rconti

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by rconti 2mo ago
> the extreme anti position simply cedes the technology to the authoritarians I have no idea what this means. It seems to me the extreme "yes, please surveil me" position cedes the technology to the authoritarians.
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by rconti 2mo ago
They say "you don't have an expectation of privacy driving a car on a public road/your license plate is public info". They don't address the fact that these are cameras, not ALPRs. They collect vehicle metadata. We
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by rconti 2mo ago
They need more than "we will prioritize". They need to act. They need to source power _today_, not just promise at some point in the future they'll probably fund a power plant, while raising rates for human consumers in the s
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by rconti 2mo ago
I think probably what I'm getting at with my curiosity is, who and what defines the metadata that is kept? They describe it as a "motion activated camera" but I think it's pretty clear they're just recording 24x7 (b
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by rconti 2mo ago
Flock seems to be pretty unpopular, internet-wide, in bipartisan tech/very online worlds; feels like 90% to me. Where things start coming into balance a bit more is among the Nextdoor paranoia crowd.
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by rconti 2mo ago
Glad someone trusts these clowns. Where I work, this wouldn't fly. > Flock Safety acknowledged the issue in March, stating some California agencies “had their camera networks inadvertently accessible to out-of-state law enforcement
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by rconti 2mo ago
Yes, it matters to me, because I'm curious.
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by rconti 2mo ago
don't forget the taxpayer funds being spent on it!
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by rconti 2mo ago
Does anyone actually know how the data is stored? They seem to _imply_ they're not storing images, merely license plates. Oh, and presence of bumper stickers bike racks and other vehicle metadata to create a unique fingerprint. So are
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by rconti 2mo ago
US courts have held, in multiple cases now, that creating a massive network of datapoints over time, aggregated together, can be a 4th amendment violation in a way that a single datapoint is not.
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by rconti 2mo ago
Care to enlighten us?
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by rconti 2mo ago
You know, unless they get a national security letter, or change their TOS, or....
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by rconti 2mo ago
Interesting! I'm using a TS3 dock and my entire use case is to bypass the 1GbE on the dock and get 2.5G to my work laptop. But once I started having issues I took both my laptops directly to my main switch to rule out house wiring issu
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by rconti 2mo ago
For us <25Gbps plebes out there: For god's sake do not buy a USB-C RealTek RTL8156-equipped multi-gig ethernet dongle to use with your Mac. I went through 3, and they're all trash: Plugable 2.5G USB-C to ethernet adapter (bough
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by rconti 2mo ago
I like to think I'm reasonably well-traveled, and I've never seen an elevator NOT do that. However, I think you might be correct about transit systems, where the blocked doors might re-open a small amount before quickly attempting
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by rconti 2mo ago
Plenty of city dwellers get by without home gasoline filling spigot.
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by rconti 2mo ago
> On top of this, the housing market is really expensive right now in many parts of the world (ours definitely included) so making good use of every square foot feels paramount. I mean, if you already have the land, "the housing mar
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by rconti 2mo ago
I haven't subscribed to the Economist in 15 years but I'm considering re-subscribing. We used to get The Week as a gift, but it was just WAY too surface-level and "both sides-y".
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by rconti 3mo ago
> This is the yin and yang of market-distorting incentives. Today's incentive to install solar becomes tomorrow's disincentive to upgrading it. Facing this as well. We've got our 5.2kW system in a pile in our yard as the h
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by rconti 3mo ago
My solar panels are leaning in stacks in my yard, as our house is currently being removed with a new roof, etc. I'm planning on cleaning them while they're "loose", but I wonder if it also makes sense to apply a(n automo
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by rconti 3mo ago
They're a nightmare if someone else has kids, too!
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by rconti 3mo ago
My wife's short so she's actually quite uncomfortable in a business class seat unless it's reclined-- seat bottom length is an issue for her, sometimes even in economy. On the flipside, I'm of pretty average height, but
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by rconti 3mo ago
My dislike for single aisle aircraft isn't about cabin pressure or the "impression of a wider open space". It's about the fact that it is ACTUALLY cramped, and the _one_ aisle will be blocked for most of the flight. In a
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by rconti 3mo ago
But that argues equally strongly for what the parent suggests in terms of flight meal/sleep timing.
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by rconti 3mo ago
> The loss of personality is real. Is this... irony?
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by rconti 3mo ago
Right, and most people opposing datacenters don't _yet_ have one near them, so they don't have the direct experience yet.
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by rconti 3mo ago
"Airbus tests extended-length wings to see if it's worth developing the technology to produce folding versions of the same"
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by rconti 3mo ago
I don't think the average person actually knows anything concrete about them. They're a proxy for peoples' sense of powerlessness about what's going on around them. Skyrocketing electricity prices, the sense that elected
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by rconti 3mo ago
Huh? What does WebOS have to do with windows?
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by rconti 3mo ago
Very true, but isn't that exactly what the parent is suggesting? That even a ship full of sailors given the opportunity to care, very few do? Or are you suggesting that by the time they are in the Navy, it's after the age where on

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