I have no experience with the software involved in that, but I do know that generally, anything connected to a POS system probably should not be connected to a publicly accessible… anything.

Does this software even have APIs to do something like that?

Or could you just point a webcam at a screen or portion of a screen that the default software indicates open tab count on lol?

Well dang, I did not know that.

Thank you for correcting me!

Nice!

I think you’re correct, but wouldn’t this only work if you are running either android, or google maps, and have location on?

Its accurate enough but still an estimate, is the point i am getting at.

Conceivably a webcam + opencv headcount would be more precise, if the cameras covered the whole space and could account for viewing the same person from a different angle.

Its like how google can give you an estimate of bus times, but if there is a local city app that specifically interfaces directly with the actually city busses, it’ll be more accurate.

They could very easily just implement some rudimentary person identification algos and output only a headcount.

Pretty sure you can do that with OpenCV.

This would happen in a just world.

It won’t though.

Reminds me of the recent millionaire guy who got lambasted on YT (i think his actual posts were on TikTok?).

Guys, I am going to lock up my money, my phone have no contacts and go to a new city and start from nothing and earn a million dollars in 30 or 90 days or something.

Whoah big surprise, a few weeks in he has to call the whole thing off for health reasons.

OMG he got robbed? Lost his paper work and thus couldn’t get the right aid? The shelters are full? Sleeping outside in a city is extremely dangerous and unhealthy? Your hygiene suffers? No one talks to you or treats you like a human being?

In a just world we’d put the income tax levels back to around FDR levels and thus be able to actually fund social programs and eliminate a great deal of the wealthy’s massive over representation in politics.

Instead it looks like we will be making a b-line toward theocratic corporatocracy.

Blargh.

Edit: Income and Corporate tax levels.

I so very hope this idiot asshole winds up either jailed and/or has his wealth severely diminished and most of his businesses fail from being unable to repay loans / convicted of fraud.

He’s the closest person on earth to becoming Horatio from the Endless series, yet he’s also basically a badly written Bond villain.

What a pos.

I have had multiple people in my life tell me that it is irresponsible to not have my phone on, 24/7, in case they need to message me about something.

These are the same people who get angry anytime I message them and they are busy, but also get angry if I am busy and don’t immediately reply to them.

I’ve been woken up so many times at 2 am…

At least in my life, its quite common for people to be hypocritical douchebags.

3d spatial sound always gets me.

Seems like it literally never ends, claiming to have some kind of new tech that revolutionizes 3d sound for either music or games.

Reality is almost nobody even today releases music in 5.1 or 7.1 format, and 3d spatial sound via software for headphones has existed since like 2002.

The Xbox Game Bar certainly is not new to 11… They just made it more of a system component than a program.

MSFT Accounts aren’t new, OneDrive isn’t new…

Also, after the gigantic kerfuffle caused by TPM requirement for Win 11, they are now apparentlty dropping it as a requirement?

So fucking glad I don’t work for MSFT anymore.

Just to be pedantic:

IFT 3 was a suborbital flight, so… either it did not reach orbital velocity, or the upper stage careened so wildly out of control that it borked it.

Its kind of confusing as in the live stream of it they keep saying the phrase orbital velocity, reached orbit, but also say it was intended to be a suborbital flight.

Edit: Yeah as best I can tell it was not even intended to be an orbital flight. https://x.com/planet4589/status/1765586241934983320

Also, the lower stage crashed into the ocean at around mach 2, so maybe that is what they are referring to? Looked like many of the engines did not relight, in addition to significant instability as it traversed back through the atmosphere.

Also also, the ‘re entry’ burn may be referring to attempting to relight the engines while in space? You are probably correct that they mean the landing burn / belly flop???

Edit 2: If they intend to do a suborbital flight, but also reach orbital velocity, this would entail a trajectory leading to a fairly steep descent path, which could need a … basically a pre reentry burn, to lessen velocity and/or change the descent path to something more shallow.

Its pretty hard to tell actual info about these Starship flights, partially because SpaceX outright lies during their live feeds, is tight lipped about other things, and many sources of coverage are often confused and/or simping for Musk.

One last thing: Does… Starship, the upper stage… even have monopropellant thrusters, or gyros, or anything for out of atmosphere orientation adjustments?

From the IFT3 vid it seemed like either no, or they malfunctioned.

Hah, remember when games and software used to be tested to ensure they would function correctly before release?

At least with Early Access games you know its in development.

What has it been, nearly a decade now that we just expect nearly everything to be broken on launch?

Don’t say “cut him a break” around a Tesla product, god knows what command it’ll interpret that as.

Oh. Oh its 5 am. I should sleep.

At this point, I believe I know more about sandwich making than any human alive on Earth.

Scene: a gigantic pop up tent with diesel generators in a desert, featuring many granite counters as well as top of the line kitchen appliances, and gamer lighting, all being set up in by workers who are immediately laid off once the jobsite is completed

Elon enters the tent with 4 Tesla bots slowly shambling behind him. One lags out when its remote link to a human controller is severed. Minutes later the remnants of a starlink satellite crash through the far end of the tent kitchen.

3 remaining Tesla bots proceed to bumble around like idiots, unable to open packets of deli ham, entirely ripping off the tops of deli mustard containers

Elon is awkwardly smiling and doing jazz hands the whole time

A neuralink mind controlled pig walks in as one Tesla bot wields a knife. Elon raises his hand to his ear, nods, then pushes a button on some phone app

The pig screams, then a popping noise is heard, and the pig collapses to the ground with smoke and blood coming out of its ears and nose

knife wielding tesla bot attempts to cut the pig’s flank, falls, cannot recover

the two remaining tesla bots continue in vain to open a loaf of bread without ripping the entire loaf apart. One slips and falls backwards, the other one runs out of battery and is frozen in place, holding a single piece of wonder bread

Elon curses, reaches into a refrigerator and hands you a crustable

This is horrible!

Obviously the Tesla’s cold gas thrusters must be malfunctioning! The Fully Autonomous Only Non Insane Car AutoPilot was clearly going to jump over the train Speed Racer style!

Thank goodness the driver realized the thruster failure light was on and was able to avoid the worst.

Edit: This is sarcasm! I hate using /s because I’d like to believe people can tell, but I guess not this time…

I mean on Android you can just use Aurora or NeoStore which make it extremely easy to identify all sorts of trackers, but then you realize most of Google’s stuff falls into that…

Hey, I did not know about that! Thanks!

Hah, guess there are at least 3 of us here.

Though I found it randomly on Steam, a decadeish after it originally came out.

Do not try to play it in 4k. It’ll work, because its an actually well coded game, but there is no scaling lol. Teeeny Tiny UI.

Welp, we finally have the voice spoofer from Uplink.

“My voice is my passport, verify me.”

In my experience those kinds of people are Ice Spice fans.

Who think that SSSniperwolf arriving at another person’s house live on Insta and doxxing them during a manic episode is ‘slay’.