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Post by LifeLiverTransp »

sebmellen wrote: post #137
Animats wrote: post #110

They just need better PR for Big Brother. One of China's state-owned surveillance companies is way ahead at this. "Hikvision - welcoming you to a safer world". Ad for face recognition: https://youtu.be/3-wFa8eWZ7E Tired of looking at surveillance video? This tool speeds up the job: https://youtu.be/KrzTAlV70bQ Overproduced ad for the whole product line. Very funny: https://youtu.be/otAuH6FDhgw

The ads are terrifying, mainly because it shows the company has enough money to waste this much on ad production. It also makes me wonder how much the problem in China is top-down vs "middle-out". It seems that the CCP wages a brilliant kind of information warfare: The ads build up an image around the creation of this technology as an equalizer and solution to middle and lower-class problems. The ad for face recognit…

The whole system is carefully trimmed towards producing citizens who distrust and non-interact with each other - except for monetary interaction. Divide and conquer driven to its darkest depths.

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Post by Catsandkites »

kortilla wrote: post #116
angry_octet wrote: post #84

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I love that this is in Teen Vogue. It used to be that you'd only see this in Socialist Worker Daily or something.

Teenage targeted publications are actually pretty common ground for extremist viewpoints. It’s an audience pretty receptive to new ideas. Not having “adult responsibilities” nor having to really be a functioning member of society in general makes Marxism, Ayn Rand Capitalism, etc all pretty palatable and reasonable ideas (albeit normally to different cliques).

In the same vein, are there not a worryingly amount of adults with actual "adult responsibilities" that think conspiracy theories, failed political ideologies and screaming batshit insanity into social media are "palatable and reasonable ideas".

In fact, I'd argue they outweigh the younger audience by a far margin, are supported by media organisations and have done far more damage to our society and world.

Almost every young person I know wants one thing. A fairer, safer, more equal world. I can't say the same for most older people I know. If that makes them the extremists, then we are lost.

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Post by camelite »

riffic wrote: post #89
angry_octet wrote: post #84

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I love that this is in Teen Vogue. It used to be that you'd only see this in Socialist Worker Daily or something.

The fact that it's Teen Vogue is 100% why I chose to link this and not any other article I could Google about cop unions.

Less than 4% of Teen Vogue's readership comes from actual teenagers.

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Post by Shared404 »

bostik wrote: post #139
Kliment wrote: post #111

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So you're saying I can build a thing that reboot-loops all hidden cameras within a radius around me?

Sounds like you're throwing a challenge to the Hackaday types out there. And amusingly enough, using cheap hardware to mess with RF devices around you reminds of Steve Lord's hilarious/informative/vicious "Cider Kill-chain" talk.[0] Since attacks only improve over time, the code golf to make the devices more effective could prove quite entertaining to watch - from a safe distance. 0: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t…

Thanks for the link, I love watching these sorts of talks.

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Post by cinntaile »

Animats wrote: post #110

They just need better PR for Big Brother. One of China's state-owned surveillance companies is way ahead at this. "Hikvision - welcoming you to a safer world". Ad for face recognition: https://youtu.be/3-wFa8eWZ7E Tired of looking at surveillance video? This tool speeds up the job: https://youtu.be/KrzTAlV70bQ Overproduced ad for the whole product line. Very funny: https://youtu.be/otAuH6FDhgw

About the first one. This seems like an unavoidable future, there's no denying that it's easier if all you have to do is stand in front of a camera compared to using a card/badge. Easy always seems to win.

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Post by jimduk »

Animats wrote: post #110

They just need better PR for Big Brother. One of China's state-owned surveillance companies is way ahead at this. "Hikvision - welcoming you to a safer world". Ad for face recognition: https://youtu.be/3-wFa8eWZ7E Tired of looking at surveillance video? This tool speeds up the job: https://youtu.be/KrzTAlV70bQ Overproduced ad for the whole product line. Very funny: https://youtu.be/otAuH6FDhgw

Hikvision are an interesting company with performant products. You can view CCTV as having had 3 stages. Stage 1 - the model is like a TV studio - closed circuit TV, analog cables, control rooms, monitor banks (some setups are still like this). Stage 2 - cameras are network devices - Axis the big European security camera co started life as a networked printer company, not a coincidence. Stage 3 - connectivity is all IP, but the focus is the combined sensing effect of everything on the network and the smarts to make sense of it all. Some projects have tried to do this as middleware, but much easier if you provide the whole solution like Hik. Stage 4 is combined 'pattern of life' analysis from external and on-person surveillance, maybe this comes from Google/Apple, maybe from Hik/Huawei etc. The game is afoot

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Post by praptak »

kortilla wrote: post #114
ahelwer wrote: post #14

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Not ironic at all. Police are the agents of capital and their union is thus in service of capital, not labor. They are conspicuously the only union which isn't protested very much by the powers that be. The union protects police from retribution by the people against whom they mete out punishment, who are essentially never capitalists. To put it another way, there is zero solidarity between police unions and unions o…

Police are not agents of capital. They are agents of the government and nothing more. Police make a modest government salary and do not (at least in the US) have a history of reacting well to bribes. Police meet out punishment all of the time to capitalists (a.k.a people with retirement accounts and savings accounts). I’m not sure why you think otherwise.

This is merely a technical nitpick. A person with a savings account is technically a capitalist but they typically get most of their income from labor. Their interests are not those of the capital, e.g. they would lose from stricter anti-labour regulations.

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Post by diamondo25 »

Animats wrote: post #110

They just need better PR for Big Brother. One of China's state-owned surveillance companies is way ahead at this. "Hikvision - welcoming you to a safer world". Ad for face recognition: https://youtu.be/3-wFa8eWZ7E Tired of looking at surveillance video? This tool speeds up the job: https://youtu.be/KrzTAlV70bQ Overproduced ad for the whole product line. Very funny: https://youtu.be/otAuH6FDhgw

To be honest, I would buy Hikvision because: 1. Their stuff must be good because China is using it 2. Where I am using it, the usage for China is limited

There are Chinese brands out there I would trust less...

I did notice the surveillance options, but the software tells me the logic is in the cameras and it those dont support it.

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Post by jaclaz »

angry_octet wrote: post #83
jessedhillon wrote: post #70

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They're also using Wago 222[0] style lever nuts, which are not common in the US. In my experience, US electricians use twist-style wire caps instead to create junctions. [0] https://www.wago.com/us/wire-splicing-connectors/splicing-co...

They're awesome, so much better than twist-ons. Fully approved in the US, just more expensive up front.

Yes, they are rather expensive, but nothing IMHO beats them, I first saw them a few years ago (the 222 type) in the hands of electricians working for musical events/stage settings, then I bought a set of 221 type and simply fell in love with them, they are very, very handy and safer (besides faster in installation) than both twist-ons (which are not very used here in Italy) and screw connectors which are normal here.

Recently a reknown Italian manufacturer[0] started producing similar ones and they are getting more common.

[0] PDF, go to page 202-203:

https://www.arnocanali.it/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Morsett...

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Post by learnstats2 »

Animats wrote: post #110

They just need better PR for Big Brother. One of China's state-owned surveillance companies is way ahead at this. "Hikvision - welcoming you to a safer world". Ad for face recognition: https://youtu.be/3-wFa8eWZ7E Tired of looking at surveillance video? This tool speeds up the job: https://youtu.be/KrzTAlV70bQ Overproduced ad for the whole product line. Very funny: https://youtu.be/otAuH6FDhgw

Or target the neighbours with video doorbell advertising.
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