The City of Adelaide is installing a new CBD wide CCTV system with the South Australian Police. As part of their agreement the city wants a formal promise from SAPOL that it won't use the CCTV system's facial recognition capabilities "unless and until the parliament of South Australia adopts legislation". This was in November 2021 and the SA state government hasn't passed any laws and the police are yet to respond to the city's demand. SAPOL told iTnews that "should a facial recognition capability be available investigators will consider the seriousness of the matter and evidentiary value when determining if it is appropriate to use the technology". Reading between the lines - fuck you City of Adelaide, we'll do what we want.
EV charging for apartment owners is a massive pain in the arse, so it's nice to see that the NSW state government is gonna spend an extra $38m to co-found "500 more kerbside charge points and dozens more within apartment carparks". There are about 20 of these kerbside chargers in Sydney already, installed in Blacktown and Canada Bay (here's a video). They're new light poles, but with a socket on them to plug a car into and a little computer to manage the billing. If you live in an apartment and want an EV, you might like this document from the state government about how to get your building EV ready.
Synology's got a new-ish NAS - the HD6500. It contains 60x 3.5" HDD bays in a 4U rack chassis. Inside are 2x 10-core Xeon CPUs, 64GB of RAM (upgradeable to 512GB), 2x 1GbE and 2x 10GbE Ethernet and a couple of PCIe slots. CPL has the HD6500 on pre-order for $31,770.60. Without disks. Chuck in 60x 20TB HDDs ($821 each off Amazon, $49,260 for 60), you're looking at just over $81,000 for just under 1.1PB of raw storage. If 60 HDDs isn't enough, you can expand the array to 300 with up to four RX6022sas expansion units ($12,119 each, which is the HD6500 but without a computer), which also have capacity for 60 drives per unit. I'll add it to my Christmas wishlist.
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