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1 hour ago, captain_to_fire said:

Mr. Robot has something similar. It’s not a RCE but close enough. 

 

Love Mr. Robot, the lengths the team went to to ensure that everything was "real" and legit was really good, I remember they featured a version of Elasticsearch (Kibana) in one of the scenes, and they actually worked with Elasticsearch to use an older version that was out at the same timeframe that they were shooting in, amongst other stuff. Definitely the best series or film I've seen with regards to how "hacking" is portrayed. 

Hey all, we've been looking for a good way to create an alarm system that doesn't break the bank and has all the features we want - we are really happy with how this one came out!

Please let me know your feedback and hope it is interesting!

https://everythingsmarthome.co.uk/howto/how-to-make-your-own-dual-purpose-wireless-alarm-system-with-home-assistant-part-1

I think this a very smart move from them, it should help to silence the "spyware" issues that were discussed a while back and generally make everyone feel a bit easier about trusting them, of course we will need to wait for a while to give people time to look through the code and verify, but overall a very smart business move IMO!

Just now, LeSheen said:

I know I mean IT security as well. They get a lot of training in cyberwarfare and security if they have the profile for it.

Oh interesting! Thanks for the insight!

55 minutes ago, LeSheen said:

I have seen a documentary about this phenomenon. It's because of their mandatory service in the army. They get assigned a fitting role and receive training.

Ah sorry, I mean IT security firms, some of the best come from Israel!

6 hours ago, Animal901 said:

Yeah especially if they don't get blown up in Palestine/Israel.. probably not the best place to make tech.

4 hours ago, justpoet said:

There's a lot of tech startups and R&D centers in Israel, especially around chip making, ai, and audio.

Also there are a lot of security companies based out of Israel, not sure why!

14 hours ago, Derangel said:

People have "spread misinformation" because Google has done a piss poor job of actually explaining anything. Nothing was clear before launch. They didn't even talk about all the promised features that wouldn't be at launch until directly asked about it in an AMA. If not for that AMA they never would have revealed their lies.

 

Stadia supports every device? BULLSHIT! Now, you're the one spreading misinformation. The app works on a lot of devices, but you can't stream games on them. It works on Chrome, but only at 1080p with no surround sound, no HDR, nothing but plain 1080p. Outside of that you can play on ONLY Google Pixel phones or the singular Chromecast Ultra that ships with the bundle. Nothing else, until some nebulous point next year. Oh, and, you can't even play it over mobile data at the moment, unlike xCloud. The xCloud beta might currently be limited to Android devices, but at least it works on more than three of them. I have it installed on my Shield and Fire HD. Stadia is a beta product being called a full release, I really wouldn't put it that much a head of xCloud or Geforce Now. Also, you seem to have conveniently ignored Playstation Now, a fully released service that tends to do things better than Stadia.

 

Most of the US has a poor connection. That may not be Google's fault, but it is their problem. They make all those grand promises that simply cannot be delivered on current connections, at least in the largest consumer market for this stuff. That's without getting into Google's blatant lies about connection speed requirements.

I don't disagree with that, their communication has been abysmal. I 100% agree.

OK, "supports" was perhaps not the word I should have used, official support has been limited so far but it does work on many many devices by simply opening chrome on any other phone. Seen people running it on Galaxy's, OnePlus's etc by just using Chrome. The 1080p Chrome thing was actually communicated beforehand. However I find it interesting your saying Chrome is limited to 1080p when the entire xCloud library is limited to 720p? Again, Playstation now limited to 720p. 

Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/moorinsights/2019/12/16/intel-acquires-habana-labs-for-2b

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In a strategic move in its datacenter AI plans, Intel has announced that it will acquire Israeli chip startup Habana Labs for $2B. Intel had reaffirmed its plans to deliver its Nervana chips as recently as last month, but the acquisition of Habana likely signals that early lighthouse accounts preferred the startup’s approach over the 2nd attempt with Nervana. It is hard to imagine a scenario where the Nervana chips would play a significant role going forward, but Intel will understandably take a few months to explore its options.

