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My new cat, Pink, ran away last week.
Haven't seen her in 8 days now, but someone ate all her food a few nights back.
She's probably near and coming home every few nights to eat.
To make sure, I bought a camera with night vision that can detect and follow motion, notify me of any motion and record up to a few days.
I'm aiming it directly at the cat hatch so I know when she's in.
Not a fan though, this kind of stuff is often badly secured and I wouldn't be surprised if the manufacturer is now following my every move.
I hope I get Pink back soon and I can unplug and box this camera again.
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Check your catflap - most have three modes: In only, Out only, and In and Out.
Set it to "In Only" and she can enter for food, but can't go back out again until you let her.
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My cat flap is very basic, it has but one mode.
It also has to be open permanently (using tape, because I cannot remove the flap without disassembling the whole thing) because she doesn't know how a cat flap works yet.
In hindsight, it would've been worth it to pay a little extra for a good cat flap 
She "escaped" when the door was open.
I let her, because she was meowing at the door every night.
Two weeks ago she went to explore, but something scared her and she came running back, so I thought it would be alright.
Last week she also started off exploring the garden and did not go too far, until she did
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OriginalGriff wrote: Set it to "In Only" and she can enter for food, but can't go back out again until you let her.
or you may gain an angry pet raccoon (rare), badger or ...
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Synonyms: pest, plague, CCP
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... which would explain the lack of cat! 
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I don't think that's possible in the Netherlands 
We have them, but not in residential areas.
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Sander Rossel wrote: I wouldn't be surprised if the manufacturer is now following my every move.
I would be. I'm pretty sure they have better things to do than watch your cat door.
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Sander Rossel wrote: someone ate all her food a few nights back
Where is Bart, anyway? His dinner's getting all cold and eaten.[^] 
Hope the cat comes back soon. Could she be pregnant? One of my parent's cats seemed to go into hiding just before she gave birth.
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She can't be pregnant unless the animal shelter lied to me.
I think she just wanted out.
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I doubt that they watch the cat door. More likely they would like to make it a Bot. I connected one to the Internet via a spare router and a PC with a separate public IP address and all was fine. I used a spare computer with an NVR program on it. All isolated. One day, the camera said "aha, I have an update". "OK" says I, "go for it". I watched the log in the router and within 15 minutes, the camera contacted Tanzania or some such place. Since I had carelessly used the same admin password in both the camera and the PC (this is theory), it logged in to the PC and created 2 new administrator accounts (this part is fact).
So, never trust an IoT device connected to the Internet unless you make sure it can't phone some home besides yours. Real firewalls are your friend.
I use firewalls with VPN servers, never port forward. I used to be young and dumb. Now, I am old and dumb.
YMMV
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Is the recording cloud-based ? Just switch to an sd card and close any port you are not using, so that the data stays local...
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Sander Rossel wrote: My new cat, Pink, ran away last week.
If my owner called me Pink, I probably would, too... 
Sander Rossel wrote: I wouldn't be surprised if the manufacturer is now following my every move.
On the bright side, you now have many more people looking for your cat...
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dandy72 wrote: If my owner called me Pink, I probably would, too...
I guess that if both you and your owner called you Pink, that could be considered your name, or at least nickname 
In the old days of silver photography and photolabs making color prints for us, there was a well known story from Norways biggest lab about the strangely distorted colors in the photo of this cat: It looked more or less green no matter how they set the color adjustment when making the print. By going to the very end of the adjustment scale, they managed to make the cat "sort of" brownish.
But the customer complained. The very reason why they had taken this closeup photo of the cat, before cleaning him, was that he had jumped into this tray of green paint.
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@petepjksolutionscom
Where's the CCC?
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Sorry all, work got in the way - shall I do one tomorrow ?
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Might as well! 
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What do you see as the main difference(s) between the older (let say 30+ years in the filed) and younger (less then 10) 'generation' of developers?
What are the main reasons?
(The reason I'm asking - beside pure curiosity - is that I was asked about building a course for future developers...)
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Education.
Back in the day, computing was a specialist job, and was taught by people who understood it, who knew what they were doing. And that rubbed off in how they taught, what they taught. And mostly, what they taught was "language basics" and "how to think like a developer".
Now, governments are pushing "developing" as a school course. So it's taught by teachers who don't know the subject outside the curriculum, who don't genuinely care about development, who haven't written much more than "hello world" for themselves; and taught to kids who don't care either - they just have to pass the course.
