Post by @Tock@corteximplant.com

- 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

one might call this a systemic failure if one’s goals were anything other than getting breathless mentions in hackaday from whichever LLM they use to slop out articles

your alleged open source project is spam, congrats

please come in here and tell me I’m holding it wrong and the firmware being horrid in every way is somehow my problem

“this is just my charmingly janky open source passion project” what passion

it’s fucking amazing how fast the charm wears off the jank when I have lots and lots of proof that your project is cynical horseshit