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Cake day: June 23rd, 2023

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  • These anti-dumping duties have been in since 2014 with no appreciable result in jumpstarting a home-grown PV panel industry. So I think we can safely say that the only effect of them has been to cripple PV use in Canada over the past decade. The large users will just do an end run on a container of panels from China via Vietnam, anyway. So it’s the small user that gets screwed. Maybe that’s by design, I guess we need to follow the money to see where this regulatory lockin is benefitting someone. But it isn’t consumers.

    I’d have been fine with it if there was a domestic industry to protect, but it doesn’t exist in NA. And before some smart guy says “but Canadian Solar!!!1!”, you’ll want to look into that brand a bit closer.






  • The thing is the concepts were nothing new, the “science” was handwaving bullshit that didn’t pass the sniff test, and the character development was so incredibly bad it beggars the imagination that it was written by a literature prof. Everything was a slap in the face that kept you from engaging in what little there was to recommend the story. And the deus ex machina plot device at the end that obviated everything else that proceeded it was the icing on the cake.

    I wanted my money back at the end.





  • IDK how Frigate handles alerts, but Blue Iris will write an alert to MQTT topic if it matches object recog, and I have an app MQTT Alert that watches that and goes nuts if it comes up. The BI android app is underwhelming in its alerts.

    I’d have to figure Frigate has some sort of MQTT capability. I tried using Frigate but it was pretty basic for my needs, so I moved on.