Oh this is about software architecture. Looked like spam that had nothing to do with programming.

Cig lighter phone charger won’t supply the 5v? I’d have thought the camera mount and enclosure would take the most effort. Raspberry pi zero with their camera accessory would be the main camera.

I hate bagless vacs since you get exposed to all that dirt and pathogens when you empty them, plus anything sticky that gets vacuumed up will get stuck in the vac and eventually have to be scrubbed out. Get a bagged vac if you can. I’m in the US and use an upright/canister, bagged, Dirt Devil MVP.

This is about Nixon’s Treasury secretary, William Simon.

My only experience with the fediverse so far is Lemmy and I can understand why some forum users might not want to change to it. Too much censorship, too many bots, less continuity of the user base, etc.

That’s pretty cool! Any hardware info? I had thought a diy dashcam project would be most about hardware (rpi zero and 3d printed enclosure maybe) with the software being relatively simple. Using an old phone might be another approach.

I’m not sure what this post is trying to convey. The fediverse is another thing designed to kill old school forums, I thought?

Multifunction copier printer scanners are usually consumer crap. The good stuff is generally single function. Monochrome is more of a solved problem than color, I think.

Do the police take your dash cam if they pull you over? Does that show on their own badge cam?

Streaming live video takes a lot of bandwidth and connectivity from a car can be intermittent, but maybe it’s enough to send a timestamped hash every few seconds, so there is tamper evidence in case of a deletion.

Anyway, deleting video through a dashcam user interface is like deleting a file on a computer: basically a little bit of metadata is overwritten but the underlying data can usually be mostly recovered with filesystem repair or forensic tools. To really delete it for sure you have to either destroy the media or use special tools to overwrite the data blocks. Or just running the camera for a long time (to make sure the freed blocks get re-used) might do it.

You could also stream to another phone or computer tucked away elsewhere in the car, unless you expect the whole car to be seized.

Dash cams do this continuously I thought. Good? Bad? IDK.

Avoids the need for a network connection or server, though I guess you could run it on a local socket. The UI might be preferable too.

I’m surprised they aren’t making the same demands of the relevant TLDs. Or are they trying that and failing? If yes, why would they have better chances with Google?

It’s a type of figure of speech, called a metonym.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metonymy

If the kobo hardware device can read drm’d epubs, it is “using drm” to do so. I’m asking if Calibre can read those same drm epubs. Do you know if it can, maybe by adding a plugin? I know there was something like that for Kindle files. Thanks.

Thanks yeah I don’t have a kobo reader so was asking if there was a way to read paid-for kobo downloaded books that have drm, similar to how decss lets you watch DVDs that you bought. I don’t mind paying for books but don’t want a locked down reading device with it’s own crappy software and possible invasive phoning home.

Looked at first minute, seems to be about GrapheneOS. Talks about privacy, might be worth watching, doesn’t obviously drag. Around 11 minutes long.

Yeah I see now. I think I can calculate a meaningful upper bound using the GINI index. I’ll see if I can work out numbers that look plausible, and make another post sometime.

I wonder how they set those endpoints and how they have changed over the years.

Yes I’ve been using the calibre client app under Debian MATE and it’s decent. I’m a Luddite though, so sometimes I convert epubs to plain text with pandoc and read them in emacs or a terminal.

I didn’t downvote anything fwiw.