home country and move it to Israel, like it's some sort of faraway colonial gulag.

neo-nazis like old-nazis were always anti-Zionism.

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

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Post by import »

supriyo-biswas wrote: post #12

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.

Most of the stuff moved to UI already in home assistant and less than error prone compared the last

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

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Post by snird »

jedimind wrote: post #40
af78 wrote: post #24

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History did not start on Oct 7, that's deceptive framing. Before Oct 7, Israel was already murdering more Palestinian children. That's the main difference. 5 Feb 2024 — At least 507 Palestinians were killed in the West Bank in 2023, including at least 81 children, making it the deadliest year for Palestinians since the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) began recording casualtie…

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

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Post by egorfine »

mfiro wrote: post #33

Using technology to improve lives is one thing, but using technology to survive missile attacks is just another level. Sometime I ask myself, will humans ever stop wars once and forever.

> will humans ever stop wars once and forever

This is an overly broad and philosophical question. It's positioned far away. We could all get together for a cup of coffee and discuss this topic for ages.

A more grounded and practical question would be: why didn't Biden stop the war?

Now we're talking! One should expect lots of contradictory opinions, quite some hostility, a couple of MTG-like personalities with followers and of course this one specific comment downvoted to hell.

But see, that's exactly the point: opinions vastly differ on the same subject depending on whether the situation is a hypothetical one far away or a physical reality.

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

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Post by vladms »

mschuster91 wrote: post #72
5e92cb50239222b wrote: post #67

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> 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…

> Western countries don't give a shit

People talk too easily about countries as if they are a person. I have lived in the east, I have lived in the west: every actual person has problems, everybody thinks their problems should come first, too many people have the tendency to think "outside influence" is very strong and lots of people think they have "the solution" which is different than what their government does.

At the end of the day I think the (boring) truth is that many countries end acting similarly to the average citizen. Including their fears, stupidities, insecurities and knowledge.

Yes, "the west of Europe" does not care as much as some people think about "the east of Europe", same way "the east of Europe" does not care that much about I don't know, Yemen, Myanmar or Sudan (just to name places with horrible conflicts that nobody seems to care about, unless they delay their Amazon package by a couple of days...).

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

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Post by egorfine »

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…

> Is it physically possible to detect imminent attack

Yes. Air defense does this pretty consistently.

And then what? We (Ukrainians) have lost some components of the PATRIOT air defense system because we were out of interceptors. Imagine being an air defender on duty on the best hardware in the world, facing the missile incoming and being incapable of doing shit because you're empty because of... democracy. The very thing being protected right now from that specific missile.

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

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Post by snowpid »

GordonS wrote: post #88
IsTom wrote: post #74

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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.

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There as no coup. Selensky won a free election against Poroshenko (you know the guy, who was after the maidan revolution). Just ask random Ukrainans.

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

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Post by mopsi »

GordonS wrote: post #88
IsTom wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

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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 against him.

The joint spy bases were established after Russia invaded Ukraine to monitor what's going on in the invaded parts of Ukraine.

> I mean, imagine if Brazilian intelligence backed a coup in Mexico, then built several military bases, intelligence bases and black sites across the country, then used them against US interests. Would the US really put up with that? Should they? The hypocrisy is real.

Imagine if the United States invaded Sonora and Baja California under the excuse that they're protecting Americans there, looted factories and other businesses, established concentration camps, tortured and executed anyone who resisted, forced millions to flee their homes as refugees and gave their property away to settlers from landlocked states of the US ("I've always wanted to live by the ocean!"), and started forcibly conscripting all Mexican males from Sonora and Baja California into fighting against the rest of Mexico. And imagine that you blamed Mexico and its allies like Brazil for propping up defenses along the remaining border. A bit insane, don't you think?

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

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Post by withinboredom »

H8crilA wrote: post #71
INTPenis wrote: post #65

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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 channe…

The problem is that you let the enemy know the detail of your intel. Using compartmentalization, they can locate leaks and determine how you are getting the intel.

As a military, you never want to give that away. Looking at WWII, the UK/US were able to decrypt messages daily from the Germans (thanks to Turing!), but they pretended they couldn't so the Germans wouldn't change their encryption scheme.

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