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DontTakeMySky

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  • Where is the weirdest place you have lost a pair of sunglasses?

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  • Yeah pretty much. They had small tournaments throughout the weekend and in between it was a free for all that anyone could jump in to and whack people for a little bit. They had a bunch of foam swords and shields available for people to use.

  • Why is there a pronounced (stereotypical) dichotomy between listening music and gaming music?

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  • They have different purposes.

    Listening music is intended for a broad spectrum of "use cases", but gaming music often needs to drive a specific emotion at a very specific time, be repeated if a gamer takes too long to complete an area, drive world building for an area, etc.

    And just because the tech has changed doesn't mean the social expectations have. We expect game music to have specific characteristics because it's what we're used to.

  • Where is the weirdest place you have lost a pair of sunglasses?

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  • Much weirder. It was a LARP fighting arena next to a joust.

  • Where is the weirdest place you have lost a pair of sunglasses?

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  • In a swordfight arena

  • Recommendations for a video doorbell?

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  • Just be careful you don't get their "smarthome" line, at least for cameras. It doesn't require Internet to operate, but it requires Internet for configuration and management.

    I'm not sure if that's the same with their doorbells, but it was true of their wifi cameras.

  • Roku disables TVs and streaming devices until users consent to new terms

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  • Especially for physical goods.

  • How would you build a GPU-heavy node?

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  • I wonder if you could copy (or buy used) some crypto mining rigs for this. I'm not sure if there's some kind of bottleneck im not aware of though.

  • What can I do with an old laptop?

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  • That's a shame. I didn't realize it was that locked down. Ive had a lot of terrible routers but all the ones I remember allowed me at least a port forward.

    I think OP can accomplish some of the same result if he can get a cheap VPS to connect through (have the laptop Wireguard to the VPS, then have a proxy on the VPS forward to the laptop over the VPN, but that's probably not worth the hassle for a starter project unfortunately.

  • What can I do with an old laptop?

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  • With most consumer wifi networks you can usually enable port forwarding. That would let you access services from anywhere.

    Personally I would set up a Wireguard VPN server on the laptop and enable port forwarding only for the Wireguard port. This will let you access your laptop from anywhere, and it will protect you by limiting your attack surface (basically you only need to have a device Wireguard connection and you don't need to worry as much about securing every other service you want to run).

    Then I'd set up dynamic DNS with any DNS provider so you don't need to keep track of a changing IP.

    Then you can install whatever services you want on the laptop and you'll be able to access them from anywhere by connecting to the Wireguard VPN. It does mean you can't easily let a friend access a service on your laptop, but the tradeoff is you don't have to worry as much about security while you're learning.

  • Cox deletes ‘Active Listening’ ad pitch after boasting that it eavesdrops though our phones

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  • It's especially weird when the existing targeting can be so effective for much cheaper.

    For tvs for example, they can see what you watch, when, what ads you mute and which you don't, what you display over HDMI (content ID), the other devices on your network, your location, your accounts for every streaming service, what you search for. Then if you install their companion app they learn the other apps on your phone, your location habits, the media you play on your phone (looking at you Bose connect app...), bluetooth and network devices you are near (connecting you to other profiles they know), and probably a lot more.

  • Cox deletes ‘Active Listening’ ad pitch after boasting that it eavesdrops though our phones

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  • Maybe. They might do some processing locally and just upload as text so it might be easy to batch the data, making the upload volume and pattern less obvious.

    It also saves them network bandwidth so I'm sure that would motivate them too. Uploading raw mic data from all TVs would be expensive.