2y ago

Appliances

Well, of course that data is in the "cloud" of a capitalist company willing to sell access to it to anyone... But that doesn't mean I am okay with you being that anyone!

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Ooohh cool. Non-intrusive load monitoring. I did my bachelor’s thesis on that. Pretty interesting field
- Uuuuh, nice, what did you find out?
  
  Haha. That person monitors loads.
  I wipe them off because I didn’t go to school.
  
  I was investigating if these algorithms could be used in an embedded environment. Basically I implemented a load monitor on a raspberry pi using a pretty basic machine learning algorithm and checked performance. Performance wise it worked out pretty well but the accuracy was pretty bad on real world data. Like 50%. Of you’re interested in how it works I can give some more info.

vacuums and coffee machines.
Yeah. those are the, uh, devices, I'm most concerned people knowing I use...
- You have a wall power dildo or something?
  
  The Hitachi Magic Wand is one of the most well known vibrators out there. And it's powered straight from mains voltage.
- Yeah, but mentioning the playstation and the meme homeserver right away felt a little too cheap.
  
  It’s more the kitchen appliances that I use aren’t the ones people bought as gifts… seriously that combined air fryer/pressure cooker/five-other-cooker-things is… annoying.
  (I just have an instapot+slow cooker, immersion blender+blender+food processor that I have to hide from certain family, the absence of the “all in ones” would start a fight.)
- 🤨

you can which
Oopsie
Whenever I miss words when I'm writing something I blame it on my ADHD
- Damn
  
  So, should be fixed now. Thanks for pointing it out.

This is why you self host your stuff and have secure access through a vpn if you want remote access

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