Uhh, because of the heat of the raspberry pi & camera behind there
well. at least my viewers will know it had a flared base.
it’s all good some people like a hairy dude
Ah yes, 10W of heat :3
Suppose you were in this situation and suspected something. I’d imagine the space behind it would be totally dark, so what would be a safe way to check if there’s a gap in between without breaking the glass?
there are no “one-way” mirrors. You just need to make your side darker than the other side (there’s a reason the observation side of a two-way mirror is never brightly lit, but the interrogation room is)
Tldr: put your face right up against it and use your hands to block out as much light as you can
there are no “one-way” mirrors. You just need to make your side darker than the other side
15 upvotes? Really? Mirrors are painted on the back with opaque paint.
Are we cross posting this to a flat earth science forum?
but a one-way mirror (also known as a two-way mirror) is one that you can see through in one direction
are you severely low on blood sugar or something?
I read a long time ago that putting something flat against the mirror will show you. I think if the mirror is legit you’ll see the reflection directly on the surface, if it’s two way the reflection will look like it’s inside the glass.
But I’ve never had the chance to actually test that, so take it with a grain of salt.
Edit: Turns out this is incorrect; thanks to everyone for educating me!
You want there to appear a “space” between your fingertip and the mirror, if touching it directly. If there’s no space, then say cheese.
If you’re touching, someone’s watching.
Then I’m touching hard and often
Then I’m watching intently and always.
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Surely you could just put another sheet of clear glass on your one-way to avoid this though? Wouldn’t want someone to accidentally scratch the coating and reveal the whole thing anyway
If they’re going through that much trouble, they deserve to see me whackin it.
It would be the other way around, if at all.
“First-surface” mirrors where the reflective layer is on the front of the glass are quite fragile, so wouldn’t typically used for residential applications (you’d remove the reflective coating by cleaning it).
A regular mirror has the reflective surface on the back of the glass (which is then is further coated with a protective paint), leading to the effect you describe.
I don’t however know enough to say one way or the other whether a surveillance mirror would becessarily be a first-surface mirror.
Just checked my bathroom mirror and it looks to be a first-surface mirror
This is ancient advice for two-way mirrors, IIRC nowadays even legit mirrors can reflect directly from the front instead of the back. In this age of spy cameras this is mostly irrelevant.
Another tip was shining a bright light to illuminate the supposedly dark room on the other side, which again, would be way more expensive than a smoke detector spy camera.
Yes, darkening your room and then pushing a bright light up against the one-way, taking care to not have it leak into your room, should make the other room brighter so you can see it.
Not that this is a one-way mirror anyway.
think if the mirror is legit you’ll see the reflection directly on the surface, if it’s two way the reflection will look like it’s inside the glass.
scientific use mirrors are front mirrors, the metal is deposited on the outer surface. They are delicate and difficult to clean.
Every household mirror is rear coated, and then painted to protect the metal from oxidation.
Ahh yes, because that would produce exactly square shaped heat.
Why else would it be called the inverse square law?
- Gets rid of fog
- is in shape of a square
Makes sense to me!
It a very big Pi. Might even be a Tau.
Dumbass, tau is round
Then why are people talking about squaring the circle
What about taumoeba?
Lol, when I cut a hole in the wall I always make it the exact shape of a raspberry pi
Not with that attitude!
Guessing this is a hotel bathroom by the looks of it.
Then it very likely has a mirror with integrated heating. I have one myself and love it.
It’s heated.
There’s a ghost in your house that’s trying to tell you “rectangle”, but it’s illiterate.
Try to figure out what “rectangle” means.
Nah, just means that the mirror can’t render the Unicode character that the ghost has sent.
It was the poop emoji
or the eggplant emoji. its placed after a shower.
Don’t believe any of the other comments, this is clearly a one-way mirror with a camera inside. That conspiracy theory you’ve been thinking about a lot lately is true, and even worse they know you are on to them. Remember that creak in the floorboards you dismissed as the house settling? Footsteps. The way your coffee mug was turned slightly counterclockwise this morning? Intentional. They watch you when you sleep, and know how much time you spend looking at your phone.
Or it’s what the top comment said. Sleep tight!
Or it’s what the top comment said. Sleep tight!
Writing this in the top comment doesn’t help, like, at all…
There are coatings /sprays for this
I think in this particular case it might be an integrated heating element like this: https://clearmirror.com/products/shower-clearmirror
They’re popular in shower rooms in Japan.
You’re popular in shower rooms in Japan.
A gee, thanks.
You can also just rub some shaving cream on it and wipe it off.
Or soap
Or rain-x anti-fog or similar coating to achieve the same.
Or a secret room behind the mirror at a warmer temperature
Oh high neighbors! No, no, I’m not shaving the car again! This is so it doesn’t fog!
This reminds me of something I heard on the radio a million years ago:
https://www.npr.org/2018/09/29/652927798/-1839-the-chia-pontiac
Here’s Click and Clack from the Car Talk radio show
Putting this show on is so bittersweet. I miss this from my upbringing and these two guys were so great; I was genuinely sad when I heard one of them had passed
I’ll try to get the timestamp for the relevant part, but the title of the episode hopefully gives a hint and it’s worth listening to it in the entirety anyways
Edit: alright, the timestamp is 31:50!
Edit 2: I forgot to include who it is
I just woke up. Is that click and clack the tappet brothers?
Yes!!! I love those guys
I grew up with my family listening to NPR so some of my fondest memories are getting up to my parents or grandparents making breakfast with that on, or any other of their wonderful shows
Would make for a great practical joke.
/sprays
i read this as a tone marker
This comments section feels like schizophrenia.
