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I record myself on audio 24x7 and use an AI to process the information

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Post by Spooky23 »

twobitshifter wrote: post #203
manholio wrote: post #195

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The trouble with any such footage is that it can be used against you ("as the the defendant's own records show, they were present in the murder area") but they generally won't extricate you when produced by you, since you clearly have a motivation to use it selectively. So you showing a picture of yourself reading a book during what you claim is the murder night is not an alibi, because it could have been produced at…

I‘d be interested in knowing of any cases where someone who recorded their own activities used it as an alibi. Right now it's all theoretical. Dash cams are really strong evidence in traffic court, but this isn’t criminal so it has a lower bar. From the other end, body cam footage is powerful when worn by police, and cell phone evidence by bystanders are also strong evidence.

Time is really critical. Alot of police investigative work is about stitching camera footage together in a timeline.

I served on a jury where a case was built around camera evidence immediately before and after an event. Of about a dozen relevant data sources, only one had verifiable, correct time. The defense was able to impeach that evidence, and the whole case collapsed. A dude got away with manslaughter.

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Post by RobRivera »

manholio wrote: post #195
twobitshifter wrote: post #138

This is known as life logging with adjacency to sousveillance and it’s a fascinating topic. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifelog https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sousveillance We in general don’t want to be watched by others, but a managed record of our own activities can be extremely valuable, and even more so if you find yourself wrongly accused. Further it can be used to shine a light on corrupt officials, one exa…

The trouble with any such footage is that it can be used against you ("as the the defendant's own records show, they were present in the murder area") but they generally won't extricate you when produced by you, since you clearly have a motivation to use it selectively. So you showing a picture of yourself reading a book during what you claim is the murder night is not an alibi, because it could have been produced at…

I had an awful breakup with a woman with tortuous tendencies and a false sense of how to abuse personal injury law and she keeps google home devices and car devices recording practically every moment of her life. as well as apple watch broadcasting her location at all times.

I observed she would always accuse me of things i never did in front of these cameras to get me to give false confessions. thankfully i am as blissfully honest to all people i meet, sometimes to my own detriment, so i never admit to fabricated stories.

given that context, can you point me to judicial precedents where plaintiffs had their self provided footage weakend due to the idea of fabricating false narratives with devices, selectively natrowing contexts etc.

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Post by progman32 »

nonrandomstring wrote: post #42
SimonPStevens wrote: post #22

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Different author, but sounds somewhat similar to 'The Light of Other Days' by Arthur C Clarke and Stephen Baxter. Although iirc correctly it starts with being able to see other locations in space but at the same time, and the historical viewing is a second development. Fantastic book, even if it's not the same one you were thinking of.

Pretty sure both those authors wrote similar concepts, with the same creepy conclusions of taking the technology to a limit. It came up in an acoustics class once. I said that sound never really dies. It just bounces around until it becomes thermal energy, thus warming the room a little as a prelude to joking about professors talking hot air. A student asked whether, one could recover sound from reverberations that h…

The pottery record thing was tested on mythbusters and hailed from an episode of csi.

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Post by AndrewKemendo »

unbalancedevh wrote: post #279
AndrewKemendo wrote: post #196

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Well, for example. Lets say that I have a goal BMI I want to maintain If I reach for the Oreos, I can choose to have a flag set with a heuritic I created myself that will tell me: "Having 5 oreos means you need to reduce other calorie intake by n calories to maintain your BMI" That data can also be aggregated to give me my macro/micros for everything I've eaten etc... without me having to log it like I do now Think a…

> all you need to do to instrument it is attaching a camera and mic to your face It's funny that this is a reasonable thing to say.

It really is.

I've been in CV since 2009 and it's face melting how many things we thought were impossible are effectively "solved."

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Post by nonrandomstring »

progman32 wrote: post #293
nonrandomstring wrote: post #42

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Pretty sure both those authors wrote similar concepts, with the same creepy conclusions of taking the technology to a limit. It came up in an acoustics class once. I said that sound never really dies. It just bounces around until it becomes thermal energy, thus warming the room a little as a prelude to joking about professors talking hot air. A student asked whether, one could recover sound from reverberations that h…

The pottery record thing was tested on mythbusters and hailed from an episode of csi.

Fake? Got a link so I can dig in a bit. Thanks.

EDIT: found this thread

https://groups.google.com/g/sci.archaeology.moderated/c/5Jec...

Damnit, seemed so plausible.

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Post by horsawlarway »

xcambar wrote: post #281
progman32 wrote: post #276

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My heat is controlled and automated with open source software for the grand total of about fifty bucks and a free surplus server.

I don’t know how that can be true. Can you tell us more?

It's incredibly easy to do (caveat - at least if you're familiar with software dev already).

Most thermostats are literally just digital thermometers that control a relay that turns the furnace/ac on and off.

A simple arduino (or much cheaper IC) can easily do the same thing if you wire it in.

And then on the software side... there's several large, open-source projects that exist in this space and provide nice api tooling for interacting with those devices. Things like:

OpenHab: https://www.openhab.org/

HomeAssistant: https://www.home-assistant.io/

HomeBridge: https://homebridge.io/

etc...

Even Alexa has basically drop-in self hosted alternatives like Mycroft: https://mycroft.ai/ or ADA/Almomd (now Genie) https://genie.stanford.edu/

It's not only true - I strongly suspect you can do it for much less than 50 bucks if you don't need the physical thermostat to have buttons/screens.

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Post by karaterobot »

omvtam wrote: post #288
forgetfreeman wrote: post #271

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Because spending tens of thousands of dollars in home infrastructure to avoid fiddling with the thermostat four times a year definitely makes sense.

I inherited a 1980's model AC/Furnace and controlling the AC at least is extremely simple and cheap. A 12V relay in the compressor housing activating the 220V switch, connected to another relay controlled by a Pi zero which is controlled by yet another PI zero with a $10 DHT 22. A bash script check the temp and activates the compressor via SSh when the temp goes above 74F. The furnace control hasn't died yet so I hav…

What if you charged someone to build and install the same system in their house? You'd probably charge a lot more than $100, and that's what the real cost would be for most people.

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Post by ilyt »

daveidol wrote: post #282
xcambar wrote: post #254

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I would 100% prefer to lose my keys rather than letting Amazon or Google in. FYI: I have zero Alexa/Siri enabled device, zero automated home device, a degoogled phone, etc etc. So we might have different perspectives on the matter.

Curious: are you concerned about data leaks or you don't trust the employees to not access your user data? Or something else?

Yes, yes, and I don't like anything home automation to be dependant on anything cloud. Enhancing function is fine but house that stops working right the moment internet link is down is a dystopia.

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Post by bee_rider »

karaterobot wrote: post #298
omvtam wrote: post #288

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I inherited a 1980's model AC/Furnace and controlling the AC at least is extremely simple and cheap. A 12V relay in the compressor housing activating the 220V switch, connected to another relay controlled by a Pi zero which is controlled by yet another PI zero with a $10 DHT 22. A bash script check the temp and activates the compressor via SSh when the temp goes above 74F. The furnace control hasn't died yet so I hav…

What if you charged someone to build and install the same system in their house? You'd probably charge a lot more than $100, and that's what the real cost would be for most people.

Nobody has suggested professional installation though, the original suggestion was just a nice home automatic project to play with.
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