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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • Can always go with RGB and pick colours on demand. I just like the color red. Blue light wakes/keeps me up.

    I have RGBW tape on the underside of my kitchen cabinets, inside some nice tracks to keep them out of direct line of sight. White during the day for counter top lighting; red at night for nightlighting that doesn’t wake you up when you go for a late night snack. And random disco colours for parties, just because…


  • Red LED tape on the underside of my desk, dresser, and shelves. Keeps a nice dull red glow in my room, just enough to see around, but low enough that I can sleep through it. Smart plug for scheduling.

    There’s a lava lamp on a smart plug that turns itself on ~1hr before I go to bed (so it’s movin and groovin by the time I’m in there). It’ll also turn off after 8hrs regardless of whether it was turned on manually/automatically. Saftey/longevity of the lamp.

    Finally a regular bedside lamp, with a dimmable smart bulb.

    The smart controls let me set schedules so the desired lights come on as I’m going to bed or with my morning alarm, and making sure that they’re off when I leave for work. Plus I can turn them on/off or set brightness from my phone without getting up from bed.





  • Much of the data on your phone, including critical information that’s required to run the operating system and make the device function, is fully encrypted when the device is off/rebooted.

    While in this locked down state, nothing can run. You don’t receive notifications, applications can’t run in the background, even just accessing the device yourself is slow as you have to wait for the whole system to decrypt and start up.

    When you unlock the device for the first time; much of that data is decrypted so that it can be used, and the keys required to unlock the rest of the data get stored in memory where they can be quickly accessed and used. This also makes the device more vulnerable to attacks.

    There’s always a trade off between convenience and security. The more secure a system, the less convenient it is to use.


  • Single party consent means one of the people being recorded must give permission to record … full stop.

    This is true.

    What you don’t understand is that a person does not have to be actively speaking or being directly spoken to in order to be a part of a conversation. Simply being present, with the other participants fully aware of your presence while continuing to converse makes you part of their conversation and thus a party able to consent to it’s recording.

    The key there is that the other participants are aware of your presence. You’re not hiding around a corner, listening in unbeknownst to them; the people conversing are entirely aware that you are present and likely listening.


  • By your rational a police agent without a warrant could walk by and say “hello”, plant a listening device, then record your conversation because he said hello at the start.

    No. In that situation a third party inserted themselves into your conversation entirely of their own volition.

    This is like you walking up to someone that’s streaming/vlogging in public, beginning an unrelated conversation in front of them; then you getting upset that they are recording the conversation that you began in their presence. Even if you weren’t aware they were streaming; you were the one that inserted yourself into that situation. They didn’t walk up to/join you; you made them a party by bringing the conversation to them.


    A really big part of these types of legal situations is ‘reasonable expectation of privacy’. The people inside a vehicle are all pretty close together and obviously going to be able to hear the conversions that are happening. It’s unreasonable to expect the driver who’s head is ~3 feet from you isn’t privy to your conversation.



  • Canada has single-party consent laws when it comes to audio recording.

    I hate this use and that I’m arguing devils advocate here, but legally speaking; If the driver opted-in to the program, audio in the vehicle can legally be recorded because the driver is considered a party to the conversion that’s happening within their vehicle (even without actively participating in that conversion). They can record and distribute that recording however they like (including to lyft to be transcribed).

    Lyft wouldn’t be able to record vehicle audio without the consent of the driver at the minimum; but they aren’t necessarily required to gain consent or even inform the other passengers. As shitty as that is.

    Don’t treat your driver like they don’t exist and keep private conversations for when your actually in private. Even a regular cab driver could be privately recording you; regardless of ‘company policy’.


    Another way to think of this is: You can record the audio in your immediate vicinity (ie, anything you can naturally hear) without having to gain consent from or inform everyone around you. Same concept.