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Among the scores of startups readying hardware for AI, Habana Labs stands out as one of the first to deliver working hardware with impressive performance claims for both training and inference processing. Habana Labs launched its Goya chip for inference processing in September 2018, claiming roughly 3X performance advantage over NVIDIA with lower latency. The company subsequently announced its training chip, Gaudi in June 2019, claiming record performance and an integrated fabric based on industry standards to enable scaling to process very large AI models.

My thoughts: Seems like Intel is trying to finally combat NVIDIA in the AI space which it hasn't managed to do yet, NVIDIA has been pretty much unchallenged at this point. Be interesting to see if they can provide some competition within the next few years, competition is always good!

Hopefully this blows over, I absolutely love NGINX and especially NGINX support (yes paid), so would hate anything to happen to it 

1 minute ago, Thaldor said:

What I have gotten is that Stadia is basicly just shit. It's not about basic features, it's about the whole concept of having paid subscription and on that you even need to pay for the games (apart from even smaller library of games included in the subscription) and the worst thing is that once you stop paying monthly, you loose those games you paid the full price for. Also that the whole service is currently on it's knees because a lot of registering, activating and device problems and a bit more on those.

 

The worst part for Stadia is that it already has competition and that competition is lightyears ahead of it in every way. mainly the competition is now already few years in beta been GeForce NOW and it whacks the shit out of Stadia. Not only does it support more devices than Stadia (almost every Mac and Windows PC +Nvidia Shield vs. Chromecast Ultra which may overheat and die, some limited tablets and Pixel phones), but at least currently it's free (as long as you get into the program) and even if it had paid subscription it would be million times better because you don't need any separate game library but you have the familiar Steam, Origin, Epic, Battle.net, Uplay and others where you can keep the games even if you stopped using GF NOW. Also just that GF NOW actually works while Stadia is unusable (I have 100Mbps VSDL2 and 200Mbps 4G (both without any caps or restrictions) in use and with both my friends Stadia (which I loaned to try out because it didn't even connect with my friends connection) was stuttering and lagging like granny in snow while GF NOW works flawlessly). And the fun thing is GF NOW is big project for Nvidia but it's not their primary thing that they would advertise and try to sell to people, while Google tries to sell Stadia and could have probably poured a lot more money in it than Nvidia even could dream to pour on GF NOW and they still suck at it.

 

Then all the promises about 4K gaming at 60FPS which have been more or less lies so far. Like yeah, good luck getting up from that hole you dug for yourself, Google.

If you think its shit then you've been paying attention to the media spin, not the actual users. Media has hated on it from the start, not sure why. If you read community posts you will see 95% of users are having a fantastic experience. 

Your statement about losing games if you cancel your monthly subscription is 100% false, this is why its getting a bad rap in the media is because people are spreading misinformation: https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/cancelling-stadia-pro-wont-lock-you-out-of-your-discounted-games/

The service is 100% not on its knees, far from it. There was issues for 5 days after launch which they should definitely have done better with, no doubt about it. But since then, zero issues.

The competition is not light years ahead, infact Stadia does not have any direct competition. xCloud isn't a competitior because its Android only and 720p only. GeForce Now is pretty similar but the technology isn't the same at all. Stadia supports every device, not sure what you mean here? That's literally the whole point of Stadia is it's available everywhere?

Those that I have seen with problems is down to their network setup being poor, who then come back and say they fixed it after doing X, Y, Z. I've even seen people playing it literally on a moving train on Wifi. So not sure why you are having issues.

Agreed, they need to sort the 4k60FPS out with the developers.

14 hours ago, MadyTehWolfie said:

I don’t know how my friend defends stadia and says it’s great. Couldn’t possibly be because he has fios and pays for 500mb upload and download. Completely unrealistic and stupid when he only uses it to stream games to his living room which a steam link can do far better.

