Yikes – this GenXer remembers being told the tools found in my account were grounds for expulsion but the meeting ended with employment.

Netbus on a floppy, print out an enticing label and leave them around school. Half the teachers computers were infected. Good times.

Agree. Helped me (a software guy) when I needed it. Automatic upvote.

Technical debt has become a meaningless term.

I just migrated my playlists from Spotify to Apple Music. Cobbling together the scripts to do that (without paying a third party service) was hard.

I assume it’s intentional.

Is the Pi 500 fanless? Do I read that correctly?

Yes, it's fanless. It uses a large passive heatsink.

Long time fan I watched this video before it was struck and there was no infringement in the video unless opening a device and showing the inside constitutes infringement. Bad job YouTube.

For sure. In my experience there are two places I can go in Victoria and be guaranteed to find rats—one is the harbour.

They say in Vancouver you're never more than 20 feet from a rat, anywhere you go. Probably true throughout most PNW cities.

I've lived in Bellingham (40 minutes south of Vancouver) for over ten years and have literally never seen a rat.

Am I A) blind, B) something about the city here prevents rats from settling, or secret option C) something else entirely?

Seems almost ideal if you don’t use it as an ethernet switch. A third radio for wireless mesh trunking is the only thing I see missing from my OpenWRT setup.

There is an M.2 slot, though only PCIe 2.0 x1. Possibly still good enough for reasonable bandwidth.

My DIY setup uses cameras on an isolated VLAN that prohibits outbound internet access, RTSP data collected by Frigate[0] with Coral TPU recognition, and alerts via Pushover[1] notifications. My push notifications include an unencrypted thumbnail with a link to Frigate that only works via VPN connection.

Seems like this project offers a lot of what I had to cobble together. Nice work. I like that it offers encrypted notifications although I don’t use Android so not ready for me yet. I don’t like the Google dependency.

[0] https://frigate.video/

[1] https://pushover.net/

Excellent set up, and in fact exactly what I’m using / how I’m set up. In addition for a few IOT type sensors and things like thermostats around my house, I have another vlan as well as a dedicated SSID tagged for that vlan, that only allows Internet access and everything else is dropped for that vlan. (Ie a firewall rule on the forward chain that drops anything in on that IOT vlan, that has a destination address of the private ip ranges: ie dst= 10.x or 192.168.x or 172…. anything locally that needs to access those sensors does so through the cloud/Internet, and for the one or two device devices that need to access them locally I have a fw rule allowing just that devices IP

A fully isolated setup can certainly provide good privacy. A key benefit of Privastead is that it can send the videos to your smartphone remotely using a strong (MLS-based) end-to-end encryption.

Privastead does not currently send thumbnails as part of the notifications. Performing proper end-to-end encryption on data in push notifications is a bit tricky and I haven't solved that yet. I do have some ideas on how to make that happen though. Once I do, I plan to add thumbnails to push notifications as well.

And thanks for the pointer on Pushover. I'll check it out to see if it can be a replacement for Google FCM.