Being born with a punchable face like that makes you learn to live in constant fear of terror from a young age. We're observing the revenge phase of his life.
Bad branding doesn't help. Saying the full words "anti-fascist" makes it clear what is being talked about. Antifa is pithy but to people who don't know, it sounds like a shady terror organization.
My personal theory is that claiming antifa is bad allows them to imply that fascism is good without directly saying it, conditioning their base to accept all the face eating as just a cost of rooting out the wicked terrorists.
Getting upset humans are manually mapping where these cameras are while installing these cameras that essentially are cataloging everything they can about comings and goings is pretty hypocritical!
"Anything I don't like is terorrism. Waaaah waaaaah waaah my profits waaaah my private jet"
EDIT: For the record, I don't know who this guy is and Flock is not a thing where I live, but he seems like such a piece of shit I couldn't help myself
Apropos of nothing, for your own safety, just be aware that high-powered hand-held blue or green lasers (1W+) are extremely dangerous and can permanently damage both human eyes and camera sensors beyond repair.
Lasers are not a very efficient way to damage cameras.
They can, sure ... but there are a lot of issues.
1W is your minimum power for this kind of thing, but at that level, permanent damage is relatively unlikely, especially at distance. To reliably damage camera sensors, especially from any significant distance, you're going to need a much more powerful laser. Dozens of watts at least ... which typically means you'll need a large, inconvenient, and tremendously expensive machine to do it reliably. (Pro tip: if none of this dissuades you, at least get a really powerful laser. Forget 'laser pointers' sold on ebay etc. You want skincare lasers -- hair and tattoo removal lasers are pulsed lasers with far more peak power and far more dangerous to camera sensors, if you can get them to focus at distance, and they're still fairly affordable. Rust removal/metal cutting lasers are also effective and powerful, but they tend to be larger and more expensive.)
Even when laser damaged, cameras typically don't stop working entirely -- the laser tends to just create a few dead pixels here and there. Longer exposure or more power can cause more dead pixels ... but do you really want to have to stand there shining a laser at it for several minutes just to slightly degrade the image quality? (Worse, there's no way for you to review it and see how well it's working, so this will have to be all based on guesswork. Did you fully disable the camera? Just degrade it a little? Accomplish nothing at all? Are you done here, or do you need to keep using your laser? No way to know!) Needing to keep the laser on target for several minutes is also problematic because most high-power lasers have limited runtime before they overheat, and you may have issues with your laser if you try to run it more than a minute or two continuously. Not to mention, the longer you stand there, the more chance there is of you getting caught in the act.
In order to shine a laser into the camera sensor, you must first stand in front of the camera sensor in clear view of it. Even if your laser succeeds in disabling the camera, the pre-destruction footage will be saved and could potentially be used to identify/prosecute you. If you're using a laser in the visible spectrum (which you probably should, because high power infrared/ultraviolet lasers have terrifying safety concerns), you'll also be extremely visible to any bystanders, witnesses, and nosy cops while you're doing this -- it will draw a lot of attention.
High power lasers are dangerous to more than just cameras. They're dangerous to your eyes and the eyes of innocent bystanders. And when you're deliberately shining the laser at a partially reflective rounded target -- a camera lens -- laser beams could be reflected at almost any angle and potentially harm anyone nearby. Wearing protective laser goggles can help protect you from this (and you absolutely should be wearing them anytime you deal with high-power lasers), but with very high power lasers, they may not offer enough protection for a direct reflection, and of course they still do nothing to protect innocent bystanders who might instinctively look to see what that bright light is.
Even the cheap ebay lasers are still much more expensive than other, simpler means of destroying a camera. Rocks, bricks, wire cutters, spray paint, mud, and hammers are all extremely effective and cheaper/easier to acquire.
All in all, I would not recommend trying to disable cameras with lasers.
Simpler methods are much better. Smash the camera or the solar panel that powers it with a rock, brick, hammer, or other blunt object. Cover the lens with spray paint, mud, grease, or anything else that will stick to it and be difficult to clean off. Use wire cutters to snip the wires leading to/from the camera. Use screwdrivers/wrenches to disassemble it and remove it. Use a reciprocating saw or angle grinder to cut down the pole it stands on.
Well none of this applies to me since I would never never intentionally impact the profits of a corporation (it's a crime). But for some sort of filthy radical out there with nothing on their deranged mind but to harm our great society, this is eminently solid advice.
