antlion

joined 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 weeks ago

I dislike money. I worked hard to have enough that it’s not on my mind. I don’t need to think about the cost of eating out or buying food, or pursuing hobbies. But I also don’t really spend much. I don’t make big purchases very often and when I do I still over-analyze them.

If I had a lot more money I could retire, but I still have half my life to live. I hope to retire in 16 years. I have a job that pays well, with good job security, and minimal stress. I get 38 hours of leave time per month and I live in California.

I have cash savings earning enough per month in interest to pay my cell phone and home internet bills entirely. But I don’t really have any other discretionary monthly subscriptions. My savings will probably be used on a new kitchen and bathroom eventually.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Seasons 1-7 appear on Tubi. Pretty easy to rip with yt-dlp

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I did that in the middle of the day on an empty highway and I actually got caught (aircraft). The ticket was for 113 mph and I lost my license for 6 months.

I don’t speed anymore but it’s not for fear of a ticket. Actually I just found that being in a hurry was flooding me with cortisol, and I decided that you can’t control traffic, only how you react to it. I’ve been driving like an old man for like 15 years and it’s a lot more chill, barely slower, and a bit safer.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

The article gave me the opposite impression. Basically their database contains lawn signs and bumper stickers on accident - they save all images where text is found but they keep it just in case it had a license plate (because they aren’t sure what is or isn’t a license plate). These kinds of databases are so massive there’s little to no human eyes on images. Anyway I don’t think it would be very hard to send garbage into their database.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Readers are not smart. They are trained on data with license plates, and I doubt their training had license plates with extra characters on both sides.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

It varies by state and there are no laws that say it needs to be machine readable. It only needs to be human readable.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (14 children)

I’m looking for some adversarial material - numbers and letters at various angles that I can stick to the left and right of my license plate. To a human it will be obvious which part is my license plate but it might be sufficient to confuse an ALPR algorithm.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Hope he can make it to at least a million steps to bring down his per step cost below 10 cents.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)

371k steps over 10 years is like 100 steps per day. Is it really slow, or did he only use it once a week?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I hope you realize personal injury lawyers work for rich people too. Those settlements drive up insurance costs for everybody. I think that’s a pretty bad example of decent people making money.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

Ideally it would be set up in Lemmy so that a post could remain but the author can be detached from it, and all comments.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago

BaconBits was a Reddit tracker with a maximum user count around 6000. They eventually closed because most of the users could get the same content from other trackers, with better choices about bitrate or codec, or better seeding. I’m not convinced Lemmy has enough users to support a private tracker, I think you need like 20k active users to be worthwhile.

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