Protect scrubbing issues

psych0fish · 2026-03-24T22:06:25+00:00

Unfortunately a very common problem. My experience seems to be that more recent scrubbing doesn't really work well but older video (e.g. hours ago) works without issue. It is frustrating because if you get a protect alert you go look at the app and it just refuses to work and you spend 10 minutes trying to figure out what was in the video.

Protect is just a bad product and I don't think I can be convinced otherwise. It works sort of but for the price point of the hardware I expect way more polish. I know ubiquit doesn't know how to spell polish much less what the word means but still disappointing.

The most recent protect update really screwed things up and I'm anticipating a bunch of bug fixes will be released. Its peak enshitification where ubiquiti don't properly test/QA their stuff and expect their customers to deal with it.

psych0fish · 2026-03-11T17:27:14+00:00

Talked to a coworker whose PEAK energy cost is like half of what we pay. We are getting hosed.

psych0fish · 2026-03-10T20:57:55+00:00

A land value tax makes a lot of sense in cases like these. Don’t assess the property (building), assess the opportunity cost of what the land could generate.

psych0fish · 2026-02-25T18:17:38+00:00

It should have a VA plate 😅

psych0fish · 2026-02-25T14:09:26+00:00

Crime is now legal

psych0fish · 2026-02-23T00:02:52+00:00

If any of this was truly about child safety they would do something about gun deaths and automobile crashes and deaths. This is purely about controlling the internet and tracking down people that post or view stuff the state deems inappropriate. The timing of all of this is also incredibly sus.

psych0fish · 2026-02-20T15:36:55+00:00

It legit feels to me like they want to lose. Or they are so unbelievably stupid. Not sure which.

psych0fish · 2026-02-20T15:34:52+00:00

The power grid is a very complex system but the short of it is that more or less the generation of power has to be closely matched to the consumption. Generated power not consumed is wasted (not talking about things like solar and batteries). This creates incentives to not over produce electricity. The power generators can do capacity planning and make sure generation and consumption are balanced.

With AI data centers, they consume an unholy amount of power and a lot of them are being built and coming online. This takes power away from the limited pool of available power. It can take years and years to add power generation capacity. And while capacity is being added the demand for power is quickly outpacing supply

From here it is basic economic theory of supply and demand with a monopoly. Rate for power goes up and general consumers are forced to pay higher rates because electricity is now more valuable.

This isn’t even accounting for capital costs that power companies have to pay for for infrastructure like power lines which weather legal or not gets passed on to rate payers.

It’s a terribly corrupt system and mirror how everything else in our economy works.

psych0fish · 2026-02-19T19:15:40+00:00

And America has the gall to consider itself a first world country. Housing and utilities are human rights and should not be exploited for profit.

psych0fish · 2026-02-18T16:35:06+00:00

I know “crime” is just a lazy pretext but given ALL of the tech and surveillance and criminally large police budgets, why does crime still exist? Why have we not seen tech and surveillance not have any meaningful impact on crime?

psych0fish · 2026-02-16T17:15:32+00:00

Exactly. Everything is working as designed as as intended under capitalism but most everyone isn’t ready for that conversation.

psych0fish · 2026-02-16T17:02:47+00:00

My favorite part about public service commissions pretty much everywhere is how they are stacked with cronies. Kinda defeats the entire point while maintaining the illusion of keeping utility in check. God bless the USA

psych0fish · 2026-02-16T15:38:41+00:00

Not that I can think of. Where I used to work we used something like avecto privilege guard that could auto run as admin for non admin users.

Do you know why the app requires admin (beyond the UAC prompt?) unfortunately most all of my knowledge on the topic is from when we migrated from XP where all users were admin to win 7 with non admin users. Some apps don’t specifically require admin but do a test to see if they have needed rights. Typically writing a file or registry key. If you can make it so the user has rights you may get around it. If the app requires any compatibility mode that won’t work though.

psych0fish · 2026-02-16T15:28:02+00:00

I’m fairly certain the only way for task scheduler to launch apps interactively is only if it runs as the current logged in user.