And be extra careful not to accidentally point one at a camera without face coverings and nondescript clothing or they might think you did it on purpose and try to prosecute you.
Oh yeah, the number one least recommended thing would be to dress in dark neutral colors with a face covering, and arrive on something like a common generic bicycle or on foot. That might make it difficult to bring such a person to justice, which would be a shame.
Sigh… it’s just going to bounce off the lens/protective cover, take forever if it works at all, and draw a bunch of attention to yourself.
Whereas a cheap paintball gun is faster, safer, probably cheaper, verifiable, and more fun.
Don’t get me wrong, I love the creativity, passion and potential stealth… assuming you use a scope the way yabbos did years ago when they were pointing them at aircraft… but a 1+ watt laser is fairly dangerous and not easy to aim from a distance, so maybe use a tripod if you’re really hellbent on doing it this way.
Also, laser safety glasses.
In closing, a quote from one of my favorite movies “You’ll put your eye out kid!”
If marking privacy invading cameras run by a non-benevolent entity makes me a terrorist, then I guess I'll just add it to the list.
I also oppose fascism, assist in creation and dissemination of zines, and am pro-educating people on things like communism, socialism, and the dangers of late-stage capitalism.
And don't even get me started on my opinions of governments and borders in general.
I'm basically public enemy #1! I mean, there plenty who do more than I do, but y'know... Public enemy #56,913 doesn't sound as neat.
61 Comments
Dryad@lemmy.world · 127 pts · 36d
Yeah no question what his political affiliations and actual motives are.
JTskulk@lemmy.world · 92 pts · 36d
Cameras everywhere tracking everyone? Safety.
A map listing the locations of cameras, not people? Terrorism.
postmateDumbass@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 35d
Cameras are pieces of capital.
People are pieces of labor.
chortle_tortle@mander.xyz · 91 pts · 36d
I guess this guy should live in terror if they are terrorists.
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech · 28 pts · 36d
Oh you just know he's paranoid of absolutely everyone.
JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca · 14 pts · 36d
Everyone non white and at least wealthy enough to qualify as his gardener.
SpacePanda@mander.xyz · 17 pts · 36d
This is good thinking. Modern problems require modern solutions.
blazeknave@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 35d
Being born with a punchable face like that makes you learn to live in constant fear of terror from a young age. We're observing the revenge phase of his life.
Gullible@sh.itjust.works · 69 pts · 36d
This is troubling news. Antifa should sue him for this defamatory comparison. Someone get the president of antifa on the line, stat!
NekoKoneko@lemmy.world · 31 pts · 36d
Ugh, if only we could, but everybody knows how formidable Antifa's many layers of bureaucratic gatekeepers are...
OwOarchist@pawb.social · 12 pts · 36d
Can confirm. I'm the under-secretary to the assistant regional manager of Antifa's Northwestern Bureau. So much paperwork.
NekoKoneko@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 36d
The assistant regional manager, or the assistant to the regional manager?
OwOarchist@pawb.social · 11 pts · 36d
Assistant Regional Manager, of course. Assistant to the Regional Manager is an entirely different guy, entirely different job.
some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 35d
Damn, can't get anything done around here without filling out a twenty-seven B stroke six...
NekoKoneko@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 35d
If they aren't moving fast enough, you could always try giving them a valuable picture of a spider.
Ixoid@aussie.zone · 1 pts · 35d
With only seven legs? It's worthless...
perishthethought@piefed.social · 8 pts · 35d
Ehh, I'll bring it up at our next District conference and see if we can get a committee formed to consider the idea.
squidbilly@piefed.social · 61 pts · 35d
Why is antifa always the devil in those sorts of communities?
DigDoug@lemmy.world · 72 pts · 35d
Because they're fascists.
gh0stcassette@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 23 pts · 35d
Hmmmmmmm I wonder why someone would single out anti-fascists as an enemy. You could say they're anti-antifascist
UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 35d
Because they are FA
jack_of_sandwich@lemmy.sdf.org · 9 pts · 35d
Because it's a useful narrative to demonize protest against the government.
Okokimup@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 35d
Bad branding doesn't help. Saying the full words "anti-fascist" makes it clear what is being talked about. Antifa is pithy but to people who don't know, it sounds like a shady terror organization.
BranBucket@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 35d
My personal theory is that claiming antifa is bad allows them to imply that fascism is good without directly saying it, conditioning their base to accept all the face eating as just a cost of rooting out the wicked terrorists.
