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Post by rtpg »

diggan wrote: post #298
rtpg wrote: post #293

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Funnily, the way I used to check Keybase profiles is to check Twitter because a blue checkmark there was usually a good indication of them being "the famous person" but thanks to Twitter Blue that feature is no longer usable. I understand Keybase allows you to link up a bunch of accounts, but it doesn't prevent you from making all of those accounts say you are the CEO/CTO of some company unfortunately.

> but it doesn't prevent you from making all of those accounts say you are the CEO/CTO of some company unfortunately At least a GitHub profile link can usually be used to validate that this account actually has write access to a GitHub organization, so you can somewhat see it's the right person. Requires them to have pushed any public commits to within that organization though.

Fair point, yeah.

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Post by girvo »

CobrastanJorji wrote: post #141
r2_pilot wrote: post #107

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"Identifying Different Musical Instrument Sounds Using Fourier Analysis in LabVIEW" Rather than "ML" du jour, I would say that a fast Fourier transform would get you sufficient data to determine if practicing or talking or silence.

Definitely valid callout. I was also looking for an excuse to play with audio ML, but you're totally right that just examining a Fourier series could very likely do a great job of determining whether a given type of instrument is being played.

Which an FFT on an ESP32-S3 with it's Xtensa LX7 vector extensions can be quite fast

https://www.reddit.com/r/arduino/comments/16asjx9/esp32s3_do...

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Post by IncRnd »

Aurornis wrote: post #295
stavros wrote: post #294

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That seems like an easy fix: Tell visitors to look at the light.

That’s the problem: If the light is always on, or almost always on, then it quickly loses meaning. Unless the user actually adds green available time at regular intervals throughout the day, people learn that they have to ignore the red busy light and ask.

Or the person is always busy, and to contact them a person should use slack, email or some other method.

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Post by bombcar »

dgacmu wrote: post #239
poincaredisk wrote: post #173

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Side note to people reading this: in general, when suspecting a scam, don't blindly trust anyone who says "I'm ... and I confirm this is OK". This may be the same very person who you're suspecting of original scam ;). Not a theory, I have cases looks this every other week in my dayjob. In this case I believe the post is legit.

Or he's been playing the long game and fake-submitted the Show HN post for flipper zero four years ago just to be ready for this day. ;-) (or the account was compromised, of course)

Even sneakier - he designed and built an entire company around the Flipper Zero just to be able to fake this. For real.

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Post by gmzamz »

This is an instant buy for me. I've been looking for a 'smart timer' that I can interact with programmatically and via Home Assistant for the longest time. I'd resigned myself to either building a terrible version myself or hiring someone to make a bespoke one. I'm super glad you're making this!

Re: Busy Status Bar

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Post by srkiNZ »

This looks really cool. Would have bought it but the price is a bit too high for me (I live in New Zealand as well so when you convert from USD then add shipping costs etc...).

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Post by albert_e »

slightly off topic but ...

what I really want is a LED status display built into the top edge of my laptop screen (visible from opposite side too) that indicates -- when I am on a meeting / when I am muted or unmuted / when my camera is ON. (I should be able to turn them off when i dont need them and also have a manual override to turn them on as well -- so I dont HAVE to indicate my true status publicly when I dont want to -- I might even tie it to work only when on office/home wifi only for instance)

In WFH situations this would be a life saver as other people in the house might walk into your room / across your laptop in view of camera / want to talk to you about random things .... If this kind of busy indicator is present, those people can be a bit more mindful of your immediate situation and avoid distrubance / embarassment.

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Post by samatman »

rpgraham84 wrote: post #171
wepple wrote: post #92

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“Enable various forms of cybercrime” seems like a stretch. If flipper does, so does Nmap and metasploit and Linux and soldering irons.

They all do too to varying degrees. You can say "X enables cybercrime" and "Y enables more cybercrime than X" and both could be true for any given X and Y. For instance, someone buying a flipper is far more likely to do something illegal with it than someone buying a soldering iron. Both could be used only for legal purposes too, of course. For every news story you can find of someone doing a legal thing with a flipp…

For every news story you can find of someone driving down the highway, I can find you at least 10 stories of someone crashing and burning in a multi-car pileup.

Re: Busy Status Bar

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Post by metabagel »

seabass-labrax wrote: post #272
CobrastanJorji wrote: post #103

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I was going to say that $200 seemed awfully expensive for a programmable kitchen timer. I've had a project idea for a while that would require a bit more juice. In short, I want to make a music practice timer for ADHD kids that avoid actually playing music during practice time. I want it to be beefy enough to run some simple ML for detecting instruments being played, and I only want the timer to count down while the…

Hate to burst your bubble, but as an amateur musician I fear this would backfire, or at least fail to result in any improvement in playing ability. Silence and time are absolutely critical to playing music. By analogy, measuring 'time spent drawing bow across strings' would be as useful to a violin student as 'time spent pressing foot on accelerator' would be to a driving student! From my own experience learning to p…

There could be an allowance for time spent not playing music. Keep the timer going for a few minutes after the music has stopped. Require a minimum ratio of music playing time to overall time. So, after a lengthy silence, only playing music will advance the timer.

But, yeah, it may or may not be helpful.

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