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    3 hours ago, Externet said:

    Some will find this a weird question. 🤔

    ..most will find this a stupid question.. ;)

    1. Some will find this a weird question. 🤔 Do you remember if your classroom at school had windows to the exterior at your left, right or any location looking towards the blackboard ?

    Only interesting for spy..

    16 minutes ago, exchemist said:

    This is ridiculous.

    Not really. From the amount of data you give online, it is possible to find your true name..

    e.g. you said you had promo at year XYZ, Then somebody can lookup for face book for this year.. and one of these will be your photo.. and so on..

    It is called OSINT.

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    Copy and paste this entire discussion into ChatGPT (you don't need to register or install an app), and you'll find out the rest. Just follow the instructions.

    10 hours ago, Externet said:

    Definitively not interested in time-lapse or burst method.

    Timelapse takes photos, and then you have to filter them so that only those that are sufficiently different remain. So you have to compare the photos with each other.

    Tell ChatGPT that you want a python script for comparing photos, and it will generate one for you.

    10 hours ago, Externet said:

    If you really want the spare phones characteristics, are Cricket U680AC; Coolpad 3632A; ZTE U304AA; Tracfone Z716BL; Cricket EC1002

    Android 13. Ok. Termux will work OK. Just start from installing it from my previous links.

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    17 hours ago, Externet said:

    The software determines changes in the image to trigger capture; no need to have a motion sensor on the phone. As far as I know.

    Such an application takes a photo, puts it in the buffer, takes another photo after a certain amount of time, and compares it with the previous version. It is simply subtracting R, G, B, of each pixel between the two versions of the photos. Then it calculates some threshold, above which it will be physically saved. You can write this yourself. You have a timelapse and you have a thousand photos from the whole day. Make yourself a script (or have ChatGPT do it).

    If the threshold is set too low, it will detect natural changes in the time of day (sunset), which requires trial and error.

    Several frames in a row should also be tested to increase reliability.

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    14 hours ago, Externet said:

    Am after re-purposing a retired/orphan 'smart' phone with no service, for surveillance/wildlife/trail snapshot photo camera triggered by motion; help!

    I've never heard of a phone having a motion detector. They (some) have proximity sensors.

    Google AI:

    "Phone proximity sensors, located near the front camera, typically detect objects within a very short range of 10mm to 100mm (about 1 to 4 inches) to turn off the screen during calls. These infrared-based sensors generally use a "near" or "far" state, often with a 5cm maximum threshold to prevent accidental touches."

    14 hours ago, Externet said:

    Is it too much to ask ?

    It depends on the model that was decommissioned.. ;)

    What you need is called timelapse.

    This is taking photos after a specified number of seconds or minutes in a loop.

    The problem is that old phones have very weak batteries. And the phone cannot “go to sleep” because that would prevent it from taking pictures.

    1,000 charging/discharging cycles of the phone = dead or dying battery.

    1,000 daily charges = 3 years of phone life.

    There is something called Termux, which is a Linux terminal with packages that you can download, or write a script yourself. Termux requires Android v6+.

    Don't download Termux from Google Play, download it from F-Droid instead:

    https://f-droid.org/packages/com.termux/

    (2nd direct link to apk, you don't need F-Droid store app)

    You also need Termux.API, which has a command for taking photos:

    https://f-droid.org/packages/com.termux.api/

    After installation, you need to grant them permissions.

    The script for taking photos will look something like this:

    #!/bin/bash
I=0
while true; do
	FILENAME=image_$I.jpg
	termux-camera-photo $FILENAME
	((I++))
done

    ps. Add sleep 60 to get a one-minute delay between photos.

    ps2. If you connect your phone to a power bank that is powered by a solar panel, it should work.

    ps3. Start by writing down what model of phone it is.

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    7 hours ago, swansont said:

    Quality of education is not protection against conspiracy theories anyway. Canada and Japan have very highly-rated systems, and yet they latch on to them.