To be fair, the general consensus is Stadia works great, the underlying technology is there and the games are very playable. What most of the complaints are about now are the lack of basic features, which is understandable but hopefully they will deliver on those. This is good news because the actual hardest challenge (getting the games to a playable latency) seems to be great.

Another point is, it isn't Google's fault that people have data caps/terrible speeds. Data caps in Europe are non-existent so it is perfectly useable for us over here. Of course, its a consideration you should have when buying.

Steam link is great, if you already have the gaming PC to power it, for casuals who don't have $1000+ PC's, I think its a good option that will hopefully only get better if Google keep at it.

Just my opinion!

1 minute ago, TheUberMedic said:

Nope still gone

Shows back in stock for me now still

1 hour ago, equallizer said:

I just tried to get one and they're out of stock again  

1 hour ago, Murasaki said:

ah f it's out of stock 

54 minutes ago, minibois said:

Exactly! Keep an eye on the webpage.

For me I could press the buy button two days ago, couldn't yesterday and can now! (Western Europe).

 

 

39 minutes ago, TheUberMedic said:

And it's out of stock when I find out about it ;-;

It's back in stock UK right now!

18 minutes ago, equallizer said:

I just tried to get one and they're out of stock again  

Damn, keep trying they might come back in!

4 hours ago, AluminiumTech said:

Unfortunately it looks like in the UK it sold out on Steam so UK peeps will need to buy one off a 3rd party. Found some on Amazon starting at £37.95 used or £70 ish new.

 

what a scam.

I just bought one just now so must have restocked.

Don't know why I bought it mind you, I have no use for it...but hey 

1 minute ago, LAwLz said:

I would say that most people do not count Skype and Teamviewer as their everyday tasks.

 

But here is how to do it in Windows.

1) Open the Microsoft Store

2) Search for Skype

3) Click on Skype

4) Click "Install".

 

On Ubuntu it's:

1) Open "Ubuntu Software"

2) Search for Skype

3) Click on Skype

4) Click "Install"

 

Wow it's so much different, right!?

Geez... GNU/Linux sure is sooo much more complicated than Windows. (sarcasm).

 

 

Here is how to install Teamviewer on Windows:
1) Go to teamviewer.com in your browser.

2) Download the installer (or choose run to skip step 3).

3) Double click on the installer.

4) Run the installation wizard, mostly clicking next and avoiding to install some unwanted bundleware.

 

Here is how to install Teamviewer on Ubuntu:

1) Go to teamviewer.com in your browser.

2) Download the installer (or choose run to skip step 3).

3) Double click the installer.

4) Click "Install" when Ubuntu Software has popped up asking if you want to install Teamviewer.

 

WOW, it's so much more difficult you guys!!!

 

 

What extra step(s) did I do with the GNU/Linux instructions?

 

 

Now you're moving the goalpost. Your original argument was that GNU/Linux required the terminal to use for everyday tasks. That is not true.

Now you're arguing that some university might ask you to use Word or whatever, which is a completely separate argument, one that I might not even agree with. I guess it depends on which class you took, but for my networking education we were actually pushed to use GNU/Linux quite a bit but most stuff was OS agnostic. The only requirements were that things like essays and reports were submitted as PDFs. In fact, we were not allowed to submit things as something else such as word documents. I would be surprised if it was different at other schools.

I was literally replying with this, arguably skype is actually easier to install under Ubuntu 

Nice, I bought an AX200 as an upgrade for my laptop a few weeks ago, I didn't really care if it was certified at the time but nice to see it is!

15 hours ago, Euchre said:

So how much does that all cost?

