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mrbotus
Apr 7, 2009

Patron of the Pants

VideoTapir posted:

Dad's pretty well-muscled for a Chinese dude.

Idk, I feel like I've seen a lot Chinese dudes who are chubby/fat but have huge calves.


Boiled Water posted:

https://twitter.com/0xdedbeef/status/912026226658652160

This surveillance thing has a lot of classes written in mandarin, can anyone sus our what the classifiers say?

Most of it is too small and blurry for me to read. But the top line reads gender. Men have 男, women have 女. Below that reads "adult" or 成人.

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Collateral Damage
Jun 13, 2009

That image is really no worse than the data your average digital advertising sign collects. The ones I've seen demonstrated log estimated gender and age, skin color, glasses or no, how long you look at the ad displayed, reaction to the ad, etc.

They can also remember people and presumably keep track of people passing the sign frequently.

Collateral Damage fucked around with this message at 21:37 on Sep 25, 2017

Coolguye
Jul 6, 2011

Required by his programming!
that's pretty bad/should probably not be legal

Barudak
May 7, 2007

Coolguye posted:

that's pretty bad/should probably not be legal

An open rumor/obvious fact is the NSA buys adtech for some of their spy tools

Collateral Damage
Jun 13, 2009

Coolguye posted:

that's pretty bad/should probably not be legal
Yuup.

This video is from 2011 and it's downright primitive compared to current systems. Pretty much every digital advertising sign uses this kind of software nowadays, though not all of them tailor what content they show to who's looking. Most of them just collect statistics.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5eLmqSjfko&t=32s

And here's an ad for one such system.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sE3x_QjgnMU


The next step would be something like cross-referencing faces with a database of Facebook user profile pictures so for example if you pay a bit too much attention to a car ad on the street, the advertiser can then buy your email address from Facebook and send you an offer for a test drive.

Kind of the wrong thread for this, but it goes to show that automatic surveillance, identification and tracking is definitely real.

Collateral Damage fucked around with this message at 23:50 on Sep 25, 2017

Barudak
May 7, 2007

Its also pathetically easy in china because almost everything from phone number to social media requires being tied to a government id code making it nearly instantaneous and nearly error free once you have that info.

In the US you can lose 30-50% of your matches off the bat even with an email address.

Coolguye
Jul 6, 2011

Required by his programming!

Barudak posted:

An open rumor/obvious fact is the NSA buys adtech for some of their spy tools

i'm the last person you need to tell about that one

angel opportunity
Sep 7, 2004

Total Eclipse of the Heart
I have a 5-day old baby and my in-laws are living with me for the next month. So far the major issue is them thinking he's cold all the time.

In Pittsburgh like most of the Northeast it's been unusually warm for late September, like 80+ and humid during the day and not much better at night. When we got out of the hospital I had to adjust the carseat while my MIL held the baby. It was sweltering hot and we were all sweating, and I look up to see her wrapping a blanket around him.

Today EVERY SINGLE TIME I walk out of the apartment for a minute to let the dog pee or whatever, I come back and they've "sneakily" turned off the A/C. I'm sweating and they'll ask me, "Don't you think baby is cold?" pointing to AC. I just say "It's very very hot, he's not cold."

peanut
Sep 9, 2007


babby kawaii ( ☆∀☆)

The Great Autismo!
Mar 3, 2007

by Fluffdaddy

angel opportunity posted:

I have a 5-day old baby and my in-laws are living with me for the next month. So far the major issue is them thinking he's cold all the time.

In Pittsburgh like most of the Northeast it's been unusually warm for late September, like 80+ and humid during the day and not much better at night. When we got out of the hospital I had to adjust the carseat while my MIL held the baby. It was sweltering hot and we were all sweating, and I look up to see her wrapping a blanket around him.

Today EVERY SINGLE TIME I walk out of the apartment for a minute to let the dog pee or whatever, I come back and they've "sneakily" turned off the A/C. I'm sweating and they'll ask me, "Don't you think baby is cold?" pointing to AC. I just say "It's very very hot, he's not cold."

lol, God I wish this was a ten episode special on Netflix, I would binge the poo poo out of it

Barudak
May 7, 2007

angel opportunity posted:

I have a 5-day old baby and my in-laws are living with me for the next month. So far the major issue is them thinking he's cold all the time.

