Daynotes: Monday, August 19, 2024

Monday, August 19, 2024

Google might be canary testing a new AI feature called Theft Detection Lock (via Forbes):#

So, what is theft detection lock? The Google announcement from Frey refers to it as being an “automatic AI-powered screen lock for when your phone is snatched,” which sums it up pretty well. Essentially, theft detection lock uses Google’s AI to determine if someone has snatched your smartphone by identifying the kinds of motion most often associated with such theft: the snatch from hand followed by escape on foot, bike or car. If it considers the motion to be indicative of a theft, the Ai-powered feature will instantly lock your device to prevent the thief from easily accessing your data.

I wonder how many false positives can be generated by trying to detect the type of motion associated with theft. If is sudden acceleration, what happens when I am driving my car and pull out to pass? #

More Benchmarking#

Ran Geekbench 6 in more containers today to compare performance. First I ran it in the Fedora 39 LXC Container in Proxmox 8.2 on the Raspberry Pi 5 and compared that to the Debian 12 LXC Proxmox container running on the Beelink U59 Pro and the results support the better performance that I have been observing. This comparison is a bit apple to oranges given the different Linux distros, but I think it generally supports the notion that the ARMv8 processor used by the Pi is slightly better than the Intel N5105 even though the Intel processor has a slightly higher clock speed. The performance of the Fedora 39 container is nearly the same as as the Raspberry Pi OS, and in fact the single core score is slightly better. #
The Debian 12 LXC Container, which has been my main remote desktop before I built the Raspberry Pi 5 with the NVMe drive, performs significantly better running in Proxmox 8.2 on the HP EliteDesk 800 G3 than in Proxmox 7.4 on the Beelink U59 Pro, and this performance improvement is expected given Intel i5-6500 3.6 GHz processor that is in the EliteDesk. From a simple spec and performance perspective the EliteDesk is more than twice as fast in single core performance and a 5 times faster in multi score performance and I paid less for the EliteDesk, even though it is physically much larger. BTW, the $106 I paid for the EliteDesk is also much cheaper than what I paid for the Raspberry Pi 5, which is all to say that if one is building a home lab on a budget then the refurbished route is probably the best one to take.#

Monday, August 19, 2024

Google might be canary testing a new AI feature called Theft Detection Lock (via Forbes):#

So, what is theft detection lock? The Google announcement from Frey refers to it as being an “automatic AI-powered screen lock for when your phone is snatched,” which sums it up pretty well. Essentially, theft detection lock uses Google’s AI to determine if someone has snatched your smartphone by identifying the kinds of motion most often associated with such theft: the snatch from hand followed by escape on foot, bike or car. If it considers the motion to be indicative of a theft, the Ai-powered feature will instantly lock your device to prevent the thief from easily accessing your data.

More Benchmarking#

Ran Geekbench 6 in more containers today to compare performance. First I ran it in the Fedora 39 LXC Container in Proxmox 8.2 on the Raspberry Pi 5 and compared that to the Debian 12 LXC Proxmox container running on the Beelink U59 Pro and the results support the better performance that I have been observing. This comparison is a bit apple to oranges given the different Linux distros, but I think it generally supports the notion that the ARMv8 processor used by the Pi is slightly better than the Intel N5105 even though the Intel processor has a slightly higher clock speed. The performance of the Fedora 39 container is nearly the same as as the Raspberry Pi OS, and in fact the single core score is slightly better. #
The Debian 12 LXC Container, which has been my main remote desktop before I built the Raspberry Pi 5 with the NVMe drive, performs significantly better running in Proxmox 8.2 on the HP EliteDesk 800 G3 than in Proxmox 7.4 on the Beelink U59 Pro, and this performance improvement is expected given Intel i5-6500 3.6 GHz processor that is in the EliteDesk. From a simple spec and performance perspective the EliteDesk is more than twice as fast in single core performance and a 5 times faster in multi score performance and I paid less for the EliteDesk, even though it is physically much larger. BTW, the $106 I paid for the EliteDesk is also much cheaper than what I paid for the Raspberry Pi 5, which is all to say that if one is building a home lab on a budget then the refurbished route is probably the best one to take.#

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