lazyeye

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by lazyeye 2y ago
I have a Philips Hue bridge plus Hue smart bulb. The Hue system has an "Automations" function you can configure via their phone app. So I just created a set of custom automations to change the bulb color on a set daily schedule. T
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by lazyeye 2y ago
Also checkout the Mullvad browser which I believe is based on the Tor browser with the Tor bit removed. (You dont need the Mullvad vpn to use it). https://mullvad.net/en/browser
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by lazyeye 2y ago
I use PiHole along with YogaDns which is a great little windows app for managing your dns config.
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by lazyeye 2y ago
One thing I've done is create a "color clock" using a smart bulb that changes color based on a daily schedule. So at 8:00pm the bulb has a dim orange glow, this changes to dim red glow at 9pm and then turns off at 10pm (sleep
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by lazyeye 2y ago
One thing I've done is create a "color clock" using a smart bulb that changes color based on a daily schedule. So at 8:00pm the bulb has a dim orange glow, this changes to dim red glow at 9pm and then turns off at 10pm (sleep
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by lazyeye 2y ago
Is this actually true? From what Ive seen and read, the US is constantly demonized in the Chinese media.
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by lazyeye 2y ago
Why is Twitter only a problem to be solved now? Twitter was arguably more biased (in the opposite direction) before Musk took it over?
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by lazyeye 2y ago
Yes "bias" is only a problem when it leans in one direction apparently...
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by lazyeye 2y ago
If only Elon was more like your average commenter on HN, just imagine what he could have achieved then....
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by lazyeye 2y ago
And also why it is so easily compromised by commercial interests.
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by lazyeye 2y ago
Yes remember when billionaire money interfering in election campaigns was considered a bad thing?
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by lazyeye 2y ago
Of course, and equally you can cherry-pick the products of public schools who are also gibbering idiots and don't have even basic levels of literacy.
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by lazyeye 2y ago
Yes the idea that the govt is the best at everything (let alone schooling...)
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by lazyeye 2y ago
And the primary role of Google "customer support" is to act as a firewall, not to help people. Glad you've moved on from such a loathsome company.
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by lazyeye 2y ago
FreakyClown (ethical hacker) has a recent book on this subject How I rob banks https://www.amazon.com/How-Rob-Banks-Other-Places/dp/1119911...
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by lazyeye 2y ago
Well everybody in all of history is a villain by contemporary standards. For example people are now considered villains for thinking biological men shouldnt be allowed in women's change rooms. Historians like to say the past is a diffe
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by lazyeye 2y ago
This same logic applies to every discovery in all of human history.
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by lazyeye 2y ago
Honestly, the idea is less important...execution and marketing is what determines success. Checkout indiehackers.com for lots of stories/ideas on this topic.
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by lazyeye 2y ago
Yes its interesting reading all the people in this thread trying to align historical facts with contemporary ideological requirements...
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by lazyeye 2y ago
I think pretty much everyone in all of human history would have failed the test of contemporary moral standards on some level.
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by lazyeye 2y ago
Lol
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by lazyeye 2y ago
I dont know what the facts of the matter are. All I have to go on is the partisan framing from a political hack at FastCompany. Which is to say I have nothing to go on at all.
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by lazyeye 2y ago
Thanks for all your efforts. Will definitely check this out.
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by lazyeye 2y ago
In a similar way Im wondering what gender studies would be called?
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by lazyeye 2y ago
Dark Wire by Joseph Cox covers the whole story https://www.amazon.com/Dark-Wire-Incredible-Largest-Operatio... It was a real conundrum for law enforcement agencies because at some point they had to stop facilitating crime a
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by lazyeye 2y ago
Memories of tobacco "researchers" claiming the science linking smoking to cancer is inconclusive.
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by lazyeye 2y ago
Yes Google abuses privacy on a scale never before seen in human history. The East German Stazi would have been ecstatic to get 1% of the data that Google is able to collect. Vacuuming up and selling consumer data is not new though, companie
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by lazyeye 2y ago
Lol
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by lazyeye 2y ago
Either that or the opposite is true.
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by lazyeye 2y ago
But this in no way negates the thesis that a hiring policy based on membership of groups rather than merit alone, might mean that people are less competent and more mistakes happen.

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