“In 2021, the research firm IPVM independently tested Flock's LPR cameras, concluding in a report that it misidentified which state a license plate was from for around 1 in 10 reads, and that the system regularly misclassified license plate state, vehicle type, and make. IPVM said that Flock subsequently blocked it from purchasing its cameras for testing.”
Much. We can start with a "transparency" portal that doesn't cover at least 30% of installations. We can move on to data sharing functionality built and sold on the nudge-nudge-wink-wink of "We know that x, y and/or z methods of sharing data between operators/agencies is limited or illegal in your state, but we're certainly not disabling the feature so you can't use it", and from there on to the dystopian Minority Report vision that sees false negatives as unacceptable to Garrett, while false positives are something he has decided are an acceptable price for you to pay towards his (quite literal) vision of "a world with zero crime, thanks to Flock".
A little birdie told me someone pushed duplicate data into one of Amazon’s core noSQL systems that runs most of e-commerce. The front end of the site broke in weird ways but it certainly wasn’t taking orders.
The TV manufacturers know they can get a guaranteed $30-50/year spliff out of the platform vendors per unit for allowing the shitware in the first place and that these TVs will last long enough to get them a nice several hundred dollar subsidy on the TV.
I’m afraid there’s not going to be a great affordable path out of this hypersubsidized trap we’ve set the market into.
Consumers just keep putting up with it. TVs are not a necessity; it's not like electric bills or healthcare. There are more ways to consume content than ever before, and more content available than ever before. Not owning a TV in the 80s or 90s was something of a big deal. Now, it couldn't matter less. But people are still putting up with whatever crap manufacturers are putting out. It should be easy to vote with wallet (even that means simply not purchasing a TV) but consumers just keep buying this crap.
Arecont Vision is another good brand. I’ve got a friend that got a bunch of Arecont domes stupid cheap and they have amusing modes like “casino mode” (guaranteed 30fps recording for various gaming regulations).
(eBay deal sniping sometimes gets you some funny deals but YMMV — I picked up an Axis Q1700-LE license plate camera for under $200 for some experiments.)
Me too, we switched to the mobile app because we got tired of doctors throwing them onto the floor... they're not bad hardware, people just treat them like trash because we got rid of our voicemail based dictation system.
There's two camps of users I noticed: the users that absolutely adore Dragon, and the users that absolutely adore the voicemail dictation department.
Annoyingly, the users that absolutely adore Dragon were the ones that kept throwing them on the floor, because Dragon's implementation was such hot garbage that it kept nuking our doctors' profiles right out of the water.
I'm now going to scream thinking about all the calls I also fielded for the voicemail system having 'poor quality' depending on where you were calling in from...
They slip "By using this app, you agree to Ring’s Terms of Service (ring.com/terms). You can find Ring’s privacy notice at ring.com/privacy-notice." into their app update changenotes for every update.
Most people accepted the development sandbox Microsoft graciously allowed and turned it into a fairly thriving 'homebrew' scene: see the https://xbdev.store/
It's just a shame Sony gatekeeps running any kind of personal code on the platform and that access to development tools is a total nightmare.
Whatcha got to hide, Garrett?
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