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[–] blitzen@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago

It might be the primary and only responsibility of being human.

[–] blitzen@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ya, he mentioned the “identifiable” thing in the video. I’m not really how much truth is in that. Even if true, I feel better about being logged as “unidentifiable [color] [make] [model] with bike rack,” over [license plate number] which can be used to look up my name and address.

Even if his license plate trick worked under his conditions, there’s no way of knowing if it’s tricking Flock cameras or if it is, if it confines to do so with updates. And you never know if it fails, you’ll continue to think it’s working while it’s not.

Neither way is perfect, so perhaps the better solution it to assume your vehicle is always tracked and to take alternate forms of transportation when engaging in something you don’t want logged.

[–] blitzen@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 week ago (4 children)

There’s YouTube video out there, the name escapes at the moment, where he figures out how to basically insert “noise” over his license plate that can lead to flock cameras not recognizing it. Fascinating stuff.

Two big issues IMO. 1) maybe it fools cameras now, but who knows if it continues to. 2) it’s illegal to cover your plate, probably doubly with the intent to obfuscate. My solution is bike rack. “Oops, didn’t meant to cover my plate” is good plausible deniability.

[–] blitzen@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I don’t know anything about the Jewish Chronicle, but Israel and IDF and JDFL has cried “antisemitism” too often to make it near meaningless.

[–] blitzen@lemmy.ml 142 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Patent trolls are some of the only companies that make Disney actually the good guy for a change.

[–] blitzen@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago

“Memories, fading memories, blending into dull tableaux.”

[–] blitzen@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Is there a resource to find out who has contracts with Flock?

[–] blitzen@lemmy.ml 67 points 1 week ago (11 children)

I used deflock to look for cameras around me; I CANNOT leave my city limits by car without passing by a Flock camera.

[–] blitzen@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 week ago

He’ll just “sell” tax exempt status for 50% of what can be saved when exempt.

[–] blitzen@lemmy.ml 11 points 8 months ago

There is logic behind not prohibiting people from fleeing from a legitimate threat.

But if his comments don’t also include the statement that people protests blocking traffic don’t constitute a threat, it’s just implicit permission to harm protesters.

 

Had a bit of a showerthought this morning. c/books could do a monthly book club pick but with the additional feature of inviting a related community to participate. For example, if the book pick was "Two Wheels Good" by Jody Rosen, !bicycles@lemmy.ca could be invited to participate. Seems to be a great way to encourage more people to read and more people to subscribe to the sub.

 

I have an instance running (blitzen.org), and right now just two other instances are in my white list (lemmy.ml, lemmy.ca). If I wanted to mirror, say, lemmy.ca's white and black lists, is there a way to export/import such a list?

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by blitzen@lemmy.ml to c/fediverse@lemmy.ml
 

I heard once that the case for which instance (for any federated app, be it Lemmy or Mastodon etc) on which to sign up is to choose based on "administration" not subject. That is to say, it is better to experience the fediverse through moderation and other administrative decisions than it is to do so on a server that is "subject based." Thoughts?

 

Say what you will about reddit, at least an established subreddit was the place to gather on the topic, ie r/technology etc.

With Lemmy, doesn't it follow that similar communities on different instances will simply dilute the userbase, for example !technology@lemmy.ml and !technology@beehaw.org. How do we best use lemmy as a (small c) community when a topic can be split amongst many (large C) Communities?

This is an earnest question, in no way am I suggesting lemmy is inferior to reddit. I'm quite enjoying myself here.

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