Cops ain’t really buying anything. More probably they are directing the spend of taxpayer money on some vibe-coded garbage ass app one their friends made for a100x markup along with a long-term training and support package.

Beyond Apple and Google collecting it, there are thousands of apps people install that ask for location information that sell the data. Companies like Anomaly 6 claim that they get location data on over 3 billion of handsets from app-based location tracking.

On the article headline… it’s a huge enhancement to the capabilities we’ve already known. We’ve known for some time that phones can be passively tracked based on the saved Wifi networks they attempt to auto-connect to. This development suggests we can track humans (not electronics) based on the observed disturbance the human meat causes to the wifi signal. If it works and is as accurate as the researchers claim (something I’d be suspicious of), that’s a pretty big deal.

Relatable… I had an apartment in Studio City right on the LA River. It wasn’t even the cool part of the river you see in movies. I used to jokingly call it my waterfront property.

For sure, but my point was that t hey know that outright banning guns is nearly impossible, so they’ve done essentially what the republicans have done on abortion. They’ve attacked it on every other conceivable angle: they’ve made it hard to buy guns, hard to use them, hard to run any business that sells them, hard to buy ammo, hard to stay in legal compliance with constantly changing laws and case law.

The state’s strategy has essentially morphed to enacting every law and policy that makes it harder to buy, own, and use guns, knowing that most of them are not legal, but get them tied up in courts indefinitely. It’s a scummy strategy, but it’s been fairly effective.

It’s moronic. We demand lower noise in most products, but demand higher noise in guns because we can’t distinguish Hollywood bullshit from reality. I think most CA Dems would accept the premise that reducing injurious noise levels while participating in a legal activity is a good idea, but institutionally they’d never give an inch on gun laws.

I have opnsense, and it was pretty easy. I use DNS overrides and a local reverse proxy. When I’m on the home network, the local dns overrides point to the local reverse proxy. When I’m outside the home, public DNS records point to my VPS, which reverse proxies the traffic to my home machine. This way I’m only hitting the VPS when I’m outside the home. Much more efficient.

I think Side of Burritos’ youtube channel has a guide on how to set this up, but it’s fairly straightforward.

Same. I only knew them as a co-brand on the 80s-90s Ford Broncos. I’m pretty far from their target demo, whatever it is.

Are you suggesting that Discord didn’t have any technical means to detect and ban that activity before? And that having face scans of some users not only gives them that ability, but it’s the most reasonable and sensible way to achieve it?

lol… that’s a perfect, concise description of transit in the bay area. Slow, expensive, and still requires a lot of driving to get where you want to go.

Of course, but the Superbowl media circus does go to the city, and it’s pretty obvious from the article that’s where they were talking about.

Lotta Stockholm Syndrome in that blog.

In California we enacted Prop 65, which requires business to tell you when the business or product exposes you to cancer causing chemicals. The result was that every business and every product now has prop 65 warning labels. The warning itself immediately became meaningless, and now we’re left with a compliance regime and no consumer benefit.

Hopefully New York can learn from California’s foolishness and not just end up with an AI warning on every article.

He doesn’t have a chance, because it’s going to be a fair primary all the way thru.

I’m not sure the Dems remember how to do one of those.

They will have 100 different reasons to invalidate the results anyway.

That’s not fair. They are still working super hard to disarm the people in blue states.

Something maybe wrong? I have 58k photos and it didn’t take anywhere near that long. If memory serves, I just let it rip overnight and it was done the next day.

I think your description is reasonable, however I’d argue that they are not security cameras. Rather a nationwide public surveillance network intended to circumvent the 4th amendment.

Flock doesn’t secure people or property. They merely catalog the movements of people and vehicles for future law enforcement work, allowing both current location searches and comprehensive retrospective location history searches, all without warrants or court orders. Again, not picking on you here; just adding some color because while security camera is easy to understand, it also has a connotation that is quote different from what flock does.

Could it be that he observed that the so called “agentic” operating systems (current versions of Windows, MacOS, iOS, Android) are essentially screen-scraping everything people do, and funneling it to the intelligence apparatus? Security researchers have been squawking about this for a while, and even recently the Signal Foundation CEO pointed it out. Or is that too mundane? Is it much worse? Intelligence gathering tools like Microsoft Recall are an intelligence agency’s wet dream.

The election interference thing certainly doesn’t strain credulity, but wouldn’t he be able to disclose something so wildly illegal? That is the whole point of congressional oversight.

OK, so after a bit of poking at it:

1. I agree. The OnlyOffice mobile Android app (called Documents) is a much better mobile spreadsheet viewer/editor than Collabora.
2. What’s even cooler is that the app works with Nextcloud as a cloud backend. So I can log into my existing Nextcloud instance and get the benefit of the better sheets editor on my existing files with no extra work at all!
3. They say that OnlyOffice supports markdown as of version 9, but I think they mean the broader platform itself, not the Android app. For example, you cannot create a new .md file from the mobile app, and if you try to open an existing .md file, it displays a “wrong file type” error, but it does successfully open it as a .docx.

In any case, since it works with Nextcloud, the app, out of the box, is already a more functional mobile spreadsheet editor. That’s a big win in my book. Thanks!

Face detection as well, and partnered with Amazon Ring.