IANAL and you should do your own research, but my understanding of the dangers of something like a Flock camera is that it's a private company who surveils citizens and compiles the data into something that law enforcement can purchase without a warrant, effectively circumventing Americans' 4th amendment rights. In this case, it's a city device that can host a camera. I believe that the city would not be able to perform warrantless mass surveilence using these devices the same way that a private company can. I believe it's similar to those cameras on traffic signals that monitor the performance of the intersection but not perform ALPR data collection. It's a subtle but important difference.
I may have no idea what I'm talking about also, so if you are an authority on these matters or someone with industry knowledge, please correct me.
They're expanding their footprint around me. The city and adjacent city both have contracts and several retailers have them at all entrances. I tried to see if I could add the locations to deflock via street complete but then realized that I can't log the sites when (safely) driving.
I saw a show about self defense for women in NY city. The instructor said to always carry a sucker. One of those tootsie pops or the like. If in trouble, hold the ball in your hand, turn the stick outward, between your middle and ring finger and punch at something soft and fleshy like stomach or face (eyes, mouth). It's nice because it works everywhere. Even the TSA will let you board a plane with a sucker.
I can't lead an effort to push the local govn't to do something like this. I just don't have the charisma, but I would definitely join the cause. I was a part of a club once to overturn a law in a nearby city. It was interesting to see how it all worked.
I daydream that this guy will threaten to sue the police and they'll come to an agreement to take down all all the cameras. The citizens will be so happy that they'll go to the state legislature and pass a law to forbid warrantless surveilence. The state will rejoice and their congressional representatives will pass a law country wide. The trend will continue globally.
Uses the US National Weather Service for data. The UI is basic but it has all the maps. Probably overkill and too complex for normal people but good for weather watchers, amateur meteorologists and pilots.
Same for me. In addition to deflock.me and haveibeenflocked.com, are there any community resource sites for finding others in the same city that would be willing to start pushing on the city to cancel their contract?
You're not just voting for politicians, but judges, sheriffs, school board members & many others. Often, you're choosing the lesser of 2 evils and rarely will you match policy-for-policy with your best candidate, but in what other way do you have to express your opinions?
I research all candidates on my locality's ballot and bring notes on who I plan to vote for. I sometimes can vote absentee, which is even better.
As I've found in many elections, I'm the minority. That's ok because I believe that when the polls are close, it can pull the candidates closer to my views as they try to appeal to the groups that may give them a few more votes.
I'd love to find a vegan recipes forum on lemmy LMK if you know of any. Family is not vegan, but i'm secretly adding vegan dishes into the rotation for my own selfish reasons. The goal is to turn them all vegan without them knowing that they're already vegan.
I had to scroll way too far down the pageto find this (i trynot to duplicateanother's comments). At the core of some of thescummy advertisements is profiling, enhanced by privacy violations. Remove the abikity to track you around the internet and IRL and advertisements become less obtrusive.
The other side of the coin is that it costs so little to add adverts to a web page, so why not collect a little cash to help offset your hosting costs? Remove the profiling and Google & friends don't have a leg to stand on, so then when you visit a cooking blog you see ads for kitchen utensils. No biggie. Looking for auto repair articles? Check out this awesome wrench! At least you now don't go to show your mom some wedding venue you're thinking about renting alongside an ad for ED meds from the dark market.
Similar to others, I do this but the reverse direction. I have a Pi with HDD at a friend's house. On a timer, it wakes up at 3am, boots to a VPN and initiates an rsync (pull) with it's twin Pi at my place. When the sync is done, it powers down or the timer cuts power at 9am.
Other than clock drift due to power outages, I've had no issues.
I have a directory that i can put scripts into and the remote Pi will execute anything in this directory after the sync and before the shutdown. Logs from the rsync or scripts are pushed back to a different directory on the local Pi.
A pretty good read. I've made many of these mistakes myself and learned from every one of them. We spend so much time hardening our home labs from the bad guys, I wonder if we should instead focus on hardening from ourselves.
Thanks for posting the contents of the image. This is especially important for folks using a screen reader and the source content is behind a paywall or login link.
I wondered about this for cars and ALPR cameras. Could you cover your car in license plates and overwhelm the cameras?
