[–] 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

I actually saw this last night while I was looking for another setting. Why would I ever want sonarr to download an executable, and why would they think I'd want it that way by default? It made me wonder if I was missing something.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    Remembering after 9/11 when multiple lawmakers received Anthrax in the mail and then the scientist in the US Army, who supposedly did it, committed suicide before charges could be filed.

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  • [–] 62 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (5 children)

    I think part of it is that the plumbing doesn't work quite as well as you get older (split stream, inconsistent stream, etc.). I know some millennial men who make the conscious choice to sit when they pee rather than stand. I think most of it is that boomer men have relied on a the labor of their moms and wives and never really learned to be anything but slobs.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 month ago

    This makes me wonder… are these Americans even trying to live their self-proclaimed leftist values?

    This just feels like a post that's meant to brow-beat the left more than ask a question that's in anyway answerable.

    Like… are any of these people at least trying to fight fascism, or are they mostly just sitting scared at their computers?

    Your framing is an assumption and immediately dives into what people should do (as if they're not already).

    I am not saying everyone needs to take up arms as an immediate first step to fight fascism, but there are SO many other things than can be done in your local community as a start. From planning mutual aid fundraisers, to volunteering with grassroots orgs, to forming neighborhood ICE watches to document kidnappings, to showing up to your municipal government meetings to try to stop the rise of state surveillance… Hell, even planning potlucks to share food and get to know like-minded people can be incredibly effective at offering opportunities for education and skill sharing.

    Yes, people in my community are doing everything you describe here and more. People I know have been fighting for years and have suffered for it. I can't speak for other communities, but I'm sure they are on the same page.

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  • [–] 75 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    The tests also showed how broadly the camera’s plate detector could interpret what it saw. In some cases, it mistook bumper stickers, dealership frames, and other graphics for license plates and cropped them out as if they were plates. In one video of a passing motorcycle, the detector cropped an American flag patch on the rider’s saddlebag as if it were a plate.

    This stood out to me. Call me cynical, but I don't think this is a mistake. I think they're calling all of these "misidentified" license plates a "license plate" to simply establish plausible deniability for collecting this data. It would be pretty trivial for their backend system to interpret the images server side and build an identification profile for each vehicle. This way, even if you remove your plate, your vehicle can be identified.

    I wonder how quickly they could build a profile on every vehicle in the US simply by having cameras up in every major city? When we defeat flock/axon, what's stopping the next surveillance company from buying that data and using it?

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