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Feels like the website-about page: http://skybot.cam/about is a much better link than a tweet.. loaded with details. For example:

  - Most planes are passing at over 30,000'
  - It's using a Costar RISE 4260 camera /w built in heater
  - It leverages SkyScan by IQT labs[0]
  - It leverages Azure custom vision API[1]

[0]: https://github.com/IQTLabs/SkyScan [1]: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/cognitive-service...

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I wonder what the monthly Azure bill is.

Also wondering what the stack would look like for a self-hosted version with equivalent or better functionality!

You could get away with a pretty cheap hosting bill, I think a $10 VPC would be more than enough. My current Azure forecast is around $65, but that is for a couple other things too. Half the reason I went big with the different features is that I just started at Microsoft and wanted to learn the different things... plus you get a $150 monthly credit.

All of the capture stuff just runs on a Raspberry Pi.

I believe under 500 transaction a month its free.

Unfortunately no HTTPS on the website

Why would a website who's only purpose is delivering blurry pictures need HTTPS?

Preventing ISPs and other bad actors from using it to deliver ads/malware?

Now thats a user problem, if the users ISP is shit. There was internet before Lets Encrypt you know?

It also prevents access for users living in oppressive countries.

HTTPS-everywhere was the second bane of my internet existence when I lived in China.

I don’t know how it is now but a decade ago you basically couldn’t access anything on https.

To securely deliver the intended content.

http://n-gate.com/software/2017/

I'm not sure if this is a joke/meme but that is also insecure.

It neither a joke nor a meme, its a reality check for unnecessary https.

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