TropicalDingdong

joined 1 year ago
[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 27 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What I find interesting is the seeming need to replace it with something similar. Why?

Oh yeah. Why? Yeah.. yeah I could never imagine leaving one toxic social media and then trying to find a similar replacement..

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

This is great! Very cool and it worked when I tried it. Is it foss?

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 95 points 1 day ago (22 children)

I just.. I could never comprehend twitter (or Mastadon, or bluesky for that matter).

The whole structure of the conversation feel like people shouting into an open auditorium. And everyone is shouting at once.

I just do not see the appeal.

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Almost guarantee they are Westside.

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 70 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

I like how when you put the two candidates into 8th grade level language, the differences become so stark. There really isn't room for additional interpretation.

Also, I'm not surprised its Kapolei parents getting outraged at this, things get fairly red once you get out of Honolulu and especially as you get onto the West Side. You'll see a Trump flag being towed along side a Kanaka Maoli flag, a back the blue flag, AND a Hawaiian kingdom flag. I'm glad to see the DOE not budging on this.

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 59 points 2 weeks ago (17 children)

Turns out land is still cheap and sunlight still generally free.

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 59 points 2 weeks ago

tits out for harambe

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 0 points 3 weeks ago

"It's crucial..."

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 20 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

I've done several AI/ ML projects at nation/ state/ landscape scale. I work mostly on issues that can be solved or at least, goals that can be worked towards using computer vision questions, but I also do all kinds of other ml stuff.

So one example is a project I did for this group: https://www.swfwmd.state.fl.us/resources/data-maps

Southwest Florida water management district (aka "Swiftmud"). They had been doing manual updates to a land-cover/ land use map, and wanted something more consistent, automated, and faster. Several thousands of square miles under their management, and they needed annual updates regarding how land was being used/ what cover type or condition it was in. I developed a hybrid approach using random forest, super-pixels, and UNET's to look for regions of likely change, and then to try and identify the "to" and "from" classes of change. I'm pretty sure my data products and methods are still in use largely as I developed them. I built those out right on the back of UNET's becoming the backbone of modern image analysis (think early 2016), which is why we still had some RF in there (dating myself).

Another project I did was for State of California. I developed both the computer vision and statistical approaches for estimating outdoor water use for almost all residential properties in the state. These numbers I think are still in-use today (in-fact I know they are), and haven't been updated since I developed them. That project was at a 1sq foot pixel resolution and was just about wall-to-wall mapping for the entire state, effectively putting down an estimate for every single scrap of turf grass in the state, and if California was going to allocate water budget for you or not. So if you got a nasty-gram from the water company about irrigation, my bad.

These days I work on a small team focused on identifying features relevant for wildfire risk. I'm trying to see if I can put together a short video of what I'm working on right now as i post this.

Example, fresh of the presses for some random house in California:

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Imagine buying ~~a policitian's cryptocurrency~~

 

Hi Self hosting,

Its my day off and I'm going to be putting some work into my self hosted world today. I don't expect to get it all done in one go, but I've been piecing the parts together for a few months and I think I've got what I need. However, what I lack is any kind of overall mental model for how to think about or engineer this kind of system. I also don't know a ton about internet security or best practices, so I've been cautious about going too far too fast. I'm going to outline the parts and their intended uses here, and then if people could weigh in on parts or offer resources in the form of blog-posts or youtube videos to help me frame in my thinking, I would really appreciate it. My goal is to eventually fully de-google/ self host my world, and its going to take me a while but I think I can get there. If you only have an opinion about one piece of equipment, please consider sharing your experience there.

Equipment:

1: NAS/ Server

QNAP TS-464-8G-US 4 Bay High-Performance Desktop NAS with Intel Celeron Quad-core Processor, M.2 PCIe Slots and Dual 2.5GbE (2.5G/1G/100M) Network Connectivity (Diskless).

Currently, I'm thinking of the NAS as being the heart/ brains of the operation. Eventually I want to get a heavy duty machine with at least 128+GB ram and several video cards (for work/ self hosting), but right now, my plan is to just use the NAS for home automation purposes (any services I need to run). I want to put my 🏴‍☠️ 🎩 back on eventually, and also use this for hosting a Jellyfin or plex server (the more self hosted/ FOSS the better). Currently, I'm I've set up and configured the storage pools as one large pool, but that's it. I was also planning on storing any thing that should be kept from my security cameras here. It will also be housing the weather data I'm collecting. I also plan on using it to host my audio/ media server. We also want to be able to run something akin to a self hosted google drive so that these data are available to us away from our home.

2: Routers and switches

RT-AX86U

This is my main router for the house. It was a pretty high end router a couple years ago and has good coverage.

TP-Link TL-SG1005P 5 Port Gigabit PoE Switch 4 PoE+ Ports @65W Desktop Plug & Play Sturdy Metal w/ Shielded Ports Fanless Limited Lifetime Protection QoS & IGMP Snooping

I use this for my security cameras so that I only have to run one cable. I also was imagining that I may look into other POE devices and this could service them too.

3: Security Camera

Amcrest 4MP Outdoor PTZ POE AI IP Camera Pan Tilt Zoom Security Speed Dome, 5X Motorized Optical Zoom, Human Detection, 98ft Night Vision, Tripwire & Intrusion, POE (802.3at) IP4M-S2112EW-AI

I live in an area with a pretty extreme reputation. From our doorstep we've witnessed robberies, assaults, and b&e's.

4: Weather Station

RainmanWeather IoT Professional LoRa Weather Station WiFi Wireless

I have extensive gardens I've planted and have been a hobbiest in the personal weather station world for a few years. Eventually I want to tie this into my currently not smart irrigation system to automate irrigation.

5: Speakers

Audioengine A1-MR 60W Multiroom Home Speakers - WiFi Speaker System - Works with Online Music Streaming Services or Personal Libraries (Pair, Grey)

I bought these because for a period we had a sonos system, and although I liked it, I hated the walled garden. Its not entirely clear to me I'll be able to use these in the same manor, but I've been able to hack on them a bit and am continuing to explore what I can do with them. If I can figure out how to self host an audio stream (liken to an internet radio server, I think they'll work).

6: Smart switches

I have some smart switches for some outdoor light strings.

The vision I have is that one would have a web page or web portal that when you are on my home wifi, its available. It would show you the current weather, the view from the security camera, and give you access to the audio server if you want to put music on.

I'm not a network engineer, and although I do know how to write and understand, with enough effort, most common programming languages, I'm also not really a software engineer. I think I've got 'enough' skills and chops to create the glue where I need to, but just barely. So if there are canned solutions to some of these things, that is what I'm going to be trying to use. Where I can't (for example, the weather station), I'm pretty good at hacking in and around and getting out what I need.

I would really appreciate any thoughts, or ideas. Like I said, although I've hacked on some of this stuff before, this is my first attempt at a unified framework. I really don't like the direction the world and internet are going and this is my attempt to push back and assert some independence. Any advice and recommendations are thoroughly appreciated.

 

I was daily driving Pop_OS before my System76 finally gave it up. I mostly enjoyed the experience, but when my laptop gave it up, I had to run to a big box store and grab a replacement asap. I'm now riding an HP envy touch screen fliptop and (:puke:) windows 11.

I've been hesitant to throw linux onto this puppy because frankly, having never had a touch/ flip screen before, I'm really digging it. Has anyone here run linux on a touch screeen? Issues? A specific release I should consider? Any other considerations?

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