I don't know - kinda seems unwise to blast yourself with IR. You may not feel it immediately but I would certainly not rule out any long-ish term healt consequences.
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#62I don't know - kinda seems unwise to blast yourself with IR. You may not feel it immediately but I would certainly not rule out any long-ish term healt consequences.
It's near red infrared. It's like saying that blasting red light to your face, will have health consequences.
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#63I don't know - kinda seems unwise to blast yourself with IR. You may not feel it immediately but I would certainly not rule out any long-ish term healt consequences.
It's near red infrared. It's like saying that blasting red light to your face, will have health consequences.
Apparently it does, positive ones!
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#64I don't know - kinda seems unwise to blast yourself with IR. You may not feel it immediately but I would certainly not rule out any long-ish term healt consequences.
It's near red infrared. It's like saying that blasting red light to your face, will have health consequences.
That is simply not true.
For example: There are, in fact, known risks to near-infrared radiation exposure. Erythema ab igne, for example, is a disorder characterized by a patchy discoloration of the skin and other clinical symptoms. It is caused by prolonged exposure to hearth fires, and it is an occupational hazard of glass blowers and bakers exposed to furnaces and hot ovens (e.g., Tsai and Hamblin 2017). It is not a risk to the general population, however, in that the irradiance is usually many times that of solar near-infrared irradiance.
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#65I wonder if there’s a shoe insert one could make that would poison gait analysis. Something in your shoe that gives you a different limp every so often. Lift your heal a little or put a lump under the ball of your foot.
This exists, we call it "gravel"
I can imagine paranoid HN users filling their shoes with gravel to avoid big tech surveillance
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#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's near red infrared. It's like saying that blasting red light to your face, will have health consequences.
Apparently it does, positive ones! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34609625
Yeah in "normal amounts" - basically what body expects from the sun. :)
I have not calculated the power output of those LEDs, I merely pointed out the fact that I don't think healt consequences should be completely overlooked by just saying "meh, it's like red, no worries"...
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#67Similar approaches for license plate concealment aren't working out. Newer systems flag vehicles without plates for additional attention. Some recognize make, model, color, accessories, etc.[1][2] [1] https://platerecognizer.com/alpr-for-vehicles-without-licens... [2] https://www.dahuasecurity.com/asset/upload/uploads/soft/2021...
People who obscure their license plates should have their cars impounded and licenses revoked. If you don't think traffic enforcement applies to you, you're welcome to use transit, walk or bike.
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#68This is really cool, but in countries with utterly pervasive surveillance (e.g. Taiwan), this wouldn't really stop someone with access to all the cameras (i.e., the government) from tracking down who you are. They'd just hop camera to camera (they're literally EVERYWHERE) until you used your train card, or got onto a vehicle you own, or walk into your house. What I'd be really interested in is an anti-surveillance de…
What about just having fewer cameras
The direct action solution to this may be exactly why some people are very interested in avoiding the cameras in the first place.
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#70Gait detection makes these tricks useless.
Gait detection is very easy to fool, here's an instructional video.