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There's always money in the banana sta... Flock cameras (discuss.online)
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[–] 138 points 3 months ago (10 children)

There is also a Threadripper PRO 9995WX inside and a 12TB SSD drive.

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  • [–] 38 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    Ok that SSD got me.. new games simply won't run on HDDs anymore.. almost makes me sad I don't have this shit where I live

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  • [–] 11 points 3 months ago

    I'm noticing a LOT more lately that everything is geared towards the US. I really wish I could move from here for peace of mind. There is no reason we have to work ourselves daylight to dark every day.

    Enjoy what you have my friend.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    new games simply won’t run on HDDs anymore

    New AAA(A) games won't run well on them, no. Play other ones.

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    • [–] 171 points 3 months ago (31 children)

    Seems to be misinformation? A teardown of a flock camera does not show any distinguishable RAM. The rechargeable battery would be worth a lot though.

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  • [–] 129 points 3 months ago (12 children)

    It is a shitpost. It is a variant on the "did you know flock cameras contains valuable copper and wiring etc". They don't contain much that would amount to anything of that either, but that is not really the point.

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  • [–] 51 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    Did you know flock cameras have at least a kilo of meth in them?

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  • [–] 29 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

    I've heard that flock cameras contain the rest of the Epstein files

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  • [–] 17 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    I hear tell there's a small piece of a large map in each camera. No one has collected enough pieces to tell what the map reveals.

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  • [–] 63 points 3 months ago (5 children)
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  • [–] 13 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    You could turn it into a Linux box to connect to a TV with those specs. It's so sad I don't live close to those things.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Interesting teardown, if that large battery only protected by thin plastic? I'd be a bit concerned that a fast enough projector like a BBC gun could penetrate the battery and start a fire. I mean someone could drive by and for from their car without being seen! Seams like an issue they should really address.

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    • [–] 29 points 3 months ago (6 children)

    Fun joke and all but they can't possibly use 64gb ram, it's probably 8 or 4 I'd expect, and probably sodimm at that

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    • [–] 23 points 3 months ago (19 children)

    What kind of RAM, tho?

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  • [–] 31 points 3 months ago (17 children)

    At this point it doesn't matter... They've got me at flock camera.

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  • [–] 12 points 3 months ago (16 children)

    I mean it matters to me because would I be selling the RAM or putting it in my own machine? :P

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  • [–] 18 points 3 months ago* (15 children)

    It's fake. What the hell would a camera do with 64 GB? I'd be surprised if it's got more than 2 GB, probably DDR3 soldered onto the board.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    I'd believe 8GB easy, probably 16GB or more.

    It's recording video & audio, scanning plates on cars & comparing them to a database, waiting for input to view live feeds (possibly to multiple users at once), probably running some type of encryption so people can't "steal" the data they're collecting...

    If an apple watch has like a gig of RAM, I'd believe a flock cam is in the double digits

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago

    Recording video and audio needs like 1GB RAM max. It would then stream that to a data center to do the heavy lifting for scanning the images, extracting license plates, running the database and so on. But even if they did that locally, 4 GB is enough.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    As someone with a home server and security cameras... (See 3rd paragraph for flock)

    The cameras don't have any ram. At least not the kind we are talking about. They use onboard processors and flash memory.

    The NVR typically has 4-8g ram but that's the not the camera, that's the hub that they all connect to, and it also has the HHD/SSD wich is now also double+ the price. It's also not external, it's in a secure location.

    Flock: AFAIK cameras run snapdragon, so it's like a cell phone, with 2g ram chip. Not PC RAM. That, once again, could be in the NVR, which I believe is cloud based, so not a local device you can access.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago* (2 children)

    64 is definitely too much, but they do real time video streaming with I'm sure some preliminary processing and maybe some ml shit. All of that is memory intensive so 2 is def too little, and ddr3 might be too slow. It's totally soldered onto the board though, that's for sure.
    Edit: https://cdn.lantronix.com/wp-content/uploads/pdf/MPB-00092-RevB-Open-Q-624A-SOM.pdf apparently you're right, and I was way off.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (1 child)

    Ah, nice! Looks reasonable. I think the stream just goes directly to a data center, where the actual license plate recognition and any computation happens.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    Yeah, I thought that since they're not storing video, they do some preliminary stuff on it, but this way it's way cheaper. There is also different type of camera and even different company that also does the same, so it's possible that those are bigger

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago* (7 children)

    I'm not exactly serious here; I don't even think there are Flock cameras in my city. Tho now I am wondering how I might find out for sure.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    Apparently there's a map.

    I'm trying to keep up with what's happening in the US and it's kinda crazy to me that there are so many. We have security cameras in Sweden too but you really can't just put them up anywhere.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago* (2 children)

    This map shows there are 8 right at the corner of my apartment... But there aren't? Unless it's also tracking the cameras on the traffic lights that have been there for years before Flock even existed. 🤨

    I always thought those were just part of the traffic light's sensor system to control the flow of traffic, not ALPR cameras. Crazy.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

    Click on it and click view OSM. It'll give you substantially more data about the device. Most likely those are flock cameras now and you didn't notice when they were changed. Could just be a false positive as anyone can submit them for review. Though I think that is getting more and more rare.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    If you're in the U.S., I'd be surprised if you don't have any. There's a little "town" near me with literally only a Post Office. It has at least two already.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    The town of 10,000 people I live in had 8 of them and there's a town of 500 people my wife grew up in that has one. Heck the rural county I live in had one of those ex-military armored vehicles which the sheriffs looked half-tempted to try to hook up at the tractor pull when they were showing it off.

    Never underestimate the questionable spends of police departments with little oversight on new toys that are of dubious ethics, efficacy and legality

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    • [–] 22 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    But does the Flock camera RAM have RGB?

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    • [–] 16 points 3 months ago* (1 child)

    Fam, those SSD's....

    If only I was America, this distopia would quickly become a utopia.

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    • [–] 15 points 3 months ago

    flock.md

    rule Flock cameras are extremely valuable and meth/fent dealers will take them in trade rule

    observation the police don't want you to know that the flock cameras are free, you can just take them observation

    thought I should recommend resale of flock cameras when people ask me how to make money or say they are having hard times thought

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    [–] 6 points 3 months ago

    I'm interested in grabbing one for my streaming setup

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    [–] 4 points 3 months ago*

    Skamtebord

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    [–] 10 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    In what world would a glorified license plate reader need 64 gigs of ram

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    • [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    Crazy the PSP had 64mb of RAM. I only really need 32 to fucking obliterate in Midnight Club 2.

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    [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    Vengeance

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