Just in one weekend. No cloud. No subscription. Pays for itself in under 3 months. Code is open source.

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So I grabbed a $25 Raspberry Pi, fired up GitHub Copilot, and vibe coded Watchman -- a Pi that impersonates a USB drive for Blink, intercepts clips as they're written, and archives everything locally with a simple web UI.

Amazon charges $11.99/mo to let you watch your own Blink camera footage. Their ToS lets them copy, modify, and review your recordings. Hard pass.

Brazil’s new ECA Digital is now law.

No more "I am 18" checkboxes. No more infinite scroll for minors. But there’s a catch: to protect kids, are we building a surveillance nightmare where every click is tied to a government ID?

Read my takes and lets chat about it: renanm.com/blog/the-end...

*Raspberry Pi :)

Built a Raspberry Pu that hijacks my Blink camera's USB port, auto archive all clips locally and serves them through a web UI.
Vibe coded in a day. Cancelled the subscription

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On your data. Resist and unsubscribe!
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In the meantime: www.reuters.com/world/us-fun...

Sad that people’s brains got so rotten by media that they can’t see the obvious.

(2/2)

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It turned out to be a fun experiment and a great way to keep everything local in my Home Assistant setup.

#IoT #Security #HomeAssistant #FlipperZero #Tasmota

(1/2) Cloud-dependent smart plugs = more data exposure + bigger attack surface.
Local-only with Tasmota = privacy, resilience, and control.

So, last weekend I decided to tackle a new DIY project, I flashed a Sonoff S31 with Flipper Zero to cut the cloud out entirely.