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c/technology@lemmy.world · spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works · 17 Sep 2026

Grandmother jailed for six months after facial recognition mistake launches $10 million lawsuit against Fargo and detective

TechSpot Grandmother jailed for six months after facial recognition mistake launches $10 million lawsuit against Fargo and detective

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A Tennessee grandmother who spent six months in jail after facial recognition tech falsely linked her to a North Dakota bank fraud investigation now wants compensation for what happened. Angela Lipps is suing the City of Fargo and a Fargo Police Department detective for $10 million over the incident, which led to the loss of her home, car, and dog.

In July 2025, a team of US Marshals arrested 50-year-old Lipps in Tennessee at gunpoint while she was babysitting four young children. She was booked into the county jail in Tennessee as a fugitive from justice wanted in North Dakota.

c/technology@lemmy.world · spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works · 14 Sep 2026

LG responds to TV spying allegations

The Verge LG responds to TV spying allegations

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Earlier this week, Gamers Nexus, Level1Techs, and independent security researchers detailed some alarming findings about how LG’s TVs are logging and uploading data on its users. Now the company is pushing back against those allegations, saying that “Some recent media coverage may have contributed to misconceptions about how LG smart TVs work.”

LG released a statement in which it claims that its “TVs do not continuously record or transmit users’ conversations,” and that wake-word detection is all processed locally. However, the word “continuously” is doing a lot of heavy lifting here as Gamers Nexus demonstrated an LG TV keeping extensive logs of ambient conversations long after one would assume its AI assistant had stopped listening.

c/technology@lemmy.world · spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works · 10 Sep 2026

Flock Camera Tells Cop New Car Didn’t Have Insurance When It Did, Cop Writes Ticket Anyway

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Georgia college student reportedly received a ticket from a cop after a Flock camera flagged her newly purchased vehicle as having no insurance when it did. According to a WSB-TV report, posted by podcast host Kacee Allen, the car has a temporary license plate, but the student presented a valid insurance card. Despite this, the officer reportedly still issued a citation. The incident reportedly happened twice, and the student now has to defend herself in court

According to the news report, the database that Flock cameras rely on was yet to be updated. This caused the system to falsely flag the newly purchased vehicle.

Renee Jones, the student’s mother, said her daughter was doing everything required of her. This included maintaining insurance and carrying proof of coverage.

c/technology@lemmy.world · spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works · 23 Aug 2026

Flock CEO calls for ‘compromise’ as surveillance company faces growing backlash | TechCrunch

TechCrunch Flock CEO calls for ‘compromise’ as surveillance company faces growing backlash | TechCrunch

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The country needs to find a “compromise” between privacy and safety, according to Flock Safety CEO Garrett Langley.

“When people talk about just one of these, privacy or safety, they’re prioritizing the wrong thing, and what we have to prioritize as a country is compromise,” Langley said during a recent interview with Fox News. “How do we have our safety, and how do we balance privacy?”

c/technology@lemmy.world · spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works · 20 Aug 2026

Roblox argues 8-year-old waived rights in wrongful death lawsuit

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Can an 8-year-old waive their rights to sue a company by clicking a box?

That’s the stance of Roblox, an online gaming platform that bills itself as a digital playground.

The argument comes as the $41-billion company is embroiled in a lawsuit with the family of a Northern Kentucky child whose death by suicide, her mother says, is related to use of the platform.

c/technology@lemmy.world · spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works · 17 Aug 2026

New website lets drivers check whether their license plate has been searched on Flock database - Dexerto

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HaveIBeenFlocked.com compiles Flock audit logs, allowing users to type in their license plate number, and the website returns information on search results, including whether or not a Flock system operator has searched the database for their license plate.

The audit log includes the stated reason that someone in law enforcement gave in order to look up the license plate, but doesn’t include if or when your vehicle passed one of the Flock cameras.

c/technology@lemmy.world · spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works · 7 Aug 2026

The return of supersonic flight hinges on the race to solve one big hurdle | CNN

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The skies of Oklahoma City roared for six months in 1964 as military aircraft intentionally rattled the population below with a daily barrage of thunderous sonic booms. It was a controversial test — the consequences of which have lingered to this day.

Two approaches in the works could revolutionize air travel by making future supersonic passenger planes compliant with the FAA’s new noise rules: Colorado-based company Boom Supersonic, which is specifically mentioned in the FAA proposal, plans to use physics to prevent sonic booms from ever reaching the ground, regardless of plane design. NASA, on the other hand, is flying an experimental plane called X-59 that is specifically designed to reduce the intensity of the boom.

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Musk claimed that Tesla’s solar roof would be competitive with conventional roofing tiles when factoring in the value of the electricity generated and said the roof could potentially cost less than traditional roofing materials, especially high-end options like slate or clay tiles.

Musk lies about everything and even tells us not to believe our eyes. Never forget:

on Tesla killing Solar Roof is leaving installers with six-figure losses in c/technology@lemmy.world · 7 Sep 2026
Should be cross posted to Leopards Ate My Face.

on Tesla killing Solar Roof is leaving installers with six-figure losses in c/technology@lemmy.world · 7 Sep 2026
I did this using a router to handle traffic for about a year between sites 240 miles apart. The only downside was it used a lot of bandwidth. Maybe it can be done with some IP cameras, but I expect they’d be expensive commercial models. OpenWRT compatible routers can be dirt cheap.

