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Ask HN: What are the things that you have automated in your personal life?

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Post by ianhowson »

HumanDrivenDev wrote: post #345
gizmo wrote: post #52

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Your banking password isn't that sensitive, because banks are used by regular people who don't have any conception of good security practices. The worst case scenario of your bank login credentials leaking are really not that bad. Your personal email account is probably a million times more sensitive. It contains enough personal information to get your identity stolen a thousand times over, and once your email has be…

Your banking password isn't that sensitive, because banks are used by regular people who don't have any conception of good security practices. The worst case scenario of your bank login credentials leaking are really not that bad. Huh? The worst case scenario of your bank login details is... someone depositing all your money to their account, surely.

Most banks request a second auth factor (SMS, code, phone call) before executing a transfer to a new recipient.

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Post by cryptozeus »

tail_risk wrote: post #533

SO was complaining that I never text her while at work. Wrote a twilio app to pull random sentimental quotes from rumi and others, fit it into a personalised looking message spelling mistakes included )"thinking of you" etc.), and send it to her at random times of the day from my number. Weird thing is when I mentioned it was automated, she didn't believe me, so we kept it going till she broke up with me eventually.

Sorry but this is sad

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Post by abricot »

guiltysnake wrote: post #658

I have a website which aggregates different videos and articles. I used python and scrapy to achieve this goal. I run it on a $5 linode server and it generates 150€-200€ daily. My website is hosted on webfaction.

By aggregate do you mean plaggiate?

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Post by atmoz »

Numberwang wrote: post #493
INTPenis wrote: post #459

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Just a slight warning if you live in an area of occasional thunderstorms. A friend of a friend here in southern sweden was left with a nasty burn along the length of a robotic lawnmower wire he had buried in the lawn when lightning struck and jumped from a tree to this wire. That was only one wire that I forget the purpose of, perhaps as electronic barrier. I can't imagine the mayhem of a grid of wires being struck w…

My fathers automower got destroyed when a moose decided to stomp it. Also in southern Sweden.

Reminds me of a similar incident in Norway, caught on tape: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ho8o92Ro-Ig

Some CS students even made a game based on the hilarious video, where you play as the moose and must eat apples while defending against incoming lawnmowers: https://joelspeanuts.itch.io/elgspillet

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Post by err4nt »

elvisds wrote: post #361
DoubleGlazing wrote: post #284

I have semi-automated cooking for the week ahead. We recently started cooking meals for the week ahead on Sundays and then freezing them. The aim was to give us more time with the kids and to cut down on housework. To save time on the Sunday cooking session I have cobbled together a very clunky, and I mean VERY clunky semi-automated cooking system. It comprises a Raspberry PI which controls a couple of WiFi mains swi…

A friend is getting such a system to production for Indian recipes with Mechnical Chef [1] The demo looks incredibly cool [2] [1] http://www.mechanicalchef.com/ [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBB0ZaN1paE

I have a lot of questions about how it might work, but above all else I'm absolutely in awe of what MechanicalChef can already do! Truly amazing automation, and I can see how this could directly benefit…nearly everyone. I wish your friend success with this (and many delicious meals too)

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Post by mikec3010 »

t0mek wrote: post #23

I used DSP to recognize the commercials in the radio broadcast on my stereo receiver and turn down the volume automatically ("adblock for the radio broadcast"). I described it here: http://blog.rekawek.eu/2016/02/24/radio-adblock/

This Is great. I wanted to do something similar with a TV. Mic detects commercial signature and sends mute command via IR interface. I'm just an idea man though who never followed through.

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Post by rtkwe »

dest wrote: post #638
rtkwe wrote: post #623

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Just apply a transform to them like FFT then it's not the original work anymore and it should be fine.

You know MP3 is kinda like a FFT right?

Yeah, but if you lose enough info such that it doesn't play like the original or can't be reconstituted into the original it's still large enough of a change that it should steer clear from copyright issues. No one's really tested exactly where the distinction falls.

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Post by sergz »

patrickk wrote: post #475
peterburkimsher wrote: post #340

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Hi Sergz! I'm building something similar for Chinese, https://pingtype.github.io - there are a lot more letters to deal with over here. Do you have a link to your code?

I'm also interested in the code, if OP is willing to share.

Hey! Here it is http://school-text.github.io/. I'm not ready to share the code, perhaps we could just discuss the topic firstly, though.

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Post by _emacsomancer_ »

rcMgD2BwE72F wrote: post #496
_emacsomancer_ wrote: post #379

Pushing music onto my phone. I have Termux installed, and can thus run `sshd` on Termux (I have ssh keys copied over), and then copy any music I want into a temporary directory on my desktop and use https://github.com/ehmry/dir2opus to convert everything to 96kbps opus and push it over using rsync and then cleanup the temporary directory: `python2 ~/builds/dir2opus/dir2opus -a -b 96 --delete-input . -r && rsync -av -…

I installed Syncthing[0] on all my devices, and added youtube-dl folder that auto-sync my music as soon as I'm connected to my known networks. It's so easy I've stopped using any cloud things (except for emails). [0] https://syncthing.net

I also use Syncthing on my mobile phone, but for actual syncing. The music stuff I'm converting from FLAC to opus, transferring to my mobile and then deleting the opus files from my computer.

I do use Syncthing to then sync the (opus) music from my mobile to my work desktop.

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