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Build a Simple MQTT Subscriber Using ESP8266(appcodelabs.com)
2 points by 3chelon 8y ago|0 comments
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Home Automation: Build an MQTT Server Using Raspberry Pi(appcodelabs.com)
5 points by 3chelon 8y ago|0 comments
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by 3chelon 8y ago
My exact thought.
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Show Artist and Song Info Using Airplay on Raspberry Pi(appcodelabs.com)
2 points by 3chelon 8y ago|0 comments
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by 3chelon 8y ago
Actually, thinking about this, I'd assumed the drones must be autonomous or controlled via cellular networks, to make them harder to trace or jam. But now I'm thinking they're being controlled via more standard remote frequen
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by 3chelon 8y ago
I can understand they're wary of flying any manned aircraft near them to take them out, but I can't understand why they haven't yet deployed a fleet of suicide drones to knock them out of the sky? Is there something we'r
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by 3chelon 8y ago
I thought that was only true of code.
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by 3chelon 8y ago
This article made me slightly sad that my kids might one day find my various gadgets among all the junk in the garage and not be able to figure them out, but equally not want to throw them out for sentimental reasons. I need to either put p
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by 3chelon 8y ago
Your kitchen sounds like mine!
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by 3chelon 8y ago
With all due respect, one single article ranking #1 in Google hardly constitutes proof , or turns the argument into a myth. I am genuinely interested in the answer to this though. The idea that the article has to be longer/more detail
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by 3chelon 8y ago
Interesting. I know 500 was the standard. But my understanding is that the big Google updates (Panda et al) put paid to that model in favour of the "authority site" model, hence you're supposed to rank better for longer con
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by 3chelon 8y ago
Sub-pixel rendering was often used on low-res monitors as a way of achieving smooth fonts. The idea was to anti-alias the edges of the glyphs by filling in individual R, G or B pixels to give a smoother edge, hence the font was more detaile
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by 3chelon 8y ago
Yes, I agree, and I'd go so far as to saying burning it is in one way better than it ending up in the sea, but clearly very bad in another sense. Just another example of how different facets of the "environmental" argument ca
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by 3chelon 8y ago
@kgwgk Exactly, every single one of them survived until they could reproduce, which is no mean feat given the sheer number of individuals involved.
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by 3chelon 8y ago
I'm all for capitalism. But punitive taxation can be used very effectively to reign in unbridled capitalism. Taxing plastic production, and properly rewarding recycling or reuse schemes would be have a pretty big impact to the bottom
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by 3chelon 8y ago
The "bottle" part is pretty bad. I heard somewhere a water bottle will last 400 years. I don't know for certain that that's true, but if it is, I can only wonder just who thought it would make an ideal container for some
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by 3chelon 8y ago
Sure, I know there are entire continents where the water is unsafe to drink; my point is about the developed world where we largely solved the problem and then unsolved it again. Your point about removing drinking fountains is a case in poi
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by 3chelon 8y ago
They have beer pipes in Belgium, too.
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by 3chelon 8y ago
I just wonder how our ancestors did it. Not only did they survive without plastic bottles, but they even survived the last 99.99% of biological history without plumbing ! I drives me mad. We solved the problem over a century ago. The ancie
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by 3chelon 8y ago
Yeah, that's what always confused me about it when I worked on GSM phones back in the mid-2000s - if you're going to overload an old protocol so heavily, it's time for a new one.
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by 3chelon 8y ago
Yes, it was used to jailbreak some of the early iPhone models.
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by 3chelon 8y ago
AT commands are still in use inside your smartphone. On an iPhone, when the main CPU wants communicate with the baseband chip to make a call or send SMS or whatever, it literally sends AT commands. In fact, one of the earliest iPhone jailbr
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by 3chelon 8y ago
I can still hear the screech pattern in my head, and I know exactly what you mean about knowing before the computer. There was short repeating pattern and if it repeated too many times (more than about twice IIRC) then the game was up, tim
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by 3chelon 8y ago
Wow, I'd love to see a write-up of that.
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by 3chelon 8y ago
4dB is the default setting for the built in audio set to 100%. And yes it sounds quite horrible, but the internal audio does in general. When you add a DAC that is fixed and it changes to the correct setting of 0dB.
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by 3chelon 8y ago
Nice idea. My amp is Cambridge Audio but it sadly does not have a DAC. If it had, the setup would have been even simpler than it is.
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by 3chelon 8y ago
To be fair, a Pi Zero W costs less than £10, or the equivalent in dollars.
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by 3chelon 8y ago
Yes the HifiBerry is very very good for the price.
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by 3chelon 8y ago
Absolutely. I'm the article author and yes, adding a DAC is definitely recommended because the output from the audio jack is terrible. I'm intending to do a follow-up article on this, but so far I've tried IQAudIO Pi-DAC+ wit
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Apple Airplay on Raspberry Pi in 7 Easy Steps(appcodelabs.com)
295 points by 3chelon 8y ago|111 comments

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