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by heywire 9y ago
Hopefully this pushes more and more restaurants towards using separate chip-reader (EMV) pinpad devices. I've noticed several area restaurants switching lately (Arby's, Wendy's), and I hope it continues. These devices use poi
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by heywire 9y ago
I feel the same way. I watched my dad go from Vicodin to Oxy to dead by age 50. All for a neck injury + surgery. It is a painful thing to watch the man who taught you everything reduced to crying on the floor because his prescription ran ou
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by heywire 9y ago
Yeah, we were up to 140k on our 2011 Sonata with no engine troubles when we traded it in recently.
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by heywire 9y ago
Weird that the console windows just disappeared like that for you. I just went through this process yesterday (I had re-installed Windows on a spare laptop), and for each of those the window appeared and waited for my input.
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by heywire 9y ago
Not necessary, most point of sale systems can provide a unique hashed or tokenized version of the account number for analytics and identification purposes.
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by heywire 9y ago
Ha, this sounds almost like me, except it was SpinRite. I was given my own computer to mess up soon after :)
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by heywire 9y ago
I'm using the official raspberry pi camera module both with a model B and a zero-w. For night vision in my garage, I found a standalone infrared light similar to [1] [1] https://www.amazon.com/Univivi-U48R-48-LEDs-WideA
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by heywire 9y ago
> But I tend to worry about the security vulnerabilities and/or backdoors in the cameras sold for these purposes This is precisely why I try to use Raspberry Pi's for stuff like this. Even then, I do put the devices on a separa
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by heywire 9y ago
I'd hate to be the first family member to accidentally set off that system
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by heywire 9y ago
I've been watching this project/issue with interest :) It is on my long todo list to dig into this. One of my worries is that even with a hardwired device, the doorbell transformer may not give enough juice for continuous video u
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by heywire 9y ago
I bet the folks at /r/homeautomation could work up something for this :)
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by heywire 9y ago
> If there is a power outage while I am at work, I can find out when it started and how long it lasted from the security system logs... Pingdom works well for this as well :) > I wanted to monitor my home temperature while away. I poi
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by heywire 9y ago
> So my thought was to just have a really good recording system so that in the aftermath of whatever happens, you can give really good info to the police... I think along these same lines, so I have a combination of some raspberri pi&#x2
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by heywire 9y ago
If only I weren't allergic to dogs :(
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by heywire 9y ago
All good points, and I appreciate your perspective, thank you for replying. For me, I think the greatest benefit is what you mentioned about cutting short the time the intruder has in the home. If I am in a deep sleep, and someone breaks in
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by heywire 9y ago
This reminds me of another home security product called Cocoon, which uses sound instead of RF. Side note: if you have a smart home security system that you're actually happy with, I'd like to hear about it. I've been doing r
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by heywire 9y ago
Similarly, when I got my first job as a PC tech at a locally-owned computer shop, my first task was to assemble my own "bench" PC for testing various components.
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by heywire 10y ago
Not exactly what you were asking for, but made me think of these: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tr4zb-HHZs4 and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ee5evlN8Bbs and if you go down the rabbit hole, you end up h
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by heywire 10y ago
Awesome, thanks!
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by heywire 10y ago
I love this. I am really hoping others come to the comments to share similar "misuse" of technology stories.
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by heywire 10y ago
> But that's the whole problem right there. Such a plug-in architecture with every Tom, Dick & Jane writing modules that are loosely vetted and deployed in the 100's of thousands is broken by design. Wait, are you talking a
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by heywire 10y ago
This has me thinking, if that is legal, what is to stop any old random person who wants to know what you make from calling your employer posing as a recruiter/hiring manager looking for current salary?
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by heywire 10y ago
I believe this is how the sense.com devices work...
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by heywire 10y ago
The flip side of this is when you're on vacation and your small-town municipal office calls you and asks if you're filling a pool, as their system has detected and flagged a constant usage over a XX hour period. In my case it was
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by heywire 10y ago
Reading startupdiscuss' response, I was saying to my self, no way Google discontinues Gmail, that's just silly. Then I read your reply and my heart rate went up. I've really got to look into alternative paid replacements for
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by heywire 10y ago
Just wanted to say I think you've done an excellent job with this!
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by heywire 10y ago
I bet they are too.
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by heywire 10y ago
Sure. If you have an Elster brand meter, you can check out my (incomplete) project ea_receiver [1] or a GNU Radio based project, gr_elster [2]. For other brands, I would check out the rtlamr [3] project. I'm using it to read my gas met
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by heywire 10y ago
Sure. The electric and water meters used by the city I live in are by a company called Elster. They use the name EnergyAxis or EA_LAN to describe the mesh network. Either of those should return hours of reading material on a Google search.
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by heywire 10y ago
Nice, thanks for sharing! I'll have to check this out. Not sure how I missed hearing about this one when I was working on understanding the mesh network protocol for the water and electric meters on the side of my house. Aside from GNU

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