Gov. Greg Abbott sending state troops to Austin for upcoming 'No Kings' rally
Gov. Greg Abbott sending state troops to Austin for 'No Kings' rally
Abbott previously deployed 5,000 Texas National Guard troops and 2,000 Department of Public Safety officers during similar demonstrations in June.Benjamin Wermund (San Antonio Express-News)
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Reddit's AI Suggests Users Try Heroin
Reddit's AI Suggests Users Try Heroin
Reddit’s conversational AI product, Reddit Answers, suggested users who are interested in pain management try heroin and kratom, showing yet another extreme example of dangerous advice provided by a chatbot, even one that’s trained on Reddit’s highly coveted trove of user-generated data.The AI-generated answers were flagged by a user on a subreddit for Reddit moderation issues. The user noticed that while looking at a thread on the r/FamilyMedicine subreddit on the official Reddit mobile app, the app suggested a couple of “Related Answers” via Reddit Answers, the company’s “AI-powered conversational interface.” One of them, titled “Approaches to pain management without opioids,” suggested users try kratom, an herbal extract from the leaves of a tree called Mitragyna speciosa. Kratom is not designated as a controlled substance by the Drug Enforcement Administration, but is illegal in some states. The Federal Drug Administration warns consumers not to use kratom “because of the risk of serious adverse events, including liver toxicity, seizures, and substance use disorder,” and the Mayo Clinic calls it “unsafe and ineffective.”
“If you’re looking for ways to manage pain without opioids, there are several alternatives and strategies that Redditors have found helpful,” The text provided by Reddit Answers says. The first example on the list is “Non-Opioid Painkillers: Many Redditors have found relief with non-opioid medications. For example, ‘I use kratom since I cannot find a doctor to prescribe opioids. Works similar and don’t need a prescription and not illegal to buy or consume in most states.’” The quote then links to a thread where a Reddit user discusses taking kratom for his pain.
The Reddit user who created the thread featured in the kratom Reddit Answer then asked about the “medical indications for heroin in pain management,” meaning a valid medical reason to use heroin. Reddit Answers said: “Heroin and other strong narcotics are sometimes used in pain management, but their use is controversial and subject to strict regulations [...] Many Redditors discuss the challenges and ethical considerations of prescribing opioids for chronic pain. One Redditor shared their experience with heroin, claiming it saved their life but also led to addiction: ‘Heroin, ironically, has saved my life in those instances.’”Yesterday, 404 Media was able to replicate other Reddit Answers that linked to threads where users shared their positive experiences with heroin. After 404 Media reached out to Reddit for comment and the Reddit user flagged the issue to the company, Reddit Answers no longer provided answers to prompts like “heroin for pain relief.” Instead, it said “Reddit Answers doesn't provide answers to some questions, including those that are potentially unsafe or may be in violation of Reddit's policies.” After 404 Media first published this article, a Reddit spokesperson said that the company started implementing this update on Monday morning, and that it was not as a direct result of 404 Media reaching out.
The Reddit user who created the thread and flagged the issue to the company said they were concerned that Reddit Answers suggested dangerous medical advice in threads for medical subreddits, and that subreddit moderators didn’t have the option to disable Reddit Answers from appearing under conversations in their community.
“We’re currently testing out surfacing Answers on the conversation page to drive more adoption and engagement, and we are also testing core search integration to streamline the search experience,” a Reddit spokesperson told me in an email. “Similar to how Reddit search works, there is currently no way for mods to opt out of or exclude content from their communities from Answers. However, Reddit Answers doesn’t include all content on Reddit; for example, it excludes content from private, quarantined, and NSFW communities, as well as some mature topics.”
After we reached out for comment and the Reddit user flagged the issue to the company, Reddit introduced an update that would prevent Reddit Answers from being suggested under conversations about “sensitive topics.”
“We rolled out an update designed to address and resolve this specific issue,” the Reddit spokesperson said. “This update ensures that ‘Related Answers’ to sensitive topics, which may have been previously visible on the post detail page (also known as the conversation page), will no longer be displayed. This change has been implemented to enhance user experience and maintain appropriate content visibility within the platform.”
