Hi all! i finally come around publishing a small side project i am running at my home for the last few years. This past month i have revamped it by rewriting the C++ backend and improving the web UI (single page HTML+CSS+AlpineJS) for a broader public.

LazyNVR is a different take on hosting webcams and centralizing access to them. Instead of working on the cameras feed, which is CPU/GPU heavy and doesn't scale much, it relies on cameras on-board capabilities to detect motion and upload recorded videos to your own server.

If you own IP cameras from brands like Dahua, Reolink and many others, you can leverage their on board motion detection capabilities and off-load your server computational power using LazyNVR.

I have some 15 cameras and tools like Frigate or MotionEye just kill my server CPU, but all my cameras can detect motions and automatically record a video and upload it to my server using different protocols (like FTP, sftp, and such). So LazyNVR was born.

The server is written in C++ and basically detect incoming videos, recode (without re-encoding) them to an MP4 web streammable format, and store them well sorted. It will also keep your incoming folders clean and purge stored videos when they are too old. The server will also fetch and refresh still live images from the cameras.

The client is a WEB GUI, actually a single HTML file with CSS and some AlpineJS, which will show the still live images and the list of all the recorded videos letting you download or view them directly.

I am running over 15 cameras from my RaspPi with basically 0% CPU overhead.

I have published LazyNVR on Codeberg (here https://codeberg.org/LazyNVR/lazynvr-sources) because well, i think it's better than GitHub. And there is also a pretty lazy web site on https://www.lazynvr.it/ (which mostly redirect to Codeberg).

Currently there are docker images for AMD64 and ARM64, but it's pretty easy to compile directly, with the provided instructions in the Codeberg Wiki.

Please, feel free to try it!

Mandatory AI disclaimer: i don't use AI for coding. Zero code (C++ or Javscript) has been written by or with AI support in this project. I have used AI extensively for the CSS stuff that i hate, but reviewed and mostly edited it anyway. I have also used AI for research and to write the dockerfile faster, since i am no docker expert. I have personally written the dockerfile anyway, and personally tested as well. The logo has been created with AI, probably it shows.

Ben Gilbert describes himself on Bluesky, the social media app, as an “economist, lit and guitar nerd, rugby fan, owner of excessive pets.” A professor at the Colorado School of Mines, he rarely posts, but when he does, the subjects reflect his expertise in natural resources.

So it was odd when a video purporting to be a news report appeared on his account last month, blaming France’s financial and political support for Ukraine for police staff shortages at home.

Without his knowledge, Mr. Gilbert said, he had fallen victim to Russia’s latest tactic to try to spread its propaganda in the West.

His account, like hundreds of others on Bluesky, had been hijacked and used to post fake news articles, according to the company and researchers at Clemson University working with a collective of internet monitors who track Russian influence operations and call themselves the dTeam.

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1140104/chatgpt-google-gemini-google-ai-overviews-grok-and-replika-ai-bots-made-huge-errors-befo

Customers enduring the long wait for their T1 phone from Trump Mobile might have also had their personal data exposed on the carrier’s website. 

TrumpMobile.com apparently contains an exploitable software flaw that can leak data, including emails, physical addresses, and full names, according to YouTubers Coffeezilla and Cr1TiKaL. ……

A byproduct of the Warner Bros. sale meant the Mortuary Assistant creator asked Paramount for an extension on the Paranormal Activity game. Paramount said no.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/47165287

It's pretty interesting to see how China can order a US company to unwind the purchase of another company in Singapore, after it was already complete.

🇺🇸 Meta > 🇸🇬 Manus ❌ 🇨🇳 Government

#SingaporeWashing

نُشر تبادليًا من: https://hexbear.net/post/8560998

The idea that the war is over is a huge lie. The bombings never stop, the ground shakes violently from the airstrikes, and every day feels like another nightmare. We have no choice but to get used to a life deprived of everything — especially safety. In Gaza, there is no real peace, only fear, loss, and survival.

Please support us here. Your help can save a family trying to survive. 🙏

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This looks to be the last handheld review I'll be doing for the near future at least. I did have the TRMUI Brick Pro on the way...but they've delayed that release with no confirmed date yet (I suspect the RAM woes play a big-big part in that), so for now it is what I suppose is the ultimate nostalgia machine - AKA the Retroid Pocket Classic.

Remember the Nintendo Game Boy Color Pokemon special edition? Well, you'll no doubt see where Retroid's inspo came from. Not that they hide it with the 'PKMN Yellow' name for it.

^ the screens have improved over time

• Super powerful with 6GB/128GB on the model they sent me
• Chunky plastic that makes you feel like you're in a Toys-r-us dream
• Perfect-perfect-perfect for systems like GB/GBC/GBA and things like Game Gear (I played Game Gear games for the very first time on this one!)
• The display kicks all kinds of AMOLED butt, you really can't beat it
• Nostalgia is a clear selling factor for this one

If you're interested in my Retroid review, as ever you can read through it here. Or you can ask me whatever you might be interested in here if you don't wanna read through. Clicks don't bother me, we don't run ads on the site so there's no scramble to get people over.

Although this is posted last thing at night on my side of the world, so it might be morning when I wake up and respond to you if you do have any questions!

Link is here:

https://gardinerbryant.com/hands-on-with-the-retroid-pocket/

So you don't want to port-forward on your home router or have Cloudflare decrypt all your traffic? Check out Towonel.

Most open source Cloudflare Tunnel alternatives involve setting up a VPS, terminating TLS there on a reverse proxy, then setting up a Wireguard tunnel to your server at home.

Towonel is different: it does not decrypt your traffic on the VPS and you can easily share one, so not every self-hoster has to buy and maintain a VPS.

Check it out!

Mastodon link: https://gts.erwanleboucher.dev/@eleboucher/statuses/01KS4YNA2SYMSP0FSKJVNJA155

Today’s game is Subnautica. I actually had a friend gift the second one to me, but I’ve been weighing the moral dilemma of playing it and whether to actually keep it or refund. (It’s done by the original team, but that EULA… yikes). It did put me in the mood to play the first one though. Which I went ahead and downloaded and started a play through of.

It’s a lot prettier than I remember. Maybe it’s because I was streaming it through game pass when I first played but the night time especially is gorgeous.

I ended up going through the game a lot faster than I expected. I guess a lot of the game hinges on the mystery and stuff. Once you kind of know what’s going on though and know how to prep it goes way faster.

Like. I was in the Aurora by hour 5 (very rough estimate). I had the engines fixed up and I was out. If my estimate is right I might be done by 10 Hours.

Speaking of, I found it very easy to cheese the Leviathans just by swimming close to the wall. Then I swam in and fixed up the reactor.

Anyways, just a brief detour From Twilight Princess for me to relive so nostalgia for this 7 year old (or 11 year old if we’re going by EA release date). I might stick to this a little longer and beat it since it’s going way faster than I thought. It’d be fun to finally actually beat it and see the ending.