So, ever heard of the botnets based on thousands of private IoT devices, which executed severe DDOS attacks on many sites on the web?

While we are all making compromises and secure our systems to different degrees, saying that a compromised system is not a disaster is way out there.

Ok, then I misunderstood your arguments. I understood “Away from people” an argument for increasing the distance to wind turbines. They are already normally build 500 to 1500m away from people. I also saw it in my local context. In germany we had the conservatives argue for increasing the mandated distances further, triggered by the far rights hate for renewables, which would make it impossible to build them in large parts of the country.

When we talk about wind turbines vs datacenters, I think a big argument is the actual direct value for the community. Providing clean energy gives more and direct value to a community, while the AI datacenter are mainly bringing the benefit of slop. Both are done in the capitalism way, but Datacenters (especially AI DCs) are way farther away from the consumer.

Thats not what it is effectively saying though. It says, that if you suggest, that infrasound from wind turbines is a medical problem, then people will have medical problems. That is the nocebo effect for you, not infrasound.

Also: There are many other sources of infrasound in our lifes. For example using a car. Wind turbines at typical distances are about 75db while driving in a car is more like 100db. If you open one of the rear windows while driving 130db. Where are the adverse effects of these?

You might want to look at these https://julkaisut.valtioneuvosto.fi/handle/10024/162329 https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2014.00220/full#h11

For those speaking german, I’m linking to a podcast episode of the Quarks Science Cops (Public Broadcast) about this topic. Link to Youtube

Spoiler: We already have way louder infrasound producers near us. Wind turbines are already build in quite a distance to be safe from flying debris in case of a catastrophic mechanical breakdown of the spinning blades.

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From the first scimming, I would not give much credit to that study. Only 29 participants. But most importantly it was not double blind. The participants where instructed on what exactly the study wanted to find out and could easily see, how far they where from the wind turbine at the testing sides. Thats a programmed placebo effect.

Also: They only measured at 2 sites. The outdoor site was only 20m from the wind turbine. That is a distance not even relevant to placement of wind turbines. The safety distance to the spinning blades will already be significantly higher, at least 100m. So the measurement at that side might be interesting, but irrelevant.

Wdym wasting their time? They will search your home and confiscate all electronics, including the hardware running your TOR exit node and your phone, and your PC, and your notebook, and your gaming consoles, and of course any of such devices belonging to all other members of your household. And even if they cannot found anything that you have done wrong, you won’t get your stuff back for a long time (think half a year to multiple years).

Seems more like they would be wasting your time. And your money.

I support this change. Hardware can also be relevant apart from thr typical servers/mini PCs. Recently I asked about possibilities for a self hosted video/audio doorbell and was met with really helpful answers. While this question could also have fitted into communities for smart homes, I still think it is a good fit here. Self hosting already is a rather broad term. We should not limit ourselves too much in its definition.

One problem can be, that the better fit community does not have enough active users, thus being unlikely to give a good answer. I think we should have a look at that before refering the user to that community.

He is out of line, but he does have a point. A camera could still be useful for varying the voltage. I’ve heard, that Jehovas Witnesses could use a little more of a shock to get their life together

It is already possible without a battery. The new door, that we are getting, can also be bought with an automatic lock, though its expensive. Probably because the eletrical lines are running cleverly through the hinges. Having the lock on the outer side, woukd probably make it cheaper

Aren’t we already doing that? I for sure didn’t take the time to write paperless-ngx myself

Yeah, time, the all limiting factor. I have a big pile of project I want to do, if I only had more time…

Ah, that looks good. And they are affordable. Definitely comes on the top of my list. Thanks you very much for your help

Does it give you the option for 2 way audio through home assistantm And how are your experiences with wifi connection stability?

The proprietary app is something I don’t like. Would be great to find something, that is open enough to work with other systems

I agree, that full SIP is overkill. Though I don’t want to go the DIY hardware route. I already tried that and had constant disconnects. So I want to buy a system, that just runs, but also provide possibilities to do more in a self hosted solution.

I’m not sure how much time I want to invest in this. Maybe I will just go with an easy, less capable solution instead.

What door bell do you have? Many have the relays, though they also need to be configurable between door opening (on entry permission) and button press

Do the reolink door bells also provide their feature openly to othet systems like Home Assistent? I don’t wanna use their proprietary app. And do you have experience with the connection stability on Wifi? I don’t want the connection to randomly cut out. I can go with ethernet (as we get new cables on our door either way), but Reolink doesn’t seem to have an ethernet option.

And somehow we would still have US americans tell us, that pangea is too big for a usable railway network.