I, for one, value my family photos more than a replaceable, insured box made of wood with electrical wires running all over the place.
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Technology@lemmy.world•I rented a car, and within hours, my driver's license was for saleEnglish
132·16 days agoIt’s hooked up to a database to make sure it’s not a fake ID.
walden@wetshav.ingto
Privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com•Supreme Court Finds 4th Amendment Protections Extend to Digital and Location DataEnglish
9·3 months agoI’d like to see how this affects Flock and other LPR camera systems that track everyone who drives, rides, or walks by.
walden@wetshav.ingto
Privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com•Supreme Court rules that broad cell phone location data sweeps require warrantsEnglish
8·3 months agoDo LPR cameras like Flock next.
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Privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com•Your Kids' School Bus Is About to Become a Roaming Surveillance Vehicle. A company that sells cameras to catch drivers illegally passing stopped school buses wants to turn them into license plate rea…English
2·3 months agoAfter we got the ticket in the mail I did some brief research on what a divided highway is, but non-residential didn’t pop up in any of the reading I did. Granted, I just got an answer and moved on, but maybe there are different definitions in each state. It seems like something that should be the same in every state, though.
walden@wetshav.ingto
Privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com•Your Kids' School Bus Is About to Become a Roaming Surveillance Vehicle. A company that sells cameras to catch drivers illegally passing stopped school buses wants to turn them into license plate rea…English
1·3 months agoNY. If the law was designed around rural areas, I would assume those areas would either have interstate highways with no houses on them, or two lane, non-divided highways with houses so you’d have to stop for a school bus in that case.
Divided highway can also be a little vague. In this case, the division is just a raised median. Not one of those angled concrete walls designed to lift cars and turn them back into their lane. Still, by definition it’s divided.
The place where my wife got tagged doesn’t require kids to cross the highway. The bus stops in front of their house, and there are no houses on the other side of the highway. Even if kids did have to cross a 4 lane road, they’d do it before the bus arrives, right? I’m not sure.
I don’t know the logic they used when making it different than most other states. I think PA is similar, but I remember there being a small difference which made it a little more logical.
walden@wetshav.ingto
Privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com•Your Kids' School Bus Is About to Become a Roaming Surveillance Vehicle. A company that sells cameras to catch drivers illegally passing stopped school buses wants to turn them into license plate rea…English
91·3 months agoTo be fair, people should definitely get fines for passing school buses. I’m more mad at the state for being different than the rest of the country and including divided highways in their school bus law.
walden@wetshav.ingto
Privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com•Your Kids' School Bus Is About to Become a Roaming Surveillance Vehicle. A company that sells cameras to catch drivers illegally passing stopped school buses wants to turn them into license plate rea…English
16·3 months agoMy wife got a ticket from one of these things, along with 4 other people that you can clearly see in the evidence video they send you. A couple other cars knew to stop.
We live on the border with a state whose bus law makes no exception to the road being a divided highway. Apparently not even people who live in that state are aware, either. We learned the hard way.
The bus stopped on the other side of a 55mph road with a physical barrier down the middle. 4 lanes total.
Now we know the stupid law across the border. That bus alone probably generates $1200+ a day on that single stop on the highway.
walden@wetshav.ingto
Technology@lemmy.world•Just 16% of Americans think AI will benefit society, despite chatbot use climbing to 49% of US adultsEnglish
5·3 months agoIt sort of makes sense, though. Google Search has been a hot pile of garbage for years. Researching something simple used to be quick and easy, but now you have to sift through endless SEO trash websites to find half an answer (or use a better search engine).
People go for the path of least resistance.
walden@wetshav.ingto
Technology@lemmy.world•'There is no universe in which Proton VPN compromises its no-logs policy' — Proton joins the backlash against Canada's surveillance billEnglish
1·4 months agoLiberals have a much better track record with this sort of thing.

I use Backblaze B2 for off-site backup.
I recently starting using Proxmox Backup Server to back up my virtual machines.
I have Restic scheduled to back up the PBS folder, photos, etc. multiple times per week. My restic script excludes large replaceable things like video files.
Backblaze announced recently that they’re switching to everything being encrypted on their end. It’s already encrypted coming from my server, but I guess it’ll be double encrypted? The only caveat is it only applies to new objects, so I plan on making a new bucket and starting my backup from scratch.