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by escapologybb 9y ago
I may have posted this same sentiment on the other threads on this topic so please feel free to ignore. I see some confusion as to why anybody would want these devices in the houses whatsoever and would like to offer an answer: Quadriplegia
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Ethical hackers to boost NHS cyber-defences(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by escapologybb 9y ago|0 comments
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by escapologybb 9y ago
^This My first memory of surveillance in any kind of large-scale was in the early 1990s, well before Tony Blair. It was when the Met police put up the "Ring of Steel" around the centre of London to stop the volunteers blowing th
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by escapologybb 9y ago
I used the ROS a few years ago with Professor Jenkins at Brown University. It was great, I sat in my wheelchair in the UK and flew a drone remotely in the Lab. in Rhode Island using just my head and right index finger. It was great :-) It w
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by escapologybb 9y ago
While I agree with the sentiment that it doesn't tell us anything we don't already know from the Snowden era, I really do think we have to keep banging on about the Snowden revelations. They (The revelations) really do need to s
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by escapologybb 9y ago
I really hate articles like this, because on the one hand I'm a total privacy nut and believe that the passive of surveillance of modern society has a terrifying and terrible chilling effect that really could end civil society as we kn
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by escapologybb 9y ago
You're absolutely right that that does look like it would do the job, but once I start throwing in a computer as well it may start getting a little bit prohibitively expensive as you suggest. Definitely something to keep in mind thoug
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by escapologybb 9y ago
Thanks,I will definitely have a look at that as I'm definitely going to need some sort of night-time capability hopefully.
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by escapologybb 9y ago
The reason I shied away from using the Raspberry Pi camera module is that I live in what is essentially a wet hole in the ground in Yorkshire, is consistently wet and when it's not wet it's damp and when it's not down its usu
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by escapologybb 9y ago
Cool, you can grab me out HN@robotsandcake.org And thanks. :-)
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by escapologybb 9y ago
This looks like it might be exactly what I'm looking for. I am quadriplegic and use a powered wheelchair, I also live in a small town with narrow roads and can't tell how far away a car is from behind me. I can't use regula
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by escapologybb 9y ago
I don't mean this to sound snarky, I really don't so please don't take it as such but yes, it is really hard to turn light switches on and off when you are quadriplegic. This software solves that problem completely. Again,
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by escapologybb 9y ago
I use LIFX bulbs all throughout the house, I think we have about nine of them and they are always discovered every single time I restart Hass and have been doing for as long as I've been using it. Are yours just not showing up at all,
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by escapologybb 9y ago
Hass has probably been the biggest help to this quadriplegic in the past decade. The way it's made it easy to stitch together a massive variety of Internet connected devices is absolutely awesome. I've got lightbulbs from one com
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by escapologybb 9y ago
Is no more than I deserve! In all (okay, somewhat) seriousness, if they really such a demand for waterborne delivery of marijuana that has to be regulated against? Also, the regulations seem to specify that GPS must be used so that the veh
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by escapologybb 9y ago
Well, we don't want the drones getting high now do we? I'm so so sorry, I just couldn't resist
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Ask HN: Video rearview mirror for a wheelchair?
2 points by escapologybb 9y ago|2 comments
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by escapologybb 9y ago
I've been doing some googling and it looks like syslog is something that I run on every machine, and then it passes the results of its logging to the Raspberry Pi for collation and possible inspection later on. Have I got the basic gi
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by escapologybb 9y ago
Slightly OT: I'm a reasonably competent Mac user, I use them all day and depend on them to control my house as I'm disabled. In the event I were to be compromised, can anyone suggest a logging tool/tools that I might be able
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by escapologybb 9y ago
Exactly, the NHS spends an absolute fortune each year and if they put out a tender somebody will support it no matter the specifications. Sure, some of the larger Vendors will get their noses bent out of shape but who cares? I mean we are
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by escapologybb 9y ago
Yeah, and I mean this without a drop of sarcasm or joking. That's where being one of the richest countries on earth comes in. We should just pay up.
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by escapologybb 9y ago
You know, this kind of reminds me of that seen from Goodfellas where Ray Liotota's character is explaining about protection rackets. The quote goes something like "Having a bad day, f k you pay me. Your loved one is sick, f
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by escapologybb 10y ago
If I could add my two cents here, I am quadriplegic and if I want to use a modern mobile phone and laptop or desktop I have to use Apple products. Their accessibility software is second to none and no other company comes close, I can take
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by escapologybb 10y ago
Really? I find that his ability to write dialogue, especially in the context of Buffy the Vampire Slayer was unmatched. Look at the influence the way they speak has on language and pop culture references. A lot of the idioms and jokes be
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by escapologybb 10y ago
That's fighting talk where I come from, please explain why "Angel" didn't work? Smiling as I write this, not flaming
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by escapologybb 10y ago
Thanks, I tried persevering with gnome for quite a while because I wanted to use Linux day-to-day. But all of the accessibility stuff at the time was a subset of all of the things that ordinary user could do, that just wasn't enough w
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by escapologybb 10y ago
That looks great, thank you for the link. I would love to try one of those devices, I don't have great memories of this kind of unlocking though. I can't remember the exact name of the product, but I installed it with good faith
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by escapologybb 10y ago
Nope. And in my not so humble opinion and speaking from long and frustrating experience, using Windows accessibility software blows really really hard. Really. Hard.
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by escapologybb 10y ago
Yeah, I've been using voice dictation software since I became quadriplegic over a decade ago and they were talking about it then but it's not materialised yet. I would imagine that it's going to be Apple there's going t
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by escapologybb 10y ago
I think you are absolutely correct, and it's a really good reason not to switch the accessibility APIs on until the OS is fully decrypted and loaded. Yep, right there with you and agree and everything. Still, sucks balls to be disable

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