• patrlim@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    4 months ago

    Tech enthusiasts; “I have my entire house hooked up as a smart home, with automation, remote controlled lights, presence detection…”

    Tech workers; “That’s my printer, I keep a loaded gun next to it in case it makes a sound I don’t like”

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      4 months ago

      The engineer who designed the printer: "I keep a C4 charge strapped to it with a non-networked, mechanical, dead-man switch.

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      3 months ago

      I work in Infosec and my house is full of smart devices.

      But they live in their own vlan and can only talk to my home assistant server.

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      3 months ago

      There needs to be repeating patterns for a magic eye to work. Then that pattern is adjusted to create the 3d image when you “mix up” the part of the pattern each eye is looking at.

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      3 months ago

      All of them with Alexa or some nonsense in them. My dad has tv remotes with google voice controls, but I did not set them up for him and he did not want them either. Clearly you should keep those in a hermetically sealed Faraday cage, burried 6 feet deep and have the hole filled up with concrete. Bit annoying to change the channel tho