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• Myers Briggs is complete pseudoscience, if it helps. Literally nonsense made up whole cloth by some mother and daughter

  on autism rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1d ago

• That’s what I’ve been saying… There’s no 5d chess going on here. They left an aircraft carrier out for almost a year because they fucking forgot about it

  The only plan in place is “how do I profit off destroying the government”. And they’re short sighted even on that simple plan

  on It's Donald Trump Versus MAGA on Data Centers | The president has doubled down on data centers and AI. His base is running in the opposite direction. in c/technology@lemmy.world · 1d ago

• I love how easy it is to change language

  You can really just make up words, the more ambiguous the better, and people will assign meaning to them and start using them

  on synergy rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5d ago

• I couldn’t find anywhere they say what FULU stands for

  on People Are Pissed Off and Ready to Own Their Shit in c/technology@lemmy.world · 6d ago

• I’ve always loved the idea, but never got around to collecting sources

  on rss rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 17 Sep 2026

• The problem is the accountability, but we can’t fix this by just forcing them to modify the software. We have to fix the incentives

  It’s not only that we need police to have a signed warrant or adding auditing and punishing the cops who misuse the system, because this is only one symptom of the root problem

  It’s deeper than just the misuse, it’s also that these systems don’t care about security. It’s also that these companies are happy to sell this information to anyone willing to pay. It’s also that police blindly trust the output of these systems without verifying the information

  We can’t legislate rules to make these systems work. They’ll never work, because no one is responsible when they don’t

  That’s the actual problem we have to fix.

  Private companies should not be allowed to possess this data at any point. They want to sell cameras and sell software to search through the data? Fine.

  But flock can’t own the data. Flock employees can’t have access to it. Police should only be allowed use them in their own jurisdiction. If they want to track someone across the country, they should be in the FBI

  We need to protect this data the way we do health records. We need HIPPA laws for individual privacy, because without clear legal restrictions on the who can own and access the data, this entire concept is a constant mass constitutional violation

  And it goes far beyond the cameras… Credit card companies will sell our purchase history to anyone for a couple hundred dollars. Phone manufacturers and cell providers will sell our location data to the police and private companies. Black box systems will mislabel innocent people for crimes they didn’t commit, leading to arrests and unjust jail time for those not in a position to defend themselves. And these are real world examples happening now

  This problem has been around for a while, it’s just that the cameras have finally gotten people to pay attention to the ongoing violations against us all

  We can’t let private companies trade our personal data just because they are able to collect it.

  We need to treat this data like health information, with strict access rules and certifications that the information is properly protected, and consequences that will make both police organizations and private companies have an incentive to care

  Even if we made the flock cameras illegal, without a new HIPPA for privacy they’ll just find new ways to collect the information and continue to violate our rights

  on How Cops Are Treating Mass Surveillance As a Joke: Cops Search Flock Database Typing Reasons for Searches Such as "LMAO," "LOL," and Random Keyboard Mashing in c/technology@lemmy.world · 16 Sep 2026

• It’s because of dilution of responsibility.

  Private companies aren’t restricted by the Constitution, so they’re not on the hook. Police are just using a private service, so the department isn’t on the hook either

  So really, it’s no one’s responsibility to make sure this isn’t abused. That’s what we have to fix

  on How Cops Are Treating Mass Surveillance As a Joke: Cops Search Flock Database Typing Reasons for Searches Such as "LMAO," "LOL," and Random Keyboard Mashing in c/technology@lemmy.world · 15 Sep 2026

• Connect with your community. Work at a local level, and build from that foundation with others doing the same to take on bigger problems

  Things are going to get rough for the whole planet, seems like that’s unavoidable at this point, but that doesn’t mean things are going to be bad everywhere all the time

  One person can’t fix the world, but you can make life better for the people around you. Things can get better locally. Good, even

  on Anthropic Is Building a Predictive Surveillance System to Monitor Activists in c/technology@lemmy.world · 11 Sep 2026

• It’s not about the court’s enforcement, it’s about responsibility

  Every organization out there preserves itself. It’s why we have legal and HR departments. They don’t exist to protect their people, they exist to protect the organization

  If a police department was caught wildly misusing unconstitutional searches, every case they tried in that period is opened to that exposure. That’s not just a huge embarrassment, it’s a massive amount of work that will tie up the local justice system for a significant period

  That’s the kind of damage that can kill a police department wholesale, or at least cleanly sweep away all the leadership

