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The Intelligent Timing Lock
- Operyl 6y agoHey, I've seen this before! Lock Picking Lawyer did a video on it with a EMP device haha. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtNkUjQAHqY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtNkUjQAHqY
- StavrosK 6y agoThat EMP generator looks nifty, does anyone have any schematics?
- lstodd 6y agoNo idea on exactly that one, but basically all you need is a magnetron from any discarded microwave oven, a horn made from some beer can(s), some LV power for the magnetron heater and an electroshocker as HV pulse power supply. And some presense of mind to not point the horn at any EM-reflective surfaces.
- StavrosK 6y agoWhat happens if you do? Do you fry it?
- slicktux 6y agoElectroBoom has a video on EMP generator that might give you an idea on how to make one https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5M6YKR7wUw https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5M6YKR7wUw
- StavrosK 6y agoThanks! Though he's a bit too quick to play with magnetrons for my liking...
- SAI_Peregrinus 6y agoBuy an electroshock "stun gun". Get some magnet wire. Make a coil. Hook the ends of the coil to the output of the electroshock device (scrape away the insulation enamel and solder it in place.) Ideally you'd heat-shrink those connections (slip the heat shrink around the coil wire before soldering, slide it into place, shrink it) and cable lace/tie to keep the coil formed nicely. That's about it.
- StavrosK 6y agoThat's interesting, thank you! I'll research a bit more, it sounds like a nifty device.
- karatinversion 6y agoI love foone's threads, and the tweet format gives them a great sequential format.
- SquareWheel 6y agoI've never heard anybody say they like these kinds of threads before. Maybe it's better on mobile, but Twitter makes it very difficult to browse on desktop.
- martijnvds 6y agoHow do they show up for you? For me (on desktop) it looks like a list of tweets, one after another, sometimes with a "Load more of this thread" link in the middle.
- kevincox 6y agoFor me they show up like that as well. But I still find that the format gives a weird stuttering to the conversation and adds so much "chrome" noise around the actual content. In general I don't click twitter links on HN because I find the format painful for anything but short content. However I do make an exception for Foone as they have a lot of interesting stuff.
- miguelmurca 6y agoCan we just have a sticky on every foone post on HN to tell people to stop complaining about it being a Twitter thread? Maybe then Foone himself [wouldn't hate being featured on Hacker News so much][0]. Not to mention he has a perfectly good reason to use Twitter threads (which he explains over and over): he has ADHD and it's a way to cope with it. [0]: https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1372945388664066061?s=20 https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1372945388664066061?s=20
- ydant 6y agoAnd unrolled: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1372945388664066061.html https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1372945388664066061.html
- konha 6y agoThe „Emergency Override“ (press two buttons for 10 sec) reminds me of the iOS „Screen Time exceeded“ message. Took me like two days to develop the habit of instantly hitting the „no limit for today“ button every single time.
- tboerstad 6y agoI had the same experience. When given the option to override, the whole experience is ruined for me. I’ve often thought of a lock out for investing. “I’ll buy this stock, and I’m not allowed to sell it for 5 years”. A hack is to invest in early stage startups, where you’ll often not have an option of selling early. Anything listed on a stock market is the opposite. From what I can tell, it’s possible with scripting Bitcoin, to not allow a transaction for X years, but no one seems to offer this in an easy to use way
- getlawgdon 6y agoThe lockout for investing is short term capital gains.
- thanatos519 6y agohttps://www.thekitchensafe.com/ https://www.thekitchensafe.com/ has no emergency override!
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- nefitty 6y agoI’ve had this for several years. It works. The lack of override is a HUGE plus. From my understanding, if I really want to override I can email the company and ask for help, but that hasn’t happened in the 4-5 years I’ve had it. The main uses I found for it are sticking my phone in there during pomodoros, and sticking cash in there on weekends that I can’t afford to spend. One idea I’ve had that I haven’t implemented is putting a password on my computer or phone that someone else generates for me. For example, I might have my wife scribble a bunch of nonsense letters on a piece of paper, have her input that password on the device, then I would throw the piece of paper into the lockbox.
