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lars@lemmy.sdf.org to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world · 1 year ago

Traffic cameras hate this one weird trick

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Traffic cameras hate this one weird trick

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lars@lemmy.sdf.org to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world · 1 year ago
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  • lugal@sopuli.xyz
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    “Oh, this guy again. I have all the paper work ready”

    • skulblaka@startrek.website
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      https://xkcd.com/1105/

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        there’s one of these for literally every meme ever huh?

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          Given how long the xkcd has been around I think the car is referencing the comic

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            2005 for those wondering.

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              Think they mean the specific comic

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          I’m almost sure they’re procedurally generated for some time now

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        I knew I read it somewhere, it didn’t remember it to be an xkcd comic

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      It’s even more boring than that - the license plate system already searches ambiguous characters. It’s almost like this issue comes up even without people gaming the system.

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        Oh like so I bet

        if license plate person thinks they have 1 on they plate {
          do check to see if it’s \
            actually == i
        }
        
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          Something like that, yeah, I think the system automatically checks… Although this has 8 ambiguous characters, so actually you could have 256 cars with virtually indistinguishable plates, which is a lot. I believe custom plates have an approval process, and I wonder if this would be part of it. Like, “Yeah, no more black lincoln town cars with all I’s and 1’s, something’s up.”

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      This is why I don’t have a tag on my car. Can’t track my license plate if I don’t have a license plate. It’s foolproof!

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        This is even dumber than the morons who think any plate that’s days “private” has any hope of passing any kind of check.

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          If all license plates said “private” or “1ii11i1i” they’d never catch us all

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    Has anyone posted the related XKCD yet?

    noooo? no one? OK … i guess it’s my turn

    https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/license_plate_2x.png

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      According to the timestamps, you were 3 hours too late, sorry dude… https://startrek.website/comment/6045561

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    Pretty sure the database actually treats them as the same character. So not sure if someone can’t have a different arrangement of I and 1 or if they all just get investigated if one of them commits a crime.

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    This is like the old SC2 pros hiding their nicknames when practicing on the ladder

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      Nowadays we just call that “smurfing”, and it’s a plague on every online game with a ranking system.

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    Can’t say too much but god I hate this so much. Used to work a call center and someone had a username that was all 1,l,I s and there was no way to easily identify between those 3 characters. For someone to verify who they were they needed to tell us their username and some other info. So I had to waste nearly 30 fucking minutes dealing with this stupid shit before we could proceed forward and we couldn’t just DC the person.

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      you sure it wasn’t this guy?

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        That is funny but not as bad.

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    It would be funnier if the license plate was “*DROPTABLE”

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    Can’t get DDoSed if they can’t figure out your username

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    I looked up the plate (TLC records are public info) and it’s still in service.

    Neat.

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