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

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

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Post by amelius »

dest wrote: post #166
amelius wrote: post #165

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I see two options here. Yes, or perhaps a combination of techniques. E.g. shared database to train an ML system to detect ads. Of course, the downside is that the ad industry will then tweak the ads until they pass the ML test. > I wouldn't try to productise an app that takes away the main source of income for the radio stations. I wouldn't think of it as taking away a source of income, but rather as forcing them t…

Do you have an idea how could such a database of copyrighted material be shared? (Asking for a friend...)

Good point. Perhaps use only parts of the material (not the entire clips). This should be covered by "fair use".

And perhaps using the clips for other purposes than "viewing" may in fact be fair use. Especially since you are trying to find a method for not viewing them.

(IANAL)

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

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Post by dest »

t0mek wrote: post #169
dest wrote: post #166

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you have an idea how could such a database of copyrighted material be shared? (Asking for a friend...)

I think that it'd be enough to store some kind of fingerprints (eg. selected frequency components after performing the FFT), not the whole samples.

Indeed it seems to be the best option.

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

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Post by DenisM »

lostlogin wrote: post #30
dancek wrote: post #19

Screen scraping photos of my kids from a kindergarten website. Recognizing good photos that feature my kids and deleting everything else is manual, though. Alerts to my phone if the fridge or freezer temperature exceeds a limit or the humidity under my dishwasher starts rising. Granted, neither are fully automatic and require manual intervention.

I wouldn’t be that pleased with a childcare facility taking photos of my kid then putting them on the internet. I suspect I’m in a small minority though.

Why?

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

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Post by dest »

amelius wrote: post #171
dest wrote: post #166

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you have an idea how could such a database of copyrighted material be shared? (Asking for a friend...)

Good point. Perhaps use only parts of the material (not the entire clips). This should be covered by "fair use". And perhaps using the clips for other purposes than "viewing" may in fact be fair use. Especially since you are trying to find a method for not viewing them. (IANAL)

IANAL as well, but this notion of "fair use" seems slippy. I had a look in the French article that lists some exceptions that allow sharing copyrighted material, and did not find any obvious match with the potential shared database.

https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/affichCodeArticle.do?cidTexte...

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

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Post by ACS_Solver »

foolano wrote: post #110

I bought an e-reader called reMarkable [0] that I use every day to read technical stuff on it. At some point, I got tired of the process to sync files: download the document from the browser, open the reMarkable app and drag the file into it. I automated this workflow, and now I can just "print" directly to the device [1] the article/document I'm reading. [0] https://remarkable.com/ [1] https://github.com/juruen/rmap…

I wonder if that's easy to adapt to Linux?

I get around the same issue by emailing files to the reMarkable [0] but that's a solution that relies on having your own email server and is therefore less user-friendly than what you do, though it works great for my use case.

[0] http://umanovskis.se/blog/post/remarkable-email/

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

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Post by anonu »

1. PhotoBooth: Canon Selphy photo printer + Raspberry Pi + Special Gmail address, check for new emails with image attachments, send to printer.

2. Temperature IoT Monitoring: temperature monitoring in baby room. Takes 1 minute samples of temp and humidity in the room and also records local weather in zip code. HTML Dashboard to keep track of it all. Uses very cheap NodeMCU+wifi board.

3. Webcam Timelapse: Cheapo Chinese Webcam + RaspberryPi + special no-internet access wifi networking (cause I dont trust the Chinese webcams). Grabs a frame every minute and stitches it into a video .

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

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Post by MaxikCZ »

dest wrote: post #96
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/

Great work! I have been working for a while on a similar adblock, but that does not need jingles to detect ads. I'm on my way to open source it. A radio player with adblocking included is available at https://www.adblockradio.com

Would be great to have ability to add custom stations. Would it work too?

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

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Post by jdc »

t0mek wrote: post #154
amelius wrote: post #126

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> The commercial block starts and finishes with a jingle, so the potential software should recognize these specific sounds and turn off the volume between them. I suppose that many stations don't have such markers though.

Indeed. I see two options here. First is to analyze the other signal features of the commercials (eg. increased volume), although it may be tricky. The other option is a crowd-sourced solution - pretty much as for the browser adblock - where users can mark samples recognized as ads. Since the publishers often buy campaigns for many stations in the same country or state, it may be a shared database. On the other hand,…

I think you'd want to look for dynamic range compression among other things.

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

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Post by amelius »

dest wrote: post #174
amelius wrote: post #171

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Good point. Perhaps use only parts of the material (not the entire clips). This should be covered by "fair use". And perhaps using the clips for other purposes than "viewing" may in fact be fair use. Especially since you are trying to find a method for not viewing them. (IANAL)

IANAL as well, but this notion of "fair use" seems slippy. I had a look in the French article that lists some exceptions that allow sharing copyrighted material, and did not find any obvious match with the potential shared database. https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/affichCodeArticle.do?cidTexte...

I was under the impression that for purposes of research, fair use is pretty broad. So perhaps you could explore that angle.

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

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Post by robk »

robk wrote: post #35

I run a Huginn server which has hundreds of recipes. Most scrape websites and send me updates either by pushover or email for things that matter -- news sites via rss with heavy keyword filtering for news that's important to me like hometown news etc (Google alerts style) -- firmware updates from various devices that wouldn't otherwise notify me like kindle -- posts up voted over X times in a period on smaller, speci…

Ooh also I automate a bunch of news downloads via calibre and Amazon's email to kindle service. So ive got Sunday papers for the cities care about, the Economist, etc all ready and synced when I fly or take a train each week. And updates are easy to just enable my phones Hotspot and go for it
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