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this post was submitted on 26 Jan 2025
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AmA’s or “Ask Me Anything” began on the old internet, originally AOL chatrooms, later followed by Slashdot. They are crowdsourced interviews where the interviewee first makes a post describing who they are and what they do. Commenters then leave questions and can vote on other questions according to which they would like to see answered.
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how do you find the right balance of camera coverage? I need to keep my secret military installation secure but im not trying to waste budget covering every inch of the site with cameras and then paying some shmucks 12$ an hour to watch all those feeds.
what's your favorite trap? I prefer the classics myself, and anything involving lasers. funny story that's how i got this eyepatch.
You wanna keep your surveillance camera count low. Keep them mostly in narrow corridors and near tight corners and make sure there's more of them the closer you get to crucial command centers. Never ever install any outward facing cameras on the walls of any bases. You mostly want them directly beside doors so half of the the view is of the wall above the door. We also like to use a more cinematic lense so people watching the monitors keep paying attention, the fisheye we attach means it has a very narrow range of focus and cannot perceive a human body in a thick vest sidling along a wall beneath it. Every pro has its con right?
Lasers are for really important places. Like the pantry next to the bag of flour or between different sections of the building. The trick with lasers is they should always be at least 2 and a half feel off the ground. Wear a bulky jacket and lie down to check for that. If the laser doesn't safely pass over you, it's gonna get set off all the samn time by pests and you don't need that. Best to have a good clearance over the ground with lasers. I Connected one to a system that seals the whole room shut and pumps poison gas into the room. Had to make the lasers move up and down for that one too. Good thing I was smoking or I wouldn't have seen the beams and I'd have inhaled a bunch of poison gss.