yes. You have to go into the Eufy mobile app and enable RTSP for each camera you have registered. Assign the camera a static IP and add a password there. Then use that in your frigate config yaml to setup the stream. Including go2rtc.
Your go2rtc url should look something like this and it will display that url in the camera configuration in the app itself.
The suggested ones are terrible, and it's guidance is terrible.
Last weekend I ran head to head tests of agents against each other with a variety of ideas, and selected the best one, and did it again. It has caused me to have a very specific subagent system, and I have an agent who creates those.
I've been writing / editing technical blogs for the past decade, and I found that the key thing is to be engaging.
Most technical blog posts are boring. They look like documentation.
My best technical blog posts were the ones where I added personal stories about how I used the library/framework I was referring to.
The best advice from OP is to hire an editor. Especially for non-native English speakers (like me). A good editor can transform "good" technical content into exceptional content.
With a limited company generating £100k/year in revenue, I’m curious how much a contractor would earn after salary tax? (assuming no admin/accounting costs)
Put it through a limited company and you’ll pay a lot less than as salary (and PAYE). It’s a weird quirk, but it’s about half the tax roughly. Means you’ll net about £80k minus some small costs. It’s been some years since I did this but an accountant can advise you and help you deal with any national insurance payments need to be dealt with.
With Ltd, on 100,000 the optimum approach is a PAYE salary of about 12500, which will incur about a 500 NI charge to the company. You then pay corporaton tax on the 87000 of 21750 leaving 65250. If you pay the 65250 as dividend, you'll incur 12500 in dividend tax.
So in total from revenue of 100000 you end up with 12500 (Sal) + 65250 (Div) -12500 (div tax) = 65260. Not better than PAYE.
Of course, the better approach might be to extract only 37500 dividends with a 3200 tax. The company keeps the 27760 residual and one day in the future you may be able to close the company and incur just 10% tax or £2776. This way you'd take home 71750.
Still better, you might choose for the employer to put money in a pension. Here, you could put 40000 in a pension, company profit now 47000 before 9000 tax. Pay the 38000 out as dividend with 3600 tax. You end up with 12500+38000-3600 = ~48000 plus a 40000 pension to be taxed at withdrawal (lets assume 20% so 8000) for about 23000, or 80k. This is the only way to approximate your 80k but a PAYE person could do exactly the same (with a friendly employer) for pension relief.
And the above is all outside IR35. It's worse inside.
The real reason Ltd is more profitable is based on all the hidden expenses of an employer. Rather than 30%+ of the customer fee going to employer expenses before they pay you a smaller salary, they now go to you as a business owner who can do much better than 30% business expenses (close to 0). You're trading that for paid time off, job "security", not chasing leads, etc.
There are a variety of situations where you can end up paying more tax working through a Ltd now. Just on naive marginal rates comparing income tax + employee NI with corp tax + dividend tax on the remainder you'll be looking (once the changes announced in the Budget come into force in April) at 28% PAYE vs. 26% Ltd for basic rate taxpayers but 42% PAYE vs. 46% Ltd for higher rate.
The Ltd rates can also increase noticeably if your revenues increase and your corp tax rate starts sliding up from 19% all the way to 25% (and that's not a marginal rate - your entire profit gets taxed at the increasing rate as you make more).
Of course as an employee you also get huge advantages like paid time off, employer pension contributions, a degree of automatic job security, and not having to file the paperwork and pay the fees for running an entire company. And via a Ltd you have a lot more flexibility to control both how and when you pay out your post-tax revenues that can sometimes be valuable. So it's never really an apples to apples comparison and there's always a lot that depends on your specific circumstances.
If the company earns £100k/yr, what matters is what you, the individual, actually end up with.
Corporation tax will take you down to ~£80ish but you still need to draw the money out of the company.
Most people will take a small amount as a salary through PAYE to use up their tax free allowances and get the NI stamp. The rest is then paid as dividends.
In my understanding, it's not that it's illegal to hire a person as a contractor, it's just that it can be re-qualified by a judge as an employee, if some working conditions are met.
For example in France, which is known for its labor code that protects employees much better than other countries, here are some conditions that can lead to this:
- Proven relationship of subordination
- The contractor is only working for your company
- Poorly written contract (specifically, obligation of means vs obligation of results)
Sham contracting is indeed illegal in the criminal sense in some countries. Either outright, or by consequences like failure to withhold tax according to law, or otherwise evading the burdens of employment law, if the facts indicate that was your intent.
But I would guess that a significant number of your users are doing illegal web scraping (Otherwise, why use proxy rotation). So you advise them how to get around website protections?
I'm not a ScrapingBee customer (but I've looked into and was interested in it). A lot of websites have started blocking any datacenter IP, even if you are just scraping it once. In order to get the contents of those sites, you need to use residential proxies.
There are bad scrapers out there. Plenty of common problems:
- Denial of Service by queries - they hit search pages with complex or slow queries, diving to 1000th page of results . This kills the db.
- Denial of Service by parallelization - they hit 1000s of pages at once, causing server to run out of memory or other issues . This kills the web.
- Denial of Service by bugs - their code is buggy, slight change to page causes their scrapes to repeat ad nauseum.
- bad URL/cookie scrapes - they hit URLs that perform actions (say add to cart) against websites. This causes sites to track more data in abandoned carts, managing sessions, item popularity.
If scraping wouldn't affect server negatively, then it would feel less illegal.
Let's not forget data mining. People build whole businesses on this and a lot of them are parastic. They are profiting on data that is sometimes costly to obtain.
All the companies that scrape linkedin tied it to other socialmedia and build power profiles on people such that CIA is clapping with smile.
How is it relevant to the topic of "establishing and maintaining relationships with your users" what the users are doing by using the service in their jurisdiction?
It can be relevant, though I don’t know whether GP meant this.
It’s usually much easier to get users for shadier services, because they have a dearth of good options (since not many legitimate businesses are interested in addressing the problem).
So much so that the lessons learned in this space may not be applicable at all to the market as a whole.
There are many other studies like these every year in France, for many different positions in tech.
Here is a TLDR.
A junior dev (0-2 years of experience):
- Paris: 35-45k€
- Big cities: 35-40k€
- Outside of big cities: 32-38k€
A confirmed dev (3-5 years of experience):
- Paris: 45-60k€
- Big cities: 40-46k€
- Outside of big cities: 38-45k€
Senior (5 years+):
- Paris: 55k+€
- Big cities: 45-55k€
- Outside big cities: 45-50k€
Note that these salaries are "brut", meaning there are 23% of various taxes (income tax not included), unemployment taxes, social security, retirement etc.
On top of that, France as one of the highest income tax rate in the world.
