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can you imagine the kind of cultural and technological engineering effort it took to make it so installing an unknowable surveillance device in your home is easier than being able to use the abundant internet coursing through reality that you already own to simply be able to ... have your own camera

Alison Pitt

2026-01-17 01:40:38

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Let’s be honest, Ring was already some technocratic, dystopian BS, but if you needed a reason to finally, finally kill it with fire, here’s your reason: Ring is partnering with Flock to help ICE spy on you and your neighbors for the government 👀

#Technology #InfoSec
techcrunch.com/2025/10/16/amaz…



Amazon's Ring to partner with Flock, a network of AI cameras used by ICE, feds, and police | TechCrunch

Agencies that use Flock can request that Ring doorbell users share footage to help with "evidence collection and investigative work."
Amanda Silberling (TechCrunch)

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jonny (good kind)

having a camera you can look at from your phone should be easy. being able to find information by searching for it should be easy. it's an engineering project to keep it hard enough that you have to accept constant surveillance as the price to pay to make use of the accumulated skill that we have literally lying around in the gutter on the street
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✧✦Catherine✦✧

i currently really need an IP camera so i researched my options for "IP camera with a firmware that i can guarantee doesn't spy on me"

wanna know what the current meta is, apparently? (according to some of the people who've spent the most time doing this exact thing)

you... you buy a camera devkit on aliexpress and flash a linux distro on it. the second part i expected (not to say this should be the norm). but the first took me by surprise; you'd think some vendor makes devices that are good enough at least for firmware modding.

nope. we are in a hell of our own making. i guess if you aren't an embedded engineer with years of experience you don't deserve to have a trustworthy ip camera or something

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✧✦Catherine✦✧

this is exactly correct. i've had the misfortune to do some camera wrangling. this is very much a case of "please consider if you really need it, and if you do, here's [2-3x my normal hourly rate]".

only in this line of work have i seen a large corporate customer not be given a complete schematic for a devboard (a very basic one, p much just MIPI, I2C, and a few sidebands connected) except as a blurry image in microsoft teams screenshare with a pinky promise that you won't screenshot it (because the terms of the NDA with $sensor_vendor prohibit even acknowledging that the sensor has pins)

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RE: social.vmbrasseur.com/@vmbrass…

Mozilla wants your input. Here's mine:

Mozilla should be doing two things and two things only:

1: Building THE reference implementation web browser, and
2: Being a jugular-snapping attack dog on standards committees.
3: There is no 3.

Mozilla should have NOTHING to do with AI. Nobody wants it. Stop forcing AI into every corner of every project because your VC-brained management have completely lost the plot.

mozillafoundation.tfaforms.net…


VM (Vicky) Brasseur (@vmbrasseur@social.vmbrasseur.com)

Attached: 1 image Mozilla wants your input. Please provide it. https://mozillafoundation.tfaforms.net/201 Here's mine. #OpenSource #OpenWeb #Privacy #AI
VM (Vicky) Brasseur (VMB Social)

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Welcome tommy as #curl commit author 1434: github.com/curl/curl/pull/2027…

bugfix: `SA_SIGINFO` should not be set when it is using `sa_handler` by Tommy-LXDAO · Pull Request #20278 · curl/curl

https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007904875/functions/sigaction.html SA_SIGINFO should not be set when it is using sa_handler. If we set sa_handler as SIG_IGN and sa_flags with SA_SIGINFO.The s...
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#curl

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Welcome Arnav-Purushotam-CUBoulder as #curl commit author 1433: github.com/curl/curl/pull/2030…

docs: update configure examples by Arnav-Purushotam-CUBoulder · Pull Request #20301 · curl/curl

Autotools ./configure requires selecting a TLS backend explicitly (or using --without-ssl). Several docs/examples still show ./configure without any TLS backend flag, which fails on current sources...
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#curl

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#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/?radd=1… today brings you 16 updated and 3 added apps, plus 1 added from the weekend:

* Quick UPI: QR code generator via Quick Settings Tile 🛡️
* Oksigenia SOS: safety and distress alerts with fall and inactivity detection 🛡️
* RepoStore: turns GitHub releases into a clean, Play Store-style experience 🛡️
* advanced text encryption utility designed for zero-trust environments 🛡️

RB status: 806 apps (62.2%)

Enjoy your #free #apps at the #IzzyOnDroid repo :awesome:


IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

This is a repository of apps to be used with your F-Droid client. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github, GitLab, Codeberg).
IzzyOnDroid App Repo
#free #apps #AndroidAppRain #izzyondroid

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I think it’s really stupid that in order for you to type the period on a touchscreen keyboard, you have to click the numbers at the bottom just to get to it. In address bars, and email address fields, it’s right there next to the spacebar. Why can’t it be like that in all textfields? This is why I prefer texting on my laptop. I think there should be an extra row of preferred and most used punctuation symbols. That would make typing a whole lot more convenient.

