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?

Can’t wait for copies of my brain to be tortured eternally by Grok

Isn’t Omarchy built on top of Arch Linux? I wonder what sort of effect it will have on Arch to have companies injecting millions into this downstream project?

And since the USA is at war with half the world, the Pentagon will ensure that it never dries up.

While I agree that the street-level cameras should urgently be taken care of, don’t underestimate what a stationary aerial drone can do over a couple of hours.

Listen to Radiolab’s Eye in the Sky episode. Think of the possibilities that have opened up because of drone tech in the 10 years since it first aired (and the 20 years since the tech was used in Iraq). It’s truly frightening what these drones will be able to accomplish once they are in place.

Awesome thanks for the link

Yes, they lie. GrapheneOS is the only fully degoogled android based OS, full stop.

What are they lying about? What part of their OS is not degoogled?

On some technical level you may be correct, but their site claims that /e/os is degoogled.

https://e.foundation/e-os/

/e/OS is a “deGoogled” version of Android OS. It has an open-source Android OS core, with no Google apps or Google services accessing your personal data.

• Google default search engine has been removed from the OS everywhere and replaced with our new ethical search engine: Murena Find
• Google Services have been replaced by microG
• Connectivity checks do not use Google servers
• We do not use Google’s Network Time Protocol servers
• We do not use Google’s Domain Name System servers
• Geolocation uses BeaconDB Location Services in addition to GPS

So I would love to know more about what you’re talking about.

Graphene is only on pixels

Only because Pixels have met their hardware requirements. They are going to start working with Motorola now.

why not their /e/os?

From what I understand, the two OS are not aiming for the same objectives. /e/os is a degoogled OS and that’s its main purpose. GrapheneOS is focused on hardening security on AOSP.

This is an overt invasion of everyone’s privacy to protect children. It will do nothing to stop children from accessing this content. On the contrary, it will likely push them to even more unsavory areas of the internet to get around it.

20 years ago, the goal was to “protect us from terrorists,” and now the argument is “protect children from the world we created.” A year or two from now, they’ll realize that they didn’t go far enough with this, because children will use TOR and/or VPNs to get around it. Then they will come for those technologies. It is a transparent power grab by rightwing fanatics. It always has been and always will be.

I think a lot of people thought that they were going to pay a flat monthly fee forever. This is just the beginning.

I’ve been warning anyone who will listen that the metered token-based rates are the future for this industry. I’ve had coworkers dismiss my warnings, and now here we are. It’s gonna be a shit show once anthropic eventually switches over to token-based billing for services like Claude Code.

I don’t think there are many bots on Lemmy. If I were a betting man, though, I’d wager that the 10-day-old account complaining about the .ml instance is the bot

How is this guy a fucking CEO

I think that psychopaths naturally claw their way up to that position, so it checks out

I’ll never understand how devs get so confident in their product that they will provoke hackers/attackers. I wouldn’t even have that level of confidence even after an independent audit lmao

Edit: also what kind of dumbass makes an April fools joke about their own product being compromised. Amateur shit.

Yep, anyone who is celebrating this is shortsighted and letting their own nationalistic ideas and jingoism cloud their judgement.