    You are making a mistake by lumping all conspiracy theories together, scientific and non-scientific, when your opening post was about breaking the laws of physics. It is impossible to e.g. verify whether the mafia killed Kennedy or not. And to verify your conspiracy theory about gravity, all you had to do was attend physics classes at school. If you didn't have physics lessons at school, you are at risk of drinking the Kool-Aid.

    2 hours ago, CharonY said:

    I will also add that even in the educated section and before social media, most folks who are not specialists wouldn't understand or were able to derive even slightly complex principles outside of their field of expertise. What existed, however, was trust in expertise outside of their own.

    I have to agree with that. That is why elementary education in every field is so important, so that you can distinguish stupidity and falsehood. Otherwise, you have to rely on others. The better that elementary education is, the harder it is for falsehood to break through.

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    7 hours ago, studiot said:

    I would never have been even an average art or music student no matter how long I remained at high school.

    I didn't have music classes in high school. They are compulsory in elementary school. They last for 4 years, from ages 10 to 14 or so. 32 weeks x 1 lesson per week x 4 years = 128 lessons.

    Didn't they teach you how to read music from a staff?

    I imagine that nowadays it can be done much better and easier than several decades ago. As long as you want to make it easier. I would use a touchscreen that displays hints about which piano keys to press in a given song. When learning to draw, the touchscreen can show you what movements you can make to draw something a few seconds before the movement.

    After several dozen such drawings or songs with support, you would draw and play like a pro. You can buy electronic pianos that have built-in key backlighting.

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    On 1/12/2026 at 3:03 AM, KJW said:

    In the US, the way it's currently going, back to leeches.

    Leeches are all those doctors, nurses, and drug manufacturers who demand huge bonuses for their services..

    We have a scandal here involving doctors who were receiving.. 45 x (4500%) the minimum national wage.. in a public hospital (which is on the verge of bankruptcy).

    "After years of mismanagement, the facility has accumulated USD 11 million in debt, yet several doctors continue to receive astronomical salaries there. Four specialists cost the hospital USD 2.8 million annually. One of them, as internet users have discovered, earns extra money privately by seeing patients in his office and online."

    (currency converted)

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    4 hours ago, swansont said:

    I can’t begin to understand how people could think this conspiracy theory was true

    And I don't understand how you don't understand that. To put it bluntly, no matter what biased statistics show (because they are based (biased ;) on, for example, the number of Nobel Prize winners, or the number of peer-reviewed documents produced yearly by universities, etc. nonsense), the average American education system is simply poor.

    How can it be good if you choose what you go to school for? What you choose is what you are interested in. So, from what you are not interested in, you start to deviate even more from the average.

    In our country, students don't choose which classes to attend or not to attend, which means that after graduating from high school, everyone is more or less at the same average level. Choosing your classes is something you do in university.

    Physics, chemistry, mathematics, world history, world geography—these are things that are universal to the whole world. Only the native language, the history of the homeland, and the specialized geography of the homeland are things that are specific to a given country.

    Imagine that the average citizen of my country who finished high school after 1990 knows the geography of the USA better than the average American. What does that say about Americans?

    If someone didn't attend physics classes in elementary and high school, how are they supposed to not be susceptible to such nonsense?

    ps. Yes, we have physics and chemistry in elementary school. In most cases, “boring theory”. 2 years.

    ps2. I never had, for example, cutting up dead frogs—something you see all the time in movies for teenagers in biology classes in the US. No wonder you have so many serial killers—maybe someone liked those exercises... ;)

    1 hour ago, Genady said:

    Most people know nothing about how gravity works or doesn't work and thus they don't have any way to know that this conspiracy theory is not true.

    Here, people learn physics, starting with Hooke's law, Newtonian gravity, and the laws of motion at the age of 12-13, and study it for two years. Adding two or more vectors is our elementary level for children.

    "Physics in elementary school

    usually begins in grades 7-8, building on knowledge from natural science, focusing on motion (speed, distance, mass), forces, energy, heat, electricity, magnetism, and optics, with an emphasis on practical observations and simple experiments, introducing students to the basic laws of nature and scientific methods. Students learn physical concepts and quantities, solve simple problems, and make observations, preparing them for more formal learning. "

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    6 hours ago, TheVat said:

    Uh, you needed to click the link and observe the photo my search provided.

