This is all I could see in reading mode (a little more than where it faded to nothing)…

Cops Keep Getting Arrested for Using Flock to Stalk People Jason Koebler 2 - 3 minutes

For months during the summer of 2024, Jarmarus Brown, an Orange City, Florida police officer, ran his ex-girlfriend’s license plate through the Flock automated license plate reader (ALPR) system lookup database at least 69 times. He searched for the license plate belonging to her mom at least 24 times, and searched for the license plate belonging to her dad at least 15 times. Brown’s searches were happening so often, and were so commonplace, that even one of his colleagues noticed Brown researching his ex-girlfriend’s whereabouts while the law enforcement officers sat in their police cruisers, according to court records obtained by 404 Media.

“While they were sitting there, Officer [Shadrich] King noticed Jarmarus was on the Flock system and a license plate reader image of [Brown’s ex-girlfriend] was on the screen,” a police affidavit about Brown’s behavior obtained by 404 Media reads. “Officer King said he mentioned to Jarmarus that he needed to stop running her vehicle in that system because he could get in trouble. Jarmarus responded saying that he knew that, and he was going to stop.” Flock’s automated license plate readers document every car that drives past them, creating a broad network of people’s movements around the country. Police can then look up license plates to learn where a specific car and, by extension, person, has traveled over time.

I’m just about your age and have been in IT for a long time… I feel pretty done with it and just need 918 more days until I’m fully vested for retirement. Granted I cannot afford to retire at all but I grew up in abandoned houses, literally poor enough that I didn’t attend school as that just caused a stream of visits from child services so I’m hoping to be able to buy a piece of property when we sell our house.

I know I’m in a “better” place than I was growing up but I don’t know how many more 3 hour meetings with Microsoft engineers where they give me AI slop I can stand.

A lot of stores keep track of which aisles you spend more time in, that information is then shared with their “partners” (ad networks). By the time you made it home, they had already shared that you bought bits and that your device spent a while looking at cabinet hardware.

They don’t make boots like they used too. My boots from back then (just over 20 years old now) are still in great shape, Bates made some rock solid boots back then (either that or all the polishing in basic made them invincible).

As long as they understand those electricians and plumbers should be charging them 5-10x what they are charging now. If their AI can’t do it, it’s gone from blue collar to bespoke work.

Well you definitely can’t let it leave after hitting you, it’s got to remain at the scene to exchange insurance information. Hit and runs should be treated the same as a delivery driver hitting someone then leaving the scene.

If you use an adhesive bandage, you can position it so it doesn’t get glue on the lens (if you ever actually use it).

LMDE for the win on old laptops!

(And new desktops)

Sounds like an awesome setup, but I’ll stick with remembering the IP:port, its just easier for me to remember numbers than whatever words I used when I set it up.

Makes sense, I do something similar but just for things I want to access externally. I started adding some internal only ones but ultimately decided I was too lazy to remember the names and already knew the IPs/ports.

I’m just curious about the reason for both a reverse proxy and wireguard? If using a proxy (Nginx/etc), I would expect it to be exposed to the internet.

Yeah, that would have been a no-brainer for most people, but he also mentioned paying by debit card which seems like a bit risky too.

Late to the party but congrats on getting them up! Might I also suggest bazarr (https://github.com/morpheus65535/bazarr) so you don’t have to find subtitles manually.

If you aren’t a fan of RustDesk, one alternative that I’ve used a bit is Remotely (https://github.com/immense/Remotely). Me and a few people were using it but most of them went to RustDesk.

If RustDesk doesn’t do what you need, Remotely worked great for me and helping a few family members (though probably a bit more features than you may need).

There is also the other path… Use the sensors they are installing everywhere, it’s not like security is a feature on most of these cameras.

They do! He just doesn’t realize it yet.

They do make a really low base but are required by law to recieve at least minimum wage after tips. Some wait staff lie on their tips in order to avoid paying taxes on them, others lie because if their employer thinks they aren’t getting enough tips to cover their pay, that they must be a bad employee.

0% means something was wrong where I live (rude service or completely bad service does not make me want to pay an extra amount in gratuity), 10% has been standard as long as I can remember though (it was even part of the “real American heroes” bit from decades ago).

A long time ago I felt like bug bounty programs would be an amazing way forward… Now I’m firmly in the camp of fuck it, sell it to the highest bidder.