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All of the rooms/corridors in my house except my bathrooms are covered by cameras. My initial motivation for installing them was to keep an eye on what my pets were doing when I'm not around, but I find in recent years that if I misplace something, I end up tracing back my history on the cameras and finding where I left it. It seems obvious that at some point, AI will be able to do that for me and I'll just be able t…
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You're missing an option: Wrongly accused on the basis of your own recordings. Imagine this real life situation occured, but it was your own recordings instead of surveillance cameras > A key piece of evidence in the case is video surveillance footage showing Williams’ car stopped on the 6300 block of South Stony Island Avenue at 11:46 p.m.—the time and location where police say they know Herring was shot. > How did…
If I follow, the police would need access to the recordings to make the case, which would mean at least probable cause for a warrant. If Herring had a camera or mic on him running at the time of the shooting wouldn’t that contradict shotspotter? It seems more likely any data you have would create doubt rather than bolster the police case. In general, the shotspotter and surveillance cameras already exist, so what do…
PC is a very low bar.
> In general, the shotspotter and surveillance cameras already exist, so what do you have to counteract that
It's not binary. Lots of areas, including the inside of your house, probably aren't covered by surveillance cameras.
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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 to…
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Bodycams are actually an example of a reform successfully cooped by police bureaucracy. https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/05/16/police-pr-video-machi...
The American Jurors have convicted people based on a man's interpretation of a dog signalling that a dead body was on someone's property 5 years ago. Once people are that gulliable, they are beyond help. https://www.science.org/content/article/should-dog-s-sniff-b...
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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.
Each to their own. Personally the value these cloud/AI assistants give me is worth the loss of privacy. There's nothing I do that I think anyone would be especially interested in spying on, other than to try and sell me things. Note that I don't think anyone should be forced into this sort of surveilance. It should always be a choice. I also support the open source projects to bring it back to individual control - it…
Do Uyghurs have something to hide and are worth spying on? How many times are we going to hear this argument? It comes only from a position of privilege. You're only uninteresting to be spied on as long as it's allowed by the security apparatus you depend upon. There's a reason we have sayings like "power corrupts"; dismissing the potential for abuse of a cloud-based unencrypted surveillance system is narrow-mindedness at best and subversion at worst.
Note: the above hardly represents me politically, it is just a counterargument against the perennially repeated "I have nothing to hide."
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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.
Each to their own. Personally the value these cloud/AI assistants give me is worth the loss of privacy. There's nothing I do that I think anyone would be especially interested in spying on, other than to try and sell me things. Note that I don't think anyone should be forced into this sort of surveilance. It should always be a choice. I also support the open source projects to bring it back to individual control - it…
Since everyone is interested in the hardware: https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256803349510543.html https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256803085687061.html the particular choice was for the battery and the other for the size, both are generic and come with the same software and bios, several vendors, if I could buy something better I would look for one that can have a lavalier microphone
I wanted to do this exact project - record audio all day and then have AI process it - to identify behavior outburst of my autistic toddler. It's critical information for early diagnosis and treatment, but it's really hard to capture the data while also dealing with the actual situation. Being able to send the sounds he makes to his therapist could also be usefull when then are trying to get him to mimic sounds and t…
Since everyone is interested in the hardware: https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256803349510543.html https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256803085687061.html the particular choice was for the battery and the other for the size, both are generic and come with the same software and bios, several vendors, if I could buy something better I would look for one that can have a lavalier microphone
Thank you for the links and for the article. How long can record the smaller one? Actually if it can record for a day, it'd be enough for me. I used to record all phone calls, until EU made Xiaomi remove the feature. It was very useful because I always could take notes later if they sent me a number, contact name or appointment hour.
https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256803349510543.html
https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256803085687061.html
both recorders are using the same generic bios, you have a .txt file called FACTORY.TXT, by changing the values of the file you configure the device, this is the content of the file.
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TYP:1 (0:WAV 1:MP3)
VOR:0 (0:voice-activated off 1-7:voice-activated sensitivity,higher means record less)
BIT RATE:2 (0:32Kbit 1:64Kbit 2:128Kbit 3:192Kbit 4:Translate ON 5:512Kbit 6:768Kbit 7:1024Kbit 8:1536Kbit 9:3072Kbit)
GAIN:5 (0-7 record sensitivity 8 grades)
SECTION:(30) (1-999 record time exceed this,file will auto save,uint minutes)
DATE:2022-10-15 (year-month-day)
TIME:08:36:24 (hour:minute:second)
TIMER:1 (timer record 1:on 0:off)
START:08:39:32 (timer record start time)
TIMELONG:(120) (1-720,timer record length,uint is minute)
CYCLE:(030) (1-999,how many dyas,0:everyday)
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I got the 32gb version of the bigger one and the 16gb version of the smaller one.
I configure the device to save a file each 30m, each 30m mp3 file takes 28.125kb, so around 56mb per hour at 128kbps
Since everyone is interested in the hardware: https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256803349510543.html https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256803085687061.html the particular choice was for the battery and the other for the size, both are generic and come with the same software and bios, several vendors, if I could buy something better I would look for one that can have a lavalier microphone
Yeah but I want the software! Will you open source it? I'd contribute!
As I clarify in the article: This is a “proof of concept” and not yet ready for production, everything described here works but probably “glued with tape”, several of the processes are probably not automated or polished.