+1 for Reolink. I have those and UniFi cameras tied to my UniFi system.

the US doesn’t have the amount of engineers it needs to move production to the US

Tim Cook can eat a bag of rancid donkey dicks. The reason we ‘don’t have enough engineers’, a point which I would emphatically argue, is because CEOs like Tim and companies like Apple vehemently refused to invest in domestic capabilities as they rushed to save money via Chinese outsourcing.

If we want “Tooling” Engineers, or any other specialty such as “Process Control”, the answer is as always to pay them what they are worth and that’s the rub; Timmie and his buddies don’t want to pay the high salaries for these skills.

…it’s simply impossible.

It’s no more impossible than having enough world class software engineers. The United States in general, and Silicon Valley in particular, used to be the world leader in developing and attracting Engineering talent and the only reason we aren’t anymore is because companies don’t want to pay for it.

I am doubtful that starlink had any measurable impact.

You can doubt all you like but there’s a lot of documented cases of Russia using SL on their drones and in their command bunkers, too many to be easily denied.

Are they telling us that superpower Russia…

Russia isn’t a superpower. In all ways but their nuclear arsenal they are at best a regional power.

As if Russia didn’t have it’s won satelites, cell towers they could build, which are line of sight, and other methods like sending signals over power lines.

Russia has very few satellites and perhaps only a handful of modern ones. They could build cell towers…and then Ukraine will blow them the fuck up, jam them, or listen to their comms. Signals over power lines? What power lines?

I don’t believe that Russia is dependent on Elon Musk’s shitty satelite internet, which by all accounts is worlds worse than fiber optics.

Again, what you believe may not match reality.

This has been predicted and worked towards since the 90s.

Interesting given that they recently mandated that new equipment utilize post quantum resistant encryption.

You can also install ad guard home as an add on INSIDE Home Assistant. Works great!

Am also in Wyoming and can confirm.

Combo of ADHD and living through the 2000s with Internet Explorer where ads often installed malware and viruses. If you DIDN’T use an Ad Blocker you were playing a game of Russian Roulette every time you opened a web page.

Popups, pop unders, blaring audio, malware, slow page loads…ads are a scourge.

Funny, I’ve been calling Flock the same thing.

Good!

I dunno if it’s exciting but I do have and use an Entra joined and InTune managed Linux Mint laptop with a full security stack loaded as described above. It works.

Yep but…

Here’s Microsoft - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/entra/identity/devices/sso-linux?tabs=debian-install%2Cdebian-update%2Cdebian-uninstall

Google has a variety of IDM methods including Ubuntu Authd and Secure Cloud LDAP. There’s also 3rd party tools like JumpCloud, ScaleOrange, etc.

Okta appears to have ASA and OPA although I’m not familiar with either of them. Ping has PingID and Ping Federate, although again I haven’t used either of them.

So depending on your cloud and needs the IdM / IAM is either available NOW or it will be very soon. 😀

The corporate crowd will stay on Windows because they benefit from propping up other corporations.

I wouldn’t be so sure. An interesting indicator of the shift that many of you wouldn’t see is how many vendors of management and security software have put out Linux versions in the past 12 months. I’m talking about stuff like RMM (Remote Monitoring & Management), EDR / MDR (Endpoint Detection & Response / Managed Detection & Response) client side DNS filtering software, and other things.

This tooling is for managing and securing endpoints used by companies, either by internal IT or by MSPs. These vendors wouldn’t be making and releasing these tools unless they were being asked for them AND there was going to be stead long term demand.

Turns out that once a companies stuff is in the cloud its users really don’t need MS Windows anymore so as long as you can centrally manage and secure it Linux makes a perfectly fine endpoint OS.

Not unless you are buying Power or Nano beams. The equipment being used by Russian forces is the stuff that WISPs use, not the stuff that most people use at home or even their business.

You also need to know that the source for these allegations is Hunter Media which is owned by Hunter Capital and that Hunter Capital shorted Ubiquiti’s stock…which means they need UIs share price to go down so they can make money.

This isn’t a “reveal”, it’s a hit piece funded by Hunter Capital. They shorted Ubiquiti’s stock and they NEED the share price to go down so they can make money.

This article is based on a hit piece written by Hunter Media which is owned by Hunter Capital…who has shorted UIs stock. They need UIs stock price to go down so they can make money. There’s a much longer article out there with Hunter Media’s research but even that is meant to leave the reader with the impression that UI is up to no good.

Aw man. I’m gonna have to stop buying their shit, and stop recommending it to friends :(

That’s exactly what Hunter Capital wants. It’s why they paid for the research that Hunter Media (the source of this article) did, why they spent more money to get a carefully written hit piece that pushes a narrative, and why they are spending even more money pushing this into the media.

Hunter Capital shorted UIs stock and they NEED the price to drop so they can make money. There’s a much longer article out there but even it is hit piece meant to leave the reader with the impression that Ubiquiti is somehow directly involved in this or doing nothing about it, both of which are false.

There is a MUCH more in depth article available and I wrote a comment that addresses most of your points. You can find it here: https://lemmy.today/post/46512183/21904347

One of the MANY things this article isn’t telling you is that the source is Hunter Media, which is owned by Hunter Capital who has shorted Ubiquiti’s stock.

…I’m not sure how much power they have to lock down remote devices completely,

They have zero ability to shut them down and that’s if they can even tell they’re being used. These aren’t the “normal” Ubiquiti products that most people use, they are WISP type equipment meant to be used for long range Point to Point or Multipoint connections. They can easily be run without internet access at all.

Do they take action against their official distributors or is this just their policy the official distributors are following?

Considering more than a few of their global official distributors have been shut down by US authorities I’m confident in saying that they are already taking action. They’ve also taken action to ban updates to Ubiquiti equipment that is in use inside Russia but even that is of limited value when geo-location is impossible or wildly imprecise.

It ain’t Ubiquiti selling that gear to them. Better luck next time.

This is a narrative being pushed by a capital investment group that’s shorting Ubiquiti stock.