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by jimmies 8y ago
>All routers have some way of finding out the IP leases. Sure, with 1001 ways of accessing a router's IP leases table varying depending on the manufaturer, user names and passwords, whether anyone has changed the password, where to
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by jimmies 8y ago
>in FOSS He isn't "in FOSS" though. I used the word FOSS with him once and he said I shouldn't use it, lol. https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.en.html#FOSS
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by jimmies 8y ago
If you want Next-Gen infotainment with Assistant and Maps, you need to buy a new shiny Volvo car... or, you know, just use your Android phone and hack a Raspberry Pi and install Crankshaft on it. Crankshaft does all of the above, plus it do
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by jimmies 8y ago
It is not an idea from an exec, and that is not a lie. > https://youtu.be/uhyM-bhzFsI?t=607
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by jimmies 8y ago
https://www.kaspersky.com/blog/xiaomi-mi-robot-hacked/20632/ The talk at 34C3 at 10m:00 https://youtu.be/uhyM-bhzFsI?t=607
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by jimmies 8y ago
>But MQTT suffers from all of these same drawbacks, does it not? Your MQTT IoT device is a client, not a server, so you don't need to deal with no NAT. Even if you're outdated and has security problems, as long as the server do
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by jimmies 8y ago
>Every new face is another friend to be made >learns the environment >aibo [...] constantly updating its data in the cloud >apps Hey sorry to be a cynical brat, but does this imply that it's just another Internet-of-Sting l
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by jimmies 8y ago
>But I don't see the issue with exposing the HTTP interface to the world? It's a quick solution, but it is not user friendly. - What the IP it has is highly dependent on your router config. Even finding the IP requires work fro
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by jimmies 8y ago
I noticed that the you made a config front-end using a web page and claimed that you're not up to date with web development. Indeed, I do find that it's unsatisfying to configure IoT devices over the web, although the web is one o
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by jimmies 8y ago
I read quite a bit of books of that kind when I was young. I didn't read in English, but "One hundred thousand whys" - maths in Chinese was a great one, and this [1] in Vietnamese is a great one. They are all old books and so
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TFiR's interview with Richard Stallman(youtube.com)
2 points by jimmies 8y ago|0 comments
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by jimmies 8y ago
Sorry, I think I expressed what I meant the wrong way. Not that no one idolizes Tony. What I meant was not all the people who liked him and liked the movie idolize him. I liked the movie not because he was rich or someone to be idolized. &g
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“I don't give a s*** if my nudes are leaked”(tnhh.net)
6 points by jimmies 8y ago|0 comments
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by jimmies 8y ago
>I mean Scarface looks pretty terrible by the end of the movie, and people idolize him. You got the wrong idea. I don't think anyone idolizes Tony. It's a great movie and Tony is a great character and Scarface tells an interest
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Google AIY Voice Kit and the Voice Bonnet Review(tnhh.net)
2 points by jimmies 8y ago|0 comments
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by jimmies 8y ago
I'm sure the Gmail team has done great research on this, and this might have worked for the majority of the users, but just not for some power users such as Hacker News readers. And I think, that's because we might have one false
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by jimmies 8y ago
I watched his video and legitimately had a smile on my face when he finally got it to work. I feel that it tells the story of many makers, and I see myself in it. I can feel his face wearing out and I see it in my face when I couldn't
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by jimmies 8y ago
>Reasonable people who aren't like you... I don't care about other people's distros, I didn't rename them. I didn't ask them to rename. I told you in the comment above it was my distro. I have all rights to name
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by jimmies 8y ago
Everyone knows Stallman is very hard to work with. But not everyone knows he is also one of the nicest, most honest, down-to-earth people ever. He actually spent time to read and answer every single email I sent to him despite me being a li
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by jimmies 8y ago
Being ethical was neither the main catalyst/competitive edge nor the implication of capitalism. You stay on top in a capitalistic market by being competitive, not by being ethical. Whoever taught you that pro-capitalism ideals in high
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by jimmies 8y ago
>and they have to unlock after a year anyway. Your point is that it's pointless to lock it if you have to unlock it without the customer asking. That makes sense if you have to do it automatically. The carriers in the US don't
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by jimmies 8y ago
You were asking why carriers lock phones, presumably, that question is for the market that does that, which is the US market. Then you said they don't do that in your country. Then that's good for you, but that has nothing to do w
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by jimmies 8y ago
>I don't understand why carriers feel the need to SIM-lock a phone that's on a contract anyway. It doesn't make sense if they just want to lock just me, but it does make a lot of sense if they want to lock others. Say I ha
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100 hours for two lines of non-code(tnhh.net)
2 points by jimmies 8y ago|0 comments
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by jimmies 8y ago
>For the sake of registering a counterpoint: I disagree entirely that things like kernel development or assembly (and let’s throw in architecture, computability theory, and all that jazz for good measure) are even remotely useful in soft
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by jimmies 8y ago
Here is the project: getcrankshaft.com It makes a Pi an Android Auto head unit. Google expects the head unit to have a microphone to support voice input. Although technically the phone can use its microphones, but we can't expect Googl
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by jimmies 8y ago
I have an open source project that got quite popular lately, and I can tell you that I just spent 100+ hours to add 2 lines of "code." No, they were not code, they are two lines of configuration to make a piece of hardware work. 1
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by jimmies 8y ago
Guess I'm late to the comments game but I agree with you the title is a hasty and poor conclusion. As you have pointed out, the first problem was that the results are not normalized. Second, they have not studied what it is that the pa
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by jimmies 8y ago
>despite being able to successfully complete contracts and make money from what I was doing. I think making money is like cashing out the investments (knowledge/experiences). Nothing wrong with cashing our the investments when we en
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by jimmies 9y ago
>You have something called the Internet now The Internet hasn't changed fundamentally the way we think and study many subjects. There are no internet forums or MOOCs that are able to deliver many aspects of what you'll be able

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