  The organization will protect itself against this kind of thing, not out of the goodness of their hearts, but because organizations must preserve themselves or fade away. They’ll put in checks that will leave an audit trail and/or require a document ID to use such a system, because that’s what it takes to protect the organization. They’ll offload the responsibility onto the officers, and enforce the rules (even if just a slap on the wrist). That’s simply how organizations act, descriptively

  I’m not saying that police in charge would be better, so much as this situation is so much worse. No one has responsibility here. The private company is not limited by the Constitution, and the police are just using a subscription to a commercial service

  No one has to take responsibility if this turns into an issue. It’s the same as consulting companies and AI rejections - the primary purpose is to make it so when someone creates manmade horrors beyond comprehension, no one is responsible

  on Flock is canceled—and its competitors are profiting in c/technology@beehaw.org · 10 Sep 2026

• I mean, not doing mass surveillance altogether sounds like a great idea… I’m not sure that’s directly possible right now though

  My point is that it’s not just a worse version of mass surveillance, it’s orders of magnitude worse. It absolves everyone from any actual responsibility, and in doing so absolutely guarantees these systems will be abused by police

  on Flock is canceled—and its competitors are profiting in c/technology@beehaw.org · 9 Sep 2026

• I’m not saying I trust the police. I’m saying if it’s outright unconstitutional to access without the courts, the IT department is going to put checks in the system

  It’s like how you can’t trust HR to protect you personally, but you can rely on them to protect the organization

  on Flock is canceled—and its competitors are profiting in c/technology@beehaw.org · 8 Sep 2026

• If the cops were in control, they’d be violating the fourth amendment when they do that without going to the courts

  Where as if it’s a private service the police department pays for, it’s a legal gray area

  on Flock is canceled—and its competitors are profiting in c/technology@beehaw.org · 7 Sep 2026

• We’re walking tubes of bacteria. If the bacteria switch to alternate energy sources that have weird byproducts, not much you can do about that

  on Im So Rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 Sep 2026

• Well of course they outperform them if they’re specialized to a purpose… Theres a like 3B model that plays Minecraft and generally kicks the ass of all the more general llms

  And in general, the big models are primarily better at remembering instructions and context… An 8B model can hold a basic conversation or perform simple tasks on a similar level to a frontier model

  Really, really depends on what they’re specialized to do though

  on OpenAI announces new slop generator GPT-6 Astra: Unfortunately not any better than the last one in c/technology@lemmy.world · 5 Sep 2026

• With what money? We can’t even sell treasury notes at this point

  We’ve had too big to fail, this is going to be too big to bail out

  on Taxpayers Must Not Be on the Hook for Bailing Out the "AI" Industry in c/technology@lemmy.world · 4 Sep 2026

• It’s the corrosive force of capital

  We have too many people gaining power divorced from consequences

  on 1Password wades into a right-wing mess after funding a Linux project in c/technology@lemmy.world · 3 Sep 2026

• A ton of our cyber security was opened up when DOGE tore through government departments to steal their data and give it to private companies

  on US: Chinese hackers broke into NASA, DOE, DOJ, NIH, HHS, Federal Reserve, and the U.S. Senate; DOJ and FBI seize 2 platforms used by China to target USA critical infrastructure in c/technology@lemmy.world · 29 Aug 2026

• It’s been like 2.5 years for me. There’s been a few annoyances and games that didn’t work, but I’ve never actually gone back

  I should probably just reclaim the drive at this point

  on Skip today's Windows 11 update: it breaks cursor styling, resets wallpaper, and more in c/technology@lemmy.world · 29 Aug 2026

• not really. you don’t want to keep frames without movement, faces or license plates. then you can throw away most frames from a 60 FPS recording. 2 frames per second is better than nothing for running a portable surveillance station. then you can encode them in some efficient format with acceptable compression, and it’s not that much anymore. massive 5G rollout was explicitly happening for IoT devices, to be able to handle the load.

  Let’s do some order of magnitude math… Let’s say each car on average “sees” 100 things a day (which is very conservative since there’s multiple cameras and with basic object recognition you’re going to have a lot of false duplicates). Let’s say each picture is cropped to a megabyte with compression, which would be pretty low res to grab identifying information from

  You can’t do much in the way of video compression, because this isn’t a video - we’re cropping pictures, too much will change frame to frame

  So 100MB a day per car, that’s nothing… For one car. How many cars are doing this? 10 million? 50 million?

  (Oh, and btw 5G is basically just 4G or 3G outside of Metro areas in the US)

  debatable. google picasa had pretty good on-device facial recognition more than a decade ago, on average desktop computer hardware. ente.io runs something similar in their smartphone app today, fully locally. detects faces very well even in memes. tech that can go into a smartphone can go into any smart car too, and likely does.