In Pittsburgh like most of the Northeast it's been unusually warm for late September, like 80+ and humid during the day and not much better at night. When we got out of the hospital I had to adjust the carseat while my MIL held the baby. It was sweltering hot and we were all sweating, and I look up to see her wrapping a blanket around him.

Today EVERY SINGLE TIME I walk out of the apartment for a minute to let the dog pee or whatever, I come back and they've "sneakily" turned off the A/C. I'm sweating and they'll ask me, "Don't you think baby is cold?" pointing to AC. I just say "It's very very hot, he's not cold."

Congrats on the baby.

I lied to our relatives and told them the kids half non chinese blood made him hotter than a cold chinese baby

Fleta Mcgurn
Oct 5, 2003

Porpoise noise continues.
AO, congratulations on small creature!

I would blow Dane Cook
Dec 26, 2008

angel opportunity posted:

I have a 5-day old baby and my in-laws are living with me for the next month. So far the major issue is them thinking he's cold all the time.

In Pittsburgh like most of the Northeast it's been unusually warm for late September, like 80+ and humid during the day and not much better at night. When we got out of the hospital I had to adjust the carseat while my MIL held the baby. It was sweltering hot and we were all sweating, and I look up to see her wrapping a blanket around him.

Today EVERY SINGLE TIME I walk out of the apartment for a minute to let the dog pee or whatever, I come back and they've "sneakily" turned off the A/C. I'm sweating and they'll ask me, "Don't you think baby is cold?" pointing to AC. I just say "It's very very hot, he's not cold."

:sever:

Ceciltron
Jan 11, 2007

Text BEEP to 43527 for the dancing robot!
Pillbug

Barudak posted:

Congrats on the baby.

I lied to our relatives and told them the kids half non chinese blood made him hotter than a cold chinese baby

I'm gonna steal this, thanks!

Devils Affricate
Jan 22, 2010
Are you guys still incapable of identifying when AO is copy/pasting from reddit or are you all just playing along? Maybe I'm the one who doesn't get it.

The Great Autismo!
Mar 3, 2007

by Fluffdaddy

Devils Affricate posted:

Are you guys still incapable of identifying when AO is copy/pasting from reddit or are you all just playing along? Maybe I'm the one who doesn't get it.

he's real posting

Ceciltron
Jan 11, 2007

Text BEEP to 43527 for the dancing robot!
Pillbug

Devils Affricate posted:

Are you guys still incapable of identifying when AO is copy/pasting from reddit or are you all just playing along? Maybe I'm the one who doesn't get it.

yeah he's an actual dad now.

Blistex
Oct 30, 2003

Macho Business
Donkey Wrestler

Barudak posted:

Its also pathetically easy in china because almost everything from phone number to social media requires being tied to a government id code making it nearly instantaneous and nearly error free once you have that info.

In the US you can lose 30-50% of your matches off the bat even with an email address.

It's also insanely easy to identify and track individuals since they can just walk through a subway turnstyle on the way in or out of a station and their phone/id will identify them by name/id number. That info is coupled with the video data, and the camera tags your outline as being you. As you are being tracked and move from area to area, overlapping cameras pass on your tag between them. So you can get identified in one spot, and as long as you are always being monitored by a camera in the system, they can keep track of your movements all day. Walking through heavy crowds might cause the system to lose you, but given your features and clothing it would be pretty easy to get picked up again the next time you are walking alone, or pass by another reader that picks up your phone or id signature.

People think it has to be a massive marvel of AI, but really all it needs to do is ID you via your phone or swiping a card, and then just keep you in its crosshairs. Even a fairly primitive video tracking program can probably do that.

angel opportunity posted:

I have a 5-day old baby and my in-laws are living with me for the next month. So far the major issue is them thinking he's cold all the time.

