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  • AliasVortex@lemmy.worldtohomeassistant@lemmy.world•Best camera and doorbell setup for home security?English
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    1 year ago

    I’ve got a Unifi switch and a gateway instead of a dream machine, but that’s not far from the setup I’m working on (just need the weather to cool down so that I can coexist with the sun in the attic so that I can do the run to the doorbell).

    Ethernet’s not nearly as scary as mains power, I wired up our house with 10 runs though the attic and it’s super doable as a DIY project. Consult your local codes/ laws and all, but I was able to run my cable though j-hooks instead of having to put conduit up everywhere, the biggest gotcha was more in the trying to keep my lines away from existing AC power and finding the wall framing under the insulation in the attic. The company TrueCable has a YouTube channel with a bunch of helpful resources on pretty much everything Ethernet/ networking, I’d highly recommend it even if you aren’t buying cable from them (I ended up doing so because they were cheaper than everywhere else and I could get all my jacks, wall plates, and tools in the same order - this was also a year ago though, so prices may have shifted since).

  • AliasVortex@lemmy.worldtoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•Pi-hole client filtering without DHCP?English
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    1 year ago

    That sounds pretty similar to how I have my network setup:

    • PiHole has conditional forwarding configured (true,192.168.0.0/24,192.168.1.1,lan note: .lan is optional here, I uss it for my internal TLD) to get device names from router
    • PiHole uses Unifi as the upstream DNS and DHCP
    • Unifi uses cloudflare as the upstream DNS
    • Unifi hands out the PiHole as the DNS via DHCP config

    That way I get stats in all the places and can use Unifi for DHCP.

  • AliasVortex@lemmy.worldtoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•Let’s Encrypt Begins Supporting IP Address CertificatesEnglish
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    1 year ago

    That’s kind of awesome! I have a bunch of home lab stuff, but have been putting off buying a domain (I was a broke college student when I started my lab and half the point was avoiding recurring costs- plus I already run the DNS, as far as the WAN is concerned, I have whatever domain I want). My loose plan was to stand up a certificate authority and push the root public key out with active directory, but being able to certify things against Let’s Encrypt might make things significantly easier.

  • AliasVortex@lemmy.worldtopolitics @lemmy.world•LA is burning, and the Right is furious—about sign language interpretersEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Correct. ASL is fascinating because of how visual it is and just how much you can convey by taking the same sign moving it differently (for example you can describe a rough flight by making the sign for airplane and then bouncing it up and down).

    I might also add that in addition to your facial expressions form grammar structures, body language (of which facial expressions are a part) also conveys tone/emphasis. For some concrete examples of how this provides context: the sign for thin becomes anorexic if you suck in your cheeks/ stomach while you make it. Similarly, fat can become obese if you puff out your cheeks and slouch a bit while you make it. Or on a more topical note, the sign for fire is made by wiggling your fingers in an upward motion in front of your chest (visual), the size of your sign sort of describes the size of the fire your talking about, small slow movements might describe the dying embers of a campfire, while larger (pushing towards of out of the area you normally sign in) more frantic movements would be used to describe a miles high inferno.