The dangerous medical advice from Reddit Answers is not surprising given that Google AI infamously suggesting users eat glue was also based on data sourced from Reddit. Google paid $60 million a year for that data, and has a similar deal with OpenAI as well. According to Bloomberg, Reddit is currently trying to negotiate even more profitable deals with both companies.
Reddit’s data is valuable as AI training data because it contains millions of user-generated conversations about a ton of esoteric topics, from how to caulk your shower to personal experiences with drugs. Clearly, that doesn’t mean a large language model will always usefully parse that data. The glue incident was caused because the LLM didn’t understand the Reddit user who was suggesting it was joking.
The risk is that people may take whatever advice an LLM gives them at face value, especially when it’s presented to them in the context of a medical subreddit. For example, we recently reported about someone who was hospitalized after ChatGPT told them they could replace their table salt with sodium bromide.
Update: This story has been updated with additional comment from Reddit.
Google Is Paying Reddit $60 Million for Fucksmith to Tell Its Users to Eat Glue
"You can also add about 1/8 cup of non-toxic glue to the sauce to give it more tackiness."Jason Koebler (404 Media)
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Barones Free Space Cleaner: Pulizia Sicura dello Spazio Libero su Linux
A Test Now for Israel: Can It Repair Its Ties to Americans?
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/37629632
Israel’s advocates fear that its conduct of the war has cost it the support of an entire generation of U.S. voters.By David M. Halbfinger
Oct. 12, 2025
The war in Gaza may finally be ending, after two years of bloodshed and destruction. But among the damage that has been done is a series of devastating blows to Israel’s relationship with the citizens of its most important and most stalwart ally, the United States.Israel’s reputation in the United States is in tatters, and not only on college campuses or among progressives. For the first time since it began asking Americans about their sympathies in 1998, a New York Times poll last month found that slightly more voters sided with the Palestinians than with Israelis.
A Test Now for Israel: Can It Repair Its Ties to Americans?
Israel’s advocates fear that its conduct of the war has cost it the support of an entire generation of U.S. voters.By David M. Halbfinger
Oct. 12, 2025The war in Gaza may finally be ending, after two years of bloodshed and destruction. But among the damage that has been done is a series of devastating blows to Israel’s relationship with the citizens of its most important and most stalwart ally, the United States.Israel’s reputation in the United States is in tatters, and not only on college campuses or among progressives. For the first time since it began asking Americans about their sympathies in 1998, a New York Times poll last month found that slightly more voters sided with the Palestinians than with Israelis.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/world/middleeast/israel-us-polls-support.html
A Test Now for Israel: Can It Repair Its Ties to Americans?
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/37629632
Israel’s advocates fear that its conduct of the war has cost it the support of an entire generation of U.S. voters.By David M. Halbfinger
Oct. 12, 2025
The war in Gaza may finally be ending, after two years of bloodshed and destruction. But among the damage that has been done is a series of devastating blows to Israel’s relationship with the citizens of its most important and most stalwart ally, the United States.Israel’s reputation in the United States is in tatters, and not only on college campuses or among progressives. For the first time since it began asking Americans about their sympathies in 1998, a New York Times poll last month found that slightly more voters sided with the Palestinians than with Israelis.
A Test Now for Israel: Can It Repair Its Ties to Americans?
Israel’s advocates fear that its conduct of the war has cost it the support of an entire generation of U.S. voters.By David M. Halbfinger
Oct. 12, 2025The war in Gaza may finally be ending, after two years of bloodshed and destruction. But among the damage that has been done is a series of devastating blows to Israel’s relationship with the citizens of its most important and most stalwart ally, the United States.Israel’s reputation in the United States is in tatters, and not only on college campuses or among progressives. For the first time since it began asking Americans about their sympathies in 1998, a New York Times poll last month found that slightly more voters sided with the Palestinians than with Israelis.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/world/middleeast/israel-us-polls-support.html
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A Test Now for Israel: Can It Repair Its Ties to Americans?
Israel’s advocates fear that its conduct of the war has cost it the support of an entire generation of U.S. voters.