I have a month and a half old baby, but only have to contend with the mother in law. She gave up on the "he's too cold" shtick after we used the digital thermometer a few times to show her even in a light one-piece and a very light blanket he's at a comfortable temperature.

Blistex fucked around with this message at 03:54 on Sep 26, 2017

Devils Affricate
Jan 22, 2010

The Great Autismo! posted:

he's real posting

Ceciltron posted:

yeah he's an actual dad now.

Well that just isn't fair

Ceciltron
Jan 11, 2007

Text BEEP to 43527 for the dancing robot!
Pillbug
I wish I was a dad, too

VideoTapir
Oct 18, 2005

He'll tire eventually.
My Chinese parents-in-law don't give much of a gently caress about my daughter because she's a daughter. My wife's grandparents are nice to her, at least.

But holy poo poo, my wife's sister's husband. They have a baby who is 100 days older than ours. Our baby has been over to visit a few times. The time before last, she was in the middle of this "mine mine" phase accompanied by shoving, hitting, clawing people. (I'm laying the blame for that on mom not being able to say no to her EVER, and on some of our neighbors in the US bullying her)
And she shoved, hit, and clawed her cousin (it wasn't all one way, but mostly). Her cousin is smaller than she is (the parents are both tiny people), and is (or at least was...I'll get to that) the shyest, meekest little toddler you ever saw. So I can understand the brother in law not liking my daughter.

Last month, the cousin and her mom came to visit us in Huzhou. The cousin was really shy, and really sweet and nice. But over the week and some change she was with us, she got more and more active and outgoing. Basically, at home, her father does two things...he yells at her when he isn't ignoring her to play video games. She comes to my house, and the adults are all paying attention to her. Our baby is finally learning to share. They're going out and having fun, she has someone to play with all day, she's having the time of her life.

Then my wife and daughter accompany them back to their house. My prick brother in law, apparently still angry about poo poo that happened 6 months ago, and neither of the toddlers even loving remember, starts telling his daughter to take things from my daughter, to hit my daughter, to hurt my daughter. And she does it. And all the progress both toddlers have made is erased in a day.

My daughter's cousin is welcome to come over any time. My daughter is never going to that house again. This isn't an isolated incident. That dude and his family are about as emotionally abusive to my sister-in-law and her daughter as you can get without actually getting violent.

WarpedNaba
Feb 8, 2012

Being social makes me swell!
Sounds about right.

I'd like to be a dad, but I'm the youngest in the business (150+ people in the building) by a decade and my social circle dissolved into nothing years ago.

VideoTapir
Oct 18, 2005

He'll tire eventually.
My social circle narrowed to just my wife and her family about the time we started seeing each other; so it was a pretty natural progression.

Baronjutter
Dec 31, 2007

"Tiny Trains"

Blistex posted:


I have a month and a half old baby, but only have to contend with the mother in law. She gave up on the "he's too cold" shtick after we used the digital thermometer a few times to show her even in a light one-piece and a very light blanket he's at a comfortable temperature.

A baby needs to be in a 5 piece for healthy.

VideoTapir
Oct 18, 2005

He'll tire eventually.
The bundling up makes sense if you consider their rear end and genitals are exposed all the time. You lose a lot of heat that way.

Bajaj
Sep 13, 2017

by FactsAreUseless

angel opportunity posted:

I have a 5-day old baby and my in-laws are living with me for the next month. So far the major issue is them thinking he's cold all the time.

In Pittsburgh like most of the Northeast it's been unusually warm for late September, like 80+ and humid during the day and not much better at night. When we got out of the hospital I had to adjust the carseat while my MIL held the baby. It was sweltering hot and we were all sweating, and I look up to see her wrapping a blanket around him.

Today EVERY SINGLE TIME I walk out of the apartment for a minute to let the dog pee or whatever, I come back and they've "sneakily" turned off the A/C. I'm sweating and they'll ask me, "Don't you think baby is cold?" pointing to AC. I just say "It's very very hot, he's not cold."
RIP on losing your mind all the time due to Chinese superstitions that were once hidden, but will now be at the forefront of your every day life forever. The woman you married is not the woman you married, etc.

---

Korean looking good.

