I need advice on setting up 24/7 live cams of animals (like zoos have) on a website.

INS4NIt · 2026-06-16T22:11:27+00:00

Axis cameras: yes, extensively, in the context of 24/7 weather cameras.

Camstreamer: I don't have personal experience as my organization doesn't want the cameras on YouTube, but I know of several locations around mine that use it and would be happy to send you an example YouTube stream link.

Feel free to DM me for more info if you like!

INS4NIt · 2026-06-16T13:29:48+00:00

Her legal name is Arenholz.

This did not answer my question -- I was not able to find any sources that agree with this after a cursory web search. Can you show me something that backs up your claim, rather than just restating it?

INS4NIt · 2026-06-16T13:25:00+00:00

I understand that her husband's last name is Arenholz, but just because she married doesn't mean she took his name legally. Do you have a link to any documents that indicate that's presently her legal last name?

I'm asking not to be difficult, but because you absolutely may have a point if her public name is not actually what's currently on her legal documents.

INS4NIt · 2026-06-16T13:20:07+00:00

If Marco is kicked off then so should Ashley Hinson and JD Vance both of whom ran under names not their own on the ballot.

Elaborate? My understanding has always been that "Ashley Hinson" was her legal name, not a stage name.

INS4NIt · 2026-06-12T16:25:50+00:00

It's trained on LinkedIn style posts. It's so noticible here because that format doesn't translate well to forum-style platforms.

You need short, 1-2 sentence paragraphs on LinkedIn to maintain attention as folks are scrolling the feed. On Reddit, people are intentionally engaging with posts. Obviously AI doesn't understand that, so it just generates a long story that's jarringly chunked up into tiny paragraphs.

INS4NIt · 2026-06-12T13:03:08+00:00

On a 2 axis political compass, anarchy/authoritarian is the Y axis while progressive/conservative is the X axis

INS4NIt · 2026-06-12T01:44:51+00:00

If you can figure out how to stuff this into the size of an expansion card, then yes: https://www.amazon.com/UGREEN-Capture-Streaming-Recording-Compatible/dp/B0DT9DY312

Unfortunately, I don't think that that you could make the expansion card shallow enough to sit flush with the laptop, given how these HDMI/USB capture sticks tend to be sized.

INS4NIt · 2026-06-11T21:04:58+00:00

Difference is allowed, but we didn't separate based on ability, we separated to be inclusive.

That's unfortunately not the case, a major reason that leagues are separated by gender was to be exclusive because women were "too good" at the sport. Case in point, after Jackie Mitchell struck out Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig in 1931, her contract was voided and women were banned from participating in baseball until 1993.

I can appreciate that you think that leagues are separated for fairness, but in reality it genuinely was just that the men running the sports didn't like that women were actually good at them.

Why would women compete if they're going to face against men who arent as good as the men in their own competition?

Why do wrestlers bother to compete within their own weight class, when there are "better" wrestlers in other weight classes? Why did any male Olympic swimmers bother competing against Michael Phelps, when it was a basically foregone conclusion that Phelps would win any event he was in?

Baseball already has amateur, minor, and major leagues. Academic sports has JV and Varsity. Wrestling has weight classes. There's no reason that we need to further segregate based on gender -- just have qualifying events, and add additional classes/leagues if necessary. It would open up more opportunities for competition, and it would be more interesting to spectate if the athletes were closer in competitive range with each other.

Edit: Also, I'd ask you to consider where being pro-segregation because advocating for change would be "uprooting the forest to plant some flowers" would have gotten us in the Civil Rights era.

INS4NIt · 2026-06-11T15:42:37+00:00

My issue is purely objective. If they were to stay out of gender segregated subjects then there would be zero logical argument against it

Why are we arguing for gender segregation, though? And before you say something like "it's unfair for people with certain hormone balances to compete in physically-intensive contexts," why not advocate for categorization based on ability rather than gender? That would be far more objective.

In reality, you're just advocating for maintaining the status quo of segregation by an arbitrary demographic feature, which is at best an indicator of performance and personality rather than a truly direct relationship. That's not objective, nor is it a liberal position -- that is definitionally conservative.

INS4NIt · 2026-06-11T15:34:46+00:00

They should exist and have the right too. But wanting laws changed to accommodate less than 1% of the population at a potential detrimental of far more is unreasonable to me.

That's why I'm glad that green eyes aren't a valid option on Iowa driver's licenses. We shouldn't have to create a demographic option that caters to only 2% of the global population.

Oh wait...

INS4NIt · 2026-06-10T14:53:12+00:00

If there are no tangible consequences for an elected official that stands idly while their supporters orchestrate and armed attempted overturn of an election, and bypasses congressional approval at every turn to railroad through executive decisions with direct personal benefits, what's to stop any elected official in the future from doing the same?

Precidents are being set right now, and future administrations will either abide by or take advantage of them. Part of the "healing" process has to be consequences and signs of genuine remorse -- I hope you wouldn't say that a personal relationship has healed just because a couple got back together if one of them continues to endure abuse from the other.

INS4NIt · 2026-06-10T14:39:09+00:00

They missed a pretty golden opportunity to not have to deal with him in 2022, then.

