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This is an interesting looking cat: https://meow.camera/#7374059059738047159

For people reading that later: a dog (pug) was feeding right now

it's 8 hours later and the dog is still eating

Oh my gosh, he's trying to stay awake but having a hard time so he keeps tiping over.

There are many dogs now

It's like the Gremlins

23 hours later too... Hungry dog.

reminded :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AswHFBS7p2E

Cutest cat ever

the stream title is (currently) 流浪狗不再流浪5 = "stray dogs will not be strays again 5" or similar

Almost as good as the cat aquarium!

https://customcataquarium.com/

I am tempted to get a cat as an accessory for a cat aquarium

There is yet still hope for the internet after all!

haha! my cats would love this. thanks for sharing

Don't blame 'em. My dog and I likewise enjoy watching the ocean.

Not the same - different ideas. Cat aquarium is for cats, for their relax. But meow camera is for watching by human. From description: "It provides a platform for many cat feeders around china which can have food dispensed to them through the app." I don't understand how it's working

If there was a button to feed them for a small donation id be broke.

There is in the Purrr app if you install and open that.

not available in region :(

It's free marketing!

Reminds me of the days when you could look up public camera feeds with a specific string in a google search. Some of the camera pages had controls! Spent a day with friends in a college dorm scrolling through them.

If you have a premium Shodan[0] account, they have an ‘Images’ view which is filtered VNC and other Remote Desktop screenshots and links to view them directly with the IP. Lots of security cameras, some SCADA industrial access control screens, and lately seemingly people who I guess are hacking vulnerable Windows boxes and changing the wallpapers to anti Israel stuff.

[0]: https://shodan.io

I'm actually kind of surprised that most of these images are just advertising and shock imagery. I never expected adverts to be done through shodan, though I guess it makes sense.

Some previous discussion from 5 months ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45613047

https://meow.camera/#4291269398483497042

This one immediately makes me want to whip out my credit card. Cute cat sitting at the food bowl waiting for someone to feed it. It's one of the ones listed under "feeders with hungry cats"

edit: credit card has been pulled out

The metadata at the bottom says the feeder is out of kibble. :( A small amount (8%) of snack left, though!

Was just wondering. I fed it some kibble but nothing came out

I assume it’s a person who has to go and buy the kibble and fill the feeder?

Found a hedgehog https://meow.camera/#4228782262731189648

Ahhh my browser back button

Every time this is posted I wonder if one could improve the backend so it doesn't take 5-10 seconds for a video stream to connect.

Right now it's quite populated, but if I ever check it otherwise it's like this: wait 10 seconds, no cat, wait 10 seconds, no cat, wait 7 seconds, leave.

I get it, but also, it’s pretty amazing that it only takes 10 seconds to remotely activate and stream live video from a camera installed in a cat house placed on a sidewalk 6,000 miles away.

The "Feeders with Hungry Cats" dropdown filters to the active cameras.

60% of the time it works every time. Sometimes those are all empty as well, or maybe there's a racoon instead :)

This is in China so I assume there are no raccoons.

Well I did genuinely see one once on one of these cams, probably escaped from the zoo.

They're in China so there's some inherent latency, but it only takes about a second to load each stream for me (in Europe).

Only if someone else is streaming from the camera. If no one is, it goes to sleep and it takes noticably longer to connect.

When I looked at the site some months ago, I noticed during Chinese nighttime, a sleeping feeder would turn on its lights right after I connected (darkness for a second then a flash of light).

So maybe it's a cost-saving measure for the hardware?

The feeders are battery powered, so they can't be always streaming 24/7 with lights on.

Funny that The Feline Relaxing Place is currently the least "relaxed" place.

i'd love to have a sort of chatroulette/omegele app for my cats to "socialize" with other cats while I'm away, but it's the internet so I know that it'd get filled with trolls.

I love cats, but they are also little trolls, so you're tautologically correct!

Its nice but I only saw 4 cats that were waiting for food. I would like it if I could remote trigger food for them.

That can be done in the Purrrr app.

A lot of these enclosures are almost identical. There are only tiny differences. Is this a cat boarding house or something?

I believe it is a standardized feeding system for the strays in China.

Yep. Although I have only seen them in Baoshan, Shanghai

It looks like you can buy them in the Purrrr app.

I just checked it out, apparently they have sold over 20k units. This seems like a great idea.

man, this cat is ranking pretty high on the feline grimace scale :( https://meow.camera/#4258783365322591678 wondering how I would contact the hosts

Needs a "Back in Meow minutes" on the screen when they go off-camera.

Do these feeds loop? I swear I've seen the same cats twice.

Several asleep in their bowls lol. Can relate.

Does anyone know what cat feeder they use?

I was curious too: StreetCat Smart Feeder

Thank you

Thanks for bringing some joy to my day, I love whimsical projects like this

Have known about this site for a while and it's very cute.

There are many cameras spying on cats.

People are not concerned about private data being broadcasted of our feline overlords.

Cats aren't social species, they don't have the capability to understand what is and isn't private. If a cat wants to lick its balls it'll do that, even if the owner is watching.

Also, even if we wanted to push for some sick agenda that cats should have rights too, you can't really make a cat aware of said rights. Cats dont give a shit about cameras watching them

It was a joke, I believe.

Why does everyone have the same container?

A chinese company Hello has created an app called Hello Street Cat - a livestreaming app that allows viwers to donate money to feed stray cats. Presumably, since it's the same company, maybe they purchased the feeders in bulk, that'll explain why the feeders look the same

But I wonder why some feeders are more decorated than others. For example Mr. Happy doesn't seem to have a container at all.

Now we just need a cat presence detector!

Isn't that what the "Feeders with hungry cats" category is? That's what I thought when I clicked around, at least.

Seems like it

very interesting. how did you fit in the camera without the cat knocking it out?

Seeing more flies than cats

What about GDPuRrrr?

looks like most of them in China?

this is why sora was taken down

one of them I clicked on was totally covered in flies (the cat food). eww

I was reading that this is actually for neutering cats and that there is some deep dark secret behind these, might be something else tho.

Yes, part of the use of this network is to track strays and neuter them. I don't think it's sinister though.

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