  It detects faces well, that’s easy enough, and it can generally label the people because you only have so many in the pool of subjects. If you want to identify people in a population? You’re not doing that on a phone. Even the best systems have a big problem with false matches

  that’s a wrong question. the correct question is what percent of the time is a car outside of the garage. lots of cars are parked on the street all the time while not driving.

  Parking lots are not usually good vantage points… That’s where most cars live

  And as for disparate data points… Unless ever auto company is using the same system, it’s going to take non negligible amounts of work to integrate different systems. Palantir is probably going after the lower hanging and more juicy fruit, like Ring doorbells and commercial security systems. Or, you know, phones

  That’s what it comes down to. All this for what? I’m not saying they wouldn’t do it, or it couldn’t be done, I’m saying there’s better options that they are already using for surveillance

  If they were to do it, you’d pick Tesla - they have the cameras and sell monitoring as a feature. They’re reasonably widespread, so you’ll get almost the same coverage as if all automakers were on board - remember, this is about tracking people and vehicles, if we’re recording them we’re in a whole different ballpark

  Or, you know, set up 100k cameras at key intersections and get a more comprehensive system with a lot less moving pieces

  on One In Five Drivers Switches Off The Safety Tech Meant To Save Their Lives in c/technology@lemmy.world · 24 Aug 2026

• Haha I actually was curious how it came to be after your comment, but didn’t get around to looking it up myself. Neat

  on America's Largest Grid Operator to Data Centers: Bring Your Own Power or Get Turned Off First… in c/technology@lemmy.world · 24 Aug 2026

• Pictures are expensive (data wise), and on-device facial identification is not very accurate, especially at a distance in a variable environment

  Cameras inside the vehicle? Those might be worth mining for data. You can easily detect if there’s a person in frame, and snapshot all the passengers. Insurance and law enforcement would be interested in that

  Cameras outside? You could search for human faces or license plates and upload them off peak hours… But how much is that information valuable? What percent of the time is a car even driving? Is palantir even set up to ingest that kind of disparate moving data sources?

  Flock cameras just yield much more useful data… They’re designed to sit somewhere and capture those pictures. Even if public outcry gets them removed, they’re just going to wait until the public gets bored and then put up less noticeable cameras… We really need to fight this forever

  All that being said, I have a car with no cameras and I’d only budge on that if the car reliably could drive itself. I don’t like having cameras pointed at me

  on One In Five Drivers Switches Off The Safety Tech Meant To Save Their Lives in c/technology@lemmy.world · 23 Aug 2026

• You’re right, I was thinking of play dough

  on America's Largest Grid Operator to Data Centers: Bring Your Own Power or Get Turned Off First… in c/technology@lemmy.world · 23 Aug 2026

• It’s natural gas as opposed to coal gas - if you heat coal in an anerobic environment, it is refined into a flammable liquid + gas. Fun little science demonstration

  They used to use it for lights everywhere, and it left soot all over the walls. Silly putty was invented to clean it off of wallpapers, but then they added dye and it became silly

  I don’t have a problem rebranding it as fossil gas, but the name natural wasn’t green washing. It did occur naturally, and it is a hell of a lot cleaner than what was used before

  on America's Largest Grid Operator to Data Centers: Bring Your Own Power or Get Turned Off First… in c/technology@lemmy.world · 23 Aug 2026

• And number 4, I do not need to be sent an amber alert from two counties over. And because they’re usually not nearby, they’re super annoying, and tend to contain very little information that I cannot retrieve…

  I just dismiss them. I don’t know all the car models, and I’m going to forget the color the moment I stop reading it

  What they should do is make them undismissable notifications with a short unique chime, that way they can also dismiss them when they’re no longer active

  And only show them if you’re in a certain geofence that could be expanded over time… If I know a kid is missing down the street, I’d actually take a look around. If it stays to for more than a few minutes, I might look up the model of the car and keep an eye out

  And if they sent a pic of that model of the car, I might recognize it

  on Do Amber Alerts for Missing Kids Actually Work? | The Walrus in c/technology@lemmy.world · 23 Aug 2026

• Check out IVAO

  on US hires over 2,000 video gamers as air traffic controllers in c/games@lemmy.world · 13 Aug 2026

• There are, from random clicker sims to running actual air traffic in flight sims with such realism it took me a while to be certain it was a game (and not a air traffic union or something) when I looked up the website

  on US hires over 2,000 video gamers as air traffic controllers in c/games@lemmy.world · 13 Aug 2026