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!
I mean, I agree with you that most military leaders and soldiers would not do this.
But your own example kind of shows the likely strategy:
What did Hitler do? What did Stalin do?
Fire or banish or kill enough leaders until you get ones that will listen to you, and re orient your troop pools so that you have a decent number of whole units that are ideologically aligned and thus likely to comply.
Trump’s entire modus operandi, now crystalized in extreme detail with Project 2025, has been figure out a way to replace everyone who is not an ideologically aligned stooge willing to literally break existing laws to carry out the whims of the God Emperor, at literally every level of government.
I obviously cannot know that this would be successful or in what timeframe.
I can only look to history for many examples of similar things occuring, and see more and more checked boxes making this more likely.
I’m sure the militaries of many other coup’d countries are told not to follow illegal orders, and I’m also sure that many in our modern military and time would resist, perhaps even violently as Stauffenberg did.
But the trend is looking astonishingly bad.
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.
Wonderful.
The delusional Q Anon ‘secret military tribunals any day now’ belief now stands a reasonable chance of actually happening.
I am not quite that old, but I learned digital media creation in the Macromedia Suite… Dreamweaver, Flash… before Adobe bought them out.
All things are possible through Christ lol
Ya’ll need God.
Posting this from TempleOS
Thats amazing lol.
Oh dear fucking God its actually worse than I remember.
This is from a woman who, according to her own biography, throws beer cans at homeless people, drinks and drives…
… and named her ‘emotional support’ hamster…
Mountain Dew.
Her… now former … husband was 22 when he hit on her, a 16 year old, working at McDonalds. That is how they met.
If you just think she us a trashy hypocrite, actually read her autobio. Its fucking wild.
The Republicans are also quite keen to end birthright citizenship, ie, if you are born on US territory, you are a citizen.
I guess they’ll be attempting to make it so you have to born on the territory to … probably two, not one, existing citizens.
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.
AIPAC has gotten away with not having to register as agents of a foreign nation for what, 50 years?
Why start now?
Probably not, the youtube algorithm shits itself from time to time if it can’t pigeonhole you into some kind of niche that makes it money.
Its sent me into an Onion path too, the old burning money pit video…
Combine that with being asked to wear a mask during a pandemic, and uh, nope, reality rejected, time to attempt a coup.
Trent Reznor was ahead of his time in many ways.
2025 for year zero, anyone?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-h13QYb7EA