IANAL and you should do your own research, but my understanding of the dangers of something like a Flock camera is that it's a private company who surveils citizens and compiles the data into something that law enforcement can purchase without a warrant, effectively circumventing Americans' 4th amendment rights. In this case, it's a city device that can host a camera. I believe that the city would not be able to perform warrantless mass surveilence using these devices the same way that a private company can. I believe it's similar to those cameras on traffic signals that monitor the performance of the intersection but not perform ALPR data collection. It's a subtle but important difference.
I may have no idea what I'm talking about also, so if you are an authority on these matters or someone with industry knowledge, please correct me.
They're expanding their footprint around me. The city and adjacent city both have contracts and several retailers have them at all entrances. I tried to see if I could add the locations to deflock via street complete but then realized that I can't log the sites when (safely) driving.
I saw a show about self defense for women in NY city. The instructor said to always carry a sucker. One of those tootsie pops or the like. If in trouble, hold the ball in your hand, turn the stick outward, between your middle and ring finger and punch at something soft and fleshy like stomach or face (eyes, mouth). It's nice because it works everywhere. Even the TSA will let you board a plane with a sucker.
Thanks for posting a reference.
Why only to minors? Don't all people deserve protections from knowingly addictive things?
I can't lead an effort to push the local govn't to do something like this. I just don't have the charisma, but I would definitely join the cause. I was a part of a club once to overturn a law in a nearby city. It was interesting to see how it all worked.
I've been thinking about these, but worried that they're not legal.
I daydream that this guy will threaten to sue the police and they'll come to an agreement to take down all all the cameras. The citizens will be so happy that they'll go to the state legislature and pass a law to forbid warrantless surveilence. The state will rejoice and their congressional representatives will pass a law country wide. The trend will continue globally.
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Uses the US National Weather Service for data. The UI is basic but it has all the maps. Probably overkill and too complex for normal people but good for weather watchers, amateur meteorologists and pilots.
Same for me. In addition to deflock.me and haveibeenflocked.com, are there any community resource sites for finding others in the same city that would be willing to start pushing on the city to cancel their contract?
I recall hearing that there's a Debian install for Qnap devices. I've been considering reimaging an old Qnap with Debian and Minio for backups.
Edit: Found it https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/QNAP
You're not just voting for politicians, but judges, sheriffs, school board members & many others. Often, you're choosing the lesser of 2 evils and rarely will you match policy-for-policy with your best candidate, but in what other way do you have to express your opinions?
I research all candidates on my locality's ballot and bring notes on who I plan to vote for. I sometimes can vote absentee, which is even better.
As I've found in many elections, I'm the minority. That's ok because I believe that when the polls are close, it can pull the candidates closer to my views as they try to appeal to the groups that may give them a few more votes.
How do you decide what's for Terraform and what's for Ansible?
I haven't heard about the terrible longevity. They even top the consumer reports list for EVs. What sorts of longevity issues are there?
I'd love to find a vegan recipes forum on lemmy LMK if you know of any. Family is not vegan, but i'm secretly adding vegan dishes into the rotation for my own selfish reasons. The goal is to turn them all vegan without them knowing that they're already vegan.
I had to scroll way too far down the pageto find this (i trynot to duplicateanother's comments). At the core of some of thescummy advertisements is profiling, enhanced by privacy violations. Remove the abikity to track you around the internet and IRL and advertisements become less obtrusive.
The other side of the coin is that it costs so little to add adverts to a web page, so why not collect a little cash to help offset your hosting costs? Remove the profiling and Google & friends don't have a leg to stand on, so then when you visit a cooking blog you see ads for kitchen utensils. No biggie. Looking for auto repair articles? Check out this awesome wrench! At least you now don't go to show your mom some wedding venue you're thinking about renting alongside an ad for ED meds from the dark market.
Similar to others, I do this but the reverse direction. I have a Pi with HDD at a friend's house. On a timer, it wakes up at 3am, boots to a VPN and initiates an rsync (pull) with it's twin Pi at my place. When the sync is done, it powers down or the timer cuts power at 9am.
Other than clock drift due to power outages, I've had no issues.
I have a directory that i can put scripts into and the remote Pi will execute anything in this directory after the sync and before the shutdown. Logs from the rsync or scripts are pushed back to a different directory on the local Pi.
A pretty good read. I've made many of these mistakes myself and learned from every one of them. We spend so much time hardening our home labs from the bad guys, I wonder if we should instead focus on hardening from ourselves.
Of course, the answer is both.
I love this!
Thanks for posting the contents of the image. This is especially important for folks using a screen reader and the source content is behind a paywall or login link.