I’m a big… proponent… of handheld rechargeable air blowers after getting one from Wolfbox.

I always felt like I was risking frostbite with the cans.

I’ve used bookshop.org which sells ebooks and has a reader, but you can nominate a local bookstore to get part of the profit.

That sounds worth investigating, thanks! Amcrest needs an account for notifications afaik, but the Pro cameras can work just on a local network.

The app for them is awful. Then they made a new version that is awful in slightly different ways, so I’m interested in new options.

It mentions push notifications and emails, so I guess they must require an account, or can you configure them to use SMTP directly, as with the Amcrest Pro cameras?

My point was really how there was little to no verification on SMTP servers back then and that you could send mail with a simple terminal program, or, more practically, a script.

Not hacking, but using knowledge of the insecurity of SMTP servers of the time, to allow spoofing easy spoofing.

Not so easy to find SMTP servers to do that with now.

Not really hacking, but in the 90s you could usually just connect to a mail server and it would believe what you told it.

If you were careful you could just type an email directly: MAIL FROM, RCPT TO, etc.

I would write scripts at work to send spoof emails sometimes, you could put anything as the FROM address, like “info @ catfacts” or whatever.

Another “not really hacking” example is that when some companies first got an Internet connection, they would just allocate public IP addresses to everyone, no gateway or firewall. So you could browse any non-passworded smb shares just knowing the IP.

I heard of it from this video

https://youtu.be/9Ch4a6ffPZY

It’s just one of several tells. Although you can’t really rely on anything. Just like “badly-drawn hands” is less likely to show up now.

Once I heard this, I had to learn how to type them, btw!

I tested some more and can’t get it to work any more. I found a post saying it worked in 1.5.2 so maybe something broke in newer versions.

You need to enable Bluetooth as a method of connection in the app settings (and can turn off wifi and data there).

The phones can be in airplane mode but with Bluetooth turned back on (as you would to use earbuds).

I don’t recall pairing the phones, but there is a “connect via Bluetooth” option on each chat that might be doing that automatically.

You link accounts to each other by scanning qr codes.

It does have a group chat but I haven’t used it, so I don’t know if that works with Bluetooth alone.

I just tried testing this with an old phone of mine, but can’t get it to work right now (maybe because it has Graphene os?), but I have actually used it on flights in the past.

I’ve used it to message someone while on a flight.

I have it add a backup suffix based on the date. It moves changed and deleted files to another directory adding the date to the filename.

It can also do hard-link copied so that you can have multiple full directory trees to avoid all that duplication.

No file deltas or compression, but it does mean that you can access the backups directly.

I’m referring to Amcrest Pro cameras, btw. They are the ones that let you configure them to be independent of their cloud service, write to a NAS, etc.

I’m just testing out thingino, but it’s currently lacking features compared to amcrest.

There’s no option to only save video when events trigger, so it fills the card quickly.

And I can’t get the tinyCam app to access recorded files, so I have to use the web-based file browser.

But then Amcrest’s apps (both old and new) have do many faults and glitchy behavior.

Lots of features, but not simple and a big learning curve is you don’t already is emacs.

I don’t think that there’s a way for it to do drag and drop, either, although it’s emacs, so who knows?

I’ve run small models (a few Gb in size) on my steam deck. It gives reasonably fast responses (faster than a person would type).

I know that they’re far from state-of-the art, but they do work and I know that the Steam Deck is not going to be using much power.

There are some good comments in this discussion

https://lemmy.world/post/35820333

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Rsync can rename/move target changed or gone from the source.

I use those options so that I get a separate ‘archive’ dir next to my backup target, with old versions of files.

It’s useful for loose collections such as photos.

Maybe because it has Windows inside it :)

I think I get more of what you mean, now. I’m sure that there are technical issues to solve, like you said from the start, but that doesn’t mean they can’t be solved.