‘Surveiller et punir’, just the whole thing.

Do you really not see the problems?

No. Chatgpt told you someone else has done that. And it’s probably even true, under roughly the circumstances I described.

I dealt with a couple that I was proud of.

The first time I saw them was an object I talked to on the train. It was the line that went to/from the airport, so you get a broader class mix. The conversation was nice at first, friendly, there were jokes. Then it showed me the glasses-it was already wearing actual glasses so it explained what they were and started talking about capacity of the charging case thing. They were still a very new thing, I was tired and not as aggressive as I should have been, so when it took them out and said what they were I just said ‘fuck you.’, put on my best scowl, and walked away. When it came up I reached into my purse and gave it my best cold ‘you want to get the fuck away from me.’. I left and switched cars at the next stop, and told people as I left that the guy at the other end is a glasshole as I left, in a way that was clearly just to them.

He finally did something good.

I don’t want to look like a rapist. Are you telling me I have creepy rapist vibes?

No. You’re thinking of an arduino. Or one of the company’s lines of microcontrollers, which isn’t what people mean when they say ‘a pi’.

A raspberry pi is basically a phone equivalent. Different architecture, but same magnitude of flops. The versions with enough ram cost about aw much as a phone and don’t come with storage or power cable. Both of which you would need, so add an m.2 drive for the referents.

And a box fan under it and a copper brick to glue to the CPU, maybe another for the RAM, because its gonna get hot.

But you don’t know what any of those words mean, and don’t understand that other sensors exist. But like if you did understand any of what I said; you’d feel mortified as fuck right now.

Do you understand what a pi is?

You can ‘detect phones’ via anything with WiFi. Are you trolling? Do you not understand the difference between image processing and simpler more computer readable signals?

You don’t know what the fuck you’re talking about. How are so many people so rabidly and confidently ignorant?

Orchestras on every corner playing ‘ode to joy’.

it uploads data

… So. To the internet?

simple to do on device

Image recognition is not computationally cheap. There are more and less expensive ways to do it, but the absolute floor of it turns your phone into a hot plate. So whatever’s in there would need to be at least a phone chip.

someone needs to check

So it is kept and stored.

pre all-this-shit

Red light/speed cams, triggered on motion sensor boolean when light red or radar speed reading>x.

You don’t know what the hell you’re talking about, which is fine, but why are you speaking confidently and assuming such good will about proven constant brazen liars saying they’re not doing the shit they literally always do?

Does it even Matter? Nazis killing Nazis. They love doing that shit. Or a really old guy dying of old. That happens too.

Do we really care who kills these people, as long as they’re dead? Is it worth conspiratizing over?

It was also like a hundred years old. That happens when you’re above 60.

I can only wish for the trend to continue.

and don’t store/index footage otherwise

How do they manage that, with the current surveillance regime? Is all the image processing on device? What’s it sampling against? How does it send the tickets? One-way infrared flashes?

Find a flock employee and place its favorite pet around its house.

if everything else about it weren’t a nightmare shit show

Do you mean worker owned? Because that’s better than union and what you get if you start from scratch.

The correct answer is write one that benefits you and say “well I would like if you used this one, but it seems like it would be very silly of you to do that. You should get one from your legal department if you want one that benefits you.”.

The thing is: that’s my favorite part about it. I’m sitting at a keyboard for five hours, then I spend a week building shit with my hands-not low level building shit, but still fun, then I’m talking to grandma doing troubleshooting.

If everything else about it weren’t a nightmare shit show where you’re the devil if someone else fucks up in a year, I’d be very happy in that kind of career.