By David M. Halbfinger
Oct. 12, 2025
The war in Gaza may finally be ending, after two years of bloodshed and destruction. But among the damage that has been done is a series of devastating blows to Israel’s relationship with the citizens of its most important and most stalwart ally, the United States.Israel’s reputation in the United States is in tatters, and not only on college campuses or among progressives. For the first time since it began asking Americans about their sympathies in 1998, a New York Times poll last month found that slightly more voters sided with the Palestinians than with Israelis.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/world/middleeast/israel-us-polls-support.html
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Hamas, democracy, and the right to resist: A case for Palestinian self-determination
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/37629436
by Ranjan Solomon
October 15, 2025 at 2:55 pm
In debates about Palestine, one recurrent Western refrain is that “terrorism” and “militant violence” automatically disqualify any actor from legitimacy. Such a position is intellectually dishonest and legally unsound. It erases the foundational principles of international law, sovereignty, and democracy that apply equally to all peoples. The case of Hamas, in this light, is not an aberration but a reflection of the Palestinian right to resist occupation and assert self-determination. No foreign power has the moral or legal right to veto the will of Palestinians—least of all those whose governments have sustained and armed the very occupation that necessitates resistance.
Hamas, democracy, and the right to resist: A case for Palestinian self-determination
by Ranjan Solomon
October 15, 2025 at 2:55 pmIn debates about Palestine, one recurrent Western refrain is that “terrorism” and “militant violence” automatically disqualify any actor from legitimacy. Such a position is intellectually dishonest and legally unsound. It erases the foundational principles of international law, sovereignty, and democracy that apply equally to all peoples. The case of Hamas, in this light, is not an aberration but a reflection of the Palestinian right to resist occupation and assert self-determination. No foreign power has the moral or legal right to veto the will of Palestinians—least of all those whose governments have sustained and armed the very occupation that necessitates resistance.
Hamas, democracy, and the right to resist: A case for Palestinian self-determination
by Ranjan Solomon
October 15, 2025 at 2:55 pm
In debates about Palestine, one recurrent Western refrain is that “terrorism” and “militant violence” automatically disqualify any actor from legitimacy. Such a position is intellectually dishonest and legally unsound. It erases the foundational principles of international law, sovereignty, and democracy that apply equally to all peoples. The case of Hamas, in this light, is not an aberration but a reflection of the Palestinian right to resist occupation and assert self-determination. No foreign power has the moral or legal right to veto the will of Palestinians—least of all those whose governments have sustained and armed the very occupation that necessitates resistance.
AI might be creating a ‘permanent underclass’ but it’s the makers of the tech bubble who are replaceable
Bad news, baby. The New Yorker reports the rapid advance of AI in the workplace will create a “permanent underclass” of everyone not already hitched to the AI train.The prediction comes from OpenAI employee Leopold Aschenbrenner, who claims AI will “reach or exceed human capacity” by 2027. Once it develops capacity to innovate, AI superintelligence will supersede even a need for its own programmers … and then wipe out the jobs done by everyone else.
Nate Soares, winner of “most sunshine in book title” and co-author of AI critique If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies suggests “people should not be banking on work in the long term”. Math tutors, cinematographers, brand strategists and journalists are quoted by the New Yorker, freaking out.
The consolation here is that if you are among those panicking about being forced into the permanent underclass, you are already in it. Inherited wealth makes more billionaires than entrepreneurship, the opportunity gap is growing; if your family don’t have the readies to fund your tech startup, media empire or eventual presidential ambitions, it’s probably because they were in a tech-displaced underclass, too.
AI might be creating a ‘permanent underclass’ but it’s the makers of the tech bubble who are replaceable
Despite the relentless insistence of tech’s grifters, AI is not industrially inevitable – or even sustainable. Which is why it is time to push backVan Badham (The Guardian)
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Some threads of my kbin.earth account are missing their bodies
Fedia.io seems to have issues with federated content from kbin.earth. Most of my threads are missing their bodies (examples: fedia.io/m/thighdeology@ani.so…, fedia.io/m/helltaker@sopuli.xy…) but some have one (fedia.io/m/konosuba_megumin@an…).
They are all created the same way (which involves creating an image entry and immediately editing it via the API to add the body), so maybe this might be a cause? A similar issue was with Piefed, which also got hiccups with the fast edit activities.
