I am tempted to get a cat as an accessory for a cat aquarium
rav3ndust 2 days ago [-]
haha! my cats would love this. thanks for sharing
dylan604 2 days ago [-]
There is yet still hope for the internet after all!
rkagerer 2 days ago [-]
Don't blame 'em. My dog and I likewise enjoy watching the ocean.
lopatnov 2 days 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 2 days ago [-]
If there was a button to feed them for a small donation id be broke.
eightys3v3n 2 days ago [-]
There is in the Purrr app if you install and open that.
duncd 1 days ago [-]
not available in region :(
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MarsIronPI 2 days ago [-]
It's free marketing!
saboot 2 days 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 2 days 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.
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 2 days ago [-]
The metadata at the bottom says the feeder is out of kibble. :( A small amount (8%) of snack left, though!
Rotdhizon 2 days ago [-]
Was just wondering. I fed it some kibble but nothing came out
nslsm 1 days ago [-]
I assume it’s a person who has to go and buy the kibble and fill the feeder?
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moffkalast 2 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 2 days 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 2 days ago [-]
The "Feeders with Hungry Cats" dropdown filters to the active cameras.
moffkalast 2 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 2 days ago [-]
This is in China so I assume there are no raccoons.
moffkalast 1 days ago [-]
Well I did genuinely see one once on one of these cams, probably escaped from the zoo.
0x3f 2 days 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 1 days 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 1 days ago [-]
The feeders are battery powered, so they can't be always streaming 24/7 with lights on.
stronglikedan 2 days ago [-]
Funny that The Feline Relaxing Place is currently the least "relaxed" place.
hoppp 1 days 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.
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.
junon 2 days ago [-]
Several asleep in their bowls lol. Can relate.
bovermyer 2 days ago [-]
A lot of these enclosures are almost identical. There are only tiny differences. Is this a cat boarding house or something?
Computer0 2 days ago [-]
I believe it is a standardized feeding system for the strays in China.
thenthenthen 2 days ago [-]
Yep. Although I have only seen them in Baoshan, Shanghai
tjohns 2 days ago [-]
It looks like you can buy them in the Purrrr app.
mycall 2 days ago [-]
Needs a "Back in Meow minutes" on the screen when they go off-camera.
thoma4s 2 days ago [-]
Thanks for bringing some joy to my day, I love whimsical projects like this
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opengrass 2 days ago [-]
Why does everyone have the same container?
flysand7 2 days 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.
sudoing 2 days ago [-]
Does anyone know what cat feeder they use?
rechargedaily 2 days ago [-]
very interesting. how did you fit in the camera without the cat knocking it out?
andyclap2 1 days ago [-]
What about GDPuRrrr?
stephenhandley 2 days ago [-]
Seeing more flies than cats
stackdiver 2 days ago [-]
Now we just need a cat presence detector!
antiframe 2 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 2 days ago [-]
Seems like it
wheelhead 2 days ago [-]
this is why sora was taken down
kogasa240p 2 days ago [-]
Have known about this site for a while and it's very cute.
locusofself 2 days ago [-]
one of them I clicked on was totally covered in flies (the cat food). eww
throwaway290 1 days ago [-]
looks like most of them in China?
shevy-java 2 days ago [-]
There are many cameras spying on cats.
People are not concerned about private data being broadcasted of our feline overlords.
flysand7 2 days 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 2 days ago [-]
It was a joke, I believe.
himata4113 2 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 2 days ago [-]
Yes, part of the use of this network is to track strays and neuter them. I don't think it's sinister though.
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
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?
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.
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