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

They don't provide cloud *storage* but they do heavily push you towards cloud connectivity.

The mobile app did not support direct connections at all until recently.
Although now it does, it explicitly ignores SSL certs when connecting directly resulting in MITM risk.
Although the controller is reachable via HTTPS, it does not let you view video from a mobile device and forces you to use the app, this appears to be an arbitrary limitation as you can access it just fine from an ipad which is basically a large iphone.
Support for IPv6 is very poor (many users have CGNAT for legacy traffic so IPv6 is the only way to reach devices).
They broke IPv6 completely for a while - the HTTPS service did not listen on the v6 address even when the device did and could be accessed via SSH.
There is no support for custom SSL certs unless you use third party scripts, and the updates keep breaking those scripts.
There is no support for dynamic dns without third party scripts.

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.

The mobile app still defaults to forwarding everything through the cloud, and although there is now an option to connect directly in the most recent versions it does so by ignoring the SSL certificate making you susceptible to MITM attacks.

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. There is no option to configure IPv6 through the web interface, no mention of it at all, although the device will acquire an address via SLAAC and DHCPv6.

The controllers themselves don't provide an easy way to load a proper SSL certificate, although it can be achieved with third party scripts.

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

What I need is something that supports SSL over IPv6, and lets me use a valid cert preferably providing an easy way to request one from letsencrypt or other such services. The unifi stuff can be forced to work with third party scripts, but they still try to push you towards their cloud service and you still have the security risk due to the lack of ssl cert checking in the mobile app.

Comment Shortage? (Score 5, Insightful) 194

The risk is it could lead to shortages of critical skills that end up harming Switzerland's competitiveness.

The chance of someone capable of learning critical skills being born in switzerland is the same as anywhere else, if the swiss are not training their own citizens to perform these critical roles then that's already a failure on their part.

Comment Tried Mastodon, failed at #GuessTheHashtag (Score 1) 79

A Twitter-branded Mastodon instance

It'd have to support full-text search by default. Mastodon, last I checked, was still in practice stuck with tags-only search that fails unless both the poster and searcher manage to correctly #GuessTheHashtag. I've read that Mastodon added in version 4.2.0, but I've never got it to work because it's not the default: the posting user has to deliberately seek out how to opt into full-text search before sending posts, and the administrator of the searcher's instance has to spend a lot more money for a much larger VPS with the RAM for Elasticsearch or OpenSearch.

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