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Just a question, does no one else recognize AI writing now? Like, am I really the only person seeing this? Every article reads like the exact same LLM has written it.
It’s an SEO spam site claiming to be about product reviews. They don’t actually have products on hand. Looks like it’s all generated spam.
Nobody knows what SEO spam is anymore either. This era of scrolling and reading headlines and comments has been awful. People are fake-content consuming zombies.
Not All Heroes Wear Capes - but I do hope he/she wore a mask!
Surely, if the system is any good, it will have identified who did it?
But they’re only for license plates!!! /s
License plate deez nuts xd
Don’t tempt me
From what I read on the news, they in fact caught some people by looking at other Flock cameras. Be careful anyway, while doing illegal things. And don’t brag about it or tell your friends.
No surprise they didn’t catch anything. The only possible explanation is ghosts, because the entire town was at my house for poker night that night.
I would like to subscribe to anarchy ghosts.
Wouldn’t that be anarchy ghosts poker?
How are they supposed to hold the cards?
Unless … ghost cards!
“Police are asking for the public’s help” Wow! Too bad no one saw anything. If you did, you didn’t.
The public: “Must have been the wind”
Flock removal 100% speedrun, handsaw only
100% runs are great, but no need to add challenge restrictions like handsaws only here. I suspect a multiplayer mod was used here anyway, like the one made for Mario 64– those can get pretty wacky.
Chaos mode with random cop spawns for the extra challenge
I have definitely not been looking up the precise locations of every flock camera in my town.
I just wanna say that if you all want a good band to listen to, Winona Fighter kicks ass. They also are in support of stuff like this.
And you get a free solar collector as well!
Wow, those cameras are $3000 each??
The article was referring to the cost to replace them, which would be both the equipent (camera, solar panel, pole, mounting hardware) and labor.
Edit: so yes, all told it appears to cost $3k to have a camera. But the camera piece alone would cost a lot less than that.
Not to mention a fat cut for Flock’s profits, of course.
That’s pretty cheap for government stuff, no wonder they’re going up so quickly everywhere. Small expense for the government, little scrutiny and incentive to poke through Flock’s marketing crap.
And a subscription fee, probably.
Probably $2800 for the labor to install the pole
Must be paying $100/h to very slow pole installers that spend a day and a half doing each installation.
Or maybe the installers need moral support so there’s 8 of them twiddling their thumbs whilst 2 do the actual work AND they’re still really slow even with all the moral support so it takes them a day and a half per pole.
Yet another explanation is that most of that money is just sweet, sweet lucre for Flock.
$20 for the camera, $80 for pole and solar, and $2900 for the shareholders and kickbacks.
Well done. These cameras should be illegal.
Replacing the stolen license plate readers will cost Winona roughly $24,000 total.
Why is it up to the city to foot the bill for the losses of a private company?
Because the city/PD wants it. That’s why they’re paying for it, and why they’ll probably pay for the new ones.
The message needs to be sent: Getting in bed with Flock costs cities way more money than it’s worth.
But how else will cops stalk ex girlfriends?
Because they want to manufacture whatever stance they can to make themselves look like the poor victim of some “unhinged” vigilante to turn the public against heroes like this. News stations have been hammering this point on stories like this. “Oh, poor children in our city are going to go hungry now because we have to use this money to replace the cameras. Also 30 murderers and 50 rapists got away because our system was down.”
Because of the nature of the data they are gathering, collating, and storing they are unconstitutional, not just illegal. Unfortunately the judicial branch tends to be reactionary not proactive.
I’m not a lawyer, but this guy is.
Probably in the contract. Hard to say without seeing it.
Omfg?! Someone that understands contract law?!
You beautiful genius.
Brilliant, pay for the hardware, and then pay for the fully automated service it provides! 🤡
That’s called a service. Just like your mother used to provide.
- Sean Connery
Why do you think they have so many “convenience fees”
Anyone know if a airsoft pistol is strong enough to do some damage? We thankfully don’t have them yet, but you gotta stay prepared.
almost certainly would not be, based on my experience with them a long time ago. I doubt they made them much more powerful or made plastic BBs heavier
a pellet gun would be, and those are often restricted the same way as airsoft guns
My town has flock cameras pointed at flock cameras on each side of the road
Do they have x-ray to see through a balaclava?
You need dozens of people in balaclavas all go cut cameras, meet in a location with additional masked marauders, and then go their separate ways, so that you can’t tell who was who in the commission of the actual deflocking.
There was a guy who robbed a bank like that. He put an ad out in the paper for people to show up to a certain place dressed like construction workers, ostensibly for a flash mob. So he goes into the bank in a yellow shirt and hard hat, robs the bank, and what do the cops find dozens of milling around?
the most important thing for the people who did it is to not tell anyone
One would hope they would know better. But, it’s possible they post it on YouTube.
