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Re: Daytripper

#11

This is amazing, and I also would like to make a meta comment about how creative "dekuNukem" is as a screen name. Re: custom script, can I plug the receiver into, say, a RP0 and fire off an arbitrary webhook?

Adding to your metacomment, "Daytripper" is an excellent name, and a great nod to the Beatles track.

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#12
post #6

Dave was fired because every time his boss walked by his desk he was staring at his desktop.

At his next job, Dave tried the custom setup and his boss now thinks he's always writing emails.

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#13
what's the advantage of using two laser sensors vs a single IR sensor for the motion detection? (other than the badass Mission Impossible factor)

edit: I'll leave this comment for posterity, but I previously misunderstood the meanings of the Tx and Rx sensors

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#15
post #8

Okay, that's neat. Now someone needs to figure out how to detect someone walking by using fluctuations in the wifi signal strength.

Or use the monitor camera and opencv to detect faces/eyeballs in the background lurking or peering at your monitor.

Spinning this up with a bounding box facial detection algorithm and triggering Amazon Recognition against a constrained data set of authorized users is day-projectable :)

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#16
post #8

Okay, that's neat. Now someone needs to figure out how to detect someone walking by using fluctuations in the wifi signal strength.

Or use the monitor camera and opencv to detect faces/eyeballs in the background lurking or peering at your monitor.

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#19

A version of this that's somehow aware of whether or not I'm at my desk, then puts the machine to sleep anytime anyone else touches a key would be kind of cool. Maybe some kind of proximity sensor that you could stick to a badge or in your wallet? It would need to still allow you to login and perhaps offer a password to disable in case you forgot your sensor, but seems vaguely plausible? EDIT: Read more of the usage…

Probably an RFID would be better. There are some articles about doing pub/priv key auth using an RFID device, this would be good because nobody could snoop your RFID signal and replay it.

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#20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> * Execute a custom script rm -rf /*

I have always been curious.. is there a better way of accomplishing this?

I suspect you can leverage GNU Parallel to get this faster

EDIT: Yup, looks like a clever person figured this out https://serverfault.com/questions/46852/doing-an-rm-rf-on-a-...

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