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Vending machine error reveals secret face image database of college students (arstechnica.com)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Facial-recognition data is typically used to prompt more vending machine sales.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

A low end Windows PC can be had very cheap these days. Why bother doing something proprietary, if you can just cobble together something from off the shelf parts?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

This isn't even remotely true. Everyone knows that if you're trying to do a cheap embedded product, you use SBCs and Linux. Using Windows for these kinds of applications is almost always the result of a company having a contract with Microsoft that leads their development strategy towards Microsoft's offerings rather than the best offerings.

Also, in what universe is a Linux platform more proprietary than Windows?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

People here are delusional, booting windows eats more ram than your typical embedded product needs to run. Same goes the hard drive.

And this people also think maintaining a yocto/build root image is proprietary 🤷‍♂️