- cblconfederate 6y agoInteresting that aliexpress is now the yard to find the weird stuff
- hyperman1 6y agoWait till you see their ads. Start with a generic tag line like 'From house to home' or 'Everything for beautiful women'. Then put any random thing under it. Like 10 different vendors of the same box of 500 screws I just bought. Another time I bought an antistatic rubber mat for electronics. Ali express ads have only 1 reaction for the keyword rubber, so for 6 months I got ads for all kinds of rubber ... things.. for, you know ... hobbies...
- TwoBit 6y agoIndeed: https://m.aliexpress.com/item/1005001926801581.html https://m.aliexpress.com/item/1005001926801581.html
- basicplus2 6y agoor buy and old Bank Vault Time Lock https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_lock https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_lock https://gaslampantiques.com/shop/historic-bank-vault-time-lock/ https://gaslampantiques.com/shop/historic-bank-vault-time-lo...
- superasn 6y agoAliexpress is just a treasure trove for ordering so many different kind of useful and often useless novelty items. Unfortunately my country has now forever banned it and now I have to pay anywhere from 10 to 20 times for these same chinese items on Amazon and other sites (which I believe are still shipped through china but through a proxy country just so the shipping label doesn't say china).
- sen 6y agoAliExpress helped me cut my addiction to buying random crap off them, by banning any account that used a VPN and putting you permanently behind a captcha trap even if you later turn the VPN off. I guess I should thank them but I do miss those 2am purchases of lighty uppy stuff I don’t need.
- dtgriscom 6y agoWhich country, may I ask?
- superasn 6y agoIndia, over security concerns and maybe to teach China a lesson over recent border disputes (1). I am not in favor or against it personally since I don't understand economics or politics, but god do i miss ordering random stuff from this website for few bucks. (1) https://indianexpress.com/article/india/china-apps-banned-in-india-6482079/ https://indianexpress.com/article/india/china-apps-banned-in...
- bluecatswim 6y agoIsn't that just the app being banned? The website works for me.
- superasn 6y agoNo it will refuse to accept payments and even if you somehow pay for it, it will forever be stuck at customs. The trick some sellers are doing is routing packages via Kenya etc so it doesn't look it's coming from China.
- pydry 6y agoI wonder if they built it without overrides to start with and then their lawyers got skittish and told them to put them in. I can see all sorts of potential for awful behavior with this lock (child abuse, etc.) that company counsel would be afraid of.
- notRobot 6y ago> I can see all sorts of potential for awful behavior with this lock (child abuse, etc.) that company counsel would be afraid of. I mean. Anything this lock can do can be done with a regular lock too, so I don't see why any lawyers would get skittish about that. Also, I seriously doubt that Chinese companies that produce cheap products like these ever consult with lawyers.
- kevincox 6y agoBut a normal lock you can open any time you want when you realize that you have made a mistake. This is a notable difference in a lot of circumstances because humans often make poor decisions, so the ability to correct them is important.
- michaericalribo 6y agoLooks like you can open this lock any time you want, too.
- Jiocus 6y agoIf lawyers are involved, they are concerned with the fact that they ship a 150mWh battery, labelled 200mWh. This barely being a lock in the first place, though
- astura 6y agoShady chinese manufacturers on Alibaba don't have a company counsel.
- michaelt 6y agoIn my experience supporting anti-procrastination software, the number 1 risk is the user will mess up configuring the time. You know, aiming to lock for a day but accidentally locking for a year and a day.
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- foobar33333 6y agoAnother person who thinks twitter is a long form blogging format
- _Microft 6y agoThey got ADHD [0 and following tweets] and say that tweeting works for them but composing a blog post kills their concentration. So it is either Twitter or nothing at all. In that case I definitely prefer Twitter because Foone's stuff is always very interesting [1]. See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20081056 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20081056 [0] https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1066547670477488128 https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1066547670477488128 [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=twitter.com/foone https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=twitter.com/foone
- slver 6y agoNew startup idea: make something like Medium, where people can live-edit their blog posts one sentence at a time, and people can watch the process and write comments.
