CaptDust

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[–] CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Are you mentioning this implying that's sufficient oversight? The alert is minimally providing reasonable suspicion to track and investigate someone. Police don't need to ticket or bring charges to ruin your day.

If everything "checks out" as a misflag hopefully they cut that person loose quickly, without issue. Unfortunately, there's too many videos of innocent people being felony stopped, because cops defer to the lead and treat the situation as they're trained.

Oorr people go running for unrelated reasons except they drew today's lucky number for a stop, leading to incidents.

[–] CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 20 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (6 children)

Flock cameras are worse, at least imo, because it's "active". The old cameras clocked your speed, took a picture, got processed and sent a fine. The flock cameras will misread your plate, determine you are a violent out of state felon, follow your movement and dispatch a squad to your location. You can be dragged out of the car at gunpoint before you even know what's happening.

Theres also the universal database aspect that can expose all the different department's data to each other, allowing officers to do things like saayy, stalk their ex-wives across state lines.

The history of movement they compile, the analysis tools available, the "proactive policing", and the creep factor of always being monitored all roll together.

[–] CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 weeks ago

I need those lights for christmas don't touch it

[–] CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 149 points 3 weeks ago (42 children)

"Hold my beer" - Nintendo, releasing an EU centric revision. Meanwhile Apple and Samsung are digging up every legal loophole to prevent the law applying to their devices.

[–] CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Tankin the economy with one easy trick!

[–] CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 month ago (11 children)

I dunno anyone still using the big 3 telcos, not much value over the MVNOs unless you're really the type that wants to bundle Disney+ or something.

[–] CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

OCR libraries have undoubtedly improved but LLMs are using the same open source libraries and tools available to anyone... there's few cases where sending the work through general models is worth it for text conversion. Employees just needed a front end to upload, run something like tesseract behind the scenes, and spit out the result. It's an egregiously stupid use of resources.

[–] CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 14 points 2 months ago (4 children)

I know a company that burned $100k in tokens after they they let like 50 worker bees using general AI for OCR, simply converting images and PDFs to text.

They didn't bother to create a skill, or teach the AI how to reuse a shared script so every request resulted in it writing a new python project, pulling libraries, using a frontier model rather than offloading a dumb one etc.

Basically find a business process that happens often and let em at it inefficiently, it'll happily chew through the budget.