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by sodality2 10mo ago
My goal is to provide actionable statistics for any 'deflock' movements in a certain county, by being able to point to specific statistics on surveillance. If even one motivated person uses my data to petition, I'll be happy;
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by sodality2 10mo ago
The best thing you can do is keep an eye out and tag them manually. The second best is a FOIA to your county government - there's some good examples on deflock.me and templates on muckrack. But private ones are not going to be FOIA-abl
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by sodality2 10mo ago
Ah! This looks like a bug with cross-border calculations. Ideally it would not show a Rockland County, NJ - it might cross state borders to perform calculations but they should all have a 'home state' that matches to the right cou
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by sodality2 10mo ago
Vets/hospitals are far less common (and the former probably suffers from less tags as hospitals are more important) so the distance one must travel increases, so higher likelihood of crossing one. Especially compared to how common ever
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by sodality2 10mo ago
At least as per Carpenter v. United States, that data requires a warrant, not just any cop/LEO in the country typing in a license plate with reasoning as 'investigation'. That's a much better standard.
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by sodality2 10mo ago
To an extent this data is within our reach to stop (buy old car, unplug cellular modules, etc). With ALPRs the only option is moving.
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by sodality2 10mo ago
As far as I know there's no easy fix to this. It's the counties as reported by OpenStreetMaps' administrative boundaries.
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by sodality2 10mo ago
These cameras are currently not used at all for traffic/speed enforcement. The best they would do is track more serious crimes like hit-and-runs by photographing cars in the area.
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by sodality2 10mo ago
DeFlock is the first link in the "Related ALPR & Flock Projects" section, it contains a map.
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by sodality2 10mo ago
It pulls counties from OSM administrative boundaries of level 6, which according to the OSM wiki, is "State counties and county equivalents, Territorial municipalities" ( https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag
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Show HN: Automated license plate reader coverage in the USA(alpranalysis.com)
239 points by sodality2 10mo ago|146 comments
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by sodality2 11mo ago
And easily internally shorted, leading to the dreadful 'wiggle around in your pocket until the headphones are detected again, and then press play again'...
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by sodality2 11mo ago
Sorry but comparing NSO Group's state actor malware to the tens of thousands of Android malware campaigns targeting everyone's bank account is so completely bad-faith. Every single thing you point to on iOS is about 10000x worse o
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by sodality2 11mo ago
I don't think so - the hugely negative perception of virus-laden wildlands on Android (which is somewhat true! most people could be tricked into bypassing the security prompts) makes people choose a safer option time after time. You co
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by sodality2 11mo ago
FWIW this is how most informed consumers think as well. People buy iOS, consoles, etc because they want a walled garden. I think the real way out is getting consumers to see and value the benefits of leaving it.
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by sodality2 11mo ago
It's one thing for, eg, OpenAI to decide a model is too dangerous to release. I don't really care, they don't owe anyone anything. It's more that open source is going to catch up, and it's a slippery slope into lega
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by sodality2 11mo ago
Categorically different? Sure. A valid excuse to ban certain forms of linear algebra? No. And before someone says it's reductive to say it's just numbers, you could make the same argument in favor of cryptographic export controls,
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by sodality2 11mo ago
I don’t think these agents are doing anything a dedicated human couldn’t do, only enabling it at scale. Relying on “not being one of few they focus on” as security is just security as obscurity. You were living on borrowed time anyway.
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by sodality2 11mo ago
I have to wonder if it's possible to ever even guarantee something that can't be trivially bypassed on Linux - Windows, sure, it's possible with DMA, but it's damn hard. On Linux you could just compile a spoofed kernel o
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by sodality2 11mo ago
It would be like attending a time-share dinner and putting in earplugs during their speech. I definitely think it's permissible to do it, but it's also permissible for them to kick you out for doing it.
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by sodality2 11mo ago
Tons of blatant phishing, rug-pull crypto coins, illegal medications, or just fraudulent websites. Very content-dependent though
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by sodality2 11mo ago
You won't find a ton of up-to-date info that would let you do the same - the scene groups hold their methods closely specifically because of this cat-and-mouse game.
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by sodality2 11mo ago
Weird how you let this news story pop up on your screen so indolently, instead of fetching your newspaper from the front porch. You’re abandoning your agency! /s I don’t mean to say that we should outsource our thoughts to LLMs. In thi
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by sodality2 11mo ago
All three flights were diverted due to weather, and none of them fell below the legally required amount of fuel. One has to wonder if it’s really reasonable to criticize them in this instance if a single weather event affected them all.
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by sodality2 11mo ago
D'oh, didn't even notice that button :P Wow, that greatly improved the recommendations, it even found a book I wouldn't say is particularly related to the others but I found it interesting-sounding. Thanks for such a cool s
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by sodality2 11mo ago
This is fantastic!!! I've added many results to my want-to-read list, they're very on-point from very few inputs. It would be really cool to import from a user ID, where you can choose some subset of your read list to inspire new
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by sodality2 11mo ago
Also from their (presumably more binding) privacy policy: > We don’t sell your personal data as a source of revenue, unlike most apps -- we make money by selling drinks & snacks for your event via our Group Order feature
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by sodality2 11mo ago
The exact title of the capacity is 'theory of mind' - for example, chimpanzees have a limited capacity for it in that they can understand others' intentions, but they seemingly do not understand false beliefs (this is what GP
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by sodality2 1y ago
What proof is there that this camera is photographing a genuine scene? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cottingley_Fairies
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by sodality2 1y ago
Do you plan on keeping it in your home? At that point I'd be worried about ISP networking or power guarantees unless you plan on upgrading to business rates for both. If you mean colo, well, if you're sure you'll be using it

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