One of the proposed ideas in a Discord-based thread was to use OS-level age authentication to prevent you from having to provide IDs to a thousand other parties. One place, one time. So that’s one reason for an OS to need it, in a world hellbent on increasing age restrictions. I don’t know enough about that idea to argue it, though I’m certain it could be spoofed in 0.2 seconds after release.

It sounded like the EU solution is a dedicated, non-identifying birth date tag in their passports.

But what do I know. I assume all age restrictions can be circumvented, so I see no point in all this theater. And it’s theater because it never really seems to truly be about protecting children. At least, to me, I’d be more concerned about SFW manosphere bullshit than NSFW porn when it comes to protecting kids (yes, I’m well aware a great deal of porn is misogynistic, degrading, abusive, etc)

It started by realizing other users, the government, AI scrapers, and the internet have potential to be far too creepy and/or investigative to continue using any personal details, namely my name or date of birth. I definitely scrubbed my birth year from everything, haven’t quite replaced all my accounts using my m/d though since my name is far from unique. So I have a vaguely techy pun of a movie reference. Zero Cool was the young alias of the main character of Hackers (1995)

I don’t recall special EV fear at that time. I recall insanely cheap gas prices in the summer of 2020 and a drastic reduction in commute demand. Once the excess oil was depleted and production hadn’t come back up to speed by like summer of 2021, gas prices shot up. I’m deep in a sub/urban mix, so that affects my experience, I’m sure. While all cars had their market value increase at that point, used EVs and Hybrids had an additional 50%+ markup, comparatively. I was shopping for them and ended up passing on the idea due to excess price. I vaguely remember prices being about $12k for ~2010 Priuses and $5k for 1st gen Leafs with deteoriated 50-mile batteries. I don’t recall Volt/Bolt prices and was already disinterested in Teslas.

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Mid-adult deaths dragged down the average. Child deaths really dragged down the average. The point is that the interpretation of “40 year life expectancy” is caused by misunderstanding averages, not from some massively inferior physiology of prior humans. Yes, more things readily killed you, but it wasn’t a mid-life ticking time bomb. Excluding infant death bumps expectancy up around 10-20 years

I’m thinking it’s about consistency. 10kts 10% of the time vs average 150kts 100% of the time (the math is a little off but we’re in hypothetical estimates already)

Did they build it though? Sounds like vibe-coding to me

For all my gripes with AI/LLM and stolen valor-type misrepresentation, I’m not going to put too many asterisks on someone’s personal project. Especially when it exposes shady corporate practice. It doesn’t seem like they were professionally hired to create this app. There’s plenty of tinkerers I follow that phone a friend to get a project back on track.

But I have no idea what his day job is, being an AI Strategist

I feel like we’re the only ones that expect “all-knowing information sources” should be more writing seriously than these edgelord-level rizzy chatbots are, and yet, here they are, blatantly proving they are chatbots that should not be blindly trusted as authoritative sources of knowledge.

My closest examples are banded to existing street light poles with some ~12ga stainless hose clamps, maybe 10ft up. Private parking lot security. I’m guessing your example (like the thumbnail?) is the choice for a town police dept or housing dev that can’t attach to street lights

Its not unreasonable for an anti-crime camera manufacturer to expect criminals to paint cameras. It’s a movie trope. But anyway, sure would be nice to see some compilation of attack attempts to see what sticks

I doubt the lenses are glass, which means the solvents in spray paint will be, effectively, impossible to clean off without damaging the lens in the process. I doubt they have a maintenance team with such finesse as opposed to one that just replaces the device, just every other US support service.

I’m not in IT and only have tangential knowledge, but I would think something like corporate internet control would work for this. I know my company has blanket access restrictions with the ability to modify them on an individual basis. But I haven’t the slightest idea how to implement that. I think all of my company device data goes through a tunnel.

I guess I’m out of date. Not sure if the meme outlasted the delays or if it just got buried in the politics. I continue to despise the lack of non-visual sensors to actually give it an advantage over human vision.

100 million Americans are screaming Elon/Tesla is a business to avoid at all costs. 100 million Americans are screaming that EVs are a vehicle type to avoid at all costs. 100 million Americans do not scream, do not post, and do not have any higher opinion about the cars beyond being cool, cheap to fuel, or quiet.

Destination to destination? Stop signs, residential corners, merges, and blind mountain corners? In fog and road spray?

