have you you checked out "esp32-s3" which costs $7.12 and has wifi and microsd installed on it [0]. Also esp32-cam is another board with similar specifications.
Banned book library in a wi-fi smart light bulb
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> Note that I don't necessarily agree with the subject matter of these titles Y'know, there's really only one reason to be coy about whether you agree with Neo-Nazi propaganda.
Someone named tinfoilhatter replied but that's gone now. Not one to let a response go to waste:
Well. I seem to have triggered something.
> Ah yes, because the only people that have ever spread propaganda are Neo-Nazis
Not something I ever said or implied.
> and we should only ever learn about the sanitized and approved version of history from our Robert Maxwell (Ghislane Maxwell's Mossad agent father / McGraw Hill co-founder) published textbooks.
I find it interesting who just happens to know who else is Jewish, and then feels the need to interject that into utterly irrelevant contexts.
> Never mind that there are two sides to every story, and when it comes to history, only the victors get to tell theirs.
No, I'm pretty sure a lot of losers have been able to have their sides heard. It's just that, well, people lose for a reason, and losers tend to be less popular among normal people. Ranting about subhumans can do that, you know.
> We don't even learn about the 23+ million massacred by the Bolsheviks in school.
I would be interested to know who exactly you call a Bolshevik, but I did get taught the history of the USSR in school, at least, and "One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich" is not a ringing endorsement.
However, nobody was talking about Bolsheviks until you decided to use them as a distraction.
> But yeah - only one reason to consider a different perspective other than the one forced down your throat by the public education system.
I didn't need the public education system to teach me to hate genocidal racists, thank you.
Re: Banned book library in a wi-fi smart light bulb
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I chose books that were out of copyright, available from project Gutenberg, and had been banned or challenged in the USA at some point in the past to use as examples. There weren't many options. It's designed so the user can include whatever books are important to them wherever they may live. They may live somewhere more oppressive where banned books are a common occurrence. I have no idea. It wouldn't be wise to inc…
> The idea is that if you drop this somewhere in public, you can try to match whatever color was there before so it is less noticeable that anything changed. I *love* this concept so much. Even though the books are a neat hook, these wifi networks could contain anything . Grassroots political advocacy, local info for off-the-grid historical sites, location specific micro-social media (comments, message boards, etc.),…
Thanks. I had several ideas for these bulbs as well. This is the one I decided to act on for now. I might work on some of the others later but I'm not sure. I agree there are so many potential uses for this sort of thing and I love how they just sort of exist without drawing attention or suspicion.
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Books that are assigned reading in schools and universities, and promoted by libraries, are "under threat", while books nearly impossible to find, never on any reading lists, and whose promoters get their speeches shut down by French police [1], or get investigated by the FBI and kicked out of university [2], are to be considered widely available, got it. And your "historically banned" is just "occasionally removed f…
Why do you want people to read those books so bad?
It's convenient that only evil people point out the emperor has no clothes, isn't it?
Re: Banned book library in a wi-fi smart light bulb
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We've decided collectively as a society that some ideas are "good" and others are "bad". For example, racism and white supremacy have been decided to be "bad". There's an alternate reality where white supremacy is mainstream, where queer fiction is impossible to find, and that would be a different world. Instead, what's being preserved are the books written that celebrate the values that match our broad cultural valu…
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"For once"?
That's a significant impugnment of the honesty of a person you know nothing about.
"Banned books" is the colloquial term for these books, even if it's not as accurate as you'd personally prefer.
Next thing you'll be complaining you bit into an Apple and got computer instead of fruit.
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> But that’s a good ban of course, because Freedom of Speech only matters when it concerns speech I agree with. putting hypothetical words in other peoples' mouths like this seems like it must be a pretty exhausting way to try to make a point. quoting from the article: > I think the idea hosting banned books specifically came to me after having read Ben Brown's short story Library. It's been a while since I read it,…
> the purpose of a project like this seems to be not just "here's some banned books" but rather "here's some banned books that I think are worth sharing / reading" Those aren’t banned books though. They are books that used to be banned in another century. It’s like saying “I’m a criminal because I criticized the Pope”.
> Those aren’t banned books though. They are books that used to be banned in another century.
as has been covered in multiple comments elsewhere in the thread, the "banned" books that are checked-in to the repo are examples that were used because they're in the public domain.
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Install it at night with gloves, wipe it to avoid fingerprints, and this hoodie https://hackaday.com/2023/03/06/adversarial-ir-hoodie-lets-y...
CCTVs operate in networks and use gait recognition, those hoodies are snake oil. You suggest to just teleport out after the installation, I presume?
Nobody is doing "gait analysis" over this.
The FBI investigating a bombing? Yeah.
State cops investigating a murder? 50/50 odds?
Local cops investigating someone swapping out a fucking lightbulb? No.
Re: Banned book library in a wi-fi smart light bulb
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> Note that I don't necessarily agree with the subject matter of these titles Y'know, there's really only one reason to be coy about whether you agree with Neo-Nazi propaganda.
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> As if Neo-Nazis were and are the only people capable of authoring propaganda
Of course they aren't. But that's no argument for distributing it.
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"For once"? That's a significant impugnment of the honesty of a person you know nothing about. "Banned books" is the colloquial term for these books, even if it's not as accurate as you'd personally prefer. Next thing you'll be complaining you bit into an Apple and got computer instead of fruit.
> "Banned books" is the colloquial term for these books
Yes, many people are either unaware of, or willing participants in, this lie. That doesn't make it any less of a lie.