Great rabbit hole but the flaw is the bulb might not be obvious but the book would be on a network scan someone suspected electronic dead drops.
Banned book library in a wi-fi smart light bulb
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Re: Banned book library in a wi-fi smart light bulb
#162Earlier quoted context omitted.
GREATEST strategy and philosophical game I have witnessed in the past 30 years... Peak of complexity and maturism in games...
I wish they would release a remastered version of the game with updated graphics and movies, with nothing else changed. The game mechanics were great. Beyond Earth was not good in comparison.
BE was so bland. Both in design and in terms of gameplay. Terrain affected like nothing.
I found the strat to go was to spam Scouts for resources, then get that upgrade that gave you Science per deal and spam every cheap deal as soon as you can.
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#163Earlier quoted context omitted.
As has been pointed out elsewhere in this thread, "books in our own time" tend to still be under copyright and might not survive long in a public code repository.
There is at least one “banned” book, written by a former dictator, whose copyright expired in 2015, 70 years after his death in 1945. But that’s a good ban of course, because Freedom of Speech only matters when it concerns speech I agree with.
A major element of "Freedom of Speech" is the freedom to not support or repeat or platform speech you disagree with.
OP is not even slightly wrong to leave out texts they disagree with. Theres no hypocrisy here. They have the Freedom to not publish works.
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#164Android loves to auto-disconnect you from any Wifi network that doesn't provide Internet. You need to go through a bunch of arcane settings to disable that feature.
Settings, Network and Internet, Adaptive Connectivity - if anyone’s looking for it.
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#165Nice, but: "Since the device is a light bulb, it would be difficult to detect and likely to go unnoticed." I doubt it would be any harder to shut down than any other public-access WiFi device, just a bit of experimentation with turning off power / devices would find it.
Just walk around with a Wi-Fi analyzer on your phone, playing hotter/colder until you find it.
Modern enterprise access points even have built-in functionality to physically locate devices, and automatic warnings for rogue access points. The latter is often ignored or disabled though, because it'll go off every time someone prints or screen casts over Wi-Fi Direct.
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#166Nice, but: "Since the device is a light bulb, it would be difficult to detect and likely to go unnoticed." I doubt it would be any harder to shut down than any other public-access WiFi device, just a bit of experimentation with turning off power / devices would find it.
while true i think it's extremely unlikely to be suspicious of a light bulb. especially if it doesn't seem out of place, like if it's on a light socket why think that it's an wifi access point?
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Re: Banned book library in a wi-fi smart light bulb
#167Nice, but: "Since the device is a light bulb, it would be difficult to detect and likely to go unnoticed." I doubt it would be any harder to shut down than any other public-access WiFi device, just a bit of experimentation with turning off power / devices would find it.
New device design: battery backup for the computer, light still operates based on external power.
This would be a massive improvement. I wonder what the largest battery you could fit in would be.
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#168Android loves to auto-disconnect you from any Wifi network that doesn't provide Internet. You need to go through a bunch of arcane settings to disable that feature.
You can spoof internet by responding to http gets on any IP. Last I checked phones didn’t require a valid https certificate as part of their portal detection.
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#169I have seen these described as Pirate Boxes before, way back around 2012. The basic idea is a box that throws up a wifi network and web server letting people upload/download files to it, while remaining disconnected from the wider internet. A geographically limited digital sharing library.
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I was actually thinking this could be used to fight against US book bans and other preventions of freedom of speech
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/22/us-libraries...