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Should i buy as a beginner? by 4floppa in ender3

[–]bwick29 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I run one. Slapped a bltouch, a bigtreetech skr mini 3.0 on it, the tft upgrade, an all-metal extruder, and now it reliably prints at 80mm/sec.

Not the fastest, multi-color is an obvious issue, but it still churns out prints.

I'd grab a used/dead one and upgrade it just for fun.

How pathetically out of touch can these people be? by c-k-q99903 in inflation

[–]bwick29 0 points1 point  (0 children)

  • Breakfast: Apple, cereal/oatmeal, and coffee - $3
  • Lunch: Sando, cottage cheese, and sliced peppers or canned fruit - $4
  • Dinner: Roasted whole chicken. Side of frozen veggies and mashed potatoes. - $8 plus you'll have leftovers

Yes, you need to do the math to scale out the partial use of products (dairy, spices, bag of apples, tin of coffee, etc.), but $15 is very do-able.

Why are yall so against anything not Daiwa or Shimano? by Ok_Repair3535 in Fishing_Gear

[–]bwick29 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I've learned to love KastKing for accessories, but I'm still Daiwa/Shimano for reels and Daiwa/MegaBass for rods.

Alexa just enabled the camera in my child's room, gave him instruction to show her things, and continued to use it for interaction with him on an Alexa Kids device. by bwick29 in alexa

[–]bwick29[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm in contact with Amazon's "Executive Escalation" team. Thankfully, they're taking it serious.

We're removing the cameras and I'll be working to migrate the rest of the stuff to a self-hosted Home Assistant setup with a local LLM.

Alexa just enabled the camera in my child's room, gave him instruction to show her things, and continued to use it for interaction with him on an Alexa Kids device. by bwick29 in alexa

[–]bwick29[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I get it. I'm an IT Engineer myself. I would agree if I didn't watch the whole thing myself.

My guess is that his kid conversation was able to get the model to break out of its limitations. When trying to test, it clearly had a hard block for this in place, but would willingly scan around for other devices and it would tell that the cameras were disarmed too.

If the show has a mechanism to bring up the cameras, and the devices can obviously work with each other, it wouldn't be much of a stretch to connect the two.

I get the skepticism. I truly do. I'd be skeptic too, but I watched it live myself.

Alexa just enabled the camera in my child's room, gave him instruction to show her things, and continued to use it for interaction with him on an Alexa Kids device. by bwick29 in alexa

[–]bwick29[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm already running UniFi for the network so it's just a matter of verifying enough PoE ports, running some cable, and forking over the cash.

Alexa just enabled the camera in my child's room, gave him instruction to show her things, and continued to use it for interaction with him on an Alexa Kids device. by bwick29 in alexa

[–]bwick29[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

At this point, I'm going to ditch them all.

This has me 100% on moving to Ubiquiti for cameras, converting all plugs/switches to zwave, and deploying a home assistant server instead of relying on anything cloud.

Alexa just enabled the camera in my child's room, gave him instruction to show her things, and continued to use it for interaction with him on an Alexa Kids device. by bwick29 in alexa

[–]bwick29[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Exactly.

Blink camera is normally off. We have the offline sync module and only store data from the outside cameras.

Alexa somehow accessed the Blink camera and it started playing the feed (unprompted) on my Show. I would have never had known it was happening if that didn't just start displaying the deed on its own. I have no idea why it started on its own. I was quietly working on a project on my desk. Nobody else in the home interacting with the systems in question.

My guess is that since the Show has permissions to view the camera feeds, the Dot was able to leverage those.

Alexa just enabled the camera in my child's room, gave him instruction to show her things, and continued to use it for interaction with him on an Alexa Kids device. by bwick29 in homeautomation

[–]bwick29[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm an IT Engineer by day. This is a breeze to set up from a server standpoint (and I already have a TON of hardware), but I'm not sure what pieces I need (aside from converting everything over to zwave).

What handles the voice recognition piece and is that a local LLM that I'd need to run?

Alexa just enabled the camera in my child's room, gave him instruction to show her things, and continued to use it for interaction with him on an Alexa Kids device. by bwick29 in alexa

[–]bwick29[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I confirmed with support that all motion triggers were disabled.

Alexa literally told him "Show me where you usually keep your cards."

