I have been making sure my newly or soon to be 18 year old stepchildren and nieces and nephews all understand that voting is not just who is in Washington, but also who is deciding what happens right around us. Local elections are so much more important than I ever really understood at their age.

Anything to stretch it past August 4th. Literally anything. Guarantee they will announce his death or retirement on August 5th.

I had AT&T Gigabit symmetric fiber once and it was glorious.

Honestly, using them as an uber driver might be the singular applicable use case in my eyes. It would be less intrusive than a 360 dash cam which I would want to use to protect myself. Accidents, false claims, etc. There is a lot that can go wrong and a lot of shitty people and a “paper trail” of events is VERY useful in court.

Correct, but the places where it is SUCK. So if they see them as bound together, they are also the places to abuse FOSS, so this is a perfect way to utilize their own shittiness to make them behave ethically.

So let me get this straight. They are not exposing it to consumers. Everyone is being explicit that it is NOT exposed to CONSUMERS. Doesn’t that leave it open to being exposed to non-consumer entities? Things like Meta internally and government entities are non-consumer entities. I believe other businesses could be construed as non-consumer entities as well. So they could easily NEVER expose this to the end users and still make bank selling the data to brokers, government agencies, or private surveillance companies like Palentier or Flock.

Cool cool cool… Good to know.

Let’s start with law congressional pensions and 3rd party law enforcement contracts, yeah?

Easy, replace all price tags with qr codes that you scan with your phone. Then they can make the price whatever they want for whomever they want individually. More realistically they will use an categorization AI to put people into rulesets which set their prices.

Here is a great video to illustrate and educate: https://m.youtube.com/shorts/acpd3UXQdmw

And an article to back it up: https://www.fool.com/investing/2026/03/05/walmart-rolls-out-digital-pricing-could-the-ai-fue/

This IS potentially new as some of the plans involve using facial tracking from security cameras to identify customers and analyze them for their net worth so they can set prices to specific customers, rather than setting prices to specific situations. Also, anything that makes price gouging easier and easier to cover up is bad.

The point on this is the cars are broadcasting the numbers. Imagine your license plate including a loud speaker that shouted it’s number while the car was running. Tracking via plate requires line of sight. Tracking it in an automated way requires a good high speed camera, text analysis computer vision to log the vehicles, and storage for all of the images. In contrast, this signal is a repeating unencrypted broadcast. I could build a Raspberry Nano device that I can sit next to an intersection and capture the numbers of every vehicle that drives by. It is also just presumably storing the number and time, so years of tracking data could be managed with a gig or two of storage.

This is absolutely a threat, and I am surprised it is not actively exploited by companies like Walmart to track every vehicle which drives by their stores and enters their parking lots. Hell, Amazon has enough vehicles out driving around that they could pretty effectively generate profiles for every vehicle in a town just by equipping their trucks with scanners and compiling the data into a behavior analysis system. Every car which drives past is read and stored. It is truly worrying.

Breaking news: the sky is blue, flowers are pretty, and fire is hot. More at 11.

Use Jellyfin. I have been running it since the middle of last year and it has been amazing and stable. Have fun.

Yo ho ho. If purchase is not ownership, then piracy is not theft.

The ONLY way this is even remotely OK is if the OS is set to 18+ all other age verification laws are satisfied and I don’t have to provide even more intrusive information to random companies.

Yes please. Or at the very minimum let us ban sections of advertising. My wife and I hate horror movies, but when we watch YouTube we are bombarded with horror ads. We have a young child that we are working hard to not expose to certain imagery. Let us ban fucking horror movie ads.

This quote reminds me of the owner of this one TTRPG and card shop in my area. If you try to talk to him about literally anything he sells he will straight tell you he does not care about anything he sells. All the nerdy shit under one roof and his ass is there because nerds will pay through the nose for it.

Needless to say I shop at the store where the owner participates on FNM every week and runs D&D campaigns.

And in other breaking news: the sky is blue, tree pretty, and fire hot.

In other news: fire is hot, water makes things wet, and things that taste good make us happy.

Can confirm, both true and stupid.

I feel it is less responsibilities and more the societal awareness that comes with them that tends to make the change. When you start paying bills you start dealing directly with greedy corporations, landleeches, and greedy employers, all of whom view you as a commodity rather than a human being.

Life being pay to play, as it has been for a couple hundred years, is where I feel the “downward trend of society” feelings come from.