WarpedNaba
Feb 8, 2012

Being social makes me swell!
... Israeli?

Blistex
Oct 30, 2003

Macho Business
Donkey Wrestler

VideoTapir posted:

Then my wife and daughter accompany them back to their house. My prick brother in law, apparently still angry about poo poo that happened 6 months ago, and neither of the toddlers even loving remember, starts telling his daughter to take things from my daughter, to hit my daughter, to hurt my daughter. And she does it. And all the progress both toddlers have made is erased in a day.

It's a mix of face loss from the initial incident, and Chinese parents/grandparents thinking that their kids inflicting damage on other people/things is hilarious. I've seen parents literally telling their toddlers to go take things away from other kids, or to knock them down. Then when the other parents get mad, it turns into a 35 minute shouting match in the park. I've also seen grandparents giving their kids sticks and letting them break windows and hit cars. The best was when this old gently caress gave his 3 year old grandson a rock and the kid cracked a storefront window. The owner came out and started yelling at the grandfather, and gramps just laughed and walked away with the kid in tow, knowing that the storeowner wasn't likely to hurt a child, attack an old man, or leave his store unmanned for an real amount of time.

It's also funny that you mentioned the dad ignoring his child and playing video games. My wife's one cousin and her husband pretty much left their kid in his crib for 3 years to fend for himself while they played their Chinese MMORPGs. After grandma (grandpa is dead) moved in, they really have no more contact with their kid between work and gaming all night.

China is basically hosed economically, environmentally, demographically, and socially. Any one of those could potentially destabilize the government, but all of them together reassure me that there is never going to be a "Chinese Century".

Baronjutter posted:

A baby needs to be in a 5 piece for healthy.


Ohhboy, post the 5 piece nappy!

VideoTapir
Oct 18, 2005

He'll tire eventually.

quote:

The owner came out and started yelling at the grandfather, and gramps just laughed and walked away with the kid in tow, knowing that the storeowner wasn't likely to hurt a child, attack an old man, or leave his store unmanned for an real amount of time.

Sieze toddler, make him sweep floors to pay for the window.

Blistex
Oct 30, 2003

Macho Business
Donkey Wrestler

VideoTapir posted:

Sieze toddler, make him sweep floors to pay for the window.

<Indifferent cop leans against his car smoking a cigarette as the store owner beats the old man with the toddler>

The Great Autismo!
Mar 3, 2007

by Fluffdaddy

Bajaj posted:

RIP on losing your mind all the time due to Chinese superstitions that were once hidden, but will now be at the forefront of your every day life forever. The woman you married is not the woman you married, etc.

---

Korean looking good.


there's a no brainer in here IMO

Blistex
Oct 30, 2003

Macho Business
Donkey Wrestler

The Great Autismo! posted:

there's a no brainer in here IMO

You're wondering what it feels like to get head from a throat singer?

vanity slug
Jul 20, 2010

Blistex posted:

You're wondering what it feels like to get head from a throat singer?

Booking my flight now.

DAMN NIGGA
Aug 15, 2008

by Lowtax
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LimburgLimbo
Feb 10, 2008
Not even the decency to make it Chinese butt porn, low effort

vanity slug
Jul 20, 2010

Is that how babies are made?

Fojar38
Sep 2, 2011


Sorry I meant to say I hope that the police use maximum force and kill or maim a bunch of innocent people, thus paving a way for a proletarian uprising and socialist utopia


also here's a stupid take
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still cleaner than the fruit in your typical chinese supermarket

I would blow Dane Cook
Dec 26, 2008
What's the Chinese equivalent of Child Protective services?

Dissapointed Owl
Jan 30, 2008

You wrote me a letter,
and this is how it went:

I would blow Dane Cook posted:

What's the Chinese equivalent of Child Protective services?

hahahahahaha

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Fojar38
Sep 2, 2011


Sorry I meant to say I hope that the police use maximum force and kill or maim a bunch of innocent people, thus paving a way for a proletarian uprising and socialist utopia


also here's a stupid take
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I would blow Dane Cook posted:

What's the Chinese equivalent of Child Protective services?

lol

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