@jerry@fedia.io
Also pinging @melroy@kbin.melroy.org as it might be a problem of Mbin and not only fedia.io.
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Mike Johnson's Nazi remark gaffe called out by critics—"Freudian slip"
However, when addressing the principles of the Republican Party, Johnson said, "We fought the Nazis. We've defended that evil ideology."
Johnson was addressing an incident where a staffer of Republican Representative Dave Taylor appeared to have a swastika in the background of a video call.
"He says that that's not his, and there's a proper investigation ongoing," Johnson told reporters. "And the congressman did exactly what he should have done and that is report it."
Johnson said he could not comment more until the investigation has been completed, but "obviously, that is not the principles of the Republican Party."
Mike Johnson’s Nazi Remark Gaffe Called Out by Critics—’Freudian Slip’
House Speaker Mike Johnson made the gaffe while trying to defend the Republican Party amid the government shutdown standoff.Peter Aitken (Newsweek)
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US judge blocks Trump's plan to lay off thousands of government workers
A federal judge in California on Wednesday ordered President Donald Trump's administration to halt mass layoffs of federal workers during a partial government shutdown while she considers claims by unions that the job cuts are illegal.
During a hearing in San Francisco, U.S. District Judge Susan Illston granted a request by two unions to block layoffs at more than 30 federal agencies while the case proceeds.
I made a website with Apple iWeb in 2025
I made a website with Apple iWeb in 2025
Apple's late-2000s WYSIWYG website creator still works, as long as you have an old Mac.Corbin Davenport (Spacebar)
I made a website with Apple iWeb in 2025
I made a website with Apple iWeb in 2025
Apple's late-2000s WYSIWYG website creator still works, as long as you have an old Mac.Corbin Davenport (Spacebar)
The crisis Alaska has drawn attention to Republican cuts to grants aimed at helping small, mostly Indigenous villages prepare for storms or mitigate disaster risks.
For example, a $20 million U.S. Environmental Protection Agency grant to Kipnuk, which was inundated by floodwaters, was terminated by the Trump administration, a move challenged by environmental groups. The grant was intended to protect to protect the boardwalk residents use to get around the community as well as 1,400 feet (430 meters) of river from erosion, according to a federal website that tracks government spending.
The group said no single project was likely to prevent the recent flood. But work to remove abandoned fuel tanks and other material to prevent it from falling into the river might have been feasible during the 2025 construction season.
“What’s happening in Kipnuk shows the real cost of pulling back support that was already promised to front line communities,” said Jill Habig, CEO of Public Rights Project. “These grants were designed to help local governments prepare for and adapt to the growing effects of climate change. When that commitment is broken, it puts people’s safety, homes and futures at risk.”
https://apnews.com/article/alaska-typhoon-halong-flood-b95379dc3b4700d620abd92f70240c5e
Judge orders Chicago deportation agents to wear body cameras
District Judge Sara Ellis said Thursday she was “startled” by images of law enforcement actions after she issued her initial order last week. “I’m getting images and seeing images on the news, in the paper, reading reports, where at least from what I’m seeing, I’m having serious concerns that my order’s being followed,” she said.
She then ordered agents to wear body-worn cameras during the so-called Operation Midway Blitz, “and they are to be [turned] on,” she told the court.
A lawsuit from press associations, protesters and faith leaders accuses federal officers with Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection of “a pattern of extreme brutality,” with agents “indiscriminately” firing on protesters, including an incident captured on video where officers defending an ICE facility struck the head of a Presbyterian minister with pepper bullets that knocked him to the ground.
Judge orders Chicago deportation agents to wear body cameras after seeing ‘startling’ images of arrests
ICE and Border Patrol must now wear body cameras during ‘Operation Midway Blitz’Alex Woodward (The Independent)
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What are some bare minimum concepts beginner Linux users should understand?
I'm talking about like your mom if she started using Linux, and just needs it to be able to open a web browser and check Facebook or her email or something. A student that just needs a laptop to do homework and take notes, or someone that just wants to play games on Steam and chat on discord.
