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- buy a cheap IP camera because you hear there’s open source firmware
- the only open source firmware is thingino, which is slop
- well shit, if it’s my only choice I guess that’s it
- reach for it months later for a specific important thing
- it doesn’t connect to wifi even though nothing has changed about the network
- the reset procedure doesn’t work at all
- all of the new docs are extremely LLM slop instructing you to do things that don’t work
- all of the old docs are from 2024 and also don’t work
- the docs for doing remote access on the camera, an extraordinarily common thing if you don’t have a host that can act as a stream collector, are just the text “placeholder” and a blurb elsewhere about how I may or may not have to recompile from source to do this
- fucking hell where’d I put the flashing cable, I’m going back to stock firmware
@zzt@mas.to I don't think developers see it, but those of us who do a little IT support have seen a surprising rise in "software not working properly even though it previously did" in the last few years. All of which can be traced back to slop.
#NeverSlop