If your MIL’s router supports OpenWRT or you can replace it with one that does, you can use a VPN and PBR (Policy Based Routing) to your home router or server and do exactly what you want with any camera that supports RSTP (Real Time Streaming Protocol). That includes most cheap wired TP-Link cameras and plenty of others. PBR on the router at your MIL’s home would be used to route all traffic from camera IP addresses to your server.

I used Frigate software and Home Assistant for occupancy detection/alerts and Wireguard for transport. It worked perfectly but I eventually got around to adding 2nd server.

on Do any self hostable security cameras support a VPN to upload footage to another site? in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 28 Aug 2026
Conservatives are all about freedom until there’s profit involved.

on Flock CEO calls for ‘compromise’ as surveillance company faces growing backlash | TechCrunch in c/technology@lemmy.world · 23 Aug 2026
There should be no compromising our right to privacy and these cameras need to go. Fuck Flock and their cash grab.

on Flock CEO calls for ‘compromise’ as surveillance company faces growing backlash | TechCrunch in c/technology@lemmy.world · 23 Aug 2026
I use AI for the CLI stuff I down have memorized. Linux is still frustrating

I had the same experience when I switched and it’s funny how things change. Now I think people are forced to use Windows 11 in the ninth level of hell.

on My self-hosted experience - and my favorite container in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 21 Aug 2026
Thanks for that great write-up and link!

on Roblox argues 8-year-old waived rights in wrongful death lawsuit in c/technology@lemmy.world · 21 Aug 2026
They were quite successful pushing me - directly to ebay. I’d rather spend more than to ever deal with AliExpress and their BS again.

on AliExpress runs silent WebAudio fingerprinting that breaks Bluetooth multipoint in c/technology@lemmy.world · 21 Aug 2026
And some, like the majority of SCOTUS judges will literally make stuff up so they can legislate from the bench as they’ve been paid bribed to do.

on Roblox argues 8-year-old waived rights in wrongful death lawsuit in c/technology@lemmy.world · 20 Aug 2026
Not an exception. Minors cannot get married if they’re under 18 in any state unless they get their parent’s (or a court’s) written approval. A minor cannot enter into a marriage contract by themselves.

on Roblox argues 8-year-old waived rights in wrongful death lawsuit in c/technology@lemmy.world · 20 Aug 2026
Yet another reason to avoid AliExpress, as if we need more.

Their website makes it damn near impossible to make a purchase (buy 3 more for this deal!!!), changes prices when you put something in the cart, charges multiple times for shipping and then provides inaccurate tracking info once something finally ships. Last time I had a month’s delay because everything sat for more than a week in the U.S. after clearing customs.

Never again.

on AliExpress runs silent WebAudio fingerprinting that breaks Bluetooth multipoint in c/technology@lemmy.world · 20 Aug 2026
I’m no expert, but my Business Law professors were absolutely adamant about the fact that a minor can never execute a legal agreement and there are no exceptions.

Even if the parent leaves a contract out with a stamped envelope and tells their kid to sign it and mail it off, the contract is null and void. If my professors were correct and things haven’t changed, I can’t imagine a child can waive their (or their parents) rights by clicking a checkbox either.

on Roblox argues 8-year-old waived rights in wrongful death lawsuit in c/technology@lemmy.world · 20 Aug 2026
You can also run it on your Linux box and check external IP via web page. Sites like myip.wtf/text provide it in plain text that can easily be used without accessing your router’s UI.

on 3 days ago I said I needed a new hobby... in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 14 Aug 2026
Instead of connecting via your external IP, consider setting up DDNS (Dynamic DNS). Most routers support it out of the box, it’s free (using a DDNS service like DuckDNS) and easy to set up. Once working you’ll connect via a static URL rather than an IP and when your external IP address changes, that URL will update automatically within a few minutes and direct you to the new IP.

on 3 days ago I said I needed a new hobby... in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 14 Aug 2026
Roku, Android TV (ONN), Apple TV, etc. all have Hoopla support. The app doesn’t even have a way to browse titles, but if you know what you want to watch their app works.

on I turned my streaming stick into a dumb app launcher, and that's all it should be in c/technology@lemmy.world · 12 Aug 2026
Would it still be terrorism if the technologies being developed makes subsonic travel more efficient?

on The return of supersonic flight hinges on the race to solve one big hurdle | CNN in c/technology@lemmy.world · 7 Aug 2026
Efficiency per passenger mile is the big question. I’ll probably be worse than subsonic aircraft, but I’d guess that some of the technologies that make SS travel possible may make subsonic travel more efficient.

on The return of supersonic flight hinges on the race to solve one big hurdle | CNN in c/technology@lemmy.world · 7 Aug 2026
We used to go weekly for groceries and spent hundreds per month, but have been consciously changing our buying habits for a couple of years. We’ve now got it down to once every 6 weeks or so for things we can’t easily find elsewhere. At today’s prices we’d probably be spending $450 per month, instead we’re spending about $15, if that.

We fucking love not going to Walmart.

on Walmart accused of collecting customers' voiceprints in c/technology@lemmy.world · 6 Aug 2026