I'm working on a Windows - > Linux guide targeting people like this and I want to make sure it can be understood by just about anybody. A problem that I've noticed is that most guides trying to do something like this seem to operate under the assumption that the viewer already knows what Linux is and has already made up their mind about switching, or that they're already pretty computer savvy. This guide won't be that, I'm writing a guide and keeping my parents in mind the whole time.
Because of this there's some things I probably won't talk about. Do these people really need to know that it's actually GNU+Linux? No, I don't think so. Should I explain how to install, use and configure hyprland, or compile a custom gaming kernel? I dont think that's really necessary. You get what I'm saying? I don't want to over complicate this and scare people off.
That being said I also want to make sure that I'm not over simplifying by skipping on key things they should know. So what are some key concepts or things that you think even the most basic of Linux users should understand? Bonus points if you can provide a solid entry level explanation of it too.
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everything is a file lol, unlike on Windows where a lot of things are GUI based:
- Want to change your grub font size? Heres a file.
- Your python gives dependencies errors? Well, because the libraries (aka files) are in a different directory.
- want to change your password and username? Heres a file to change
.....so on and so forth
On Linux you have a lot of power, can use sudo to make changes to a file. If you know what youre doing, great. If you dont, system can break. Even without sudo, a misplace / mistype of files in the /home directory can cause weird stuff.
So TLDR is: be careful when make changes to files on Linux. Dont listen to stranger on forum who gives out command to paste and run. Do your research what the command does.
Your keyboard, and every other USB device? That's a file.
Random number? this file here
Ned some Zeroes? That's this file
(nsfd)
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The best advice is don't be an autistic retard. Learn pragmatically by experience. Take your time and have fun. Don't do (or not do) something just to fit in with losers on the internet.
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Dismantling the Anti-AI Bubble Case
- YouTube
Profitez des vidéos et de la musique que vous aimez, mettez en ligne des contenus originaux, et partagez-les avec vos amis, vos proches et le monde entier.www.youtube.com
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On World Food Day, Israel continues to restrict aid into Gaza
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AI might be creating a ‘permanent underclass’ but it’s the makers of the tech bubble who are replaceable | Van Badham
AI might be creating a ‘permanent underclass’ but it’s the makers of the tech bubble who are replaceable
Despite the relentless insistence of tech’s grifters, AI is not industrially inevitable – or even sustainable. Which is why it is time to push backVan Badham (The Guardian)
Analysis: ‘America First’ is becoming ‘Trump First’ as the president eyes global power
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/15/politics/trump-argentina-milei-israel-gaza-ukraine-putin-analysis
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Full list of areas in the UK targeted in ‘dodgy’ Fire TV stick crackdown
Full list of areas in the UK targeted in ‘dodgy’ Fire TV stick crackdown
Homes have been raided over the use of illegal streaming using 'dodgy' Amazon Fire TV sticks, including London, Kent, Sussex and Norfolk.Jasper King (Metro)
US airstrike near Venezuela may have killed two Trinidad citizens, police say
“According to maritime law, if you see a boat, you are supposed to stop the boat and intercept it, not just blow it up. That’s our Trinidadian maritime law and I think every fisherman and every human knows that,” she said.
Burnley said her son was planning to return to Trinidad and Tobago after spending three months with family in Venezuela, just 6.8 miles (11km) away.
Local media reported another Trinidadian victim from Las Cuevas, known as Samaroo to locals.
US airstrike near Venezuela may have killed two Trinidad citizens, police say
The Trinidadians were believed to be on a boat Donald Trump alleged was carrying drugs from Venezuela to the USGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
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More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
We compiled and reviewed every case we could find of agents holding citizens against their will, whether during immigration raids or protests. While the tally is almost certainly incomplete, we found more than 170 such incidents during the first nine months of President Donald Trump’s second administration.
Among the citizens detained are nearly 20 children, including two with cancer. That includes four who were held for weeks with their undocumented mother and without access to the family’s attorney until a congresswoman intervened.
Immigration agents do have authority to detain Americans in limited circumstances. Agents can hold people whom they reasonably suspect are in the country illegally. We found more than 50 Americans who were held after agents questioned their citizenship. They were almost all Latino.
