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    US Elections (& Politics) :)

    Evolution of false click-bait headlines by conservative media: 1. Zerohedge publishes story titled Fetterman Ex-Chief Of Staff Sounded Mental Health Alarm To Senator's Doctor Fetterman Ex-Chief Of Staff Sounded Mental Health Alarm To Senator's Doctor | ZeroHedge 2. Story contains line saying...
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    Close Call

    I appreciate you didn't copy the "crash landing" part. From what can bee seen in the video, the aircraft looks undamaged. A similar bogus headline is about a couple of goarounds at DCA (Regan) last Thursday. Some posts and stories are calling them "close calls", when the reality was that ATC...
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    Who here uses a Mac (all Apple devices in general), and why? Seriously...

    How about 300bps acoustic coupler and 33ASR teletype, with the mass storage being 10 cps paper tape?
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    Who here uses a Mac (all Apple devices in general), and why? Seriously...

    I remembered I had written a document to help windows users use the mac. This was my intro: At a high level, Mac OS is the same thing as Windows. It's just that some of the details are different. It could be analogous to switching to a 2nd car after using the first one for many...
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    Who here uses a Mac (all Apple devices in general), and why? Seriously...

    I had to set up and use a mac for our church. There's a lot of things I don't like about the hardware and macOS. Then again, there's a lot of things I don't like about windows, it's just that they're a normal part of life to me and all of the apple weirdness was new. In the end, I see it as...
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    Review-EmpireTech IPC-B52IR-X3 1/2.8" CMOS 3 × 2 MP bullet cam

    Notice below that 2 NVR channels have the same IP address, but different remote channel settings (this is for a 2-channel thermal camera).
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    US Elections (& Politics) :)

    125,000 New Yorkers Fled for Florida the Last 5 Years, Taking $14 Billion With Them This is how the libs take over states. Same way the muslims take over countries. Same principle as a long time ago when I bought a house on a view hill, others moved there for the view, planted trees, and in a...
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    Pandemic threat? Anyone else concerned?

    I'm part of a church group that's mostly somewhat cranky old men. A few years ago all except I were singing the praises of the covid shot and racing who could get the first one, or the highest number of boosters. I had it explained to me how the genetic stuff doesn't leave the vicinity of the...
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    Forum technical problems getting bad?

    It's bad optics that the main ipcamtalk.com page has a "buy now" button for BI, that leads to "out of stock".
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    US Elections (& Politics) :)

    I've concluded that this is what it takes to have an even chance against the dems. They are such polished liars and deceptionists that anybody giving them any respect gets rolled over and buried.
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    Money & Economics

    Kind of makes sense with expanding government having been responsible for a lot of the prior growth.
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    Best rat trap

    Cats didn't do squat for me with rats. The biggest they'd take on is mouse and chipmunk. I've had the best luck with the cheap old fashioned spring trap, learning a few tricks along the way. A few are to block off the back and sides so the rat has to approach the trap from the front, put a...
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    US Elections (& Politics) :)

    I don't understand how the EU censorship act can kill US social media. They don't have any jurisdiction to regulate US companies. They can say ISPs have to block it in the EU, say it's illegal for their citizens to look at it, but I don't see how they can kill it from existing outside their...
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    US Elections (& Politics) :)

    Have you checked the refurbished list?
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    New vehicles are crap and private equity groups are the reason

    My newest car is a 2019 subaru. Mechanically it is being a very good platform, and the CVT at least so far, works well. What's crap about it is the electronics, both in design and bugginess. The GPS is the worst I've had, with even the ~$159 garmin being better. Can't use the GPS without the...
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    Notes from the Swamp

    bigred, do you have a front door camera? “I heard a knock at the door and then nothing else,” Nathalie Gaines, who lives in Lake Mary, Florida, told Fox 35 in Orlando. “I waited a while and then I hear it again.” After she looked at the camera, she realized, “There was a full-blown alligator...
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    Be careful if you activate PTP on your NVR

    Not my point. Amazon spying and harvesting of data is among the best in the world. Right up there with google.
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    Does this mean the HD for BI storage is kaput?

    I'd start with verifying that BIOS sees the device. If not, no sense wasting time with windows. If not in BIOS, next step is to reseat the connectors. If no luck there, I'd plug it into a USB-to-SATA gadget and see if that finds it.
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    Be careful if you activate PTP on your NVR

    So instead of dahua spying on us, amazon can, and they have a lot more experience at it! Maybe ads will start popping up when viewing cameras remotely?
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    Be careful if you activate PTP on your NVR

    P2P is neither inherently secure or inherently insecure. It's all up to the quality of its implementation and the trustworthiness of whoever is able to see your data. Since P2P requires contact with a server somewhere, whoever has access to that server could misuse the information passing...
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    Dahua NVR5216 hard reset?

    My V1 5216-4ks2 originally ran V3 firmware. A few years ago I upgraded to a fairly early version of the V4 firmware. I do not use the very latest V4 firmware that I could be using. Detail you probably don't care about: Somewhere during the V4 firmware evolution, dahua added code to prevent...
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    Dahua NVR5216 hard reset?

    You have version 3 firmware. The latest is version 4. I'm running a fairly old 5216-4ks2 with version 4 firmware and as of a couple months ago it worked with P2P, although the smartPSS and DMSS apps had to be upgraded with newer versions. Be careful if upgrading the firmware. There are V1...
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    Camera to watch over garden

    Does the animal detection cause a BI trigger? The advertising says this is a 4MP camera with a 1/1.79 sensor and f1.0 lens. This sounds like the new wiz-color line, which might not be able to detect animals, at half the price. It looks like the case isn't as robust as a dahua case is, but if...
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    The official "WTF" thread

    One of the new flying cars?
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    Dahua NVR5216 hard reset?

    If the NVR works for other than connection to DMSS and smartPSS, I would suspect some kind of communication configuration problem. A while back, dahua changed the P2P servers and older versions of the remote software no longer connect. Perhaps an older NVR won't work with dahua P2P anymore...
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    Dahua WizColor COMING SOON!

    I'm surprised to hear this. I don't have a 4k-t to compare, but I'm pretty happy with how the 3.6mm 4k-x catches details over 100' away.
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    Camera to monitor 5" x 8" LCD panel ?

    I'll compare notes with you. When I'm away I use an old 6mm 4MP chinese market dahua camera pointing at my touchscreen thermostst. At this point in time, this is considered a fairly low-end camera. It's very close to 32" away and works great. One thing I noticed is, if I have this right, the...
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    Dahua WizColor COMING SOON!

    Anybody know what "Comprehensive smart object detection" is?
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    US Elections (& Politics) :)

    Judge Boasberg Admits He Can’t Stop Tren de Aragua Planes to CECOT This is the part that gets me: "The three-judge D.C. Circuit panel split 2-1. The two Trump appointees, Judges Gregory Katsas and Neomi Rao, ruled for the administration. Judge Cornelia Pillard, an appointee of former President...
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    The autism pandemic

    Pretty scary stats: Autism much more prevalent in boys. Nationwide 1 in 20 boys have it. In california, 1 in 12.5 boys have it. If these stats are correct, it is indeed a major epidemic.
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