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Ask HN: What non-work task have you automated?
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#422Used python and selenium webdriver to scrape free movie pirate sites for URLs and images. The script had to traverse the pirate sites using id tags, and simulate a click in the movie iframe for the site to populate the iframe's src attribute. Then it generates a static html page from that list of URLs. It automatically updates a netflix style website for me and my friends to watch movies. This negates all the pirate sites that spread spam and viruses. The critical path for the project is to build it as a decentralized app into the ethereum block chain, that could never be taken down, but this requires some kind of browser emulation(or external api) in the blockchain. (I won't post the link unless people ask for it)
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#4231. My former spouse wouldn't answer the home phone when I talked with the kids during the divorce. I wrote an app that texted her and logged the attempt for reporting to the guardian ad litem. 2. She also wouldn't answer the door when during kids pick-up. The same app texted her when I was outside. 3. To disprove her allegations I wasn't involved in the kids school and activities I used Android's Locale app to trigge…
Nicely done! Amazing how slanted family court is that one has to go to such measure to subvert such deceit.
May you and your children be blessed.
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#424I was in the US and want to immigrate to Canada because of US broken H1B immigration system ( for me it will take 9 years to get a greencard). Here is what I did - The immigration website of Saskatchewan province opens up randomly to apply for immigration. I missed it many times because there is no indication other than the "Apply" button being enabled and a small text in their homepage which says "Applications are n…
Could you please upload your code on GitHub? May I ask your github profile?
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#425Earlier quoted context omitted.
I do this currently. I'm surprised our course catalog doesn't ban IPs that hit it every 30 seconds or so.
1 req every 30 seconds is more or less invisible, and universities have comparatively small customer bases. If everyone was doing it, there might be a problem.
My university does require a cooldown period. I heard that someone made his course registration script available to everyone, which I guess was a problem. Unfortunately, the detection system triggers even when you're just manually clicking through the site, which is annoying.
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#426Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm glad that these people exist but on the other hand It's hard to imagine what they do in everyday life that this topic is so interesting to them, that they want to feel this responsibility for the plant.
Communities can form around the weirdest of things, and when they do, social ties keep the original reason going.
That's a beautifully succinct explanation of the Internet.
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#427Here are a few that have been pretty useful to me and my friends: 1) Local events finder. A few friends of mine and I moved from San Francisco to Los Angeles last year and didn't know many people. Even though there is a vibrant event scene down here with hundreds of events every day, we always seemed to find out about the cool ones after they had passed. I wrote a Facebook scraper that would find all of the local bus…
is 3) up somewhere? I spend my time from boarding to takeoff frantically googling movies.
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#428Script to export orgmode files to html for viewing on mobile. It runs when the PC goes idle.
Google Sheets add-on to import portfolio positions csv. It’s automated enough to eliminate manual data entry but not so easy that I update or check all the time.
Home automation to turn lights off and on after dark and activate motion alarms when we’re not home. I have to activate away mode manually and it’s too hard to turn off now that we have cats and friends coming to feed them, so more automation is needed.
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#429I was in the US and want to immigrate to Canada because of US broken H1B immigration system ( for me it will take 9 years to get a greencard). Here is what I did - The immigration website of Saskatchewan province opens up randomly to apply for immigration. I missed it many times because there is no indication other than the "Apply" button being enabled and a small text in their homepage which says "Applications are n…
Hey, I would be willing to pay for such service. How should I contact you? My contact details are in my profile. Plshlpme
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#430I hooked up a speech to text daemon to listen for "more wine please" to send a text message to the local off licence to deliver a bottle of wine.
What are you using for speech-to-text?