
I went looking for a remote-controlled power switch (the wireless christmas kind, not the modern IoT kind) and didn't find it, but I did find this thing I bought just to figure out why it exists.
It's a timer outlet, but you program it from your phone... but it's not wireless.

probably because iphone dropped the headphone port and they had to get with the 21st century and make it bluetooth

I guess the thing saves settings when turned off, because you have to unplug it to push the reset button.
Specs: up to 10 amps for a resistive load, and up to 5 amps for a tungsten load.

That's putting some serious trust in your SEO, man

although it tries to sell me a bunch of unrelated movies first?

one of my favorite things to do is to look up the ratings on IoT apps... they're never good.

make calls, and access all your files.
and if you deny it, it just dumps you in the settings page to fix permissions, with no message.


We've got a CPU and two smaller chips. Probably one is some kind of communication chip, and the other is a flash chip for storing settings?

L isn't connected... I think that means there's a version of this that can control two outlets at once, not just one.

I do like that they keep all the high-voltage AC stuff separate from the low-voltage DC stuff.
Cheaper versions of this would have just had one PCB.


AND IT'S AN 8051! EVERYONE TAKE A DRINK

because it has a battery, yeah.

because it can tell it's not connected properly, in this emulator I'm using

it sounds like (NO PUN INTENDED) it has a protocol of simple tones that it plays at the device.

android historically has had a AudioManager.isWiredHeadsetOn api which tells you if the 3.5mm jack is connected.
So it may just be detecting there's no headphones plugged in to my emulator.


CT is "current time" as an integer of how many minutes it is into the day, and CD is the day of the week.

(it's using Monday = 001, and counting up from there)

uhhh. I'm not sure I'm awake enough to figure this out, but... it starts by padding up to a multiple of 8 bits.

then it converts that to a binary number, and pads it out (on the left this time) to 8 bits
if it is, it adds a 1?
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In the Spring of 2017, after a deep dive into the Fake News phenomena, the security team wanted to publish an update that covered what we had learned. At this point, we didn’t have any advertising content or the big IRA cluster, but we did know about the GRU model.
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US market cap to GDP nearing 200%.
4. Bitcoin (as an asset class) has moved to the 3rd place in terms of price gains in preceding 3 years before peak (900%); 1st was Tulip bubble in 17th century (rising 2200%).
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1. Bitcoin has surpassed all the bubbles of the last 45 years in extent that includes Gold, Nikkei, dotcom bubble.
2. Cyclically adjusted PE ratio for S&P 500 almost at 1929 (The Great Depression) peaks, at highest levels except the dotcom crisis in 2000.
3. World market cap to GDP ratio presently at 124% vs last 5 years average of 92% & last 10 years average of 85%.
US market cap to GDP nearing 200%.
4. Bitcoin (as an asset class) has moved to the 3rd place in terms of price gains in preceding 3 years before peak (900%); 1st was Tulip bubble in 17th century (rising 2200%).