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When Your Power Meter Becomes a Tool of Mass Surveillance (www.eff.org)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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[–] 46 points 1 year ago (13 children)

"Sir, why is your usage so high? Are you growing drugs?"

"No, I'm just running my own data center in my basement."

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago

    42U rack

    A large workstation with 5 drives and two video cards.

    2 NAS,

    a large POE switch,

    two small POE Switches,

    8 workstations (4 users, 4 small servers)

    decent sized router.

    My power bill says I use 90% more power than my neighbors.

    2 AC units.

    I have 2 1U Dell servers I want to install, but my power is already pushing 500 a month in the summer.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    Or charging an EV with a level 2 charger. That's going to be numerous kWh each charging cycle

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    Something like that wouldn't be flagged as suspicious. If you were using a large amount of power for 16 hours a day for a few months and then for 12 hours a day for a few months, that would be suspicious because that usage profile matches a marijuana grow.

    They can also "fingerprint" certain power usage like a refrigerator and filter out that noise from the power usage profile to eliminate other innocuous things to build a stronger argument that an illegal grow is happening. The profile of an electric car charging plus tracking data on your phone would eliminate the power usage from charging as being suspect, but that would require a competent detective actually doing their job properly...

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Grow autos and have 24/7 lighting. There’s more than one way to avoid even competent detectives.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Nobody they are concerned about grows autos and the market for those is as small as those plants.

    Yes, I know autos aren't tiny anymore, but they can't pull 4 zips off of one as easy as an actual strain.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    ? There’s no difference between the end yield of autos and photoperiods. They even flower faster so you can get more.

    These aren’t you grandparents genetics.

    Also, why is the market different? Bud is bud lol.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    The amount you get off a plant is directly tied to interstitial node density and number, which autos can't control. You have to do twice as many harvests to yield the same weight as a photo in the same period.

    Not to mention you can't clone autos, so your genetics are way too variable.

    For personal use autos are a nice and easy option, not for commercial chasing consistency and yield per dollar. Some commercial growers will do auto for res, but all the flower grows are photos for good reason.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Photos can veg longer, that’s why they have more nodes, which takes longer. You can have an auto done flowering in 6 weeks for harvests, most photos are 10. Autos can also grow for 6 hours more during veg, and 12 hours more during the night. These factors all help make it have the same yield in the same time frame.

    And when avoiding the cops you do whatever you can to avoid it, autos were essentially created for this exact reason dude.

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