Fuck my mate who went out for a fish with us whilst sick.
If you're sick just stay home. I'm tired of this convoluted game of germ tag we keep playing.
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So what is everyone else doing with the glut of feijoas? Getting a little tired of eating them everyday
I didn't even realize it was feijoa season until I went into the office earlier this week, and it seemed every other person had a bag full of em on their desk lol.
Went over to mum's earlier today, and she gave us some as well 😆
If you're tired of feijoas you're tired of life.
In muffins
Stewed with icecream
Smoothies
I might be a little tired of life... smoothies sounds like the least effort, so just have to think what other ingredients will go well with it now
My wife does the stewing thing. The trick is that you stew so many you haven't eaten them by the time the next fejoa season comes around, then you stew some more. Repeat each year.
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I haven't checked my tree for a while actually.
Uh oh, you better watch out for those feijoa-stealing whores!
We’ve got lots as well. Looking at how to use them in other dishes, I found a Herald article - "24 Feijoa Recipes".
It’s an archive link to skip the "pay-for" - https://archive.ph/TzMXj
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There are 4 heavy eaters in my house (everyone except me), so our problem is they aren't ripening fast enough 😆
We’ve been getting about 8 to 10 dropping everyday, plus some that people have been giving away. Three of us are eating them every night, but we still have two big bowls full!
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Our parents adopted a cat a few years ago now, and they haven't installed a cat flap yet because he'll bring home a mouse, and they don't want him to bring them inside the house. So for now, they've been opening and closing the door everytime (they've setup a little security cam at the door so they know when he comes back), which unfortunately involves opening the door in the middle of the night.
So I've been meaning to try and build a "smart" cat flap that utilizes image recognition to detest if he's got a mouse in his mouth or not.
I had previously done a bit of research last year and gave up on it for some reason. Here's to hoping I get a bit further down the road this time, and have some success lol.
Cat flaps are psychologically bad for cats.
Also keeping them in overnight means way less catfights/vet bills.
That said I love those image recognition catflaps they yield some hilarious picturs, especially the lightbox/silhouette method.
What was the problem with cats and cat flaps?
Doesn't seem to be an issue for this guy. They installed a cat door on the little pool storage house thingy they have in the yard, so that he can get in and out of that as he pleases (it's sort of like his own little house 😄), and he doesn't seem to have a problem with it.
Also keeping them in overnight means way less catfights/vet bills.
Definitely agree with this one, though unfortunately this fella really does needs to take his (what we assume is his toilet break) little wander at 4am. The whole thing with him not wanting to use a toilet indoors is another thing all together.... Maybe it has something to do with the fact he was basically a street cat for a bit.
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Not all cats have a problem with flaps.
I have two cats they have zero problems with the flaps. They sometimes use the flap as a short cut to sneak up on the other one when playing.
I have those electronic ones you register with their microchip so only they can use the flaps.
But, I still get gifts like mice, skinks, praying mantis, cicadas, leaves, etc. The flaps don't stop gifts.
Haha, yeah the microchip thing is something I'd like to have built in as well.
An easy "cheat" way to do it would be to use ChatGPT 4, you can submit a picture and ask it a question like "is there a cat in this scene and is it holding a mouse? Respond with either 'true' or 'false'".
Python examples here: https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/vision
Huh. Super interesting! I should give this an initial go, and maybe when I come up with my "own" solution, benchmark them against each other. Wonder if there's a trade off (e.g., chatgpt is more accurate but takes longer due to all the back and forth required, whereas the local solution may not be as accurate but is faster)
It's honestly amazing how quickly all this stuff is evolving and growing. Thank you for that tip 👍😄
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That sounds amazing! Would that be some sort of frigate setup?
I've always wanted to set up something like that, where you get notified that a van is in your driveway or a person is at the door via image recognition from a security camera. But I think the hardware is a bit hard to track down, though I haven't actually done much research towards this thing that I've "always wanted" 😆
Would that be some sort of frigate setup?