Or leasing

I just learned HGTV has a Jan 7 2026 show called “Neighborhood Watch”. It’s like America’s Funniest Home Videos, but it’s all doorbell/security cameras. User-submitted, I think. I absolutely refuse to believe this was a casual idea from HGTV as they struggle to maintain viewership. There’s no way this isn’t funded by one of these companies, meant to continue making everyone comfortable with constant surveillance and increasing the desire to have constant recording devices to catch these one-off comedic moments.

Tagline: “Everywhere you go, cameras are recording. Your neighbors are watching.”

You didn’t get your SSN converted to SSID with the microchip Moderna mRNA vax?

Because all of this has happened before and all of this will happen again. Wait, wrong universe. Not much is known about Mobius 1, but we knew they’re engaged.

Lore for games whose fans seem few and far between. Namely, Ace Combat series and Elite Dangerous. ED because I have a ton of time in that game and while it’s shallow without a campaign, I guess my imagination fills in all the blanks as a plausible interstellar space sim. Ace Combat is mostly because of the subreddit. Same goes for Star Wars prequels memes. Funny how I lost that part of my persona when I left reddit.

I can’t comfortably tell you I have depe knowledge of space because it’s big as hell and professionals know way more, but it’s still something where I know a lot of, effectively, trivia.

Ace Combat: maybe it was just memes.

Elite Dangerous: there’s currently a player-run expedition sitting on the far side of the galaxy. 8k registered players. They hit some tourist spots but are going somewhere into under-explored regions now. Some people are grabbing exploration payouts. One group wants to find the furthest possible earth-like planet and name it Earth 2, as a backup, in case the aliens come back. The aliens had a huge event that changed the course of the colonies. There’s some neat items added by the developers in honor of players in the first few years. Beagle Point is an easy one, named after one player spent a ton of time with his elderly dog playing the game. The dog passed and got a star named for it. There’s the Fuel Rats and the Hull Seals, two player groups that have a huge network of players that can assist stranded players. There’s noob training groups that train noobs because the instructions are not clear in the game. There’s 3rd party apps and sites to make QoL better. Some players hate it like it’s cheating, I say future humans would definitely make support systems like this because current humans are currently do it (and can we just pretend it won’t fucking get paywalled in the future, for 3 god damn minutes?)

The star wars prequels are political drama with laser swords. The cgi animals were excessive. But it pretty clearly parallels the historic rises to fascism/dictatorship. The Anakin/Kenobi lava scene works way better than it looks. A akin brings balance to the force by eradicating the huge volume of jedi vs 2-2.5 sith. Kenobi loved him like a brother. Well, relationships are forbidden for the jedi, so yeah, Kenobi just admitted anakin is trash to him (OK, that’s a twisted stretch).

Space, real space, is deep. The Hubble images were amazing, how could we learn more with JWST? Well, I literally couldn’t imagine that every single direction in space is filled with more galaxies. That’s insane. That’s terrifying. That’s not understandable in human terms. There is an unfathomable amount of space and we’re never going to tough anything outside our solar system.

Orbital mechanics are cool. You’re thrown sideways so fast you continue to miss the ground. The Earth is moving so fast it’s actually really difficult to bring enough fuel to slow down enough to hit the sun. The Parker solar probe used venus to slow down and it’s still trying to shed speed and get closer. Or maybe it already peaked (valleyed?) at 430,000mph in the solar corona. But every time it gets close, it’s speeding up and still missing. The video from “inside” the sun is kind of comfortable. You can use gravity to slingshot craft. I don’t know about you, but I airways pictured some scifi visualization of hooking around a sun in a parabolic u-turn. That’s not really a slingshot. You leave with the same relative craft-body speed as you approached. If you’re flying 100 000mph towards earth, you’re leaving it at 100kmph. But the earth is orbiting at 67kmph. You can hook a 90deg turn around it and leave in the same direction to add 67k to your speed. You can hook the other way to shed 67k. You showed up as to approach it, but then it pulls you big and eats that speed. But as long as you’re faster than escape velocity, you can choose what happens next.

Lithobraking means crashing into the ground. It’s a real tactic.

Voyager has left the solar system and is a steady ~40,000mph. Space is big. If it was pointed at the next closest star, Proxima centauri at ~4ly, the trip would still take like 70,000 years. It’s not pointed that way, but it is pointed at a star that is traveling somewhat towards us. In that time frame, it is actually predicted to come within 1.6ly of each other (voyager and this other star) in like 40,000 years. For reference, Voyager 1 was launched almost 50 years ago and is still within one light day of earth. It’s close at ~23.5ld, but still not there.

“We know more about space than our oceans” is scary until you realize nearly all stellar knowledge is useless for human life. It’s a massive hobby.