The point on this is the cars are broadcasting the numbers. Imagine your license plate including a loud speaker that shouted it’s number while the car was running. Tracking via plate requires line of sight. Tracking it in an automated way requires a good high speed camera, text analysis computer vision to log the vehicles, and storage for all of the images. In contrast, this signal is a repeating unencrypted broadcast. I could build a Raspberry Nano device that I can sit next to an intersection and capture the numbers of every vehicle that drives by. It is also just presumably storing the number and time, so years of tracking data could be managed with a gig or two of storage.

This is absolutely a threat, and I am surprised it is not actively exploited by companies like Walmart to track every vehicle which drives by their stores and enters their parking lots. Hell, Amazon has enough vehicles out driving around that they could pretty effectively generate profiles for every vehicle in a town just by equipping their trucks with scanners and compiling the data into a behavior analysis system. Every car which drives past is read and stored. It is truly worrying.

Use Jellyfin. I have been running it since the middle of last year and it has been amazing and stable. Have fun.

Yo ho ho. If purchase is not ownership, then piracy is not theft.

The ONLY way this is even remotely OK is if the OS is set to 18+ all other age verification laws are satisfied and I don’t have to provide even more intrusive information to random companies.

Yes please. Or at the very minimum let us ban sections of advertising. My wife and I hate horror movies, but when we watch YouTube we are bombarded with horror ads. We have a young child that we are working hard to not expose to certain imagery. Let us ban fucking horror movie ads.

This quote reminds me of the owner of this one TTRPG and card shop in my area. If you try to talk to him about literally anything he sells he will straight tell you he does not care about anything he sells. All the nerdy shit under one roof and his ass is there because nerds will pay through the nose for it.

Needless to say I shop at the store where the owner participates on FNM every week and runs D&D campaigns.

And in other breaking news: the sky is blue, tree pretty, and fire hot.