Honestly I just started thinking about this again yesterday so I basically know nothing lol. Though i did come across frigate, and it did make me want to try and setup a local home security system (as I've been meaning to get away from using a wireless one from one of the big manufacturers of such things).
I've been doing a bit of a dive into something called YOLOv8, which seems to be an object detection model, where you can use existing models, or train your own. Utilizing that on maybe a RPi 5 with a camera and a Google Coral (which from my understanding, supercharges your hardware's ability to process such things), and then using the output from the model somehow to control some type of actuation (electromagnet maybe?) to lock or unlock a catflap.
But I think the hardware is a bit hard to track down
Yeah I think from memory, one of the main reasons I had abandoned it last time I looked was that it was so hard to get the relevant hardware. Having a look again, it seems that most things are quite readily available now :)
I’ve been doing a bit of a dive into something called YOLOv8
Not knowing what it is, I'm not sure if using software called YOLO is advisable 😆
it seems that most things are quite readily available now :)
Oh man, don't tell me that, now I'll have to do it!
Haha. Though seeing as their on their 8th YOLO adventure (different versions are actually built by different people it seems), maybe they have a method to their YOLOing madness😆
Oh man, don't tell me that, now I'll have to do it!
You definitely shouldn't visit mouser.com then hahaha 😆
Oh man, there seems to be ample stock!
Any suggestions for a camera? I don't have any at the moment. One that doesn't expose itself to the internet would be nice 😆
I've only been looking at the Raspberry Cams for the moment, as my thinking was that I wanted to keep all the components as compatible as possible to make my life easier.
Though for security cameras, maybe @[email protected] would have better knowledge around what is good out there?
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There are other options. I use deepstack on my nas for object recognition so that I only get alerted by the camera if it recognises vehicles or people in our driveway
What type of hardware are you running if you don't mind me asking?
It's running on a 10 year old xeon. I already had Unraid running as my Nas that has a bunch of docker containers for Plex, Homeassistant, etc. Deepstack is running on there as a docker container.
FWIW, I setup my security camera 1-2 years ago, so there might be better options now. However there was also a big shortage of Coral TPU's at the time, even though I did consider using Frigate. I ended up settling on BlueIris for recording as I wasn't happy with what the free options offered back then. Unfortunately BlueIris is Windows only, so I picked up an ex-lease PC which runs headless just for BlueIris and storing the footage.
I've been thinking lately of updating the hardware in the Nas, as there is a huge performance jump if I move to one of the new Raptor/Alder lake Intel chips with quick sync, particularly for transcoding for Plex. But it's going to be at least a couple of grand to update everything properly, which I don't have to spend right now :(
During my research, I've been seeing a lot of talk around Docker. Is that sort of like in between a Venv & VM?
My understanding is that is you use a Coral TPU, it basically allows you to run things such as Image recognition on much lesser hardware than would otherwise be possible? In theory, does that mean you don't need the top of the line everything else if you're trying to run something like that?
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You may have noticed something different about our daily thread!
People haven't always had things to talk about each day, threads weren't posted each day so new conversations often started on old threads, and in general having daily threads didn't seem to be necessary. So the new format will be a weekly thread, this will be pinned in the [email protected] community so you can always find it, and we can have conversations there that we were previously having on the daily threads.
Roughly each week (no specific day) I'll create a new thread, pin it and unpin the old one, and we will start fresh for that week(ish).
Weekly thread suits our pace better I think.
Yay, this will stop me having to click around so much when I miss a few days and am wondering what you're all up to.
I like it, this solves the problem of nobody making the thread on the weekends, and also less clutter in the instance feed.
Thanks, this makes sense. Would also help keep longer conversations going (one of the issues with the daily threads being that you were less inclined to go back to an older thread to check for new comments).
If you're on the web UI, you can choose to view comments instead of posts. Order by New under Local and you can see every new comment being made in a local community!
Also works on All but a bit more crazy to follow there 😆
Exciting 😀