I may be giving them too much credit, though.
jpablo68@infosec.pub · 2 pts · 35d
That's what I think, if you're anti antifa you're somewhat pro fascism
StillAlive@piefed.world · 55 pts · 35d
He looks AI generated.
oxideseven@lemmy.ca · 14 pts · 35d
I honestly thought it was like an AI drawing of him...
LodeMike@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 34d
He looks like a tycoon game person
sepi@piefed.social · 48 pts · 35d
jaemo@sh.itjust.works · 17 pts · 35d
otterpop@lemmy.world · 44 pts · 36d
Getting upset humans are manually mapping where these cameras are while installing these cameras that essentially are cataloging everything they can about comings and goings is pretty hypocritical!
JackbyDev@programming.dev · 43 pts · 35d
Surveillance cameras tracking everyone: Apparently okay
People tracking surveillance cameras: Suddenly terrorism
Make it make sense lol.
TheHound@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 35d
Terrorism for thee, not for me.
arin@lemmy.world · 39 pts · 35d
Calling a website against your company anti-fascist seems to imply something is fascist...
iceonfire1@lemmy.world · 38 pts · 35d
https://deflock.org/
diaphragmwp@discuss.tchncs.de · 0 pts · 35d
Favicon seems AI gen.
Also, they are selling merch and the pictures of stickers are on a Tesla. A big brother style sticker on a Tesla is ironic.
SethTaylor@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 35d
I can help translate that:
"Anything I don't like is terorrism. Waaaah waaaaah waaah my profits waaaah my private jet"
EDIT: For the record, I don't know who this guy is and Flock is not a thing where I live, but he seems like such a piece of shit I couldn't help myself
Bahnd@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 35d
100% accurate and a wonderful preformance, I see an Oscar in your future.
jack_of_sandwich@lemmy.sdf.org · 26 pts · 35d
And of course he is jumping on the Republican narrative that Antifa is a formal terrorist organization
Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 35d
Hey remember that time when that one guy tracked fElon's private jet...then got banned by said fElon for merely existing?
It's free speech until it's not
khepri@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 36d
Apropos of nothing, for your own safety, just be aware that high-powered hand-held blue or green lasers (1W+) are extremely dangerous and can permanently damage both human eyes and camera sensors beyond repair.
OwOarchist@pawb.social · 42 pts · 36d
Lasers are not a very efficient way to damage cameras.
They can, sure ... but there are a lot of issues.
1W is your minimum power for this kind of thing, but at that level, permanent damage is relatively unlikely, especially at distance. To reliably damage camera sensors, especially from any significant distance, you're going to need a much more powerful laser. Dozens of watts at least ... which typically means you'll need a large, inconvenient, and tremendously expensive machine to do it reliably. (Pro tip: if none of this dissuades you, at least get a really powerful laser. Forget 'laser pointers' sold on ebay etc. You want skincare lasers -- hair and tattoo removal lasers are pulsed lasers with far more peak power and far more dangerous to camera sensors, if you can get them to focus at distance, and they're still fairly affordable. Rust removal/metal cutting lasers are also effective and powerful, but they tend to be larger and more expensive.)
Even when laser damaged, cameras typically don't stop working entirely -- the laser tends to just create a few dead pixels here and there. Longer exposure or more power can cause more dead pixels ... but do you really want to have to stand there shining a laser at it for several minutes just to slightly degrade the image quality? (Worse, there's no way for you to review it and see how well it's working, so this will have to be all based on guesswork. Did you fully disable the camera? Just degrade it a little? Accomplish nothing at all? Are you done here, or do you need to keep using your laser? No way to know!) Needing to keep the laser on target for several minutes is also problematic because most high-power lasers have limited runtime before they overheat, and you may have issues with your laser if you try to run it more than a minute or two continuously. Not to mention, the longer you stand there, the more chance there is of you getting caught in the act.
In order to shine a laser into the camera sensor, you must first stand in front of the camera sensor in clear view of it. Even if your laser succeeds in disabling the camera, the pre-destruction footage will be saved and could potentially be used to identify/prosecute you. If you're using a laser in the visible spectrum (which you probably should, because high power infrared/ultraviolet lasers have terrifying safety concerns), you'll also be extremely visible to any bystanders, witnesses, and nosy cops while you're doing this -- it will draw a lot of attention.
