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Possibly outside the scope mentioned;
1. I need an app that can track which frickin streaming service I had been watching, so when they have new episodes I can pick up where I left off. I also want to know what movies I've seen since the titles on my action movies are starting to blend together.
2. I'd like a webpage watcher that can tell when the webpage gets updated. I know that might sound weird but there are low change sites that a notification would help on. Ideally, it would have the added feature of ignoring the letterhead and other garbage.
3. A news aggregator that works like a web search engine and crosses political lines and especially includes overseas sources. It would only include news and ignore other pages. As a US citizen I'm getting more accurate news from the BBC and Al Jazeera than I am from my local news sources. Less biased, as well.
4. A PR Newswire filter that looks for specific companies or narrow industries (meaning not just "finance").
5. A piece of software that can scan all public government documents for an individual's name; meaning land purchases in adjacent counties, court cases and company filings including the person's name.
Just some ideas of toys I've always wanted. Yes, you can use the last one for stalking but I'm thinking more about public/government figures.
Beyond the tools? No harm, no foul. Just some ideas. Have fun with any of them.
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Possibly outside the scope mentioned;
1. I need an app that can track which frickin streaming service I had been watching, so when they have new episodes I can pick up where I left off. I also want to know what movies I've seen since the titles on my action movies are starting to blend together.
2. I'd like a webpage watcher that can tell when the webpage gets updated. I know that might sound weird but there are low change sites that a notification would help on. Ideally, it would have the added feature of ignoring the letterhead and other garbage.
3. A news aggregator that works like a web search engine and crosses political lines and especially includes overseas sources. It would only include news and ignore other pages. As a US citizen I'm getting more accurate news from the BBC and Al Jazeera than I am from my local news sources. Less biased, as well.
4. A PR Newswire filter that looks for specific companies or narrow industries (meaning not just "finance").
5. A piece of software that can scan all public government documents for an individual's name; meaning land purchases in adjacent counties, court cases and company filings including the person's name.
Just some ideas of toys I've always wanted. Yes, you can use the last one for stalking but I'm thinking more about public/government figures.
Beyond the tools? No harm, no foul. Just some ideas. Have fun with any of them.
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What I’d be really interested in is being able, on the fly, to block a whole country’s IP address ranges. I play GTA-Online and players from certain countries are mainly modders who spoil the game. Blocking a country’s IP address range stops them from showing up in the same public server that I’m in as GTA is has a peer to peer infrastructure. How I currently do it is added a whole IP address block to the windows firewall - it works, but it’s not a very elegant solution
modified 6-Sep-22 21:01pm.
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A Momentary Lapse of Reason wrote: a whole country’s IP address ranges.
See? That there. You're starting from an invalid assumption.
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In what respect? Russian and Chinese players invariably use mod menus as do quite a lot of Germans. And I see no problem with blocking anyone from a given country being able to connect to my computer through the game, do you? It’s not as if it will affect their game as all that will happen is I won’t be in the same server as them.
modified 6-Sep-22 21:01pm.
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Because it would prevent being able to discuss spay/neutering when the cat's around. You need a secret language for that.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
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He does still wash his bits, then stare at me thoughtfully for quite a long while from time to time - and he's 11 now. Long memories, cats. They plan ahead as well ...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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OriginalGriff wrote: How to Tell If Your Cat Is Plotting to Kill You[^]
"It's a cat. Of course it is."
Duh.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
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Learning to Play with a Lion's Testicles
While they're still attached? 😶
Paul Sanders.
If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter - Blaise Pascal.
Some of my best work is in the undo buffer.
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You want to remove them? Help yourself - I'll be in that big, strong anti-p*ss*d-off-lion cage right over there with the YouTube stream ...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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I remember the first book. Also one more Cat book by Oatmeal guy(which you mentioned in other message)
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Funnily enough... I was in bookstore yesterday and noticed two peculiar offerings.
The first is a book on how to make money via cryptocurrency... Which of course the author must not be very good at or he wouldn't need to try to sell books to Dummies.
The second is a (hard cover) book on living waste-free...
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"Never take investment advice from someone who has to work for a living." --Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: Which of course the author must not be very good at or he wouldn't need to try to sell books to Dummies. Reminds me of recent former Dogecoin millionaires
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Any book is different and unique (if we are not talking about copies of the same book of course)
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Are you sure the Meow book isn't a little over your intellectual level?
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant Anonymous
- The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine Winston Churchill, 1944
- Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference. Mark Twain
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As I mentioned in my post, I'm into more books. Google searches given me random items like those. I came across around 50 titles & couldn't remember all those. My intentional search was about things like Experimental Fiction, Epistolary, Other writing forms, etc., But I got these titles unexpectedly.
Now I remember one more This Guy Became a 'Best-Selling Author' in Just 5 Minutes[^]
But I found more real books apart from these masterpieces.
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I build weird devices like this at 3am[^]
Because I only sleep 4 hours at a stretch. Maybe some of the older folks here have the same issue, as I hear it's common in one's august years, so maybe some can relate. Lots of empty space to fill in the wee hours.
I figure eventually my setup will look something like this[^] which is life goals, actually.
I don't really think of myself as a hacker (regardless of hat color - hardware or software) but maybe the shoe fits given my extracurricular extravocational activities? I may have to reassess.
I started building digital circuits at 7 after my grandfather bought me one of those radio shack 200-in-one kits. They were simple, but my interest started very young. I didn't start coding until a year later or so. I only got into coding because as a kid I didn't have a revenue stream for electronics hobbies and my family hated me taking things apart all the time, but we had a computer. Given the right circumstances, I probably would have been a fabricator actually. My interests are varied.
But hardware has changed me. Getting back into the metal of things has even changed why I code.
Before it was always about doing stuff I couldn't do - leveling up. Now it's about exploring how everything works. Again. Like I'm 7.
I want to disassemble the whole world and see how it works.
And then make it better.
Why do you do what you do? What drives you?
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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Started out as a child and a 200 in one kit too!
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I had a similar electronics kit, but was seduced by the Dark Side (software) when I was about 11.
My ambition is slightly different. I want to do a code review of the Universe's O/S, and finally fix all that pesky technical debt!
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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