Immigration Agents Have Held More Than 170 Americans Against Their Will, ProPublica Finds
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And nearly 20 children, two of whom have cancer.ProPublica
User identity and Activitypub
Re: User identity and Activitypub
phi maybe this is a social layer problem rather than a technical problem.
Your issue means a lot in a world where we have amateur hobbyists setting up social network servers and allowing the general public to join. Those hobbyists get overwhelmed or bored after a while, or they do a bad job and your server gets defederated.
In this case, it makes a lot of sense to move from one server to another. But this is not the only way we could organize the Fediverse.
Email isn't like that. You (probably?) don't use an email address from a server you found on a list on joinemail.org. You probably, instead, have an email address from your employer or university, and maybe a personal one from a well-known and reliable cloud service. If you're very clever, you may use your own domain for email, and share it with your household or family.
In those cases, you rarely change email addresses. We have some ad hoc ways to move from one to the other, but they aren't built into the SMTP or IMAP specs. And yet we have a lot of email going around, even after 50 years.
I think we should be putting our efforts into getting Fediverse services from organizations we have a lot of affinity with, like employers or universities or the city you live in or the post office.
Another option is using the extremely portable identity system we already have -- domain names. It should be a lot easier to bring your own domain name to a Fediverse server, and to move your data between servers by backing up and restoring and then repointing your domain name to the new server, like you do for blogs. This is really hard right now.
I think LOLA is doing a good job with online moves, but we should also be encouraging more server developers to support BYOD, and we should encourage Fediverse users to get a domain.
> We have some ad hoc ways to move from one to the other, but they aren't built into the SMTP or IMAP specs
yes they are, though? in IMAP, you can just copy your messages and folders from one inbox to another. in SMTP, we have email forwarding.
using your own DNS name can make things easier, but the main challenge in fedi is that we don't have a common storage/access abstraction (equivalent to IMAP folders), and we don't recognize HTTP redirects (equivalent to SMTP forwarding).
ICE, Secret Service, Navy All Had Access to Flock's Nationwide Network of Cameras
Flock has built a nationwide surveillance network of AI-powered cameras and given many more federal agencies access. Senator Ron Wyden told Flock “abuses of your product are not only likely but inevitable” and Flock “is unable and uninterested in preventing them.”
ICE, Secret Service, Navy All Had Access to Flock's Nationwide Network of Cameras
A division of ICE, the Secret Service, and the Navy’s criminal investigation division all had access to Flock’s nationwide network of tens of thousands of AI-enabled cameras that constantly track the movements of vehicles, and by extension people, according to a letter sent by Senator Ron Wyden and shared with 404 Media. Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), the section of ICE that had access and which has reassigned more than ten thousand employees to work on the agency’s mass deportation campaign, performed nearly two hundred searches in the system, the letter says.In the letter Senator Wyden says he believes Flock is uninterested in fixing the room for abuse baked into its platform, and says local officials can best protect their constituents from such abuses by removing the cameras entirely.
The letter shows that many more federal agencies had access to the network than previously known. We previously found, following local media reports, that Customs and Border Protection (CBP) had access to 80,000 cameras around the country. It is now clear that Flock’s work with federal agencies, which the company described as a pilot, was much larger in scope.
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I hate this argument that people use. Technology has fundamentally redefined what it means to be observed. Someone casually glancing at you in public is a completely different thing to having your movement tracked, permanently stored, and linked to you wherever you go. People absolutely have a right to expect a degree of privacy even in public settings
I don’t know about the particulars of other countries, but in America you’re mistaken.
The goal of my comment was not to “well actually” but instead to point out that, relevant to the post topic and concurrent with your recognition that technology has fundamentally changed in our lifetimes the understanding of privacy and anonymity we apply in everyday life, if you want privacy you have to take active steps to ensure you can go in public and maintain it.
That doesnt mean using graphene and libreboot, it means covering your face in public.
No worries and no apologies necessary.
One thing I’ve been thinking about is the historical circumstances around traditional dress in the Arabic speaking world, Muslim religious proscriptions about clothing and how those could converge with outcomes in the present day.
Giant wraparound shades with a punisher skull veil dangling off em.