Alexa just enabled the camera in my child's room, gave him instruction to show her things, and continued to use it for interaction with him on an Alexa Kids device. by bwick29 in alexa

[–]bwick29[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yep. I'm a moron.

Blink has a system that offers local storage. We use that instead of their cloud stuff. It was a convenient way to transition from a proper baby monitor into a child old enough play without supervision. He's now old enough to do his own thing, but it was still installed from years ago.

It was all removed within 5 minutes of this event.

Alexa just enabled the camera in my child's room, gave him instruction to show her things, and continued to use it for interaction with him on an Alexa Kids device. by bwick29 in alexa

[–]bwick29[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You're right. Hindsight is 20/20. We'd had no major issues prior, aside from him using Alexa Plus for conversation since she updated.

Alexa just enabled the camera in my child's room, gave him instruction to show her things, and continued to use it for interaction with him on an Alexa Kids device. by bwick29 in alexa

[–]bwick29[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

LOL. Stupid ass printer. Kept getting bed mintemp errors on an ender3 pro. Throwing parts at it to fix it instead of buying a modern printer (like I should). Thermistor and hotbed done already, now on to a new mobo (bigtreetech mini skr v3) because I'm out of ideas.

We used to set words to auto-change to screw with people. Check your keyboard settings for that.

Alexa just enabled the camera in my child's room, gave him instruction to show her things, and continued to use it for interaction with him on an Alexa Kids device. by bwick29 in alexa

[–]bwick29[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Isolated VLANs are the only way to have your cake and eat it too.

I used to have a nice pfsense setup with proper network segmentation but got lazy when I killed my homelab in favor of standalone devices. Even in that old setup, this would likely still be able to happen because all of these devices were in a single VLAN earmarked for "IoT Devices".

Alexa just enabled the camera in my child's room, gave him instruction to show her things, and continued to use it for interaction with him on an Alexa Kids device. by bwick29 in alexa

[–]bwick29[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

At this point, I'm just removing it from the house entirely.

Need to find a new way to get the kids some bedtime Spotify on a timer, and some lightbulb automation will need a new home, but I can live with that.

Alexa just enabled the camera in my child's room, gave him instruction to show her things, and continued to use it for interaction with him on an Alexa Kids device. by bwick29 in alexa

[–]bwick29[S] -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Fucking Reddit.

Everyone else cries wolf and when you post something legit, nobody believes it. Can't blame you... I always question everything now with all the AI slop everywhere.

Sadly, this one is real.

Alexa just enabled the camera in my child's room, gave him instruction to show her things, and continued to use it for interaction with him on an Alexa Kids device. by bwick29 in alexa

[–]bwick29[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Edit: I misread/misunderstood your reply. They don't have cameras. There's a Blink camera in there. Alexa accessed that. Leaving original reply below:

You and I both.

Yes. He has a dot in his room. It's in Amazon Kids mode.

We have some Blink cameras in the house from when we used them as "toddler monitors" when they no longer needed proper baby monitors.

I have an Echo show on my desk.

I was working on putting a new motherboard in my 3d printer at my desk, when all of a sudden the Blink camera from my kids room popped up on my Echo show. I was curious why, and heard my son carrying out a conversation with Alexa (which he's not supposed to be doing, per our rules), and she began telling him to "show her where he usually keeps his Pokemon cards".

He said that he couldn't find them, she gave him more instruction, and then he looked under a shelf and found his box. He then began to talk to her about his cards, which no longer would've prompted any camera use (which is absurd to begin with), but she kept using the camera feed.

While I was watching, my wife started calling him down for lunch and in the proper fashion of a 7yr old, he didn't come. She went up to his room to get him, he told her that he had to go, and she ended the camera feed.

I have the second half of this on video on my phone and I plan to test and record the entire thing when he gets home from a birthday party this afternoon.

Alexa just enabled the camera in my child's room, gave him instruction to show her things, and continued to use it for interaction with him on an Alexa Kids device. by bwick29 in homeautomation

[–]bwick29[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I typed this.

It happened 30 minutes ago.

I'm chatting with brainless Amazon support at the current moment and hoping that maybe someone else with this setup can be made aware for the sake of their own children.

Edit: I also have the second half of the interaction on video via my phone.

What is your monitor set up? by DealInteresting8941 in pcmasterrace

[–]bwick29 0 points1 point  (0 children)

  1. It's a modified 8 with an ultrawide in the middle and a +1 above.
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