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  • [–] 39 points 1 year ago* (4 children)

    I mean.

    On 1 July 2014, Sierra Nevada Corporation revealed that the Gorgon Stare Increment 2 pod had achieved initial operating capability (IOC) earlier in the year.[15] While the Increment 1 system, first fielded in March 2011, could cover an area of 16 km2 (6.2 sq mi), the incorporation of the ARGUS-IS expands that coverage area to 100 km2 (39 sq mi). The system has 368 cameras capable of capturing 5 million pixels each to create an image of about 1.8 billion pixels. Video is collected at a variable frame-rate per second, with the resulting data output averaging several terabytes of video output per minute.[16]

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorgon_Stare

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  • [–] 32 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Christ. So many options.. With security cameras and license plate readers and liveview trailers and ring doorbells without warrant and palantir and now drones that can just "watch an entire city" from the air and "see everything". But who needs to decide, they've got it all!

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    there are enough data points to cross reference that they pretty much know more about you than anyone in your life does. maybe more than you know about yourself

    jokes on them, the more data you take on me and the more time you waste trying to understand me the less sense I make, this axiom holds true for me as well just as much as it does for them it is just I intimately understand this or wait...

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago*

    Yes and that is the only real saving grace, the capacity to record at what appears to be infinite fidelity is only really a destabilizing force until the ambitions of the surveillance apparatus exceeds the secretarial capacity to make sense of it at a geometric rate.

    Kind of like an LLM decaying into slop...

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  • [–] 43 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    big floppy hats and juggalo make up is on order. (for the make up, widen or narrow the eyes, add dark lines along the jaw that create a false jawline, maybe include dots to mimic more eyes, etc,) Also wear baggy clothing because they're not just using facial recognition. gate recognition as well as other biometrics. wear black or dark clothing.

    also it won't matter if you have your cell phone with you. Either put it in a faraday pouch or leave it behind (maybe consider getting a cheap burner for comms, that you can prepay with cash.). If you go the faraday route, the moment you take it out, it'll start broadcasting.

    For recording... get a camera. a camcorder is one option. Another is a body camera (cheapos start at like 30 bucks on amazon.). Also remember that Video=Evidence, so if you see people about to do something they maybe shouldn't consider turning away, etc, as well as avoiding other protestor's faces. (especially if you push video up on the internet later. Blur those faces out.)

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    The problem with body cameras or camcorders is that they can be confiscated.

    You have to decide before going to the protests if it's more important for you to participate or more important to document. Each has its pros and cons and you might have the chance to do both, but you will need to prioritize one over the other when push literally comes to shove.

    Decide your priorities and then adjust your OpSec accordingly.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    They can be.

    hence the warning about video = evidence.

    but that also goes both ways. If you're finding yourself in court under drummed up bullshit, and they happen to delete everything around the times they said you assaulted them... that's a big fucking red flag, and it's potentially exculpatory evidence. one may be tempted to get a camera that offloads through wifi or cell; but that's a data trail, so you have to be careful there. (use VPN to set up access, or however that works.)

    all that's also true of cell phone video, etc.

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  • [–] 43 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Predator drones flying overhead. Always heard Obama would do it, but whatdoyah know

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  • [–] 38 points 1 year ago

    Everything this administration does is anti-American.

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  • [–] 25 points 1 year ago*

    C'mon, 2A people. Get your rifles out and take that bad boy down. /s

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    How long before they arm them and use them for domestic strikes?

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago

    A technology built to genocide people, is coming back to hunt you.. History is amazing...

    Abraham Karem was born in Baghdad, Iraq, to an Assyrian Jewish couple. His family moved to Israel in 1951, where he grew up. From an early age, he had an innate passion for aeronautics, and at the age of 14, he started building model aircraft. Karem is regarded as the founding father of UAV (drone) technology. He graduated as an aeronautical engineer from the Technion. He built his first drone during the Yom Kippur War for the Israeli Air Force. In the 1970s, he immigrated to the United States.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago

    In less than a week Los Angeles has turned into Los Santos. Stay safe everyone, mask up, look out for each other.

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  • From it's publicly available spec sheet:

    Performance and Weights: • Maximum Speed 240 knots (276 mph) • Service Ceiling Altitude 50,000 ft • Endurance 20 hours • Maximum Gross Weight 10,500 lbs

    Seems like that would likely cause pilots and any remaining ATCs in the area ulcers. Especially if it wasn't following flight rules. I seem to recall that quite a few planes fly around the LA metro area.

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago

    What a waste of our tax dollars.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    if only arnie was still governer. he could have built on his last encounter with predator.

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    They need the Houthis to help out.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    fly afterwards to the U.S.-Mexico border.

    Does ICE have its own MQ-9s for the border?

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    Time to build tunnels ..

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    [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    I was watching aa youtube video, the hosts are from LA and said the actual events happening with ICE and the national guard was actually only happening in a small area and a few blocks over the people at the farmers market or PRIDE events had no idea what was happening. It is amazing how much money Trump is using to flex his little muscle. Now people with actual bullets are going in to the city to shoot at reports and peaceful people. I am so glad Canada will be a place where the underground railroad will exit into again rather than us fighting in the civil war that is coming. Or at least I hope that is what will be happening.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Had a feeling about that one... Glad someone confirmed via ATC

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  • 1 comment in c/usa@midwest.social view that post

    The tools of the War on Terror finally come home to the US... Just like how anyone with a beain predicted they would over 20 years ago.

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