Its only recent releases of Unifi Network that have made it easy to setup local DNS entries - it used to be very kludgy or not possible back when I first deployed PiHole as DNS for me.

I really like the frigate project, and the detection models it has are really really good, and that meant I could use really cheap Amcrest (I think) cameras because the brains was on the server end rather than camera end. Plus I kinda prefer the device side to be as dumb as possible as they can often have all sorts of vulnerabilities baked in the more IoT they are.

Though I also really hate Home Assistant so I use Frigate as a standalone app, and I manage notifications in a somewhat roundabout way (mqtt -> loki -> grafana -> pushover). I did that because I got heartily sick of how awful Home Assistant was at determining whether I was, or was not at home.

So now I use Unpoller to get my device states from the UDM, that gets stored in prometheus, and my Grafana alert rule works out if my partner or I are at home based on our device being connected to the WiFi or not; then each MQTT event for a detection it only sends a notification if both phones are away.

Note the privacy risks were low, not no. So even this limited, safe trial has privacy risk which has been exposed to an AI processing & storing data where?

This is just Nactional Fist’s latest culture war bullshit; a distraction from the absolute shambles they’ve made of the economy since dropping an austerity bomb on a recession.

Actually on cameras, I think Ubiquiti are adding Onvif support to Protect which should let you add non-Ubiquiti cameras to their setup too. Of course then you won’t get the special detection features so i’ll continue to use frigate & offload the “is human?” analysis to a GPU.

I’ve had my Bronco for a few years now and it is so good to use. Have done briskets, pork shoulders, ribs, chickens so far everything’s been delicious.

Early on a cold morning it can be a little tricky to get the chimney drawing air well - so one trick i’ve recently learnt is to switch my vacuum pipe to the blow side and to force air into the inlet which seems to get it cranking pretty quickly :)

Oh, and as you mention Lamb, you really should treat yourself and try some West Kentucky style Mutton BBQ. It can be hard to get actual mutton, but it works with hogget too, its delicious and makes too much sense for NZ BBQ to not start adopting it!

It begins! Here’s a mug of kool-aid ;) So, who’s taking odds on TTC and TTA*?

There’s a legitimate criticisms to be made of Ubiquiti’s products, but they perform very well, are relatively simple to setup and maintain and most importantly for me, you get a perpetual license in the up front purchase price - no annual ransomware like other similar providers. Plus you can host the controller yourself, you don’t have to be tied to their cloud offering (if they even still bother with it).

I haven’t setup their built-in ad blocking yet as the local DNS was a bit of a pain so I still use pi-hole for all my own home stuff’s DNS anyway, and I have wireguard running off their box as I set that up when their implementation was very new and not quite what I was after. But only a matter of time before I switch to the same setup as yours.

*(time till cameras, time till access-points)!

I saw something the other day in response to I think Amazon demanding workers work from office. If its so impossible to be productive working from home, then as soon as you walk out of the building at the end of the day, stop looking at your work phone, never reply to emails, don’t answer the phone.*

*That’s as it should be anyway, don’t do free labour for your boss!

Re that last point about the ARU and their financial viability, here’s an interesting counterpoint from NZ: https://archive.ph/nVtt6

Basically, the argument is that bc ARU couldn’t get any vulture capital, they haven’t made the same mistake as NZR and other professional unions so are getting to keep 100% of any revenue they make. NZR have to pay $20m annually to Silver Lake now - for basically doing nothing other than one lump sum that’s going to be gone shortly.

So, unlike NZ - Australia doesn’t need to try to chase every possible dollar, they just need to work for the most efficient dollars instead.

Well, coming out of that match, which the ABs were extremely lucky to win in the end they’re now carrying some injuries which will make the next match in the hoodoo city of Wellington interesting.

• Jordie Barrett went off at half time, and social media posts show a very restrictive brace on with rumours of him doing his MCL.
• Tupou Vaa’i went off halfway through the 2nd half with what looked like a shoulder injury.
• Wallace Sititi ended up heavily taped after what looked like a knee injury.
• Cortez Ratima took a knock too, but hopefully isn’t as bad as the other three.

5 games on the trot now that Razor’s ABs have been held scoreless in the final 20 minutes, given how average we know the Wallabies have been this year i’d say the ABs will be lucky to walk away with a 2/5 (Italy & Japan) on the end of year tour. Potentially heavy defeats awaiting in Ireland & France, and some revenge for England. Italy are playing the ABs last match of the tour, if there was ever a chance to pick up a first win, this would be it.

The ABs have been ruthless punishing mistakes; so to a degree the Aussies have made some of those tries by dumb passes. They’re competing well in the 2nd quarter and have cut out a lot of their silly mistakes so when they’re not being dumb its a lot more even.

