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Darkassassin07@lemmy.catoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.world•Better to have it and not need it, than need it and not have it.English
5·3 days agoI mean, being the crazy guy that never leaves your house is no fun. Gotta share all your madness with the neighbourhood. Spread the love XD
Darkassassin07@lemmy.catoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.world•Better to have it and not need it, than need it and not have it.English
8·3 days agoAlso; where tf do you store a 50’ skeleton the rest of the year… I don’t have space for that, it can stay on the lawn.
Youtube regularly makes changes that break third party apps/clients/frontends.
Give it a couple days, the devs will catch up and fix the issues/incompatibility.
Darkassassin07@lemmy.cato
Technology@lemmy.world•US Cities Cancel 50+ Flock Surveillance Contracts Amid Public BacklashEnglish
8·4 days agoDid you read the article provided?
Even a police officer cannot just follow someone around all day every day, without reasonable articulable suspicion. They would also be guilty of harassment and/or criminal stalking.
Again, it’s not that a camera is recording that’s the problem. It’s the infrastructure behind those cameras that aggregate all the data into a single database which requires no cause to search. Anyone with a badge/title can track anyone throughout the whole country, with no probable cause, no warrant, and no oversight. They don’t even have to say why they’re searching the system.
An ex partner fleeing an abusive boyfriend/girlfriend that happens to be a police officer (or that has a police officer buddy) can and will be hunted down by that ex, and nobody will know until it’s too late. This system directly puts people in danger.
at least 50 documented cases across the United States in which law enforcement officers have been charged with or accused of misusing AI-powered automated license plate reader systems to conduct unauthorized surveillance of intimate partners, ex-partners, or women they wanted to meet. In 26 of those cases, prosecutors and investigators concluded that officers used the technology specifically to spy on wives, girlfriends, former partners, their exes’ new partners, or women they sought to approach.
These systems also get used by government agencies (on both sides of the spectrum) to track anyone that disagrees with their political stance, fishing for ways to harass, jail, or run them out of town/state. Governments given this type of power stop being democracies and become dictatorships; because anyone that could or would challenge them get hunted down.
I see nothing wrong with what you’re doing in public being available to law enforcement.
It wouldn’t be a problem if every person with access to this system was 100% honest and just; but thats simply not the reality of the world. There are ALWAYS people that will abuse these types of tools for evil purposes. That’s why we have a court system instead of just making every police officer ‘judge, jury, and executioner’.
Flock removes the court system and puts all the power in every single officers hands. That is NOT a good thing.
‘Every police officer has good intentions’ is a fantasy. If you can’t see that, you’ve spent way too much time inside.
Darkassassin07@lemmy.cato
Technology@lemmy.world•US Cities Cancel 50+ Flock Surveillance Contracts Amid Public BacklashEnglish
17·5 days agoFlock effectively follows you around like a stalker.
If I was to follow you around all day, recording everything you do (even if I just stay in public spaces), I would be guilty of harassment and potentially criminal stalking. Flock does the same thing, just via a network of cameras instead of literally following you in person.
There are tons of public cameras, but they’re owned by seprate individuals/companies. You’d be required to get permission from each ones owner to collect their footage, which in itself provides saftey against stalkers. The owners of that footage are in no way obligated to provide it and will likely refuse without being given a good reason. They may even still refuse until provided with a court order. That oversight, from both the footage owners and the courts that order it to be handed over, protects people from unlawful harassment, particularly stalkers.
The fact that Flock provides anyone with a badge/title the ability to freely search a massive database for every public location a person has been, what they were wearing, how they walk, what bluetooth devices they had, their mode of transport (plus every detail about it Flock can extract), facial recognition data, and more - is terrifying. 0 oversight: no warrant, no reasonable suspicion, no evidence of a crime; just following you around hoping to catch you doing something they don’t like (regardless of whether it’s illegal activity or not).
If you haven’t yet, you should really read that article I posted above.
A single search query recruits that entire network as a passive tracking apparatus. An officer who sets a specific plate on a “hot list” receives an automatic alert whenever that vehicle appears anywhere in the system — across city limits, across state lines, across jurisdictions the officer has no authority in. The abuser does not need to be present. The cameras do the watching for him.
Darkassassin07@lemmy.cato
Technology@lemmy.world•US Cities Cancel 50+ Flock Surveillance Contracts Amid Public BacklashEnglish
93·5 days agoYour presumptions aren’t helpful in the slightest. Educate, don’t enflame.
Being unaware of the ramifications is not even remotely the same as being ok with them.
Darkassassin07@lemmy.cato
Technology@lemmy.world•US Cities Cancel 50+ Flock Surveillance Contracts Amid Public BacklashEnglish
31·5 days agoOne camera isnt the problem.
A whole network of cameras tracking your every move, logged in a national database that doesn’t require a warrant or oversight is.
Police require a warrant to get your phones location data, but they don’t require one to ask Flock for your every move. This has already been abused hundreds of times by police and city employees to stalk their ex partners and more…
HR departments get flooded with AI generated applications by the truckload making automating rejections the only viable way to keep up
That goes both ways. Employers have been auto rejecting applicants for years, so applicants have shifted to automating applications.
Why should someone looking for a job take the time to craft an application, when it gets rejected without a person ever actually looking at it.
Last time I went job hunting (2yrs ago), I got a response from less than 1% of the jobs I applied to.
Darkassassin07@lemmy.cato
Technology@lemmy.world•Amazon secretly circumvents community vote for massive AI data center using 45-year-old rulesEnglish
2·6 days agoIt’s the classic World War II napalm.
https://rxmechanic.com/styrofoam-and-gasoline/
Acetone works too. You really don’t have to be that picky.
Darkassassin07@lemmy.cato
Technology@lemmy.world•Amazon secretly circumvents community vote for massive AI data center using 45-year-old rulesEnglish
1·6 days agoGasoline will do the same.
Not sure; but people/instances would still have to remove whatever version they had.
Darkassassin07@lemmy.cato
Technology@lemmy.world•Amazon secretly circumvents community vote for massive AI data center using 45-year-old rulesEnglish
25·6 days agoMolotov’s are pretty cheap/easy to make and they’re pretty effective during construction, before the sprinkler system is installed+charged.
Darkassassin07@lemmy.cato
Canada@lemmy.ca•Canada prepared to halt booze bans, meet other U.S. demands in exchange for tariff relief: sourcesEnglish
12·6 days agoThe gov may lift the ban, and put the bottles back on the shelves; but we’re still not buying it.
Elbows up motherfuckers.
/edit: I should also note; each province enacted their own ban. It’s not up to the federal government whether we lift the bans, each province would have to agree separately.
Is anyone still using Tesseract after the devs huge crashout and him deciding to DDOS instances??
Darkassassin07@lemmy.cato
Political Memes@lemmy.world•White house construction siteEnglish
22·9 days agoNo, I’m not crossing that border again in my lifetime. 🇨🇦
6 people, one bike, no helmets, very little visibility… What could go wrong 🤷🏻
Darkassassin07@lemmy.cato
All Cops Are Bastards@quokk.au•Guys. Each flock can cost $3k to replace. Think of the cameras. 😭
5·9 days agoIn the short term.
If we can drive the cost of replacing them above the ‘value they bring’ (at least as perceived by local officials) they’re not going to want to replace them.
Big bill, with little return. Why keep paying.
Darkassassin07@lemmy.cato
Political Memes@lemmy.world•White house construction siteEnglish
22·10 days agoLots of people, materials, and activity… Seems like a great time to sneak something in… Or out.






















Yup, just go back inside for your change.