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stragies commented on OpenIPC: Open IP Camera Firmware openipc.org/à... · Posted by u/zakki

wltechblog · 24 days ago

The ING in Thingino stands for Ingenic. The Ingenic chips are MIPS, all the other cams are ARM. Focusing on these chips allows us to produce a firmware that actually works (not my experience with openipc) and is already configured for a specific product so you don't have to spend hours figuring out specifics for your camera to enable the hardware features!

stragies · 24 days ago

Thank you for your work! Can you recommend a compatible LAN POE camera available on Amazon(.de?)

stragies commented on OpenIPC: Open IP Camera Firmware openipc.org/à... · Posted by u/zakki

roacato · 24 days ago

Despite the name, openipc isn't fully open - the main recorder/encoder app (majestic) is closed source. Many openipc developers have moved to an alternative project named "thingino" which has a fully open source recorder/encoder/streamer.

stragies · 24 days ago

This project only seems to support Ingenic SOCs (as per https://github.com/themactep/thingino-firmware). A far cry from the list supported by openipcam.

Edit: But they have a list of product names, where they support installation of Thingino: https://github.com/themactep/thingino-firmware/blob/master/d...

stragies commented on OpenIPC: Open IP Camera Firmware openipc.org/à... · Posted by u/zakki

efrecon · 24 days ago

Link from the homepage: https://openipc.org/supported-hardware/featured

stragies · 24 days ago

This is a list of SOCs, not a list of devices containing these SOCs.

And for most cameras sold, you'll have a hard time figuring out pre-buy, what SOC it contains.

stragies commented on Show HN: I built this to talk Danish to my girlfriend – works with any language menerdu.vercel.app/... · Posted by u/lil_csom

dionian · a month ago

Fun fact, 99% of words ending in -tion are the exact same in French. Every English speaker has a head start of hundreds of word vocabulary in French.

stragies · a month ago

Those words also exist in Spanish, there the ending is "cion", and in Portuguese with ending "cão"

stragies commented on The year of EU Linux desktop may come: digital sovereignty begins at the desktop theregister.com/2025/06/2... · Posted by u/rntn

ksec · 2 months ago

No love for BSD?

stragies · 2 months ago

Yes, more free beta-testing for Apple, Netflix, Cisco, Sony, and other large commercial users is definitely needed and beneficial to the development of the free world. Or so I've been told

stragies commented on Banana Pi BPI-RV2 RISC-V gateway board docs.banana-pi.org/en/BPI... · Posted by u/ofrzeta

nicce · 4 months ago

OpenWrt is not enough?

stragies · 4 months ago

From the DTS posted in another thread here, the board looks to be running a 5.10 Linux kernel. OpenWrt proper runs much newer kernel versions, so the board looks to be running a vendor fork of OpenWrt branched of already a while ago. Maybe they are planning to catch back up to regular/normal/mainline OpenWrt at some point.

stragies commented on Banana Pi BPI-RV2 RISC-V gateway board docs.banana-pi.org/en/BPI... · Posted by u/ofrzeta

stragies · 4 months ago

How "trustworthy" is the "dedicated network processing accelerator (NPU) (supports L2/L3 hardware processing, IPv4/IPv6 dual stack, 20Gbps switching capacity, full byte wire-speed forwarding)"? Is it fully "hardware", auditable, or does/could it run some blob firmware with unknown/undocumented "features"?

stragies commented on Fast-PNG: PNG image decoder and encoder github.com/image-js/fast-... · Posted by u/javatuts

Retr0id · 6 months ago

Looks like it depends on https://github.com/nodeca/pako for the zlib compression.

> Almost as fast in modern JS engines as C implementation (see benchmarks).

Impressive, although "almost" is doing some heavy lifting there.

> deflate-pako x 10.22 ops/sec ±0.33% (29 runs sampled)

> deflate-zlib x 18.48 ops/sec ±0.24% (48 runs sampled)

> inflate-pako x 134 ops/sec ±0.66% (83 runs sampled)

> inflate-zlib x 402 ops/sec ±0.74% (87 runs sampled)

stragies · 6 months ago

Yes, calling something that is 2-3 slower than the reference "almost as fast" is a very creative use of the English language.

stragies commented on Undocumented backdoor found in Bluetooth chip used by a billion devices bleepingcomputer.com/news... · Posted by u/el_duderino

haswell · 6 months ago

What I took away from this was that malicious actors using ESP32 chips in their products could potentially leverage these commands to deliver essentially a Trojan horse.

“Buy this super cheap home automation product” turns into installing an APT in your network.

stragies · 6 months ago

Only buy ESP32 products, where you can access the pins for reflashing with ESPHome.

stragies commented on Undocumented backdoor found in Bluetooth chip used by a billion devices bleepingcomputer.com/news... · Posted by u/el_duderino

noodlesUK · 6 months ago

EDIT: My Spanish isn't very good, but reading the slides it doesn't sound like the vulnerability is likely to be remotely exploitable, it sounds like it's only an issue if the chip is in HCI mode and being used as a bluetooth adapter. If someone who speaks Spanish could confirm I would be very appreciative.

stragies · 6 months ago

With ESP32, always regard the vendor firmware only as proof-of-electrical-functioning. The first thing you should do with any ESP32 device after basic function test, is install ESPHome on it. If that's not possible, buy something different, where you can replace vendor fw.

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