Argentina has a couple of clubs in SRA, weirdly there’s also a USA based club. I wonder if there’s a a bit of friction between that comp and MLR. To be honest, I worry about the latter’s competitiveness given the age of some of the veterans still playing, and how many never would be Super Rugby players are so good in it. Having said that, it probably is about as good as SRA so a champions cup style thing ought to work for them if it’s financially viable.

Yeah I think an annual, limited comp would be good - though i’d go with URC, SR, Prem, Top 14 and it’d be great to find some way to include Japan League 1’s winner too. Though probably more than 2 games is too many.

I didn’t mean to say that SA didn’t add to Super Rugby - especially early on they were crucial to it, just to try to show that its not that they were really good that helped NZ, because they weren’t.

What NZR & Super Rugby needs to try to encourage is another team or two to play like the Blues & Brumbies - because especially the former played a massively forward oriented, direct and physical game - very much the DNA of South African rugby.

Do that, then Japan League 1 has so many better opportunities for NZ if we would just show a bit of humility and try to fix that relationship more. They increasingly have strong clubs, they are in the same timezone as NZ and play at fairly similar times of the year, it is about a natural fit for NZ & Aus as SA joining the URC is.

The vibe down here is probably a bit more nuanced, and the calls to have SA back are a bit of a knee-jerk reaction to less than stellar results so its hard to be sure how it might go down.

There’s a few things people could probably stand to calm down & reconsider, in my opinion…

Firstly, before the SA clubs joined URC Ireland were doing very well, and Scotland were definitely on the improve. Of the original nations in that comp Italy have improved - but mostly on the back of one club, so a tight integration similar to the Jaguares and Wales are dire. So correlation/causation etc its not necessarily true that presence of the SA clubs are making those nations better, nor is it true that the lack of them is why NZ has been struggling.

Secondly, people are really forgetting how bad SA’s clubs were in Super Rugby in the last couple of years before the competition fell apart due to Covid. In 2019 only 4 teams won more than 8/16 games, and none of them were South African. In 2018 it was both better and somehow even worse, where 4/5 NZ teams won more than 10/16, and no other club did with Waratahs, Lions & Jaguares all managing 9/16. And in both years the worse of the SA teams had negative points differentials too.

Thirdly, because of the time difference and South Africa’s challenges holding night games, the matches over there were at awful times and have almost no benefit for the broadcasters this side of the competition. To make it even worse, because of the expense of flying all that way the touring structure would see your home team disappear for 3-4 weeks so you would go a month with no match in your home stadium.

Yup, and then if I look back on when I learnt maths in primary school, 39-31 years ago. We wrote learnt a bunch of maths, but the bulk of it was dumb calculation that beyond a certain amount is just easier to whack into a calculator these days. Its like people have forgotten that sure, in the 80s we didn’t have a calculator at hand all of the time, so being able to do it in your head was really beneficial. Nowadays everyone carries a powerful computer in their pocket and going beyond 3 digit equations its mostly better to get it right first time with the tool than risk getting it wrong in your head.

The same holds true with your Ancient Egypt - Ancient Rome analogy; what’s important is not knowing facts about those two long dead civilisations, but knowing how to evaluate the various facts you might find with that pocket computer of yours and establish which is more likely to be reliable etc.

Its the same as the UK austerity playbook that as wrecked the NHS.

Remember that the stats they’re using to argue achievement is going real bad don’t actually say that. They show lower achievement but the academics who look at the study & whatnot advise that that’s because the methodology changed, not that achievement actually went down in real terms.

Oh funny - I just posted Max Rashbrooke’s article on the impact of changes from The Spinoff and that’s my take too - school lunches = achievement, we are worried about achievement, so let’s cut lunches. Seymour is actually cartoonishly evil at times.

Worth noting that this government has railed against supposed falling achievement rates*, yet are cutting one of the most effective interventions that improves outcomes for lowest achievers.

Switching from cooking in schools to heat & eat is extremely dumb, especially if they’re in microwave packaged individual portions - microwaving doesn’t scale well.

*Previous discussion on what the maths curriculum changes are, and how they’re responding to a “crisis” that doesn’t really exist: https://lemmy.nz/post/14030275 https://archive.is/YK9gk

Well, double tragedy for me. In the wet on Saturday night and with Fakatava going out with an injury pre-game the Magpies got absolutely punished by Waikato. Nothing went right for them, and pretty much everything went right for the Mooloos.

Then that got compounded by those heathens Tasman managing to win their first Shield defence after taking it off us last weekend.