These are such a good idea. It works by having a heater behind the mirror which prevents the condensation.
These are such a good idea. It works by having a heater behind the mirror which prevents the condensation.
Wait until someone finds a screwdriver.
For anyone who wants to achieve the same effect take a dry bar of soap and rub some into an area of a mirror in whatever shape you like (circle, square etc). Then buff it out with a dry soft towel or cloth until you can no longer see the soap. Next time you take a shower that part of the mirror won’t be fogged up. Reapply soap and buff out every couple weeks or so if you want it to stay that way.
I’m going to draw penises the next time at a friend’s house
I like to do this for my wife to find. She really loves that she’s married to a 40yr old child.
Hunted penises
I wanted to write “i see you” before I left my last apartment. Didn’t get the nerve to do it because I worried someone would slip and fall
Yes for anybody wearing goggles or glasses outside if you rub soap like dish soap and circles on the lenses it will prevents them from fogging up and will not streak because the circles thing. Vinegar sort of works too but doesn’t stick on as well as soap.
I had this happen in a hotel, and being curious I removed the mirror, and yes there was a hole in the wall behind it, no there wasn’t a camera there. It was just were they had ran the wiring for the lights on the mirror.
It would make sense that it serves like an access hatch to a terminal block that feeds the whole room. It’s simple, costs nothing, is easy to get to (compared to having it sealed in the wall), protected from splashing and prying guests, and close to where you want most lights and outlets.
being curious I removed the mirror
protected from […] prying guests,Nothing is protected from those willing to pry hard enough ;)
These are such a good idea. It works by having a mirror behind the heater which prevents the reflection.
Alright, but now the heater is in the way.
Yeah, that’s why it prevents the reflection
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These are such a good idea. It works by having a heater behind the mirror which prevents the condensation.
Ps. Excuse the multiple posts. fedia.io was having a moment. I’ve deleted them now
Apparently no one here has been to a Home Depot or Lowe’s in the last 15 years.
You can achieve a similar effect at home by using your hairdryer on the fogged-up mirror!
You can achieve the same thing without wasting any (electric) energy by rubbing a bit of shaving cream onto the mirror and buffing it out. Works for a while.
You can achieve the same thing without wasting any shaving cream by rubbing a bit of testicle onto the mirror and buffing it out. Works for a while until the testicle becomes cold.
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Interesting experience to be shamed as an environmental extremist for this take.
The idea is to shave whatever and then use a tiny bit of that shaving cream on your mirror, since you will not be able to fully use 100% of the batch and just wash it down the drain anyway.
That makes the additional cost = 0.
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That fills the second ‘R’ out of the 3.
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Sure…shaving cream…
Yep. Has to be the cream though, gel doesn’t work, afaik.
That’s definitely the better long-term solution!
If my bathroom mirror is fogged up, the only reason I’d want it clear is to blow-dry my hair, so my method works out perfectly for me (and since it’s ~10s of extra power usage, it’s negligible). Otherwise your way is better :)
Well lah di dah ms “I own a hairdryer” /s
There is probably a hole cut into the wall there.
If you want an innocent explanation, then it’s entirely possible that there used to be a medicine-cabinet-style mirror there. It looks like it’s about that size and would fit in that location. Those medicine cabinets are recessed into the wall and so they require a hole to be cut in the wall. When they installed the large mirror, they didn’t think it was worth it to repair the hole, since they were covering it up with a mirror.
If the hotel is fairly old, it might have had something like that in the past.
But since there is no way of knowing that for sure, if I was in that room, I’d assume there’s a camera behind there, too.
Some hotels just put a hydrophilic coating on their mirrors. https://fsicti.com/markets/architectural-building/bathroom-mirror-shower-door/
Even so, there is no reason to downvote my comment. It is possible for there to be a hole there. Voting like that just makes you an asshole. And, yes, comment votes are public information.
This will never not be the saddest shit on this website, please go touch grass.
Alternatively, you can go fuck off instead. People who downvote and then reply to the comment as if they want to have a discussion are a fucking cancer.
How can you tell who downvoted you?
One way to tell is https://lemvotes.org/
On the one hand that’s interesting; on the other hand that could drive me nuts…
Votes on Lemmy are public, mods have easy access afaik but there are sites that let anyone see who voted what on any given post or comment.
Sorry it took me 12 days to respond, I was taking a break from Lemmy (you should consider it) but I just wanted to pop back in and say lol downvoted.
It’s a two-way mirror and there’s a camera on the other side recording you 24/7.
Isn’t a two-way mirror just a window? I think you meant “one way mirror.”
No. English is just hella stupid. 🤣
A one-way mirror, also called two-way mirror…
How many ways is a normal mirror, then? Do we call it a “no way mirror”?
wouldn’t a one-way mirror only be used “one way” and a two-way mirror be used in “two ways”?
While a no-way mirror is a mirror owned by a vampire.
A one-way mirror is only one-way when the lighting conditions are correct. Otherwise you can see right through it from both sides
Well I mean dictionaries. Kind of like how webster defines literally with
Definition 1: In a literal manner such as …
Definition 2: used in an exaggerated way to emphasize a statement or description that is not literally true or possible.
Both terms are used
jokes on them, I’m already pornhub famous.
Nice butthole!
Hit me with them links bruh
Not gonna beat it to ya, just curious 😆
Maybe somebody’s stashing delicious freshly baked goods back there?
Just posting to say I was here when everyone replied with “These are such a good idea. It works by having a heater behind the mirror which prevents the condensation.”
Hahaha I just saw this. fedia.io was having a moment and posted my comment several times and everyone else has just run with it. Quality!