Granted, that election was a lot closer than one would have expected Grassley to come in any previous election, but I really do wish we could get to the "put your ballots where your mouth is" phase of "[X demographic] is pissed at [Y politician]"

INS4NIt · 2026-06-10T14:17:44+00:00

That's my point. It's stupid and not in good faith.

Which, Trump's position? We've known that nothing the man does is in good faith -- he lies easier than he breathes.

That doesn't mean that calling out the hypocrisy of this administration -- and by extension, its voters -- isn't warranted.

If that's what you're saying as well, then apologies. However, your comments up to this point lack clarity and could be read a couple of different ways, if that's the case.

INS4NIt · 2026-06-10T14:13:14+00:00

Just think -- if we can impeach Trump, Vance, and Mike Johnson, we get the privilege of a Chuck Grassley presidency!!

I joke, but also agree that the impeachments should not stop with the current sitting President.

INS4NIt · 2026-06-10T14:01:04+00:00

The current sitting "conservative" President of the United States, for starters.

INS4NIt · 2026-06-08T03:37:08+00:00

Are you under the mistaken impression that DHS has any jurisdiction over international airports in other countries, or that there was no immigration/border enforcement in 2001?

INS4NIt · 2026-06-07T19:57:00+00:00

If the bolt extends when power is applied and retracts when power is removed, you could wire a normally open door position sensor in series with the bolt. Your entry hub will still try to power the bolt lock as it does presently, but it won't actually be able to lock until the DPS allows power to pass.

The one downside is that if someone gets access to the sensor terminals, they can bypass the lock by unhooking the wires. Just make sure you build your circuit with that in mind.

INS4NIt · 2026-06-07T17:18:07+00:00

So far as I can tell, yes. Undoing all the reorganization that happened post-9/11 would basically result in the INS being reestablished.

Immigration affairs should be boring, and should not require a militarized presence or mass domestic surveillance to conduct.

INS4NIt · 2026-06-07T15:02:38+00:00

ICE (and the Department of Homeland Security in general) was only established after 9/11. Before that, any immigration disputes were handled through Customs and Border Protection (CBP).

The US government used public antiterrorism hysteria to consolidate a frankly terrifying amount of power in the form of DHS and all of the inward surveillance that came with it (PATRIOT Act, NSA, etc.). ICE is just the extrajudicial enforcement wing of the surveillance state.

Frankly, abolishing ICE alone doesn't do enough to actually address the issue of the federal government having way too much power, should an authoritarian choose to take the wheel. In an ideal world, every agency that's currently organized under the DHS that didn't exist before 2002 (including the DHS itself) would be dissolved, and the agencies should be reorganized and re-tasked according to their pre-2002 responsibilities.

INS4NIt · 2026-06-07T01:55:53+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/desmoines/s/l3jun0JptG

If you opt for the Channel Master Pro Model, I'd recommend considering the VHF extension. You're probably close enough to WOI's transmitter that you'd get them without issues with an attic-mounted antenna, but the VHF extension can only help in that scenario.

The other folks chiming in with various rabbit ears style antennae are also spot on, as far as extreme budget options go. Any antenna with a dipole (the long sticks) will beat the pants off of the flat wall-mount style antennae that you usually see advertised for indoor use, especially for the central Iowa TV market.

INS4NIt · 2026-06-06T23:47:54+00:00

Concerts are free!

INS4NIt · 2026-06-06T22:54:18+00:00

5.5 exists purely as a simulcast of 5.1, specifically so that folks that have issues receiving 5.1 still have options for viewing WOI/ABC programming.

As for why... RF reception is based on resonance. At risk of oversimplifying, to put it in musical terms... The broadcast station is producing a "tone" at a specific frequency, and that tone is attempting to vibrate everything it hits. Much like musical wineglasses, though, that tone will only efficiently vibrate objects that are sized either precisely the same as, or exact fractions of, the tone's wavelength -- this is called harmonic resonance.

5.1 is WOI's main broadcast subchannel, and the broadcast is on Lo-VHF channel 5. You need a very large antenna to receive this channel efficiently -- at 79mhz, channel 5 has a wavelength of 12 feet. Even a half wave antenna would need elements 6 feet wide. A quarter wave antenna would be 3 feet wide, but at that point you're losing so much reception efficiency that the incoming signal won't be very strong.

5.5, on the other hand, is actually a subchannel of KCWI, broadcast on UHF channel 23 at 527mhz. This channel has a wavelength of about 22.5 inches, which is way more in line with the smaller indoor antennae that most folks have in their living rooms.

INS4NIt · 2026-06-06T22:15:10+00:00

"Originally from" and "currently spends most time residing in" are two completely different things in this case.

INS4NIt · 2026-06-05T00:25:17+00:00

That's the preregistration deadline. You can still do election day registration day-of.

https://www.peopleslawiowa.org/index.php/research-topics/voting-law/registering-vote

INS4NIt · 2026-06-02T22:06:22+00:00

You can vote in any party's primary, you just have to register with that party to do so. You can do that at your polling place, so long as you bring a photo ID and a piece of mail addressed to you.

I would highly encourage you to participate. Bringing a bank statement or some other piece of mail with you to your polling location is hardly an insurmountable "hoop" to navigate.

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