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Comment Re:You said "cheap" and "Wifi", but... (Score 1) 143

>"Until recently the only way to access the cameras from mobile was through the cloud service, you could access the device over https directly but then it wouldnt let you view video if you were doing so on a mobile device."

No, you could also use a VPN and access it directly as well. Granted, MOST people that want to use the app (and it is certainly not required) will not have a problem with using a cloud login in the app just for notifications and to stream the video. That is very "normal" for most any platform. But the video and settings are still coming directly from your own physical box. Unifi's cloud is just directing and connecting you to your box own box. And that communication is all encrypted.

>"Their IPv6 support is also very poor, and there are a lot of networks using CGNAT for legacy service so inbound legacy traffic is not possible."

They have made lots of improvements in IPV6 in 2025. If you haven't seen their stuff in a year, you would be pretty amazed at how quickly things have advanced.

>"There is no option to configure IPv6 through the web interface"

Yes there is. But I can't speak on the details, since I don't use it. But I see the settings.

>"There's also no built in dynamic dns support which is needed if the ISP keeps changing your prefix."

Yes there is. I am using it now. That has been available in the web user interface for years, I think. When last did you last use/look at Unifi's gateway???

Comment The left is about 2% and basic income is a scam (Score 1) 21

If you pay attention to who's pushing basic income it's a handful of extremely wealthy people with connections to billionaires. The goal of basic income is to replace all other forms of civilization and society with a blank check so that you can blame people when they are completely crushed by the systems in place. Monopolies alone make basic income pointless since they will just suck up the money.

American farmers are extremely well off. They are no small farms left. If you see something that looks like a small farm odds are it's just somebody's tax Dodge. We had decades of running small farmers out of business that process is basically over. The people who are left love Trump as long as he cuts them those checks you're talking about. Those big farmers want cheap labor or better yet slave labor and they want zero environmental regulations and Trump will give them both of those things.

As for direct health insurance payments the health insurance industry sucks up half a trillion dollars a year and private equity is buying up all the hospitals and doctors offices. You can't just cut people checks in it that environment just like you can't just cut basic income checks when you have monopolies.

Everything you're suggesting is bullshit put forward either to benefit Rich assholes or by Rich assholes who want to make you think there's an easy patch or fix to keep the system going so you don't have to think about any actual changes.

It's not your fault that's just how our media works but it's not a solution it's a scam

Comment Buddy of mine drives a school bus (Score 1) 21

It's real annoyed when idiots pull in front of him because it takes him 3 football fields to come to a stop.

The economy is like that. Capitalism is like that. It's a big fucking thing that takes a long time to come to a stop. And you just pulled out in front of it. And your little Geo Metro...

Now my buddy is smart and he knows how to drive around idiots. But we didn't put smart people that the wheel in this economy we put the dumbest motherfuckers we could find for the dumbest motherfucker reasons we could come up with.

So when the economy needs to stop and can't because you're dumb ass pulled out in front of it it's going to go right through you.

Unfortunately this is where the analogy breaks down because it's not just your little car being splattered you're taking all of us with it

Comment Re:Ihre Papiere (Score 1) 200

Damn. Rollin' in his grave. It's been a while since I looked him up, and just reading a summary of his career is a bit jaw-dropping.

"Smedley Darlington Butler (July 30, 1881 – June 21, 1940) was an American major general in the United States Marine Corps, writer, anti-war activist, and whistleblower. During his 34-year military career, he fought in the Philippine–American War, the Boxer Rebellion, the Mexican Revolution, World War I, and the Banana Wars. At the time of his death, Butler was the most decorated Marine in U.S. military history. By the end of his career, Butler had received sixteen medals, including five for heroism; he is the only Marine to be awarded the Marine Corps Brevet Medal as well as two Medals of Honor, all for separate actions. "

I had to chuckle at this quote of his: "My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of the higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military."

Comment Re:FOMO (Score 1) 31

they sez, "households led by white individuals have ten times the median wealth ($250,000) of the median wealth held by households led by black individuals ($25,000). https://www.census.gov/library... [census.gov] "

you sez, "There are more poor white people in USA then the total number of black people period."

That seems to be a non-sequitur. What am I missing?

Comment Economy is collapsing (Score 0, Troll) 21

So you have so many people going into gig wars to try and keep a roof over their heads that all the incentives are rapidly going away not just electric car incentives.

The best part is that squeezing the bottom like this will inevitably increase crime and then the increase in crime will get used for more of the kind of economic policies that cause the squeeze and so on so on so forth.

Capitalism is falling apart and socialism isn't an option. I don't know what we do.

Comment Yeah. IT nightmare material. (Score 1) 27

This is a real problem. Imagine an AI computer virus swarm, with "Brain Bug" leader AIs building and releasing swarms of tailor-made virii to achieve certain hacking goals at a pace no human team of network admins can keep track of.

Hard cryptographic human-controlled Ident/Auth/Auth, encryption and signage is very quickly going to become a real necessity.

Comment We made jobs a limited resource (Score 1) 104

And one that you need to live. So it's no surprise people are trying to constrain competition for that limited resource.

Stopping immigration especially in countries where birth rates are below sustainability will create a permanent recession like Japan has. I don't think that's really up for debate we've seen it play out in Japan to the extreme and in South Korea to a lesser extent.

But the problem is if you do not have enough places in society for the people who are already here and can vote they are going to do terrible terrible things when they are not just left out in the cold but facing homelessness and starvation.

We could of course try to spread the wealth around but after a hundred years of Cold war era propaganda that's just not on the table and I refuse to pretend that it is anymore.

Capitalism is breaking down and socialism isn't on the table but we do not have a third option. The best you can do is buy time and if you're going to do that you need to constrain immigration. Even if your economy takes a hit even if people are doing worse off they at least have a place in society. They are at least needed enough that we can justify giving them food and enough shelter that they are informing roving bands of bandits

Comment Re:This is disgusting gatekeeping (Score 1) 31

Fantastic. With 1.5 to 3 million gun defenses a year and that 'gun homocide' rate includes ATTACKERS who are killed by the victims.

Perhaps in your country when someone stronger comes along every woman, child, elderly person, or smaller man simply becomes a victim but here we proudly stack the attackers into that 'homocide' stat.

Comment Re:This is disgusting gatekeeping (Score 1) 31

That and there are between 1.5 million and 3 million successful gun defenses per year in the US. Even the anti-gun lobby refusing to count incidents where the crime was prevented metric still has more incidents than gun associated homicides.

When a woman prevents a man from beating her to death by using a gun in self defense, that is counted as a gun homicide. The lower rate in disarmed nations is reduced by the women, children, elderly, weak, etc who are beaten, robbed, and murdered by any stronger man who comes along. I shutter thinking about how many female officers must be raped in the UK where even the police are unarmed.

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