 

Nursing homes, assisted living facilities, and hospitals have long used bed alarms and chair alarms to monitor patients and residents, hoping to avoid falls and injuries. Recent studies concluded that they actually happened more in facilities that used them, because staff didn't pay attention to them, and the alarm just tells them the accident has already happened. As a result, such devices are being abandoned and removed from use. They were already relatively cheap in terms of medical devices, often ~$100 each. Now they aren't as precise as devices based on load cells or strain gauges, but do you really need more than a toggle switched signal? I'd suspect as they fall from use, their prices will only drop. Just a bit of hacking and you've got something that puts out a simple voltage signal for your presence sensor. How about that? Maybe you've already got an Arduino or Pi with a sensor board or input you can utilize?

 

Something to consider.

Total price is less than $20. You are correct, they have these devices and obviously they work well. I saw many of these in my research. The problem being that they are often to sense a single person, since hospital beds are usually single beds. This isn't a deal breaker but its a nice feature to be able to tell how many people are in the bed, not just IF someone is in the bed. Hopefully that makes sense!

Appreciate the comment, it was something I looked into!

4 minutes ago, James Evens said:

Share your enclosure. There are quite some 3d printer owner who don't know fusion.

It's this one, I didn't make it: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3564942

I made the bed enclosure, but sharing that would be useless since it's unique to my bed!

2 minutes ago, myselfolli said:

This is pretty sweet, well done!

Thank you, appreciate it!

Hey guys!

Thought I’d share my bed occupancy sensor (yes I know, more bed occupancy sensors based on load cells!) and hopefully make it easy for anyone else that wants to replicate.

Using those cheap 50kg load cells under each corner of the bed, a HX711 board, Wemos D1 Mini and of course Home Assistant!

One thing I found hard to find information on was how to mount the sensors. I tried a few things but ended up 3D printing casters/holders for my bed legs and allowing the load cells to slot into them, this stops the bed sliding around on the cells and interfering with the reading. This method keeps everything secure and ensures each cell is in the exact same position.

See attached pictures.

So what do I use this for?

This has greatly improved my automations:

• Ensuring that when we are both in bed, every light and media player is turned off, door locks are set and the house alarm is set to “armed home”.
• I have lights that are automated through Home Assistant when motion is detected, I add a condition to these automations not to trigger these lights when we are both in bed, this is so that our dogs do not trigger lights all night.
• During night hours, the bathroom light comes on at a very dim brightness if one of us exits the bed during the night. This is great for not being blinded when getting up to the bathroom during the night!

I’ve created a full guide here

Github code:

https://github.com/EverythingSmartHome/mqtt-bed-sensor

Sorry I meant, wired or Wifi? I assume wired? What site are you using to test?

2 minutes ago, For Science! said:

This is a possibility, but is in essence what I do currently. My unprocessed raw data is stored on one 8 TB drive, and then I have a processed reduced dataset (for the sake of this thread, the output of the aforementioned "extraction" job) which is stored locally on my workstation on a 1 TB SSD. The needed subsets of this dataset are then moved onto the NVMe SSD for processing.

 

The only thing is that once the job is done, exchanging the contents of the extraction job for another run is tedious since the 8 TB drive is slow.

 

I was however wondering if for example this could be improved by pooling all the large HDDs together for a centralized storage, and then using the L2ARC as you mention above so that it just makes my life easier in terms of moving data backwards and forwards off HDDs and SSDs and takes care of that automagically to some degree.

 

 

 

 

Yes that's what I'm trying to suggest, a smaller SSD pool, perhaps 2 SSDs together, and a large many disk HDD array?

1 minute ago, For Science! said:

Unfortunately so, in my mind I am aiming for at least 50 TB of usable storage space (since I started by thinking RAID10) and so to get that kind of SSD would be out of my budget at least

Would having a smaller SSD only pool for that project work then transferring it off afterwards?

2. In this case ZFS Zil combined with l2arc might be of use, data is written to the SSD then later the system will automatically transfer it to the big pool. This might give you a better explanation:

https://www.45drives.com/wiki/index.php?title=FreeNAS_-_What_is_ZIL_%26_L2ARC

Would an all SSD array be too expensive?