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• John Apple

  on John Ternus Era at Apple Kicks Off With the Changing of Lake Ontario to 'Lake America' in c/technology@lemmy.world · 2 Sep 2026

• Yes that is poor editorial decision making by the studio to spoil the content. Do you really think about watching a movie and then decide to just watch the trailer instead? I think that the discussion is related to damages resulting from people who will watch a recap instead of watching a show.

  on Court Rejects Fair Use Claim, Orders YouTube to Unmask Anime Recap Channels * TorrentFreak in c/technology@lemmy.world · 24 Aug 2026

• And yet drive through restaurant cashiers are able to interact with drivers daily. And toll booth operators as well. The biggest danger from writing a ticket on the side of the road is other vehicles. Police have the discretion of when to escalate a situation. For example, when to attempt an arrest- They can call for backup or wait until the situation can be safely resolved.

  If police need to go to therapy and then they should. If they cannot do their job without suffering from trauma then they should resign.

  on Flock CEO calls for ‘compromise’ as surveillance company faces growing backlash | TechCrunch in c/technology@lemmy.world · 24 Aug 2026

• A recap is for people who have already watched the show and want a reminder or for people who are familiar with the show but want to skip some episodes. A lot of people watch movie trailers and then jokingly say they don’t need to watch the movie because it was all in the trailer. A recap is not a substitute for people who want to watch the show. That’s my opinion.

  on Court Rejects Fair Use Claim, Orders YouTube to Unmask Anime Recap Channels * TorrentFreak in c/technology@lemmy.world · 24 Aug 2026

• Narrated recaps are pretty popular. They exist for every show. It’s interesting that this case is moving forward

  on Court Rejects Fair Use Claim, Orders YouTube to Unmask Anime Recap Channels * TorrentFreak in c/technology@lemmy.world · 24 Aug 2026

• I think one of the problems that encompasses the flock debate besides the privacy issues is the relationship that the police have with people in the United States. Most police view people as a threat and if you look at the police training they teach them to be extremely violent. During simple traffic stops most police are on edge and have an attitude like they might be violent with you. I’m just talking about the general atmosphere- I’m not even getting into all of the examples where police have killed people for no reason, falsified information to arrest innocent people, and generally abused their power.

  Did police want to wear body cams or did they want to continue without accountability? Police have a responsibility and have taken an oath. They should be required to have cameras.

  In a society where all of its parts work together towards the same goal, ALPRs would not be a problem. In the US this surveillance is very worrisome.

  on Flock CEO calls for ‘compromise’ as surveillance company faces growing backlash | TechCrunch in c/technology@lemmy.world · 24 Aug 2026

• ‘The cloud’ to non-IT people is just remote hosting or processing. It’s marketing terminology. Everything with a client \ server where the server was off-site suddenly became “the cloud”. If you have elastic resource computing on site, is it still “the cloud”? Sorry I just never liked the term because it was used so broadly and to generate excitement among non technical people.

  on I accidentally logged hundreds of thousands of phone calls to military bases in c/technology@lemmy.world · 22 Aug 2026

• I’ll be happy when we stop calling things “the cloud”. Maybe “upstream processors” or something would be better.

  on I accidentally logged hundreds of thousands of phone calls to military bases in c/technology@lemmy.world · 21 Aug 2026

• Flock is selling software called freeform which tracks people’s movements. I don’t know if it can be used on their current cameras or if they need upgrades or new cameras.

  Also, flock was planning to use stolen information from a hack against a parking lot company until a news story came out about it. Flock got ahold of the hacked data, that included license plates and names on credit cards, and was planning to use it to identify car owners. After news stories released they said they would not use it but it shows that they are a shady company.

  It’s just a loss of privacy. Those old cameras captured plates but now there are flock cameras everywhere and the data they capture is searchable nationwide. The data is being used by ICE to find people they want to arrest. There is little oversight of their use. If police want to track your phone they have to get a warrant and show it to your phone carrier. If they want to track your car they just look it up in flock. A lot of police officers are using flock lookups for their own personal use, like to track people they know.

  on Week of action planned against license plate readers in c/technology@lemmy.world · 20 Aug 2026

• I’m just repeating what 404 media said on their July 21 podcast. They said that the first reports of AI book buyups were in Spain and the Netherlands, from rare book traders. The theory is that these AI companies are in a race to get the rare books first because they will be scanned and destroyed and they know that the widely circulated books will be available later

  Edit: and if you scan and destroy rare books then you have an advantage over the competition, another company can’t scan a book you’ve destroyed

  on Amazon Caught Destroying Rare Books to Train AI in c/technology@lemmy.world · 18 Aug 2026

• They scan them and destroy them so other AI companies can never get them.

  on Amazon Caught Destroying Rare Books to Train AI in c/technology@lemmy.world · 18 Aug 2026

• Their children will struggle against their opponents children. Families locked in a bitter struggle generation after generation

  on Two years into the world's most complicated board game, masochist gamers "still don't understand what the camels do" in c/games@lemmy.world · 13 Aug 2026