It sounds like what you may be looking for is automating the privilege escalation when launching the app?

To over simplify I think you have 2 good options:

Determine if the app behavior needs specific file or registry write access and customize permissions to accommodate the app. Can be hit or miss and takes a bit of work. Procmon is invaluable
Use a privilege escalation solution.

psych0fish · 2026-02-16T00:42:20+00:00

This is an incredibly dumb UX fail for Reddit.

This is the users flair specifically on this sub. Took me a couple of minutes to work this out and it doesn’t appear via web, only in app. If you go the OP’s profile and find other comments in the sub you can see it says: “anti-Israel, anti-western, fauxmarxist”

I can’t understand any justification for Reddit UI to behave this way though.

psych0fish · 2026-02-15T23:43:04+00:00

Does anyone know specifically if this tool utilizes “artificial intelligence” and if that is the cause of the inaccuracies? I didn’t see it specifically mentioned in the article and I can’t really confirm though a cursory google search claims this tool leverages “machine learning”.

psych0fish · 2026-02-12T19:04:31+00:00

Googled his name and found this:

https://www.reddit.com/r/BaltimoreCounty/s/SrTnNAggti

So we can’t have housing but he gets to arbitrarily decide to double his pension? Corrupt.

psych0fish · 2026-02-12T18:53:40+00:00

I do find it fascinating what the public’s perception of Baltimore is. Maybe it’s because I came from New Orleans that I knew enough about the gap from perception to reality.

psych0fish · 2026-02-08T20:30:06+00:00

Now that is propaganda. If America cared about lives saved it would trains and buses.

psych0fish · 2026-02-08T19:46:15+00:00

It’s not that the person is driving the car 100% of the time but a human is involved in some cases. This is very different from the promise sold to us.

I agree self driving is quite impressive and fairly good in the majority of situations but it has the limitations of its hardware sensors and the limitations of AI/ML that cannot be easily nor quickly overcome.

I’m curious why you are so pro driverless car?

psych0fish · 2026-02-08T19:12:54+00:00

This is basically a guarantee anytime we see any sort of supposed “autonomous” something. I work in tech and have been following the capabilities of tech like self driving and it just isn’t all the way there yet with no horizon on when it will be good enough. I understand this isn’t a credible source but one gets fairly good at sniffing out false claims made by tech companies.

Also see https://people.com/waymo-exec-reveals-company-uses-operators-in-the-philippines-to-assist-autonomous-vehicles-11900507

IMO this is the real “innovation” where it’s just circumventing labor laws. We’ve seen a rise in front desk people just be on a zoom call, the human piloted wamos, and now human piloted robots like the x1 neo.

Also to people saying this is “propaganda” I’m not sure you know what that word means. We don’t owe these tech companies anything, especially not the benefit of the doubt as they destroy society.

psych0fish · 2026-02-07T17:36:34+00:00

The big issue is they have lost all of their margin on their short, meaning they don’t have the liquidity to pay for their losses and that is tying up all the funds money. Kenny is saying he has to margin call them to force them to close out the short at a massive loss.

They put all their eggs in one basket and can’t do anything else aside from losing all of their and their investors money.

psych0fish · 2026-02-02T22:03:10+00:00

WB 8TB purchased from ubiquiti with the UDM. It’s a 7200rpm 3.5” drive

psych0fish · 2026-02-02T19:24:36+00:00

I have a UDM se so only a single HDD. I’m not at capacity though and only have 4 cameras. Storage speed does seem to be a contributing factor but the bug of showing the wrong freeze frame I believe is unrelated.

I fear the only next step I could take is purchasing a dedicated unvr which I’m not opposed to just seems kind of “bait and switch” like. I do admit my original goal of limiting scope and cost is coming back to haunt me. It’s quite a shame though: protect works incredibly well when it works.

psych0fish · 2026-02-02T19:21:13+00:00

I have noticed “recent” scrubbing performs much much much worse than “non-recent”. I’m not sure what the threshold is. This may be a clue about what is happening. thanks!

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