This is good news, and gotdamn I’ll take my wins where I can get 'em, but just to clarify, its a victory with caveats:

• A warrant or probable cause is enough to use ALPRs
• A subsequent Oklahoma legislative discussion over this matter did not put forth outlining repercussions for violating this new restriction.
• And likely most difficult of all, the 30-day history was what considered it a search. All Flock would need to do is decrease the history to a few days, which is still just as useful for most investigations, for it to not be considered a search. After writing this out, I learnt Flock already had plans to reduce to a 7-day window.

So again, this is a good thing despite these flaws. I’d rather have some limits than none at all, but keep pursuing this. The fight has always been about whether this tech should be allowed or not, not whether or not you need to look suspicious. I can’t help but feel that until a large case at the supreme court happens, our best route is still via legislative endeavors. While its scummy that politicians are only now addressing it when they’re around an election time, it’s still gaining traction nonetheless.

Okay, so hopefully this isn’t a sign of me being toooo out of touch, but what exactly is wrong with this photo? The post text uses a lotta charged language, so I can are y’all are upset over something, but aren’t firearms like a normal thing for Americans?

They got an LGBTQ+ section? You telling me the gays are all an AI??

I’ve been thinking this long enough to reflect upon it, gauge my position and realize I should’ve already jumped on it, then consider that a bit more waiting will work, and then reassess to realize that I should’ve really bought before the second reassessment, and now I still see prices rising. I hate the news as much as you do, but the waiting game is not the optimal route for basically anyone on this platform. Things are not improving anytime soon.

Yeah, I am saying the best time to consume product is now.

Seriously wondering why I see as many as I do, considering the big backlash it gets, and the fact that most people just write it off as slop and go on about their way. I opened the post, thought it looked like AI, checked comments for if others thought it was too, then immediately disregarded whatever the post contained.

GrapheneOS and Motorola are currently working on making their next flagships launch with GOS out of the box.

That is what he used, but it is possible to go from Reticulum to Reticulum device without the need for those services, he just happened to use them in the video example. In this hypothetical future, those services won’t be completely cut out anytime soon, but it is possible to rely on them much lesser.

Tl;Dr: I believe it takes advantage of tech-illiteracy.

My experience has been that McAfee pays for PC hardware manufacturers to include their service as an install with their drivers. This results in people seeing “Oh my new PC has McAfee antivirus,” and it becomes their main antivirus by merit of always being in-your-face, then it eventually throws popups that say “Your antivirus is expiring, pay us!” To which if that’s become your go-to, you’d likely pay without thinking much of it. Most people just aren’t tech literate enough to take action on things. It always blows me away just how bad the common human’s tech literacy is, like even 2FA services aren’t understood by most people, heck most people dont even know how to uninstall a program on Windows.

Doesn’t seem to be AI, just some lazy work. The other images used on their website all seem to be taken from primary sources when applicable, and this one is as well.

Pretty sure that is it. A lotta people in response to seeing him decry certain technologies tend to say, “that uncompromising nature on privacy is why GrapheneOS holds up so well.” Which I gotta be real when I say that it really does make me feel more comfortable with GrapheneOS’ development. I can’t keep up with all news on it, I’m not wanting to completely audit all the source code, but having a development team led by someone like that does bring a sense of ease toward my phone.

I was gonna say, you can tell who’s just a cryptobro vs who actually cares about fiscal freedom based on that. If anyone suggests you use bitcoin, they probablyyyyy aren’t someone to listen to. Zcash and Monero are the only two I’d ever trust as of now.

Honestly, its a massive shame that a technology as good as crypto was completely usurped by groups just looking to profit. They chant “This is true freedom of finance!” while only caring how much USD it’s worth. Like dawg, that’s why nobody takes crypto seriously.

For reference of just how easy this is, most AR-15s that I’ve seen have been units built from individual parts, my own included. That’s kinda the AR-15’s whole schtick, is that it’s super modular and customizable, so much that a lotta people joke that it’s “LEGOs for adults.” It makes good sense, if company A makes a good upper, but Company B makes good triggers, so why not mix and match for the best of both worlds?

