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What is this pair of metal... Things.. hanging on traffic light pole over an intersection? (infosec.pub)

submitted 13 hours ago by hereiamagain@sh.itjust.works to c/whatisthisthing@lemmy.world

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They were on all of them in the intersection, four sets

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[–] swicano@slrpnk.net 35 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

I wonder if it's a weight to change the resonance frequency cause it was wobbling too much. Or it's the charging ports for the govt birds

[–] vivi@slrpnk.net 9 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

https://www.reddit.com/r/civilengineering/comments/18uojdz/what_are_these/ it looks like you're correct. it's a spring damper

[–] vivi@slrpnk.net 5 points 9 hours ago

aside, I used Lens to look up similar images, and that worked, but the associated LLM made up a completely different purpose and name for them 🤦‍♀️

[–] RePsyche@lemmy.world 15 points 11 hours ago

Bird recharge port, the cap comes off, they get inside to charge, software updates, etc. Yep.