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Hmm, lived there for a long time and walked by Boston City Hall almost every day. I'm not quite sure how to differentiate objective beauty and subjective beauty, but at least subjectively, in my opinion, it's an eyesore.

Agreed on all fronts that City Hall Plaza is a disaster, though. I thought there were plans to revamp it with the Government Center station green line revamp a few years ago, but not sure if that improved anything.

Exactly this. Have heard it referred to as "break glass access". Some form of remote access, be it SSH or otherwise, in case of serious emergency.

Frigate uses the TPU with an application processor, not this MCU + TPU version, right?

Yeah, I didn't understand the purpose of this device when it came out and still don't. It's an interesting system but seems like worst of both worlds because the coral TPU and M7 aren’t low power enough for battery applications, and it's unclear whether the full 4 TOPS of the Coral is achievable given the MCU’s memory bus bandwidth. So to me it looks like a computationally underpowered system that you have to keep plugged into the wall.

Going with the Cortex A Coral Dev Board or another SBC with the PCIe or USB standalone Coral TPU seems like a better bet. You'd get a better camera (eg via USB), more processing power and memory, and more full featured software (both Linux and TFLite instead of baremetal or embedded OS and TFLite Micro). Price point would be higher for this option, but you'd certainly make that up in saved time very quickly not having to deal with baremetal programming or an embedded OS.

I think this maybe could indicate potential increased usage of reverse proxies? Total shot in the dark though, not sure.

That's right, origin and destination are still visible. Even if you use encrypted DNS to hide hostname to IP lookups, your actual traffic has to be routed somehow by someone. Whether that's your ISP or a VPN provider + their ISP.

Posted this on another thread about VPNs a few weeks ago. Reposting here since I think it applies.

I've recently been describing what a commercial VPN provides to non-technical friends and family as a type of "global virtual Internet cafe" subscription - the pros and cons of using a physical Internet cafe mostly apply. An Internet cafe isn't inherently (i.e. due to technical benefits of underlying technology) any more or less secure than connecting to your home or work wifi/network, and the Internet cafe knows who you are and what websites you're visiting, but your ISP/employer doesn't (since you're "at" the Internet cafe, not on your home/work network).

Of course, your ISP/employer does know that you're visiting the Internet cafe, and in the case of work (and some ISPs) can stop you from doing so.

If you visit a website from an Internet cafe, the website may still be able to figure out who you are, just like they can when you bounce between different networks normally. And of course, if you login to your account on a website or put your shipping address or something in when buying something, you're self identifying (unless you have throwaway accounts or forwarding addresses or whatever).

And finally, if someone really wants to figure out who you are to a high degree of confidence, they will.

I find this lands pretty well and is close enough to being technically correct without getting into the details that non-technical people would start glazing over if I got into.

I've recently been describing what a commercial VPN provides to non-technical friends and family as a type of "global virtual Internet cafe" subscription. It's not inherently (i.e. due to technical benefits of underlying technology) any more or less secure than connecting to your home or work wifi/network, and the Internet cafe knows who you are and what websites you're visiting, but your ISP/employer doesn't (since you're "at" the Internet cafe, not on your home/work network).

Of course, your ISP/employer does know that you're visiting the Internet cafe, and in the case of work (and some ISPs) can stop you from doing so.

If you visit a website from an Internet cafe, the website may still be able to figure out who you are, just like they can when you bounce between different networks normally. And of course, if you login to your account on a website or put your shipping address or something in when buying something, you're self identifying (unless you have throwaway accounts or forwarding addresses or whatever). And finally, if someone really wants to figure out who you are to a high degree of confidence, they will.

I find this lands pretty well and is close enough to being technically correct without getting into the details that non-technical people would start glazing over if I got into.

I agree for casual browsing, but just curious for any service that requires providing some other piece of identifiable info (eg a site you have an account with and login to, or buying something online and entering your delivery address), what is a VPN helping with other than hiding that activity from your ISP (which may be what you're going for, but just curious)? Once you identify yourself to a website or online service via typical means, how is the IP anonymity a VPN provides helping?