• 1 Post
  • 176 Comments
Joined 1 year ago
cake
Cake day: November 12th, 2024

help-circle
  • This also boils down to who is in control of the data.
    Whoever gets to approve the data requests, needs to be answerable to those whose footage is being recorded.

    If footage is asked for, then such a request needs to be logged publicly, with the requester’s identifiable information and stored as a permanent record, regardless of approval.


    If any legislation is to be made regarding this, it is important to keep in mind that incomplete footage can be more harmful and will be misused.

    Then comes the point where cops don’t really care about correctly solving a case and are happy with propping any random citizen as a criminal. And considering how easily they can get away with harassment even after being exposed, it honestly doesn’t make sense to me at all that they be given absolutely any extra privileges.


    From my standpoint, if I can’t use a local police camera to get informed on who cut the brake-cable of my bicycle, then there might as well be no police camera.

    Everytime I have personally seen the police go out of their way to do something, they never had any legitimate purposes.


  • In this case, I would say Gnome was a good choice.
    Just looking the same as macOS would not be the real requirement, as long as the user gets a sense of familiarity.
    You really want to give them as simple a configuration system as possible, for which Gnome is a good idea.

    I won’t be going to Gnome, because I am fine with putting a few extra seconds to understand the options to get the high configurability in return but that might not be the case for OP’s parents.
    And if some specific unavailable feature was required, they would probably ask OP, who can then install a corresponding extension.



  • That’s how it is done.
    If it is a public camera, it has to be a public record.
    And if not, then anyone having access to the feed, has to have their whole life (both work and personal) be available as a public record.

    If not, then you now have cases where most people can’t afford to defend themselves from malicious cop allegations.
    To prevent this, anyone arrested, pre-trial has to have access to all searches done by cops, related to the allegation and ability to pull-up 100% of their own footage anytime near the event in question.

    If any part of the footage is deleted, due to “technical issues” like, “the footage was deleted” or “some of the cameras were not working”, then the arrest is illegal and the police department is responsible for compensation.









  • Isn’t that something done by any group being oppressed and not in power, regardless of what kind of cause they are for?
    e.g. those who had capoeira and similar things that had martial arts disguised as other stuff, back when they couldn’t practice partial arts.

    Though I find it hard to understand why they still have to wink now, when there are literal state-sanctioned groups of armed people-robbers around, who are also fine getting filmed in the act.
    When multiple countries’ governments have switched from turning a blind eye, to actually endorsing such actions, what more are these groups trying to accomplish by using these deniability tactics?


  • I also don’t think it makes sense that people who haven’t even taken history as a major, need to be taught each and every phrase that was used by a fanatic group.

    A lot of these words, phrases and symbols tend to be taken from stuff that meant well in the past or even now. See swastika, svaha[1].

    Just knowing those terms, while might help prevent them from being used in accidental cases, is not as important as being able to recognise the pattern of peoples’ actual actions.
    Because a group that has copied stuff from other traditions, can always do that again with other sources, to replace that stuff.

    It’s important that out of history, we make sure to identify the part that we actually need to be against, which is the specific actions that cause grief back then, instead of just picking each and every unrelated thing, which any new group can simply replace, while also getting to keep the original grievous actions.
    This is also to prevent us from getting our willpower drained from always getting outraged by multiple instances of minor similarities that are much more probable to be a false +ive, to have the power to push back when we find the actual problem creators.


    1. which I am not sure of the Nazi reference, but it was being chanted by people being portrayed as Nazis in a game ↩︎


  • So my browser’s reader theme is at black background (#000) with white text (#fff) and I just reduce the backlight at night, while keeping the windows open in the day time.

    Similarly, I reduce mobile brightness indoors, but keep it at full, when using maps while riding.

    When using an LCD monitor, it is beneficial to be able to reduce backlight brightness instead of reducing the colour value in software.





  • Yeah, when you get a “free” sticker, you tend to stick it to something. Even more so, if the sticker is shiny and cool looking.

    I got some MSI stickers with my old GPU and was tempted to stick them somewhere. Ultimately didn’t, because they didn’t match the aesthetic of anything and I consider it as bad for heat dissipation, so wasn’t going to put them on such surfaces anyway.

    ASUS gave a velcro cable-tie though and even though the laptop was shit, I tend to use the cable-tie quite a bit.