    I did it. Twice. And made screenshots..

    6 hours ago, TheVat said:

    That was what was amusing. I am sorry you took the post seriously and that the humorous error was not visible for you.

    Nobody saw what you saw, that was point of my previous post.

    6 hours ago, TheVat said:

    Also, please feel free to consider that some devices may have trouble loading screenshots on this website - I'm not the first to have this problem. And that is why I posted a link instead.

    So let's talk about it, so that we can have a fruitful discussion at least once. And fix it once and for all.

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    8 hours ago, TheVat said:

    So, today posed a fairly unchallenging query to the Google AI. See if you can spot the failure....

    So many years all these LLM are on the market, and you still don't know that every time you ask some question, you get different answer.. I will ask twice the same question, within 10 seconds, and will get two slightly different answers..

    If you wanted to discuss what mistake some LLM made, you should make screenshot.

    Here is what I got:

    hhs.png

    Which part of it is wrong?

    ..a few seconds later..

    hhs2.png

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    6 minutes ago, studiot said:

    But w11 will not load my older copies of Office, which I need to use.

    1. Install VirtualBox from https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads

    2. Download Kali Live 2025.3 (not 2025.4! Unless you have Torrent software) from http://old.kali.org/kali-images/kali-2025.3/kali-linux-2025.3-live-amd64.iso

    3. Create VM with Kali Live 2025.3 ISO. Don't install anything just run Live VM. Install package which will let you have shared folder etc. It is in the VM's menu somewhere.

    4. From Kali open web browser.

    5. Use Google and search for "Windows 10 ISO". Download it. It may be https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10iso

    6. Transfer to your Windows machine.

    7. Create VM with Windows 10 ISO. Install it.

    Now you can install your older MS Office on VM.

    When Microsoft sees you are opening a website to download Windows from Windows, it will open special media creation tool. But if you will open that website from other OS, it will let you download ISO file instead. Such ISO can be used to create VM.

    ps. The same you can have with Ubuntu Live or Mint Live.

    ps2. The same procedure for older Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8 etc.

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    I had to check on Google what the price of electricity is in the US.

    $0.18 per kWh.

    That's BARGAIN.

    We (privately) have 60–80% more here than there.

    If you have a company (i.e., you have registered it at your address), the cost is 350–400% higher (> $0.65 / kWh)

    Let's Google more.

    Average Monthly Bill: ~$155 (based on 863 kWh usage)

    Is this some kind of (unfunny) joke?

    Have Americans gone crazy from all this prosperity?

    When I had a server room at home 24h/7, my monthly electricity consumption + 14 hours of watching monitors (three LCDs) was at its peak around 320 kWh / month. And IMHO it was damn high.

    I reduced it to 75 kWh without much trouble, all I had to do was connect a wattmeter to all electrical devices and get rid of server at home.. ;)

    On 1/12/2026 at 12:26 AM, studiot said:

    Over £1300 a month for electricity and rising ?

    ..Some people have lost their minds with all this prosperity..

    No one can consume $1800 / $0.18 = 10,000 kWh per month. That's how much you consume in 31 months with 320 kWh/mo. Unless someone stole it or grew a marijuana plantation, etc. The whole article looks like a bunch of unreliable nonsense to me..

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    1 hour ago, MigL said:

    More time wasted.
    Nobody here wants to discuss anything with Grok.

    From my POV, Grok (from https://grok.com ) is unusable. I went now, wrote a question. "No response". And no more ways to ask anything. Refresh website (which clears everything). Same question. Response. OK. I typed my answer to Grok's response. And it is blocked again.. Refresh. Repeat. Again. Refresh. Repeat. Again..

    UI looks cool, a lot of features not present in other models, but overall user-experience is WTF?! Seriously?!

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    On 1/8/2026 at 8:04 PM, MigL said:

    They videotape it also, so you get to make your fist porn video as well.

    What excellent, in-depth, customer service!

    So Donald is now the proud owner of the collection.

    Me thinks he could make a fortune on XYZ tube.

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