Worse, they course it taught like any other: "Read this and remember it" works fine for History, English Lit., and so forth - but development needs you to think, not remember: that's a very different mindset and that isn't taught.
And if the teachers don;t even know the debugger exists - and most don't - how teh heck are the students supposed to know?
Software is seen as a simple way to make a load of money - it's well paid, with no heavy lifting - so it's a route a lot of people want to take, even if they have no interest, skill, or abilities in that direction.
And of course, everyone who can run an app on an iPhone assumes they are computer geniuses.
This is just the impression I get - mostly from QA - and is probably well and truly wide of the mark in a lot of cases: but we don't get those case except rarely ...
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It is interesting - as all my teachers were... teachers. Not developers who take on teaching as a second job... However, all of them were writing some more serious software to teach and help teaching - so not only 'hello world' there...
I think the problem with today teacher, that they can get anything ready-made from the internet. So they have no experience at all (which means they can not even pick the right sample from the internet). Lack of experience leads to lack of confidence when standing in front of the students and to avoid any 'scary' questions teachers going on the boring-but-well-walked path...
The other part IMHO is the connection with the tools... Back then we had a no 'middle-men', no OS or IDE or such... We new our hardware and the means to communicate with... We were tool and language agnostic as we done our job on the lowest possible level (without soldering iron). Today you do not move without a few GB of installation before you try to write a single command...
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: Today you do not move without a few GB of installation before you try to write a single command..
That's true: You could figure that a C# "Hello world" is a minimum of 4.5Gb: .NET Framework system requirements | Microsoft Docs[^] whereas you could fit it easily into well under 100 bytes in my early assembler days ...
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OriginalGriff wrote: well under 100 bytes
On my 6502 it is 28 bytes, of which 12 is the text to print...
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There was hardware setup code on my Z80 based VDT's: without that in there it wouldn't be readable on screen. Telling the hardware where the video memory was, that kind of thing.
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On the other hand... Sometimes, I want to yell at youngsters who spend hours and days on proving how super clever they are to save half a microsecond on writing obfuscated code: "We are not living in the 1980s!". Some of the tuning tricks we learned in my education were obsolete before we got our degree, e.g. we evaluated at least three or four disk scheduling algorithms, assuming queues of dozens of entries, only to learn that any disk subsystem with 3+ queue length more than 5% of the time is severly overloaded. Optimizing the ordering of one or two queued entries is a waste of resources (and fortunately, disk scheduling is out of the curriculum many years ago).
There is no discussion that the "Oh, we'll just throw in more hardware" approach has gone way too far. I guess the saving of half a microsecond is a counter-reaction to that. We really should be more resources-aware, but with a thorough understanding of where the resource hogs are, and the cost of optimizing it. (E.g. obfuscation of code to save a few percent in initialization code, or optimizing a 2-element disk queue, is crazy.)
Surprisingly many youngsters have "strange" ideas about what slows down the code, usually due to lack of understanding of the underlaying mechanisms. E.g. you have an executable (with umpteen dlls) where you never use 95% of the code: The huge size of the code does not put a heavy load on RAM: The unused disk pages are never brough into memory. It does not lead to slow startup: Setting up a hundred extra page table entries is done in microseconds. ... This is trivial, but I have explained it several times to developers who know nothing about memory mapped files. Similarly, they "know" that if the disk is 99% full, it will slow down the machine. Sure: For an extremely file create/delete heavy application, it might be possible to measure, but these guys consider it a law of nature that any application will run significantly slower.
In my studies, we read a hardcover textbook on software performance and optimization, studying what is worth it. What has the most effect. Various criteria: Space or time, average or worstcase, ... This required an understanding of underlaying mechanisms (which we had obtained in earlier classes). Today, the problem is often that it is no use trying to talk with the youngsters about tuning, because they have no idea about what is going on behind the curtains.
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OriginalGriff wrote: Back in the day, computing was a specialist job, and was taught by people who understood it, who knew what they were doing. And that rubbed off in how they taught, what they taught. And mostly, what they taught was "language basics" and "how to think like a developer".
20 years ago, from the 4 teachers I had related somehow to programming... 2 were damned good and one could learn a lot from then, the other 2 were just so bad I spent the time of their lectures learning myself in a table in the corridor. Luckily there were other good teachers in their department too and even more luckily they were not morons and they allowed me to go to their open door sessions to ask my questions although I was not in their lists.
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