I don’t know that I agree with the null hypothesis. Why is the default assumption surveillance prevents terrorism.

Surveillance is often a response to terrorism, but do we have great examples of how our current surveillance systems have actually prevented terror? And while it goes hand in hand with policing, how much prevention can we directly attribute to surveillance.

And this is the more positive attitude. General data collection for building intelligence and selling ads does not appear to prevent terror.

I think that surveillance in general is a pragmatic cost of society but we desperately need to look at the systems we have in place. Is flock actually making people safer? Is mass facial recognition making people safer? How much crime is prevented because law enforcement (and advertisers) have near instant access to purchase metadata every time I swipe my card.

By the same token, community safety groups and neighborhood watch don’t make me innately uncomfortable. Nor is it surprising some people have cameras on their property or the bank needs to keep tabs on who’s entering and leaving.

I don’t entertain the idea that more surveillance = less terrorism. US Law Enforcement fusion centers haven’t really impacted white supremacy, but sure did make it easier to target and track protesters.

I think the important discussion here is more nuanced than “surveillance is good and we should lose privacy to be safe”.

I don’t have a good source of the top of my head, but in general you could probably search terms like RSS Infomat or see if publications like The Canary and 404 media have RSS feeds.

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I think what you’re saying has a lot of merit in a lot of ways. But being one of those people who sits behind a computer a lot and ‘talks’ electronically I can tell you first hand I am really am talking a lot of the time - I just hop in group calls in discord. It’s a lot like walking in to the social door room back in college. When people are around and I wanna chat I just go in and chat. If no one’s around and I wanna chat I’ll still hop in the voice channel and people will join if they want to chat too.

That’s where the nerve is a bit struck with me regarding your comment on sitting behind the computer. To what extent are people actually not using voice coms - as in how many people who spend lots of time on a dedicated computer are also just doing chat through discord instead of old school 1:1 calls?

Maybe I’m also just one of those pussies who hates answering the phone, but like hit me up, we’ll get together and go grab some boba if you want that one on one communication but otherwise just hop in the group chat. It’s a bit entitled to expect friends be most comfortable communicating the way that works best for you no? Round hole square peg and all. I happen to think phone calls are more tedious then back and forth texting, but the different modes certainly have different uses.

The younger generation still is generally cooked and that worries me quite a bit. The attention span is a big one. A 4 paragraph email isn’t even really that long. Heck, this reply is somewhere at that length. If you and I were talking on the phone this specific exchange would be like 5 minutes or something!

Unless you’ve been laid off and are having a hard time getting a job - which may not be many people but still sucks for anyone trying to make it by without dedicated income :/

Soon™ it’ll be on the store. Having to build and push to tizen is the absolute worst part of jellyfin (if you have to) otherwise there’s clients for every platform - even LG’s webOS.

There’s also finamp for music specific playback, so jellyfin can pretty much do everything

That could be a fun kind of ddos attack for a botnet - compromise your competitors’ machines and download collective TBs of infringing material, then report it as an anonymous whistleblower!

It’s doubly messed up when considering the dealership [Rohrman] paid a bunch of money to the recent stadium renovation so they could have their name on the field [Rohrman]

I have 3 siblings, for a grand total of 6 in my family. Only my mom and I have passports. At present, despite all of us being born in the states and naturalized, only two of us have passports. So only two of us have standardized federal IDs that prove our citizenship. RealIDs are becoming more common, but nowhere near as common as a standard state driving license which does not prove citizenship.

So the requirement is going to require people to grab their birth certificates and social security cards which are not always available to every family member.

For example, my parents live out of state and have all the important family documents so 2 of siblings are screwed unless they make sure to grab those relatively sensitive documents and be prepared to carry them out and about then hang on to them for several hours.

It’s impractical, and it wasn’t a problem for the years leading up to my birth (96), wasn’t a problem in '00 for bush, or '04 for bush, or '08 and '12 for Obama. It’s suddenly become a problem because the GOP is getting called out for election shenanigans and they generally know unless they can make voting more difficult or less representative (through gerrymandering and goofy election maps) they will lose.

It does sound reasonable, but the existing mechanisms of enforcement and fraud detection have been, and continue to be, robust enough to keep voter fraud from having any meaningful statistically significant impact.

It only stands to make voting more difficult for most people.

I’ve been making a simple 8-bit game with the pygamer board from adafruit/digikey and CircuitPython. It’s incredible to be able to run python on microcontrollers and it’s a really simple workflow, though customizing your environment can be a little difficult when working on a constrained platform.