Technology

The thing is that nobody is fighting it.

I think we've known this about Ring cameras for awhile now at least. Lowkey I kinda seethe about any neighbors buying that spyware shit. It's not like the fucking cops give a singular shit about home robberies anyways.

All is a bit of a stretch. I imagine a big chunk of surveillance is privately owned and not even on the network. At least the cast majority I have installed over the years are usually isolated or standalone networks.

you should use ring, then we can just send a request to them for the footage."

YIKES, thats whats called a weird flex.

It is surprising how difficult most camera companies have made it to avoid their subscription services.

Multiple companies that used to offer local rstp streaming have summarily removed support in firmware upgrades without notifying their customers. Even companies that support it (like Foscam) demand developer agreements be signed to get basic camera command information. Tp-link supports rstp but requires an phone app and Internet connection to configure their cameras.

Like you, I will never connect my cameras to the Internet, but we are slowly approaching a time when that by itself will be a cause for police investigation.

The same reason this administration does all the things they point their finger and accuse everyone else of doing. They're traitorous scumbags and hypocrites.

But we're doing it for profit, so it's OK.

Something happens Americanly in America

Americans: "What are we, a bunch of üntermench asians???"

just without the hope in the future, investment in human capital, rise in living standards etc..

If we cant beat 'em, join 'em

(But only learn all the bad things. Renewable Energy and Clean Transit? Nah, can't let the plebs have a tiny bit of good things)

All those decades many of us spent warning about neoliberals and conservatives working hand in hand to build big brother FOR fascism fell on deaf ears...

My disappointment is immeasurable, and my future is ruined.

Can wait till they ban umbrellas

I read recently that the lidar on many self driving cars can wreck the CCD on most phones. I don't know how it works, but maybe parking one of the cars by your front door will solve your problem.

I read that glow in the dark material will trigger an ir motion sensor. So don't plant small flags coated with glow in the dark paint across from the cameras because it will cause them to take and send thousands of useless images and make them think their camera is broken.

While they're at it, why not just hack the government to reverse last year's election, amirite?

I know most of us loved Mr Robot and watching dinozzo and abby double team a keyboard and Wolverine getting a blowy and all that fun stuff, but that really isn't how things work.

These aren't off the shelf pre-trained models. The model is a big part of the company's product and, increasingly, the cost of training is being partially offloaded to customers under the guise of "tune the model to your data".

And IF we have a Bones situation where someone has inscribed a virus onto human remains to destroy a one of a kind machine or whatever: That is what version control is for. "Hmm. The May 2025 model isn't working. Okay, switch back to April"

Also, these "models" are a lot closer to just running OCR on a feed and logging which traffic camera saw one of the flagged license plates.