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SailorFuzz@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• 666dollarfootlong@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  What is this, a smart ash tray?

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  • SleepyPie@lemmy.world ⁨32⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    Plug it into your wall then place your mouse on top of it whenever you go afk. The little dots on the bottom rotate and the mouse detects movement.

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  • SailorFuzz@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Thats right, its for your Bluetooth cigarettes.

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• DrWorm@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  A unique and thoughtful gift

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• tyler@programming.dev ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Complete waste of money. Use an esp32 and write a program to pretend to be a mouse. Benefit of the esp32 is you can reuse it for whatever you want in the future, whether that’s a smart sensor for a door, or a tracking chip for luggage.

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  • SailorFuzz@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yea, no.

    The benefit of the mechanical jiggler is that its airgapped from the system. I work in a field that is very very very specific about what peripherals are plugged in and, more importantly, where theyre made. So no, its not a waste, because theres no shot to plug in an unauthorized custom coded outside device. IT will be notified, it will be an immediate firing, probably charges for leakage/espionage.

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    • tyler@programming.dev ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      You can have the esp report itself as whatever device you want. If you already have a mouse that is allowed to be plugged in then you just have the esp report itself as that. It is a mouse at that point, the system will not know the difference.

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      • pishadoot@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Right, and when IT walks around to do literally anything and notices a weird microcontroller plugged in to a USB port that’s designed to announce itself as approved tech, there’s no way that will go badly.

        Places with good IT departments might even flag your machine for having a weird device config with two of the same mouse to go do a visual inspection, just because it’s abnormal and a VERY common attack vector as literally your not smart suggestion is what everyone else tries to do to get around USB restrictions either for convenience or for malicious intent.

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      • SailorFuzz@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        yea… trying to outsmart IT… nothing can go wrong with that approach.

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