- rbanffy 6y agoMost of my blog posts are like that, usually a conversation with myself rubber ducking for the myself writing the post.
- stevewodil 6y agoAnother person who comments about twitter not being ideal for long form blogging
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- shawnz 6y agoFoone isn't "just another long form Twitter blogger", he is one of the originators of this style and one of its most prolific users.
- simias 6y agoI've bought a reinforced travel bag similar to this one: https://www.bhphotovideo.com/images/images2500x2500/pacsafe_10480100_travelsafe_12l_gii_portable_1539797.jpg https://www.bhphotovideo.com/images/images2500x2500/pacsafe_... The original lock is absolutely puny so I decided to learn more about padlocks to find a suitable replacement. As far as I can tell the short of it is that almost all of these locks are trivially unlocked without having to use brute force: - All mainstream combination locks are trivially decoded with a modicum of knowledge. You can teach yourself to do it in 5 minutes with a youtube video. It's annoying because not having to carry a key is definitely nice, but in terms of anti-theft measures you might as well put a "plz don't steal" post-it on your bag. - Many small padlocks use a spring loaded mechanism to lock the shackle (similar to the one in this post). Mostly for convenience as far as I can tell, since it means that you can lock it without having to use the key. It turn that means that most of these locks can be bumped (like in this post) or shimed. - Many (but not all) of these lock have a very poorly designed core that often allows bypassing the pins entirely (you insert a lockpick all the way through the keyway and you can trigger the unlocking mechanism at the back without having to actually pick anything). Even if that's not an option the vast majority of small padlocks out there are not hugely pick-resistant. Basically a semi-competent locksmith will be able to get them open in less than a minute. And of course at this size you don't even need any skill if destructive entry is an option, you can break them open with two wrenches. My conclusion is that these small locks are really about keeping honest people honest and preventing opportunistic theft, but if you want to go beyond that you'll have to take a big leap in size and cost.
- CaptainZapp 6y agoI never thought that a luggage lock is a great theft deterrent. It's useful that your luggage can't just be opened up quickly and on the sly. For example when you check a suitcase in by baggage handlers [1] Same goes for hotel room safes. I would certainly not store anything very valuable in there. But to lock away a couple hundred euros, some equipment and your cards, which you don't need to carry on your person it's good enough. Certainly much better than just having your valuables lying around openly. [1] Sure, a baggage handler with a set of TSA master keys can open it very quickly and possibly discreetly. Who has ever thought about anything which can go wrong with that implementation? e: clarification
- reaperducer 6y agoThese were a thing back in the 70's. Except it was mechanical instead of "self developed chip." The 70's version probably worked better because with the incessant ticking off the timer, you'd put it in the garage or a shed or somewhere else inconvenient.
- docuru 6y agoWell, they made sells.
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- valyagolev 6y agoThe most interesting self-control advice I got was to do the opposite. (And I tried it and similarly inspired things, with variations, on some stuff I need a bit of willpower). Basically, if you want to stop doing something, force yourself to constantly do it – with a deadline. Can’t stop scrolling? Force yourself to only scroll social media for an hour. If you want to quit fast-food, force yourself to only eat fast-food every day for two weeks. If you want to stop doing something, force yourself to overdo it until you just can’t do it anymore. It works even to start doing things: if you struggle, e.g., to work on personal projects, (and you actually like them and sporadically do them), force yourself to not even touch anything like them for a few weeks, and you’ll be super eager. Forced vacations are also inspiring as hell. Art students get a similar advice: “Every painter has a thousand bad paintings inside of them – get them out of yourself as soon as possible”. Whatever it is you crave and want to stop – just have at it, stuff yourself like a pig and you will look to make an actual change.
- golergka 6y agoDoesn't work very well with controlled substances.
- nsxwolf 6y agoOr food, sadly.
- deertick1 6y agoHey kids, don't try this with heroin
- valyagolev 6y agooh i'm sure the timed lock would help with that
- lancesells 6y agoIt's provocative but for me personally I think it's terrible advice. Out of everything I've read about breaking habits I've yet to see this recommended.