No shame if you’re one of these people, but I figured mostly everyone on Lemmy would’ve known about this sorta stuff by now. While many apps are just frontends for services, the presence of an app alone is enough to massively expand trackability of the user. Heck, its profitable enough for companies to force people to use apps that some services are forcing all mobile website visits to redirect straight to an app store.

The title of this post seems to communicate that goal, even if it’s not the intent. It is worth noting that the article itself seems to read more as if Samsung is going through bad management decisions amid market turmoil. The current market demand on Samsung has some sectors performing with insane profits, yet others completely underperforming. This current topic is the offproduct of the statements of the lesion between the union reps and the company, to which this individual has already been replaced. They were pushing for a distribution of earnings based on how their respective sector performed.

Also not to be outdone, wronged workers are doing what wronged workers do best. A strike is planned for the near future, and Samsung is currently responding by cutting production quotas in advance. It is not a company wide strike, rather it is a strike of just the specific division of Samsung that’s getting lesser earnings. The union seems to see that amid the AI craze, their underperforming sector is at risk of being diminished, even if only temporarily.

I can add more, but I dont wanna interpret for others and I think I’ve done that enough already. Its not a long or bad read, y’all can see for yourself.

Tl;Dr: I used Proton and Tuta, both work well and respect privacy. I will encourage E2EE though.

My suggestion is largely dependent on your use case. I’m switching from Proton to Tuta actively, but not necessarily due to a slight to Proton. I simply used to use their VPN + Email combo, but recently wanted to switch to Mullvad VPN, so Tuta then became cheaper.

As far as E2EE discussions go, I dont feel E2EE/PGP is ever a bad thing to have. Namely, encrypted communications have a smaller threat surface. I’d advocate in the modern day, all respectable services should offer it anyways. With how easy PGP is to setup, any company that doesnt do E2EE by default is likely motivated against it, which speaks ill of their privacy practices.

For services in general, most privacy respecting services are hosted in Europe. Switzerland and Germany for Proton and Tuta respectively, which what might ease your stress a bit is that they do still need to follow the GDPR, but all good providers I’m familiar with are European based.

I’ll translate the other guy’s comment;

Israel and the US attacked because they were basically handed a golden opportunity in a world where they search for opportunity. The top governmental officials were present within the same room, confirmed by their intelligence officials, and during a vote for the next supreme leader. By attacking then, both the current government would be inept for days to weeks, and a new government would have a shoddy transition of power.

Tl;Dr: the goal is a long, drawn-out war. I realized after writing this whole thing out, It’s totally a tangent you didn’t mention, but fugget I’m not gonna let it go to waste.

Now, here’s the opportunity in that opportunity: A “short victory” is not the goal, this is a resource war. Venezuela was effectively captured by the US, Hegseth has stated intents to revitalize the Americas as the ‘American sphere of influence’ (paraphrased), Iran is unable to export significant oil, and with that goes most of the middle east’s production through the closed strait. This disproportionately favors the US, Russia, and Canada for oil production. Trump previously pushed his “51st state” agenda on Canada, and Russia is cutoff from trade with much of the world due to sanctions. This has the US in a position where it disproportionately benefits from having the Strait of Hormuz closed, and the longer it goes, the more reliant countries get on the US for energy.

As to why it happens now, Trump is in power, and the current admin understands the developed world is slowly becoming more energy independent without the need for oil (alternative energy). This explains why the narrative is maintained that “green energy doesnt work,” while Europe actively sees progress and positive outcome with it. It’s not about what’s best for the American people he speaks to, it’s more oriented around what he wants to leverage in the current state of global affairs.

Provided compliance is nuts, this man is a nutcase for complying. Sounds all good, but I dont believe being a nutcase warrants doxxing, verbal harassment, verbal threatening, and everything else that we’re seeing here.