I use iSpy. Its free and open source and you can connect as many IP cameras to it you want. Need cloud backup? Save the videos to google drive. Need text notifications? Theres apis for that.

It claims to be open source but it seems to be only in name. The web site says you can use it for free for personal use, but such a claim makes it NOT open source by definition. (Source-available at best.)

I had to dig really hard to find a link to github (https://github.com/ispysoftware/iSpy) but I get the impression from the README and lack of activity that this repo was superceded by another product from the same company, and that appears to be what the main website is marketing for download/payment. And according to the license file, some rather important bits of it are not open source at all.

I like it! "If you're not embarrassed by your app then you've waited too long to release it"

lots of people from orange county (grew up there) knew about this like 20 years ago.

also i have to add that this isnt just LA, its definitely also san diego and orange county.

just think of the money

why are you limiting this to california cities? yes, you're right, it's not just LA, but pretty much any policing agency of significant size. location doesn't matter. i will gladly accept i'm painting with an overly large brush if someone can show counter evidence of a decent sized police force where similar is NOT occurring.

While i completely agree with you, we should remember that absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

By "stakeholder" do you mean "landowner"? It's hard to tell.

landowner. its been done before and should be done again. im done commenting though because i dont wanna read their commenting guidelines and the admins already started whining at me. buhbye, dont worry, nobody will ever care about actually fixing democracy, so this landowner thing wont go anywhere.

I get that you're leaving because the "admins are whining at you" but before you go I just want to say that I think your idea that only landowners should vote is unhinged and not democracy at all, but rather feudalism.

Good luck.

speaking of unhinged, that isnt feudalism and isn't even close. its being qualified to vote. but like i said, nobody will make any serious effort to fix democracy, so i wouldn't worry about suddenly becoming a medieval peasant subject to the local lord.

Being a citizen is the qualifier to vote. Democracy means everyone votes - taking the right to vote away is the opposite of fixing democracy.

I dont think the biggest republican democracy can survive mobile phones. AI will make it impossible.

it seems to be more of a non-issue than the critical issue. people think they care, in reality, they don't. you walk into a mall, cameras everywhere. no problem. 1 guy points a phone at you to take a video. major issues. people are uninformed and misinformed, which is why EU websites sacrifice user experience for some arbitrary confirmation of "yes ill use cookies cause we know this website needs them". anyone that does conversion optimizations knows those "cookie consent" notices are for nothing and only serve to lower the user engagement on websites.

people used to do this naturally because back in the day there wasnt a "just coder" role.

I love reading stuff like this. I don't use fly, don't plan to, not totally sure everything it does and will check it out. But this is some great raw data on how stressful it is after you launch.

let this be a lesson not to let your company prioritize censorship and propaganda over everyday normal duties expected by users.

actually, we need to keep AI in our control and not the government's.