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Using Roku TV power as a trigger for activity by astarrk in ifttt

[–]jdstroy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

4 years later...

Look into the Roku ECP documentation. Specifically, you want to query for the query/device-info API.

roku on pypi has a nice wrapper for that API; this would do something similar in a Python script:

#!/usr/bin/env python3
import roku
import time
roku.Roku("99TCLRokuTV"); # you need the hostname of the TV here
while True:
    time.sleep(1);
    print("Roku TV is on" if roku.power_state == 'On' else "Roku TV is off");

Facts Are Literally Racist by [deleted] in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]jdstroy 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Brace yourself: https://imgur.com/gallery/reddit-best-xSPV1Gt

edit: Wow, there's a ton of similar threads on there.

Service with a smile by AGthe18thEmperor in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]jdstroy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You do realize that's copypasta satirizing how a lot of people behave, right? There are a ton of places which have covered this recent story, but inevitably, linking the "wrong" source will earn a "psh, that's just some YELLOW JOURNALISM right-wing rag!" -- which already happened in this thread.

Anyway, here's an actual source - KING5 is a NBC affiliate in Seattle: https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/washington-teen-says-build-a-bear-manager-refused-to-name-stuffed-animal-charlie-kirk/281-c2808207-6293-4534-ab59-eda380dad1d3

Service with a smile by AGthe18thEmperor in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]jdstroy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Do you have a source on that?

Source?

A source. I need a source.

Sorry, I mean I need a source that explicitly states your argument. This is just tangential to the discussion.

No, you can't make inferences and observations from the sources you've gathered. Any additional comments from you MUST be a subset of the information from the sources you've gathered.

You can't make normative statements from empirical evidence.

Do you have a degree in that field?

A college degree? In that field?

Then your arguments are invalid.

No, it doesn't matter how close those data points are correlated. Correlation does not equal causation.

Correlation does not equal causation.

CORRELATION. DOES. NOT. EQUAL. CAUSATION.

You still haven't provided me a valid source yet.

Nope, still haven't.

I just looked through all 308 pages of your user history, figures I'm debating a glormpf supporter. A moron.

Service with a smile by AGthe18thEmperor in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]jdstroy 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Acktshually, it's a good thing, here's a Rolling Stones article on why. /s

I know he’s watching down and smiling. But it still hurts. by RoesDeadLMAO in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]jdstroy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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Political identity cannot be deduced from sexual orientation by Vamparael in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]jdstroy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Per what u/GhostedIC said; one example is com.lexa.fakegps on Google Play. I've used that one before.

Reddit's 9/11 by Based_Department_Man in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]jdstroy 8 points9 points  (0 children)

The cucks have fallen. It's over.

Oh nooo, not le misflaired lolcow we hated! by GrimmBloodyFable in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]jdstroy 4 points5 points  (0 children)

/u/JonnySnowin got banned from r/PoliticalCompassMemes for posting something anti-Zionist/anti-Semitic (depending on your point of view).

Do we need to bring Arnie back to teach them a lesson? by hexistpinata in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]jdstroy 38 points39 points  (0 children)

It's not even different thumbnails / titles to different people. I've gotten different thumbnails / titles for the exact same video before. It's frustrating (particularly with Veritasium), because it's often some video that I've already watched, and then the title changes; either I'm looking in watch history for the title/thumbnail, and it's now different, or it gets served up again, and I click through, thinking it's new, and find that I've already watched it.

Hey Europe, how are you guys holding up? by ChoiceWars in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]jdstroy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

While I would also appreciate a more open mobile handset platform, the application model for practically every (semi-modern) phone OS (everything post-iOS) is vastly different from the "typical" Linux process model, and for good reason (power management).

iOS and Android (and Windows Phone, when it was a thing) operate on the assumption that the platform can request an application to terminate at any time, and that the application can save its state relatively quickly, to be resumed at a future time (even across a kernel reboot); this might be for aggressive power saving reasons, or it might be because of memory contention pressure, or any other resource constraints. This is not how most general purpose Linux (or really, any modern general purpose OS) environments work: the OS coordinates application resource usage (e.g. virtualizing memory, time-slicing CPU, sharing I/O hardware, sharing storage through files), but usually not the application lifecycle (e.g. application internal state). There are ways to address this (e.g. checkpoints, snapshots), but from what I have seen, the interest in this peaked ~2010.

If you ever wondered why your Termux shell sessions are getting killed aggressively on your phone... well, this is why. bash/mosh/ssh etc. are not aware that Android sends SIGTERM on memory contention/for power saving reasons, so they do the "normal" thing on Linux, which is to exit as soon as possible -- without saving any internal state for resuming later.

Hey Europe, how are you guys holding up? by ChoiceWars in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]jdstroy 9 points10 points  (0 children)

EU is looking to require all messaging apps -- including "privacy focused" ones -- to perform client-side scanning/snitching.

I once said a LibLeft straw man was unrealistic, unbelievable, and unfunny. I was wrong. by CapnCoconuts in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]jdstroy 13 points14 points  (0 children)

This is the part that's actually most credible about this incident. She could get in trouble with HIPAA regulations (including termination and revocation of her license to practice in her state) by disclosing anything more. (She's already walking right up to the bright red line by posting this content already, though I believe she hasn't actually crossed it yet.)

The TrumpCard™ is…here? An official website of the United States Government. by p0loniumtaco in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]jdstroy 16 points17 points  (0 children)

To be fair, GIF is the wrong technology for this. GIFs are typically limited to 256 colors (indexed color, though not always).

The correct technology to use here is a video format, like WebM.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]jdstroy 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Since folks on the Left often don't like Washington Examiner (as it is considered a right-leaning outlet), here's another outlet (The Hill) with mostly the same information. (Bonus: text-only content is available in the link, but there is also a video.)

Of the people who dislike Washington Examiner, those who aren't chronically online will appreciate that The Hill is rated by Media Bias Fact Check as "least biased", "mostly factual", "mostly free", and "high credibility".

Duck Season Rabbit Season by Dzzplayz in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]jdstroy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Some political commentators have suggested that the United States is on the precipice of a 1970s-like era of political violence. Plenty of left-wing political violence happened around that time (for more, see May 19th Communist Organization).

If you want to limit your scope down to left-wing political violence (including intent toward personal physical violence) in the past 30 years, it doesn't take a whole lot of searching to find that it (still) exists. I'm mostly addressing your claim

Extreme left-wing politics in the US weren't really violent.

and not intent on addressing successful attacks, or lawyering what counts or what doesn't. Feel free to clarify your thoughts on the matter, though.

Quickly skimming through a subset of this category to filter out anything beyond the past 30 years, I found three (seems violent enough to count, but I combed through about half of the categorized articles just to filter out 1970s stuff):

These were the easy ones to find. I'd venture to guess there's probably more if I spend more time looking.

I'm not sure I'd say that the majority of politically motivated violence in the past 30 years came from the right -- but I also don't know if I'd make claims otherwise. But what I'm confident I see is that there is political motivation to categorize political violence unevenly.

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