China’s rapid space launch advantage, and how the US can try to counter it
China has now passed the United States in its tactically responsive space launch capabilities, according to a new report by the Center for Security and Emerging Technology.
Day: August 8, 2023
Fighting in Sudan’s Omdurman intensifies as displaced tops 4 million
The army is trying to recapture territory lost to the RSF by taking back control of a bridge across the Nile.
Supreme court reinstates Biden’s ‘ghost gun’ restrictions for now
Federal regulation aims to reining in privately made firearms that are difficult for law enforcement to traceThe US supreme court on Tuesday granted a request by President Joe Biden’s administration to reinstate – at least for now – a federal regulatio…
BlueIris vs iVMS-4200 vs ? — What’s a good NVR software for ONVIF cameras that can run on old/minimal hardware?
I have an old ESXi server with a couple XEONs in it, which is my main home server that does everything. It has my NVR HDD inside it, and is replacing an older server that ran UNRAID on baremetal with a Windows Server 2012 VM and BlueIris. The old server could just barely handle 4x 720p cameras and 1x 4k camera with performance-optimized motion detection settings, and the new one actually has less CPU power than the old one did. I’m adding 2x more ONVIF cameras to the system, one 1080p and a second 4.k, and I need to configure a new VM to run them. What software would be best for this kind of environment? I want something that will minimize CPU impact (no GPU), and can run without allocating a ton of RAM to the VM, but will still provide some level of motion detection features etc. Bonus points if it can handle features like PTZ control and object tracking… but I don’t have that high of expectations.
The cameras in my system vary. I have I think 4 reolinks, 1 trendnet, 1 amcrest, and one funxwe (some $170 chinese knockoff of the $700 Amcrest 30x optical zoom PTZ camera) They should all support ONVIF on some level, and I’m hoping to take advantage most of the cameras’ AI functions on the camera side and just use the NVR as a backup/central store of footage, have it store high res clips when motion is present within indicated hot zones, but otherwise just keep a low res low framerate steady roll.
Is BlueIris still the way to go here, or is there something else better optimized to my needs?
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Dutch engineer Bram Moolenaar, who in 1991 released and then maintained the very popular Vim open source code editor, has died at 62 (Samuel Axon/Ars Technica)
Samuel Axon / Ars Technica:
Dutch engineer Bram Moolenaar, who in 1991 released and then maintained the very popular Vim open source code editor, has died at 62 — The open source software legend left us on August 3 at age 62. …
New York judge temporarily blocks retail pot licensing, another setback for state’s nascent program
A New York judge has temporarily blocked the state from issuing retail marijuana licenses after a lawsuit from four veterans who argue that regulators are wrongly prioritizing applicants with drug convictions.
Mike Pence secures enough donors to qualify for opening Republican debate
The debate is only open to those who have garnered the support of 40,000 individual donors
Military: Russians attacked Ukrainian troops with chemical munitions in Ukraine’s south
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Zoom, which thrived on the remote work revolution, wants workers back in the office part-time
Zoom became a symbol of remote work during the pandemic but the company is now joining a growing return-to-office trend.
Storm-damaged eastern US communities clear downed trees and race to restore power
Communities across the eastern United States are clearing away downed trees and power lines after severe storms killed at least two people, knocked out power to more than 1.1 million homes and businesses and canceled or delayed thousands of flights.