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by 15155 10mo ago
No law can prevent me from operating a corporation that collects and publishes license plate data for lawful purposes (basic freedom of the press.) If I can see something in public (where no reasonable expectation of privacy exists), I can
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by 15155 10mo ago
> law enforcement has access to it without a warrant it's de facto public I think the public would be entitled to the specific data that was purchased or accessed by the government, but absolutely not the entire corpus of broadly av
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by 15155 10mo ago
Yes, but these are laws that "I don't agree with," therefore they can be ignored. Who will pick our crops!?
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by 15155 10mo ago
Probably so unhinged individuals don't show up at their homes and attack their families for performing unpopular law enforcement functions?
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by 15155 10mo ago
> All dragnet surveillance done by law enforcement or given to law enforcement by private entities should be public You can FOIA the cameras outside your local police station today, if you like. Private company data like Flock's is
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by 15155 10mo ago
These statutes are typically not written with police enforceability in mind: they criminalize "doing something" rather than "having something installed," and a cop isn't typically going to be around or caring/w
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by 15155 10mo ago
Ignoring all of the legal gotchas that aren't very realistically enforceable or relevant: I do not believe you will be able to force overexposure of lettered areas using IR diodes alone. License plates are designed with intentionally h
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by 15155 10mo ago
> We need to make blanket regulations that cover PII in all forms regardless of who is collecting it Cool, change the First Amendment first. Your face and name aren't private under our existing framework of laws - no standard legisl
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by 15155 10mo ago
The "wealthy" can't control the FAA or obtain TFRs (look no further than the issues Elon and Taylor Swift have had with obfuscating their jet registration), so they're basically fucked when it comes to preventing aerial
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by 15155 10mo ago
Facial recognition databases of public sector employees will be the straw that breaks this camel's back.
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by 15155 10mo ago
> if you are retaining the data private and never sharing it. "Never sharing it?" What? Free speech is literally defined by the fact that you can distribute information. Publishing your video feed (a la news helicopters, etc.
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by 15155 10mo ago
I can photograph and publish whatever I am allowed to see in public (with very few exceptions - think Naval Air Station Key West), this has been affirmed and reaffirmed by countless courts. The best part about publishing? You have no right
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by 15155 11mo ago
> toxic masculinity aspect of gun ownership through cultural enforcement This presumes that this is actually the (an) issue. > In other words, make gun ownership normal, understood, and uncool. Normal is the issue: you can't su
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by 15155 11mo ago
> Why wouldn't they want to normalize and emasculate gun usage? Because it isn't emasculating - it's very much empowering - and anyone who has ever fired a gun or read a history book written in the last 200 years can'
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by 15155 11mo ago
> What law is preventing Best Buy from telling TVManufacturer No law: reality and PCI standards prevent this. And of course, the manufacturer could get a subpoena after enough process. This also assumes the TV was purchased with a credit
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by 15155 11mo ago
> Kids used to be taught gun safety in public school The problem is that this normalizes the behavior, something that a specific political sect (coincidentally overlapping heavily with those employed in education) desperately wants to av
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by 15155 11mo ago
> What's stopping someone from just adding an additional IR light to those enclosures Nothing. > Couldn't you just slap an additional bright enough IR light in that makes it impossible to even see the plate clearly through c
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by 15155 11mo ago
> Apparently, they can be a felony in some cases. Which statute is applicable here?
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by 15155 11mo ago
> That’s not what this particular thread is about This thread is about removing the SIM from a TV. If I bought that TV in cash (or even credit card, sans subpoena) at a Best Buy and removed the SIM, how is any corporation identifying me?
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by 15155 11mo ago
Smaller semiconductor feature size greatly increases the likelihood of these types of errors.
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by 15155 11mo ago
Multi-module consensus is a form of EDAC - it's exceptionally unlikely that multiple units will fail identically simultaneously.
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by 15155 11mo ago
> The world hasn't been like this forever People didn't receive handouts from governments in centuries past for just showing up and performing no contributory function. Kill all entitlements and let's open em' back up
533.
by 15155 11mo ago
Through what technical or legal mechanism is the company identifying or locating you - assuming you never logged in or associated the product with your identity?
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by 15155 11mo ago
This is plenty of power to run a microcontroller and a radio (sporadically) with an energy-harvesting setup.
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by 15155 11mo ago
A DAC and amplifier circuit is electrically incapable of processing input (on its own.) Physically unplugging and moving a speaker to a mic input works, sure, but very few devices can do this switching electronically.
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by 15155 11mo ago
Should we start regulating 3D printers and CNC mills next?
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by 15155 11mo ago
Keccak is substantially more simple/elegant from a hardware design standpoint because it has no addition operations - there's no comparison. fMax is way, way easier to obtain, and it's way easier to implement and understand.
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by 15155 11mo ago
https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/result/enum.Result.html#method...
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by 15155 11mo ago
Because it doesn't perform as advertised: wild amounts of inconsistencies in behavior (within and between versions), performance issues (pnpm exec adds 15s to all shebang'd execution time over npm/yarn/bun/etc.), et
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by 15155 11mo ago
Downloading a dependency also requires a high degree of trust in whatever transitive dependencies that a trusted dependency decides to pull in.

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