I am tempted to get a cat as an accessory for a cat aquarium
rav3ndust 21 hours ago [-]
haha! my cats would love this. thanks for sharing
dylan604 1 days ago [-]
There is yet still hope for the internet after all!
rkagerer 20 hours ago [-]
Don't blame 'em. My dog and I likewise enjoy watching the ocean.
lopatnov 22 hours ago [-]
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
khernandezrt 1 days ago [-]
If there was a button to feed them for a small donation id be broke.
eightys3v3n 1 days ago [-]
There is in the Purrr app if you install and open that.
duncd 12 hours ago [-]
not available in region :(
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MarsIronPI 22 hours ago [-]
It's free marketing!
saboot 23 hours ago [-]
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.
plausibility 20 hours ago [-]
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.
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.
ge96 1 days ago [-]
Ahhh my browser back button
hoppp 4 hours ago [-]
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.
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
tjohns 19 hours ago [-]
The metadata at the bottom says the feeder is out of kibble. :( A small amount (8%) of snack left, though!
Rotdhizon 19 hours ago [-]
Was just wondering. I fed it some kibble but nothing came out
nslsm 5 hours ago [-]
I assume it’s a person who has to go and buy the kibble and fill the feeder?
Funny that The Feline Relaxing Place is currently the least "relaxed" place.
Evidlo 13 hours ago [-]
Do these feeds loop? I swear I've seen the same cats twice.
parpfish 21 hours ago [-]
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.
A lot of these enclosures are almost identical. There are only tiny differences. Is this a cat boarding house or something?
Computer0 23 hours ago [-]
I believe it is a standardized feeding system for the strays in China.
tjohns 15 hours ago [-]
It looks like you can buy them in the Purrrr app.
thenthenthen 18 hours ago [-]
Yep. Although I have only seen them in Baoshan, Shanghai
mycall 18 hours ago [-]
Needs a "Back in Meow minutes" on the screen when they go off-camera.
andyclap2 8 hours ago [-]
What about GDPuRrrr?
thoma4s 23 hours ago [-]
Thanks for bringing some joy to my day, I love whimsical projects like this
rechargedaily 16 hours ago [-]
very interesting. how did you fit in the camera without the cat knocking it out?
opengrass 21 hours ago [-]
Why does everyone have the same container?
flysand7 21 hours ago [-]
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.
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sudoing 23 hours ago [-]
Does anyone know what cat feeder they use?
stephenhandley 17 hours ago [-]
Seeing more flies than cats
stackdiver 1 days ago [-]
Now we just need a cat presence detector!
antiframe 1 days ago [-]
Isn't that what the "Feeders with hungry cats" category is? That's what I thought when I clicked around, at least.
slopinthebag 1 days ago [-]
Seems like it
throwaway290 6 hours ago [-]
looks like most of them in China?
moffkalast 1 days ago [-]
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.
dcrazy 24 hours ago [-]
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.
buildsjets 1 days ago [-]
The "Feeders with Hungry Cats" dropdown filters to the active cameras.
moffkalast 1 days ago [-]
60% of the time it works every time. Sometimes those are all empty as well, or maybe there's a racoon instead :)
tdeck 16 hours ago [-]
This is in China so I assume there are no raccoons.
moffkalast 10 hours ago [-]
Well I did genuinely see one once on one of these cams, probably escaped from the zoo.
0x3f 22 hours ago [-]
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).
nyoronic 14 hours ago [-]
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?
yawndex 10 hours ago [-]
The feeders are battery powered, so they can't be always streaming 24/7 with lights on.
wheelhead 18 hours ago [-]
this is why sora was taken down
locusofself 17 hours ago [-]
one of them I clicked on was totally covered in flies (the cat food). eww
kogasa240p 24 hours ago [-]
Have known about this site for a while and it's very cute.
shevy-java 22 hours ago [-]
There are many cameras spying on cats.
People are not concerned about private data being broadcasted of our feline overlords.
flysand7 21 hours ago [-]
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
kulahan 19 hours ago [-]
It was a joke, I believe.
himata4113 1 days ago [-]
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.
MarsIronPI 22 hours ago [-]
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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It's like the Gremlins
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AswHFBS7p2E
https://customcataquarium.com/
[0]: https://shodan.io
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
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45613047
But I wonder why some feeders are more decorated than others. For example Mr. Happy doesn't seem to have a container at all.
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.
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?
People are not concerned about private data being broadcasted of our feline overlords.
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