High power lasers are dangerous to more than just cameras. They're dangerous to your eyes and the eyes of innocent bystanders. And when you're deliberately shining the laser at a partially reflective rounded target -- a camera lens -- laser beams could be reflected at almost any angle and potentially harm anyone nearby. Wearing protective laser goggles can help protect you from this (and you absolutely should be wearing them anytime you deal with high-power lasers), but with very high power lasers, they may not offer enough protection for a direct reflection, and of course they still do nothing to protect innocent bystanders who might instinctively look to see what that bright light is.
Even the cheap ebay lasers are still much more expensive than other, simpler means of destroying a camera. Rocks, bricks, wire cutters, spray paint, mud, and hammers are all extremely effective and cheaper/easier to acquire.
All in all, I would not recommend trying to disable cameras with lasers.
Simpler methods are much better. Smash the camera or the solar panel that powers it with a rock, brick, hammer, or other blunt object. Cover the lens with spray paint, mud, grease, or anything else that will stick to it and be difficult to clean off. Use wire cutters to snip the wires leading to/from the camera. Use screwdrivers/wrenches to disassemble it and remove it. Use a reciprocating saw or angle grinder to cut down the pole it stands on.
khepri@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 36d
Well none of this applies to me since I would never never intentionally impact the profits of a corporation (it's a crime). But for some sort of filthy radical out there with nothing on their deranged mind but to harm our great society, this is eminently solid advice.
Rivalarrival@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 35d
The lasers are best used to direct a cat to attack them.
EggInDisguise@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 16 pts · 36d
And be extra careful not to accidentally point one at a camera without face coverings and nondescript clothing or they might think you did it on purpose and try to prosecute you.
khepri@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 36d
Oh yeah, the number one least recommended thing would be to dress in dark neutral colors with a face covering, and arrive on something like a common generic bicycle or on foot. That might make it difficult to bring such a person to justice, which would be a shame.
rainwall@piefed.social · 7 pts · 36d
Leaving your phone complelty off or someone else would also not be a good plan.
DataCrime@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 12 pts · 35d
Sigh… it’s just going to bounce off the lens/protective cover, take forever if it works at all, and draw a bunch of attention to yourself.
Whereas a cheap paintball gun is faster, safer, probably cheaper, verifiable, and more fun.
Don’t get me wrong, I love the creativity, passion and potential stealth… assuming you use a scope the way yabbos did years ago when they were pointing them at aircraft… but a 1+ watt laser is fairly dangerous and not easy to aim from a distance, so maybe use a tripod if you’re really hellbent on doing it this way.
Also, laser safety glasses.
In closing, a quote from one of my favorite movies “You’ll put your eye out kid!”
MrKoyun@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 35d
If you're getting called a terrorist by these people, you're doing something right.
OpenStars@discuss.online · 17 pts · 36d
"Surveillance is a necessary thing...
no wait, not like THAT!!"
DataCrime@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 16 pts · 35d
Dude probably just brought more attention to the website 😝
EggInDisguise@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 15 pts · 36d
If marking privacy invading cameras run by a non-benevolent entity makes me a terrorist, then I guess I'll just add it to the list.
I also oppose fascism, assist in creation and dissemination of zines, and am pro-educating people on things like communism, socialism, and the dangers of late-stage capitalism.
And don't even get me started on my opinions of governments and borders in general.
I'm basically public enemy #1! I mean, there plenty who do more than I do, but y'know... Public enemy #56,913 doesn't sound as neat.
OwOarchist@pawb.social · 14 pts · 36d
Who surveils the surveillance?
"Terrorists", apparently.
Jankatarch@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 36d
Being closer to antifa IS the goal of my life.
TootTootComingThru@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 35d
These "people" gotta go man. These creepy, soulless, joyless tech dweebs are the enemy and they don't belong here.
peaceful_world_view@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 35d
The war with the machines is coming.
pressanykeynow@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 35d
Why? The machines are not the problem, shitty people are. Ok, you are right, shitty people will make stupid people fight against their machines.
minorkeys@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 34d
Yoru primary motivation is violating everyone's privacy and trying to reenslave humanity. Pretty sure that's worse.
Eh_I@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 35d
We should stick one of his cameras where the son of the dragon doesn't shine.
Dave@nord.pub · 1 pts · 32d
I'm starting to wonder if they CBA hiding it anymore. Or they're incompetence is just boundless. Either is plausible.
unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz · -1 pts · 35d
AccoSpoot1@lemmy.world · -2 pts · 35d
Looknat that guys face and tell me there's any doubt he's a fucken fascist.