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Amazon Is Using Your Conversations With Alexa to Train AI (gizmodo.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm never putting one of these in my home.

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 11 months ago (4 children)

You can have a privacy-first smart home. I have. I run Home Assistant in a docker container. No external services/plugins. My smart doorbell streams to my local nvr. If my internet is down, everything keeps working. And it's not even that hard anymore. It's become a lot easier over the last 2-3 years. Still not for non-techie users, but a lot better.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

That sounds pretty reasonable.

Edit: Still kind of want to call my place "Stupid House" for myriad other reasons

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I'm not tech illiterate by any means, and everything after "home assistant" in that post is Greek to me

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

Docker is a way to run containers. Basically lightweight virtual servers. That makes it easy to run multiple servers on one machine. An NVR is a network video recorder. It's like a video security system like they use in stores where all cameras are viewed and recorded in a single place. I assume you know what a doorbell is 😄

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Have any resources to get started with that? Been looking into security systems but don't fully trust nest/ring/simplisafe etc

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

Just start with a local Home Assistant on. Raspberry Pi and go from there: https://www.home-assistant.io/installation/

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Teach me your ways please! Setting up a Home Assistant seems like such a daunting task. I'm stalling converting my devices into it. Any tips for a (home assistant) beginner?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I just followed the steps on their site. Containers give me cancer, so I did a real install on my home server.

Caveat: I am a professional software engineer (but I didn't really have to hack anything)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Start with a Raspberry Pi and just follow the docs: https://www.home-assistant.io/installation/

That's the easy way. I did it the hard way, but that's because I run on on a big dedicated home server together with a dozen other services.