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Some of these are only vaguely related, but great communities.
This post is fantastic for 2 reasons:
It's so important to raise awareness of how these 'conveniences' like the Ring Doorbell are being turned into the chains that will bind society
This post includes an in-image cite with both text url and a QR! This should be standard on any image post like this.
Well played.
Lots of local-only options out there for security cameras. Doorbell cameras may be a little harder to find, but it looks like they exist.
I have a few Amcrest PoE bullet cameras, and they work great local-only. They're on a separate VLAN, only my server can talk to them, and I have had zero problems with them. They even support NTP, which my router provides, so the clocks stay synced with no intervention. I'm running them with Frigate.
Ubiquiti is an option and many folks already use their switches and other networking gear, but the cameras are a bit pricey and the doorbell is ungodly expensive at $400. I wish they'd release one without so many unnecessary features for half the price.
Flock is going to offer facial recognition services to the cities that have flock cameras already installed. Adding ring cameras just adds to the ability of their network. Privacy nightmare
Ring was ALWAYS a mass surveillance tool.
So many modern technologies would be incredibly cool if they weren't operated by untrustworthy people.
Airplanes are cool, and they drop bombs.
Gonna send this to my MIL so I don't have to come to family gatherings anymore
Yep almost all of these things are super sketch
It’s sad that it’s 2026 and tough to find a good ONVIF doorbell. Apparently the new reolink models require the reolink hub. I just want something local I can connect to home assistant that works well…
If anyone has recommendations, I’d appreciate them. Watched a lot of YouTube and a lot of conflicting takes out there where one review is terrible and another sounds like it must be sponsored with how much they love it.
I don’t see anything on the page saying the doorbell requires the hub, just that it works with reolink hub or reolink NVRs. The doorbell also has a n SD card slot for local storage. https://m.reolink.com/us/product/reolink-doorbell-battery/
Power over ethernet cameras to a switch connected to a zoneminder server.
This does require running the ethernet cable plus the server infra and managing it yourself but as far as I know it's the best solution.
I use a TP-Link Tapo doorbell which only records video on-site (I have not subscribed to the cloud service).
As best I understand, as the data is hosted locally - TP-Link are unable to share video with Law Enforcement even if they want to.
And you know what they want to see?
Ballsacks and butt holes. Ding-dong motherfuckers.
Introduce them to the worst goatse there is. Print off a bunch of stills, laminate ‘em, and have ‘em cover the entire frame. Rotate through as desired. If they gonna spy, they gonna get goatse’d.
Give them ... Free amateur porn?
You. I like your style mister.
My doorbell doesn't even work, let alone record anything. It works for me real well as a decoy for a working doorbell.
They must love being paid monthly for it too. Or is the ring doorbell a yearly sub? 🤷
Paying for the device to be spied upon is one thing, but paying a subscription to be continuously spied upon is another.
Carrying it around in our pockets and bringing it everywhere we go, is another thing altogether..
I'd guess both. It's normally X/month or Y/year for subscriptions.
If this is a surprise to somebody, I question their critical thinking skills.
old ppl.
It is a surprise to me, I didn't know they weren't doing it yet.
Ring has been giving police warentless access to video for as long they've been around. Its hardly news.
That was on demand though, not passively fed to Flock
Not advocating for Ring use but doesn’t enabling feed and storage encryption reduce/remove this problem? Enabling it seems to limit a lot of features that would be dependent upon an unencrypted feed.
Unless you're given a decryption key and you have audited the source code to understand that you're the only recipient of that decryption key. You should always assume that the vendor of such a service can decrypt your data if they wanted/have a reason to.
I trust ring encryption about as far as I can throw WhatsApp encryption.
