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Cake day: November 27th, 2023

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  • I’m aware that it exists but I don’t know how to use it, or really why I’d want to. The few times I’ve tried to check it out, I’ve run into a sign up wall before I could see anything. (Why the fuck would I want to register on a server to chat when I have no idea who’s on it or what they’re even chatting about there!?) On top of that, there’s the complications of federated software – which server? which client? etc – and the comparisons to Discord (which I dislike) really don’t help either…

    My impression of it so far is that I’d rather people just post here for anything that’s supposed to be public.





  • I think it’s ethically justifiable to pirate media that has been abandoned by its creators; without such action, media would become lost.

    Legally, it’s not ok until it goes out of copyright, but if the company that has the rights to a work isn’t even selling it, it’d be rather weird for them to bother wasting money pursuing a claim against you.

    I’d rather like to see the laws changed so that what feels ethical and what is legal are in alignment with each other again, but I don’t expect sanity on that front to show up during my lifetime…











  • Hmm. That sounds on par in terms of features with the AXIS cams I’ve encountered before. Does the camera have a web ui? (If so, maybe try poke at it through that.)

    What exactly do you mean by “doesn’t work the best”? (Slow?) If it’s trying to do “AI detection” on the desktop itself from a desktop app then it’s possible that it doesn’t know how to use your GPU effectively, maybe? (ARC is still relatively unusual.)


  • What camera are you using? Some security cameras (e.g. AXIS) already have built-in detectors that you can use directly on board – I’m not sure on the quality since I never used it myself, but worth a try before you pay someone else if you’ve already got it…

    There’s also open weight models for object detection. YOLO models can find people in images easily, though you’ll need some heuristics to avoid drowning in false positive alerts. VLMs like Qwen or Gemma are more heavy-weight but you can give them an image or short video clip + natural language description of what you’re looking for and have them make a judgement before escalating to a human; the usual LLM caveats obviously apply. That’s just the kind of DIY stuff I’d do though.