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DeltaTangoLima

@ DeltaTangoLima @reddrefuge.com

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Just an Aussie tech guy - home automation, ESP gadgets, networking. Also love my camping and 4WDing.

Be a good motherfucker. Peace.

  • Presence Detection for a Child with no Phone.

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  • I've been thinking about exactly the same problem.

    We want to give our near-10yo daughter her first phone, but she's not allowed to have it at school. She's also getting to the point where she can be trusted at home for an hour or so before one of us gets home from work, so I also need a presence detection method that doesn't use a mobile phone.

    My best theoretical solutions are like those already suggested here: an ESP32 BT proxy detecting a homebrew BLE beacon in her school bag, or detect activity on her iPad/the TV. But neither of those are reliable for all scenarios - she obviously doesn't take her school bag to her friend's house, and doesn't always use her iPad or the TV.

    The only other thing I'm pondering is if I could setup facial recognition using our video doorbell. I use Frigate with a Coral TPU, so hoping there's a project out there that could possibly do that.

  • Presence Detection for a Child with no Phone.

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  • Don't be a dick, mate. Engage just a little bit of critical thinking before calling people names like that.

    By law where I am, our kids aren't allowed to have their phones at school. My daughter's school's policy, then, is that phones are left at the school office.

    We want to give our soon-to-be 10yo daughter her first phone later this year (times with a planned family trip, so it can be her new camera as well). But if she takes it to school and has to leave it at the office, I can guarantee she'll absolutely forget on more than one occasion to pick it up before coming home.

    So, her phone will have to stay home. But we're also getting to the point where she can be trusted to let herself in and wait for one of us to get home (like OP, maybe an hour or so). So a presence detection option can't be based on whether the phone has moved into the geo zone in HA.

    This is a legitimate question for modern parents. Denigrating OP without knowing or understanding all the facts certainly does shine a light on ignorance at play here. Just not OP's ignorance.

  • ‘My whole library is wiped out’: what it means to own movies and TV in the age of streaming services

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  • increasingly uncomfortable with paying forever

    And paying more and more as time goes on. The thing that shits me the most is the increased prices but decreased range/quality of content. That's clearly not a business model aimed at customer satisfaction.

  • For security reasons

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  • Please use a personal email. My email is ‘mail’ @ ‘my actual name’. It does not get more personal than that

    It's a legit rule they're enforcing, IMO. Generic email addresses are usually unmonitored mailboxes that don't bounce. Easy to use if you're spamming contact forms and stuff like that.

    Instead they advised me (3 times) to create a personal email on a service like Yahoo, Outlook, Gmail, Orange, etc

    I think this is more a boilerplate suggestion, to lower the barrier to entry for people. Gotta remember, those of us that host our own email and/or use our own personal domains are definitely in the minority.

  • In your country, what "common" animals are tourists most excited to see?

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  • Typical. Those drop bears have no respect at all for a person's eskie.

  • In your country, what "common" animals are tourists most excited to see?

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  • Here in Australia, it's drop bears and hoop snakes. People always want to see them... until it's too late.

  • Grocery stores promoting gas discounts are not helping the transition away from gas vehicles

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  • Not really. Here in Australia, our supermarket duopoloy does the same thing, offering discounts per litre. At the time it all started, the supermarket chains started buying into/acquiring petrol stations and rebranding them. This has been going on for over 20 years.

    Recently, both supermarkets sold off their petrol station chains, but the sales included long-standing agreements to continue to offer discounts and loyalty program points for those that shop at the associated supermarket brand.

  • How do you handle family requests that you disagree with?

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  • For my wife, I have a separate library folder, mapped to just her account in Plex. It doesn't appear in my library at all, so I don't really care. Even better, I've spun up an Overseerr instance for her, so she can just search and auto-add anything she wants for herself.

  • What are some insults in english that will make non-native speakers have to ask someone their meaning?

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  • Yeah, but in a light-hearted way.

  • What are some insults in english that will make non-native speakers have to ask someone their meaning?

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  • May your chickens turn to emus and kick your dunny door down

  • A colleague sent a video of a murder at work today and I'm still seething. What rights do I have? (UK)

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  • Straight to HR - that fucker needs sacking. This is the very definition of bullying and harassment.

  • What was your best decision in life?

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  • Ditto - divorcing my first wife. Now I'm married to my soulmate and we have an amazing daughter together. Best thing I ever did!

  • When did you get your first phone? First computer? What was it?

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  • If you grew up in the Dandenong Ranges, quite possibly.

  • When did you get your first phone? First computer? What was it?

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  • Early 80s, maybe 83 or 84, we got a Dick Smith VZ200 (rebadged VTech Laser 210 - Dick Smith here in Australia was kinda like Radio Shack). It had 8Kb of RAM but Dad bought the 16Kb expansion - 24Kb of RAM!

    I got a book from my uncle on how to write BASIC programs, and wrote a heap of stuff. We could backup and load programs from a regular cassette tape recorder that plugged into the computer, sorta like the Commodore 64 later on.

    Early 90s, guessing around 93, I got a Nokia 101 analogue phone. I even bought a car kit for it, and installed it in my Datsun 180B. It had a snake game on it, and I actually used it to make and receive phone calls.

  • Post your Servernames!

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    • Phone: yoda
    • Desktop: bb8
    • Firewall: c3po
    • Switch: macewindu
    • NASes:
      • anakin
      • r2d2
    • Wireless APs:
      • biggs
      • garven
      • poe
      • typho
      • thane
      • wedge (virtual controller)
    • Proxmox nodes:
      • chewy
      • hansolo
      • obiwan
    • Raspberry PIs:
      • bobafett
      • lando
      • jangofett
      • quigon
      • rey
      • finn
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    Senate passes TikTok ban bill, sending it to Biden, who has already committed to signing it

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  • Yep, agreed, but at least the government of the day can try and reign them in with legislation and regulation. Not saying they are (or will), but they'd have the option, if they had the balls to do it.

  • How much maintenance do you find your self-hosting involves?

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  • Not heaps, although I should probably do more than I do. Generally speaking, on Saturday mornings:

    • Between 2am-4am, Watchtower on all my docker hosts pulls updated images for my containers, and notifies me via Slack then, over coffee when I get up:
      • For containers I don't care about, Watchtower auto-updates them as well, at which point I simply check the service is running and purge the old images
      • For mission-critical containers (Pi-hole, Home Assistant, etc), I manually update the containers and verify functionality, before purging old images
    • I then check for updates on my OPNsense firewall, and do a controlled update if required (needs me to jump onto a specific wireless SSID to be able to do so)
    • Finally, my two internet-facing hosts (Nginx reverse proxy and Wireguard VPN server) auto-update their OS and packages using unattended-upgrades, so I test inbound functionality on those

    What I still want to do is develop some Ansible playbooks to deploy unattended-upgrades across my fleet (~40ish Debian/docker LXCs). I fear I have some tech debt growing on those hosts, but have fallen into the convenient trap of knowing my internet-facing gear is the always up to date, and I can be lazy about the rest.

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    Senate passes TikTok ban bill, sending it to Biden, who has already committed to signing it

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  • It's not just about data hoarding, though. It's also about a social media company having considerable influence over the messaging seen by a very large part of the voting population.

    Yes, it's no different to other social media companies, but with one exception: the company in question is subject to the whims of the Chinese government. Something the US government is clearly fearful of.

  • Should I or should I not use a VLAN? I have trouble understanding the benefits for home use

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  • Believe it or not, a Netgear. Specifically this one. I don't have any fibre connected gear (yet!) and 180W of PoE+ was more than enough for my few PoE cameras and WAPs.