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Do your neighbour's security cameras make you uncomfortable? Here's what you can do
  • I don't hate all public cameras, I live in an area with lots of them, and most are fine enough.

    This one in particular irks me because it doesn't serve a purpose beyond voyeurism. It doesn't cover the any of the persons property, or any entranceways to their property. Its only for monitoring people in the street. It might be technically a public places, and technically legal for anyone to record, but I really don't think that makes it a good idea for everyone to just record everything.

    I have seen kids running around naked in their front yard just down the road from this camera, so that also raises questions.

    I'd prefer if surveillance of public places was left to law enforcement, at least there is a theoretically some form of oversight.

  • Do your neighbour's security cameras make you uncomfortable? Here's what you can do
  • I have cameras. I told my neighbours about them and showed where they were pointed. I blacked out private areas when they were unintentionally picked up. No complaints.

    I also walk past a camera that has been placed so that it only records the public footpath. Pisses me off, because its not protecting their house/property, just recording the public.

  • Should I insulate my garage attic?
  • Get/borrow a thermal camera, and use that to see where the heat is coming in. Some libraries have thermal cameras, but that might be rare. You can also get very cheap and nasty thermal cameras from Aliexpress for $60 AUD

  • Why English language is sometimes "lazy", sometimes not
  • Because English is half a dozen languages wrapped in a trenchcoat? A lot of the law related words are from French derivations AFAIK?

    Domain specific language is found across all realms of society, even firefighters have words or phrases with a specific meaning (back-burning, pumper, appliance, etc). So maybe its not that some areas are lazy, its just that you haven't been exposed to their more technical side?

  • domains on internal network
  • Never heard that term, but its a very obscure concept, so wouldn't surprise me if it had multiple names. Probably vender specific names?

    Seems quite a few people havent heard of it, hence a lot of the split DNS answers :/

  • Looking for advice - Help me advocate for my employer to open up our products to Home Assistant integration
  • I am also Aussie, but I've been buying from Aliexpress of late. Maybe should try some Mirabella bulbs again, last time I bought them it was after the first OTA exploit was fixed, but before cloudcutter. Had to slice open the bulbs and flash via serial.

    Are you just getting stuff from Costco?

  • How do you feel about portrails of Autism in media?

    Hi All. I have been watching a lot of House lately, and just started "Extrodinary Attorney Woo". I am curious to know what you all think of their portrails of Autism. Is it pandering? Representation? Romantisation?

    Also see "The Good Doctor", "Atypical", "Love on the spectrum" etc.

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    Cutting Garolite (G10)

    I posted here a while back when my glass bed failed. One of the suggestions was to replace with Garolite or G10. My sheet finally arrived and i set about cutting it down to size.

    ...

    Within 4cm, my basically unused jigsaw blade was worn flat, and by the end of the first cut (20cm), there is basically no more teeth.

    For the second side, I tried using a multitool cutter, and within a few millimeters it was visibly blunt (plastic and metal tools). Finished it off with a standard wood hand saw, which seemed to go better.

    So warning to anyone considering garolite, dont use power tools, it will fuck them up.

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    Day 22: A Long Walk

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    Day 22: Sand

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    Day 21: Step

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    Day 20: Pulse

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    Day 19: Aplenty

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    Day 18: Lavaduct Lagoon

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    Day 17: Clumsy Crucible

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    HDMI cable/port degrading?

    I have a moderately long HDMI cable running to a screen that has worked for quite a while. Recently the screen lost its connection. I replaced the cable with the exact same model of HDMI cable, and its all good. The cables arent frequently inserted or removed, and they are otherwise in good condition. I have no idea how or why this could happen. Any ideas?

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    Gnome + Xorg == Mouse causes

    I have this very weird glitch with Gnome, running on Xorg. I can move my mouse off the right hand edge of the screen, and the entire gnome UI starts to scroll over the the left, giving me a glitchy mess on the right hand side of the screen. The screenshot doesn't really do it justice, because it just became transparent instead, but the transparent region where the terminal is should be off screen.

    Hope I have explained that well, has anyone else hit that? I wonder if its due to multiple monitors, or non-aligned monitors?

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    Does alien.top do anything other than mirror reddit comments?

    I have just realised that alien.top seems to be mirroring reddit accounts, posts and comments, without labelling them as such. What is the point of this one way mirroring? As soon as users realise, they are going to just leave. There is no point having a discussion with a bot that cannot respond.

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    First glass bed failure with PETG

    I have been printing with PETG on glass for a little while now, and have gone through almost an entire roll. Yesterday I had my first print stick so hard that it delaminated the glass :(. I stopped using hairspray as it made the prints not stick at all, and printing bare glass was just fine. But something about yesterdays print made the glass give up. Is this how PETG + Glass normally fails? Works perfectly for years, and then suddenly fails?

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