- **Patent reform idea**: Channel members floated treating patents as taxable property to price trolls out of the market and compel reasonable licensing, but no advocacy group was known to be pushing the proposal.  
- **Open-library gap**: WorldCat’s 1.9 B paywalled holdings versus OpenLibrary’s ~20 M free records was cited as evidence that charities and libraries have failed to liberate digitized books.  
- **DIY motion-tracking camera**: A <$40 Wi-Fi camera hacked to run on OpenWrt was compared to Raspberry Pi + USB-camera rigs, with discussion of resolution, bandwidth, and cost trade-offs.  
- **Reddit scraping friction**: Anti-bot measures are blocking automated data collection, prompting talk of evasion techniques for research-scale scraping.  
- **Always-on lifelogging**: Memoto’s wearable camera (memoto.com/#tech_section) was presented as an early consumer step toward continuous video capture and searchable life records.  
- **OpenWrt cross-compilation**: The firmware’s build system auto-generates a full toolchain for each target CPU; packages must be rebuilt per architecture, and opkg only installs pre-compiled binaries.  
- **Paywall bypass tool**: A Portland State University proxy URL and bookmarklet were shared for one-click access to subscription journals, with encouragement to archive PDFs systematically.  
- **Sweetener science debate**: Discussion covered stevia’s possible cephalic insulin response, the sugar industry’s historical funding of cyclamate/saccharin cancer scares, and endorsement of a sucralose-plus-xylitol blend as tooth-friendly.  
- **Android package-manager gap**: Participants sought an Android equivalent to iOS’s Cydia/Cyrket—an apt-like manager that could auto-install ARM builds of tools such as git.