IphtashuFitz

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[–] IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world 16 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Go drive/walk by your local police station and note all the plates of unmarked cars in the area. Many of them are likely police vehicles or private vehicles of employees. Do the same near a courthouse. Use those as fodder for this tool.

[–] IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world 13 points 5 days ago (4 children)

So start feeding it lots of random 2 to 8 letter/number strings.

[–] IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I don’t know if this incident involved Flock or a competing product, but John Oliver recently described an incident on his show that demonstrates one of the major issues with this technology.

Apparently an ALPR reported a “hit” on the license plate of an SUV in a shopping center parking lot. The vehicle was reported stolen. So a half dozen or so police performed a felony arrest of the woman in the car along with a number of family members, including small children.

The problem was that while the letters & numbers on the license plate matched, the actual stolen vehicle was a motorcycle from a completely different state. So if any of those half-dozen cops had bothered to confirm even one additional detail about the stolen vehicle then this wouldn’t have happened.

How will Flock improve their technology so that police actually do more than the bare minimum when being told of an ALPR “hit”?

[–] IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Heck, if energy density is an issue the use this initially for grid storage, home solar, etc. where a larger size isn’t a huge deal. That would increase existing lithium ion supplies for EVs.

[–] IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

I know a guy who is a huge Elon supporter and loved his Cybertruck. He got rid of it because of all the heckling he got over it, and didn’t want his young kids to deal with it. Now he drives a Rivian.

[–] IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world 21 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

VPNs are too complex for non-technical people. I used to work in IT for a big university. When I managed the installation of a large research cluster they insisted it be publicly accessible so that traveling professors, etc. would have easy access to it. Long story short, I found it had been compromised by an IP address in China within hours of it being on-line.

[–] IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago

Some marketing executive earned their paycheck for the month by coming up with this…

[–] IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world 12 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

What are they offering to buy the homes with, highly volatile shares of the AI companies stock, or millions of tokens they can use the AI with?

[–] IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world 7 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Unfortunately it’s not terribly easy to un-family somebody.

[–] IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world 7 points 4 weeks ago (6 children)

I know somebody who works at Flock. Any chance you have a link to that video? I’d love to see what he says about the CEO comparing Antifa to terrorists…

[–] IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

A perfect response to the Russian “meat grinder” tactic.

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