Counterpoint: this will kill all whistleblowing and investigative journalism. All sources revealed in an instant. We already had it bad with the printers.

If AI is a concern mandatory AI fingerprinting as currently implemented is better.

I concur, total assessed value of all real estate holdings would be a better metric.

Roughly 13,300 bananas, assuming very average bananas not too long and not too short, and a lot of patience laying them down on the floor.

Yeah, I thought about that bit but deleted that because it only tangentially related to the topic.

Here’s it again: a multiplier for land use. Farmland get like 0.1, residental 1.0. Also different multipliers for cities, suburbs and rural (to encourage development).

But there are companies that own farmland too, and they will try their best to find loopholes to exploit like they did to residential land. I don’t want to go down the rabbit hole of writing effective property law today so I stopped there 😆

Oh sorry I forgot, anything but metric.

So tax free at 1 Oval office, 100% at 2 Oval offices, 110% at 3 Oval offices, and so on…

A more sensible metric would be the surface area of real estate IMO. A person with a 50 square meters home should not pay the same tax rate as a person with a 5000 square meters mansion.

Everyone get 100 square meters tax free (just an example here, depends on country), 1 x tax rate for the next 100 square meters, 10% increase every additional 100 square meters.

We ostracized the glasses by calling them “pervert glasses”

We can do the same with “pervert pods”

Or pPods, if you will

I understood this reference. Japan is 25 years late according to schedule but better than never!

For those who don’t: it’s a big rabbit hole. Search for 第2新東京市

Yes, this is old news. Today numbers went up again.

This is an article about the fallout. To read more I would recommend this BBC article from 7 days ago

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0k2dz4y6gxo

There are batteries, recent advances have resulted in cheaper batteries that can store more power.

Alternatively the energy can be used to create hydrogen and that can be transported.

I’d recommend

https://github.com/roflcoopter/viseron

Checks all the boxes: local storage and streaming, detection, recognition.

Should work fine with most cameras, but configuration is via YAML only, no GUI.

You can try a DDNS service to get a fixed domain name bound to your dynamic IP. Most modern routers support a few providers, try looking in the settings. They are mostly free for personal use.

I’m using one of these “shady” cameras that have good reviews. Yes they require an internet connection to set up but once you are done you can just wall them off from the internet and stream locally to your box ;)

I have the same thought. Group chat is a solved problem, why do people keep flocking to shittier alternatives is beyond me. Want notifications? Install a bouncer, done.

They didn’t know the earth was round when they named their own country (a looooong time ago). They really thought it was the center of the universe and their kings were sent from heaven