Category Tech

This is moving beyond tracking license plates and car details, as Flock left some cameras on walking trails open to the internet where we learned they follow people, zoom in capable of reading smartphone screens… So they’ve already been working…

This relates to a previous post about how these warrantless searches of people’s devices violating the fourth amendment are done for those coming back into the country, with this ruling a travesty. But federal judges with political aspirations often make…

These are super Orwellian, as they’re back from the border covering US citizens and their homes, capable of spying on you while you’re traveling, in your backyard… I have a previous post on one in San Diego capable of covering…

First, I’m so glad I’m not working in an office environment any longer. And along with Ring cameras and its ilk, the surveillance and tracking is going to be incredibly pervasive as the people around you are going to bring…

This is one of the biggest violations of our rights, the illegal federal search of devices when you come back into the country, and it can happen to anyone. As per the Fourth Amendment, they need a warrant to search…

The way this is being coordinated with big tech megacorps is telling. And if you give detailed facial biometric data to Facebook, you get a badge signifying that you’re a good citizen. Will America comply? In Mexico people are ditching…

(Videos are below) This is starting to look really purposeful, captured Bitcoin Core not fixing the Taproot bugs that fueled years of SPAM and blowing up the UTXO set, then blowing up OP_RETURN to 100k to make node runners hold…

Partly true, but people have been deceived for decades by the press, media, and false prophets, an unceasing stream of propaganda and misinformation. Though AI does give rulers something better than depending on lying, imperfect humans, and acts as perfect…

This isn’t problematic with AI hallucinations at all. And the biggest problem with these types of systems is the company providing the cameras receiving a percentage, thus incentivized to make sure more people get caught. And eventually they get firmware…

A good post on Google’s Android developer verification, and how this will affect installing apps (sideloading). It’s interesting that it’s a separate package from the Play Store. It doesn’t affect LOS, but if it is one day rolled into the…

Is this to collect data for facial recognition? To help train their AI system for facial recognition? Voluntary today, but with the age verification edicts pushing towards digital ID, will it continue to be? And can we trust Google anymore…