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Raspberry Pi Detects License Plates with AI
I think this is fabulously geeky. I also think that various privacy and anti-AI activists are going to have a conniption fit at the potential for homebrew ANPR solutions and concomitant data protection panic when they realise what will happen with people embracing technology like this at home in uncontrolled environments. As ever: the battle…
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This is a quick test of a new card feature for this blog…
Hopefully the resulting cards will be full of interesting content and slightly more noticeable than just a link with a bit of text.
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What could possibly go wrong: New York May Require a Background Check to Buy a 3D Printer
https://gizmodo.com/new-york-bill-criminal-background-check-buy-3d-printer-1850930407
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Easy Answer: American direct messages are measured in imperial units.
https://reddit.com/r/NoStupidQuestions/s/jcvjpY5Qtn
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All these infosec professionals suddenly “Signal bug? What Signal bug?”
No wonder IT people tend to identify with cats. Specifically: cats which just fell off a table.
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As a software developer, this resonates…
What happens when I embed a post from threads? https://www.threads.net/@lucas_a_meyer/post/CyZyCvXL-Rf/?igshid=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ== By age 40 a developer should have:
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Discovering that your Bluetooth car battery monitor is siphoning up your location data | lovely bit of reverse engineering
I may try to obtain one of these devices for a home lighting project. https://doubleagent.net/2023/05/21/a-car-battery-monitor-tracking-your-location.html
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Stuff to Read: Students’ New Surveillance State | University of Virginia School of Law
https://www.law.virginia.edu/news/202309/students-new-surveillance-state
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Wikimedia DNS | in case you missed it, the Wikimedia foundation are now offering secure DNS
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_DNS
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Stuff to Read: Mistranslation of Newton’s First Law Discovered after Nearly 300 Years – Scientific American
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/mistranslation-of-newtons-first-law-discovered-after-nearly-300-years1/
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Stuff to Read: LLM now provides tools for working with embeddings
https://simonwillison.net/2023/Sep/4/llm-embeddings/
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Stuff to Read: Distance Metrics in Vector Search | Weaviate – vector database
https://weaviate.io/blog/distance-metrics-in-vector-search