<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@dabeaz" class="u-url mention">@<span>dabeaz</span></a></span><br />Thanks! <br /><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@bruces" class="u-url mention">@<span>bruces</span></a></span></p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://digipres.club/@j_feral" class="u-url mention">@<span>j_feral</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@bruces" class="u-url mention">@<span>bruces</span></a></span> Other purported features that I have heard of.</p><p>They can detect stolen license plates (mismatch in vehicle make/color from previous readings)</p><p>They can detect convoying (multiple vehicles traveling in a pack). </p><p>Can detect cyclists (although not sure what data is recorded).</p><p>A good source of information on this are minutes from local city council meetings. Do a search for ALPR and you&#39;ll find presentations on their capabilities, costs, and all sorts of stuff.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://digipres.club/@j_feral" class="u-url mention">@<span>j_feral</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@bruces" class="u-url mention">@<span>bruces</span></a></span> Short version of what I know. They read license plates and use AI to determine make, color, and other identifying features of vehicles (which might also include roof racks, bumper stickers, etc.) That data is cross-checked against databases for stolen vehicles, missing persons, etc. If matched, the local police department would be notified within minutes.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@dabeaz" class="u-url mention">@<span>dabeaz</span></a></span><br />How do these work? (Admitting to not having watched the video, in case this is answered there). Can we just put stickers over them or something? Any proven direct / guerilla actions to render them useless? Tufts campus is crawling with these things, it&#39;s terrifying. <br /><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@bruces" class="u-url mention">@<span>bruces</span></a></span></p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@MrDOS" class="u-url mention">@<span>MrDOS</span></a></span> very happy to hear that ^^</p>

<p>Your periodic reminder that Borland released the sourcecode to Turbo Vision under an open source license, and then someone added Linux, Windows and Unicode support to it, so you can use it to write modern applications</p><p><a href="https://github.com/magiblot/tvision?tab=readme-ov-file" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">github.com/magiblot/tvision?ta</span><span class="invisible">b=readme-ov-file</span></a></p>

<p>the long answer is that your kids care more if you cherish and respect them and value their needs than about your housework and adulting performance. good thing too as housework is hell but respecting your children is actually really easy, like it&#39;s just a matter of not treating them like subhumans. it&#39;s very easy to not be an asshole to your kids. I&#39;m not being an asshole to my kids at this very moment.</p><p>sometimes one of my kids has some identity crisis like &quot;how come I&#39;m so depressed when I have all the privileges and an amazing supportive mother like you&quot; and I&#39;m like &quot;what are you talking about all I do is to lie on the sofa and play River City Girls 2 all evening, plus you&#39;re living thru the apocalypse of course it&#39;s hard you went through a global pandemic at like 10?&quot; and the kid is like &quot;see? you&#39;re a great mom&quot; and it&#39;s hard for me to see what&#39;s so great about trying to be minimally decent and baseline kind, until they tell me the stories of how their friends&#39; parents treat them</p>

<p>sometimes people tell me like, oh I could never have kids I&#39;m too disabled, I don&#39;t know how do you stay functional enough to assume responsibility for their well-being. the short answer is that I don&#39;t</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@isagalaev" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>isagalaev</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://toot.cat/@jamey" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>jamey</span></a></span> The first new computer I got was a 166MHz Pentium clone, in 1996. It came with a 1 GB disk, on which I installed the newly released NT4. A friend with a Mac had a 2GB disk in a slightly older machine.</p>