You can join Phillips hue units to your own zigbee network without Internet or even the Phillips hue app.
Zigbee2mqtt and a cheap zigbee dongle is all you need really. You could add home assistant for a better interface but there is no need to involve Phillips or the Internet. One of the huge advantages of zigbee imo.
With reviews being useless lately, many people have gone back to trusting brand names. Though the only reason I brought them up was to point out availability.
One other really cool thing is they have a wireless switch that is powered by the act of pushing the button.
The 3G thing is extremely common. Even with HUGE suppliers. Including Siemens Energy. Their steam turbine systems come with a 3g connection as standard. I even think they won't do 24h/7d support without it.
I'm pretty sure it never happened. This would have been big news here. The technology press went ape when thepriatebay.org was added to a DNS blocklist. I have searched around and can not find any references to hrw or match being blocked by accident or not.
Either the article writer is confusing Norway with another country or this is just "Journalistic flair" i.e. a lie.
Ok, so your gut feeling vs some scientific research? Could you try to debate the facts instead of a strawman journalist?
Why do you say this journalist is lying, but lack of evidence from other journalists must mean this one is wrong?
Pirate Bay is a big site, and journalists and the population would notice. But they might not know to look for other sites being censored. Just food for thought. I don't know whether to believe it either, but I'm willing to leave it to others to fact check more rigorously.
A perfectly reasonable explanation that obeys all the facts could be that a single telecom blocked access for a short time by mistake, was alerted, and silently fixed it before journalists noticed. I doubt many people are visiting hrw.org on a daily basis, and an outage like that could be mistaken for temporary website issues. A journalist would probably not assume it was a country-wide block and so wouldn't think to write an article about it.
When I read that, I immediately dismissed the whole article.
Both HRW and match.com are available on the 4/5 ISPs I have access to ATM. Home (Telenor), mobile (Telia), server host (domeneshop), my office (Telia, wired) and a customer network (Not sure about the downstream ISP). On the last one match.com is blocked by a firewall not the ISP.
They should really check thier sources. My guess is that they tested on a network that has a filtering firewall.
Now that that is said. Norway is not perfect. The biggest ISPs use a easy to bypass DNS blocklist by the judiciary. The list contains CP-sites, gambling, piracy, terrorism. This is bad enough. Why lie about match.com and hrw.org? Jeez.
> During the G20 period, we observed increased blocking of domains in the news media and E-commerce category in Japan. DNS blocking was observed in both categories while Echo blocking was seen in the E-commerce category to a smaller extent. The domains being blocked during this time period included popular news domains such as online.wsj.com and washingtonpost.com under the news media category and kickstarter.com and marketwatch.com under the E-commerce umbrella.
Lol. Blocking kickstarter.com for G20? It must be false positive or ISP's DNS server is just suck.
What's interesting is the Prime Minister made it explicitly legal for ISPs to do this. Couldn't find the exact news on this but a search turned up the following article which is sort of what I remember https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/04/04/soci-a04.html .
Yeah, the article mentions some news sites being banned temporarily in Japan, but as someone who reads those sites near daily, I never noticed it happening.
Probably. After reading the paper I'm pretty sure they messed up their testing.
The problem is that they blow it up HUGE both in the paper and the article without cursory checking. That is as bad as lie. Maybe even worse.
From The paper 7.1.2:
"Censored Planet data reveals extremely aggressive DNS blocking of many domains in Norway, with many blocks being consistent in all of our vantage points. During the four month period of increased censorship, 25 ASes observed blocking of more than 10 domains in at least six categories. We observed the most rigorous activity in AS 2116 (CATCHCOM) where more than 50 domains were blocked."
Blocking more than 10 domains in 25 ASes I have no reason to doubt. As I said there is extensive DNS blocking. So they write in a way that makes it sound like all the ASes are blocking hrw.org and match. But it's probably only on CATCHCOM. This is a ISP for mostly huge corporate environments where blocking may be by customer demand. So they take one single source of "anomaly" and blow it up. Pretty much a lie.
I agree. I mean, were I not a skeptic I'd be walking around dropping the interesting tidbit that "Norway blocks match.com" - it's as bad as the info-memes with nonsense on them people quote from facebook.
I checked as well (Globalconnect wired; Telenor mobile). It's a fairly ridiculous claim, one which if true would have attracted instant media attention.
Seems really cool but it doesn't look open source, there's any security guarantees within the app? I'm really paranoid of where a put my Google account credentials
I'm pretty sure it's modded version of the official youtube app so no guarantees (Just use a dummy account?).
I'm actually very interested in how the vanced developer has made this. This app is pretty much identical to the youtube app with premium features enabled and ad/sponsor bocking/skipping.
I never log into YT on any device. I still get great recommendations and easily stay on top of my favorite channels. IMO the only benefit to logging in is being able to comment.
I have been wondering for some time if some kind of randomization of the fingerprinting parameters would be better than trying to be standard/anonymous. If the fingerprint changes often wouldn't it become completely useless?
Looks great! I've just gotten a single instance up and running. Really simple to set up. It seems almost exactly what We've been looking for!
Some background: We have been evaluating different time series databases for use with sensor readings (We probably need to ingest something on the order of 100,000-200,000 samples/s per cluster). The data is from physical sensors like temperature, level, pressure etc. Where all the data is in the form of tag(string)|datetime(ms)|value(decimal).
Have you done any comparisons to other similar software like influxdb, Cassandra, etc? Especially ingestion rate and disk usage.
What kind of pricing can we expect on Managed Hosting?
We are currently leaning towards Influxdb but the cluster licensing stuff they are doing really made us think twice.
At my work we use OSI PI which is an Enterprise Historian for storing this kind of physical sensor data - has very good support for time series logging and integrates well with control system(Citect, ABB etc) as well as our LIMS system.
It's not free software so that might be a deal breaker for you.
Yeah that is one of the biggest issues besides the licensing stuff. But ram is pretty cheap and it seems 200,000 different series/tags fits easily in 32gb.
This is a drill rig and does not have any oil/gas production facilities. The pressure in a well can be very unpredictable and is very dangerous to connect directly to generators/heaters. I's much safer to flare it off for the short period when plugging the well.
It's definitely flaring. Just look at the other images. Due to the way the flare is placed it just looks like it's on fire. It's still an emergency flare and looks like a pretty bad situation. I've worked on similar drill rigs and i would not want to be on one that is flaring that much.
Zigbee2mqtt and a cheap zigbee dongle is all you need really. You could add home assistant for a better interface but there is no need to involve Phillips or the Internet. One of the huge advantages of zigbee imo.