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by jkestner 3mo ago
Not too shocking. Many people’s jobs here require that they pretend that they’re not coding for fascism.
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by jkestner 3mo ago
And of course, it's compounded by being pooled. Like RealPage, ALPR services like Flock, Axon Fleet Hub, and Motorola Vigilant VehicleManager offer data laundering so that organizations that shouldn't be talking can communicate. P
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by jkestner 4mo ago
The Bezos investment gives me pause too. But the claim that there’s no telemetry is exciting: https://arstechnica.com/cars/2026/06/slate-says-its-electric...
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by jkestner 4mo ago
New privacy legislation is about 20 years overdue. Between age verification, privately owned national camera networks, and above all else, data brokers, citizens need to reassert their right to anonymity. In the face of government hostility
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by jkestner 4mo ago
I guess, but I’d just say it’s moved to other distribution models because who reads newspapers now? Mostly people who want to read Family Circus reruns (okay, that’s uncharitable). I can’t speak to other countries, but we have a very health
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by jkestner 4mo ago
Don't forget that Tesla bought SolarCity to bail out Musk's cousins. I need a chart of all his mergers.
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by jkestner 4mo ago
Dumb objects are not totally niche. No one actually likes smarts that impede the core function. The Slate truck strips a lot of this out. The trick with phones, since the smarts are a core function, is not making them dumb, but more akin to
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by jkestner 4mo ago
I don’t want the rat race of modern smartphones. I want an appliance.
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by jkestner 4mo ago
And you could do a lot in it with Python. I wrote scripts to talk with Bluetooth gadgets I built.
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by jkestner 4mo ago
Tell you what though, I would jump on a modern N95. I only really want a basic phone with a good camera, and sure, Python. Only need LTE and a thinner form factor.
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by jkestner 4mo ago
I'm thankful I live in one of the several states with "free range" laws to protect parents from this. https://letgrow.org/states/
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by jkestner 4mo ago
The valuation is actually mostly about AI. Satellites, like electric cars, don’t have quite the growth story (and I do mean “story”). https://bsky.app/profile/patigallardo.bsky.social/post/3mnhc...
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by jkestner 4mo ago
Something something about metrics ceasing to be a good measure. Texas has draconian measures for districts containing a failing school, even as they redistribute the majority of funding from cities to rural districts. No surprise the school
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SpaceX IPO: Nice Try Though [video](youtube.com)
4 points by jkestner 4mo ago|0 comments
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by jkestner 4mo ago
I'm ramming my head against a wall in sympathy. Interesting that the boss immediately asked the same question. So they're aware that AI gives nondeterministic answers and yet still use it.
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by jkestner 5mo ago
I had to start getting colonoscopies ahead of schedule because my dad never did, until it was too late. He was scared of doctors after he associated them with family members' unpleasant deaths. Read the safety statistics and let it ove
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by jkestner 5mo ago
Might try that this time. OTOH, I get the greatest nap of my life shaking off the sedative (get the lighter, cheaper option like Versed instead of anesthesiologist-administered propofol) and my spouse makes me a milkshake.
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by jkestner 5mo ago
And Lake Michigan, as it’s connected to international water. Suppose next they’ll claim all rivers as borders.
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by jkestner 5mo ago
https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/17/politics/retired-cop-jailed-o...
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Luddite Lab Resource Hub(labor.dair-institute.org)
4 points by jkestner 5mo ago|0 comments
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A frightening weekend doesn't settle the license plate reader debate(statesman.com)
2 points by jkestner 5mo ago|0 comments
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by jkestner 5mo ago
If Shot Spotter is bad at merely identifying the source of a gunshot, I'm not going to trust our security tech bros to cut through all the environmental noise and provide trustworthy identification among 10,000 different Teslas.
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by jkestner 5mo ago
I'm guessing license plate takes precedence over all those things. On the other hand, Flock hasn't shown any particular competence, and is happy to flag a bunch of false positives (look at all those criminals!).
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by jkestner 5mo ago
Note that Flock says it can identify a car by physical characteristics from dents to bumper stickers.
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by jkestner 5mo ago
> Violence is not the answer. Okay, but what about destruction of property? On voting harder, see the lead incident mentioned: "This happened weeks after the city council voted to keep the cameras despite overwhelming public opposit
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by jkestner 5mo ago
AirTag but for dashcams would be cool. The trick is to make a popular product without being a company that's going to gatekeep that data.
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by jkestner 5mo ago
And Michael Spindler’s mental health. https://lowendmac.com/2013/michael-spindler-peter-principle-...
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by jkestner 5mo ago
I dunno, I hated how the Apple ][ forced a case on you. Had more choice before.
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by jkestner 5mo ago
The hackers did the work for free upfront. In return they only expect that everyone could share the fruit.
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by jkestner 5mo ago
Chicken and egg. How did those voters get that way? Some governments and rich people fund sock puppets to influence our national discourse, to muddy the truth if not outright spread lies. They wouldn't do it if it didn't work. But

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