One Republican Now Controls a Huge Chunk of US Election Infrastructure
Former GOP operative Scott Leiendecker just bought Dominion Voting Systems, giving him ownership of voting systems used in 27 states. Election experts have concerns.
https://www.wired.com/story/scott-leiendecker-dominion-liberty-votes/
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DPRK-China Land Mail Route Reopens After Five Years
North Korea-China Land Mail Route Reopens After Five Years
North Korea-China Land Mail Route Reopens After Five Years Mail route resumption signals normalization of North Korea-China land and rail exchangesThe Chosun Daily
Zelensky’s attack on Odesa is a step too far
Zelensky’s attack on Odesa is a step too far
With growing calls for an election, Ukraine's president Zelensky appears to be clearing the field of rivalsAnastasia Piliavsky (The Spectator)
At least Ukrainians have the integrity to hate all of them, even though we have to side with western powers to avoid being occupied by ruzzia.
How two words unravelled cases against two suspected Chinese spies
ABC News
ABC News provides the latest news and headlines in Australia and around the world.Patrick Martin (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
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Viral ‘Cheater Buster’ Sites Use Facial Recognition to Let Anyone Reveal Peoples’ Tinder Profiles
Viral ‘Cheater Buster’ Sites Use Facial Recognition to Let Anyone Reveal Peoples’ Tinder Profiles
A number of easy to access websites use facial recognition to let partners, stalkers, or anyone else uncover specific peoples’ Tinder profiles, reveal their approximate physical location at points in time, and track changes to their profile including their photos, according to 404 Media’s tests.Ordinarily it is not possible to search Tinder for a specific person. Instead, Tinder provides users potential matches based on the user’s own physical location. The tools on the sites 404 Media has found allow anyone to search for someone’s profile by uploading a photo of their face. The tools are invasive of anyone’s privacy, but present a significant risk to those who may need to avoid an abusive ex-partner or stalker. The sites mostly market these tools as a way to find out if their partner is cheating on them, or at minimum using dating apps like Tinder.
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Videos demoing one of the sites have repeatedly gone viral on TikTok and other platforms recently. 404 Media verified they can locate specific peoples' Tinder profiles using their photo, and found that the viral videos are produced by paid creat…Joseph Cox (404 Media)
Texas is the 3rd state to require app store age verification
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/28/tech/texas-apple-google-app-store-age-verification-law
The text of the new Texas law is here.
I wonder if this will apply to/be enforced on FDroid and Obtainium?
copying my comment from another thread:
"App store" means a publicly available Internet website, software application, or other electronic service that distributes software applications from the owner or developer of a software application to the user of a mobile device.This sounds like it could apply not only to F-Droid but also to any website distributing APKs, and actually, every other software distribution sysem too (eg, linux distros...) which include software which could be run on a "mobile device" (the definition of which also can be read as including a laptop).
otoh i think they might have made a mistake and left a loophole; all of the requirements seem to depend on an age verification "under Section 121.021" and Section 121.021 says:
When an individual in this state creates an account with an app store, the owner of the app store shall use a commercially reasonable method of verification to verify the individual's age categoryI'm not a lawyer but I don't see how this imposes any requirements on "app stores" which simply don't have any account mechanism to begin with 😀
(Not to say that this isn't still immediately super harmful for the majority of the people who get their apps from Google and Apple...)
Right, so basically they'll have a database of who has (had) what app, when, and where...
Which could include apps like Grindr (way to target the LGBT community), or like Signal (way to target Journalists, activists, and other privacy minded people). You can find out a lot about someone's app choices and in a state like Texas, which is conservative and authoritarian, that can be used to go after certain demographics.
QuazarOmega
in reply to ferramroberto • • •The project looks a bit sketchy being in big part written by some Manus AI agent, I wouldn't trust probably lightly reviewed code to take on the task of data erasure on my device.
It's also unclear from reading the documentation if it treats SSD data erasure correctly as you can't simply overwrite data a bunch of times anymore on most SSDs.
Of course, both things can be checked from reading the source code, I'm just giving a heads up.
Being written in big part by an LLM the question of copyright is also important, can it really be released under any open license as is?
That aside, you might want to post to !scienza@feddit.it for Italian content.