I don't think it even requires the police, in most US states, the law basically says that assuming the gated community has a "unauthorized vehicles will be towed at owners expense" sign somewhere, then the owners of the gated community don't need police approval, they can call a towing company directly and have the cars removed, only needing to inform the police afterwards.
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I mean... depends on how long you are looking to keep them in. Assuming the community is half way wealthy (which, kind of is normal), then cops and tow trucks would be pretty quick to respond, and well, blocking it with cars etc... would seem prohibitively expensive and legally troublesome (as there's no way in hell it's not getting traced to you).
I'd agree with the concept, sabatoging the gate mechanism with a chain, or vandalizing the electronics would likely accomplish a similar goal, without abandoning an expensive vehicle that is easy to trace back to you. (which again, even in the best of scenarios is likely only inconveniencing the residents for a few hours).
Not sure that really works for git though... at least with regards to it's primary usage.
git isn't just a backup... it's about version control.
IE the point is if you know what you are doing, you realize this function isn't working in this edge case, you can search through and find out, when did this part of this file change... and what was it before, and it will basically find exactly that.
If you encrypted it so that git couldn't actually read the contents, then you basically reduced a crazy powerful tool, into a glorified dropbox. (IE yeah you could revert back to previous versions... but you'd basically be counting on your memory for what you changed when, if the git server can't read the files).
I guess for me it kind of depends on your definition of "self host" as 90% of what I host is a hetzner server running out of finland. because well that's off site backups lol.
my setup is.
Local: Frigate (CCTV manager), Homeassistant (home automation), Matrix (chat).
Remote: Mealie (recipe collection), Vaultwarden (works with bitwarden clients), Nextcloud (files and documents), Freshrss, gitea (github alternative)
Now in terms of wanting an offsite backup, you are probably right, assuming you don't have something offsite that you can syncronize with, and assuming you don't have any major privacy fears of what is hosted, those things are probably best to use cloud for, assuming you are more worried of losing everything in a house fire, than you are of say the stuff being spied on by a 3rd party or caught by hackers.
So yeah I'd say, personally in things I like to have self hosted... on site, probably I'd say a local messanger is good if you'd like a reasonably private communication for friends/family etc... Niche things like RSS readers, or recipe books, really anything strange niche you can probably search for some program to self host it.
I think the point being made is, dust doesn't stay in one place. Dust on hardwood floor or carpet gets kicked up when you walk on it, leading it to eventually land on tables/shelves etc.
Just imagining future ads once data collection gets to more insane points. Just imagining AI scanning your facebook page, then pushing clothing ads with pictures of you in the outfits, or the new TV with pictures of it in your house etc...
Honestly maybe we should get ahead of it... like intentionally make our facebook accounts showing some cave man living in a cave, and in 2 years when the advertisers start going stupid crazy... watch ads show up on it depicting a flat screen TV in a cave.
While I'm far from an expert on it... at best the dream simulations are still, extremely rudimentary. To the point that's usually how you can tell it isn't real by doing something like reading a book. IE it's largely believable, but only because you are put in a gullible state. Like watching 2 year old AI videos, while stoned.
I mean there's that... but there's also the fact that nobody has been stupid enough to break the seal on the Mutually Assured Destruction nuclear issue. Report after report shows trump is really really anxious to find a reason to use a nuke.
IMO the learning curve for caddy is almost non existent, and just about anything you might want to selfhost almost certainly has a quick simple caddy configuration you can copy paste with just updating the relevant domain. Personally learning curve for caddy was probably way lower than figuring out the edge cases of apache that I was using before
was claiming to be able to take superzoom photos of the moon, but were actually just replacing the very fuzzy moon with a clear image
https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/13/23637401/samsung-fake-moon-photos-ai-galaxy-s21-s23-ultra
is indeed samsung that did this.
Now you see, that's the problem there... they were claiming to do X, but were actually doing Y.
Just as lets say if we did have AI person removal... but you said "actually lets you see what's behind the person that would obviously be a problem, as obviously that's actually impossible.
Likewise you hear space zoom... you have to point the camera at the moon... you assume that the camera is capturing the moon, and the image you are looking at is the moon in real time. Obviously not likely to happen but imagine for a second while you were looking at the moon through your camera, and say a meteor hit the moon leading to an enormous explosion and crater that would be visible through a telescope, or hell maybe something extreme enough that it's at least partially visible even to the naked eye. The feature as described would let you see it enhanced in more detail than you could with the naked eye, while in reality it would replace the abnormalities and give you a picture of how the moon looks in it's training data.
This sounds like a post a bot would make!!!
I mean, VR has happened, and been happening for like a decade... is what's not happening that it hasn't replaecd every system and been the only or even primary method of gaming... no. Is it mark zuckerbergs "metaverse" where we start working from home, by wanting to go into a VR virtual workspace or hold our productivity meetings in VR... no obviously not.
Is it a viable option of gaming, along with mobile phone games, PC games, Console games, and portable console games, yes it has a place there right now.