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What the shit? Listening to Spotify while being in a Discord voice channel (alone) made it buffer, or as I found out, auto stop every few seconds. I only have one question: why? Apparently this is a feature? Who wants that kind of piss as feature. Leave my music alone.
Edit: this. Not quite a feature, but still ridiculous af: support.discord.com/hc/en-us/a…

Spotify Auto Pause

Oh no! Spotify keeps pausing while you're listening, but why?! If you are transmitting with your mic in voice chat for 30 seconds while Spotify is playing, Spotify will stop playing, and you'll get...
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#Oracle stock is now lower than before they touched #OpenAI ... turns out making up numbers and throwing around rumours of "300bn deals" and whatnot with nothing but butterfly farts behind it is bad.

Lawsuit filed. Main plaintiff -- love it -- the Ohio Carpenters' Pension Plan.

Sources:

youtube.com/watch?v=RF3BuIcDYj…

pivot-to-ai.com/2026/01/15/bon…

via @davidgerard @ParadeGrotesque

A chart showing Oracle stock prices. 9 Sept 241.51 USD. 15 Jan: 191.24 USD.

Bondholders sue Oracle over OpenAI debt deals

Oracle sells enterprise databases. It’s a very solid business. They have so many corporate and government deals that Larry Ellison doesn’t even slightly have to pretend to be human any more. But El…
Pivot to AI
#oracle #openai @Parade du Grotesque 💀 @David Gerard

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"The idea of using a YAML map for flexible vowel scaling seems good. It allows any vowel to be specified, not just English ones. I think applying the scale only to lengthened vowels fits with the user’s request while keeping short vowels unchanged. I'll check the existing setup to make sure everything aligns."
You better. I'm done implementing settings by hand into this thing. C++ is getting old.

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POV: Macie #ADHD i naprawdę spore problemy z przetwarzaniem tego, co słyszycie, a typ z którym rozmawiacie przez telefon się bardzo spieszy. Najważniejszym elementem rozmowy ze spieszącym się typem jest zdobycie adresu. Adres jest w miejscowości Mąchocice-Scholasteria.

Koniec żartu.

***badum-tsssssss***

(tak, typ powtórzył pięć razy, ja musiałam zapisać)

🙈

#adhd
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oh my gosh. So even if you load the 64-bit NVDA after using the 32-bit NVDA, your system gets fucked. List view controls don't read right, alt+tab switcher stops reading your enumerations and window list, it's horrifying. So, don't flip between them often, you'll need a system restart, I can't believe we're in 2026 dealing with that.

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I haven't powered up the Development VM since November. Kinda scared to since VSCode will most likely update, and every time it does, it breaks settings that I have to then track down and edit! Oy! But also really would like to get back to working on my Apps. Gotta switch Soundkeys over to...something other than WX because the Accessibility issues are driving me bonkers and UIA doesn't seem to be working much better. I do like Python a lot, though.

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RE: dragonscave.space/@ZBennoui/11…

This is honestly super cool. I wonder if Ableton works with NI stuff, Native Instruments.

Zach Bennoui

2026-01-19 06:55:55

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I should really go to bed but first have this thing I spent the last few hours making in Ableton. It's a remix of "Be Like You" by Taylor Acorn and it's probably one of my favorite songs of the last few years. Here's the original: youtu.be/Cys2K0rx2T0



Taylor Acorn - Be Like You (Official Audio)

Taylor Acorn - Be Like You (Official Audio)Stream Survival in Motion: https://onerpm.link/survivalinmotionFollow Taylor:▶ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/a...
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Well, I heard you all loud and clear. In the next pack update we're going back to some of the old values in the phoneme file but with language-specific safeguards in place to make NVSpeech sound not like it is speech impaired. Nothing against those who are, it's just that robots are too perfectly made of math to need to suffer from those problems

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Today is a company holiday in the US I think, but I sat in on an AI best practices meeting anyhow, since I still know next to nothing about AI, and upper management cares about it.
Someone made a comment that AI will change the nature of technical/development positions.
So I wonder, will it? I presume it will, in some way, since most change has consequences, but I feel like it's too early to say how or to what extent?
It's fascinating how much change there is right now, both in terms of technology created by humans and the ecology of the planet due to humans.
I think about the Mesozoic Era and how long it lasted and how there must have been long states of stasis, with each generation of any given life form essentially playing the same role as the last.
But maybe long periods of stasis followed by relatively rapid bursts of change constitute the norm (the meteor that ended the Mesozoic initiating the latter, for instance).
So I wonder if/when we will enter another period of relative calm and what it will look like, but it feels impossible to say.
I presume that life 20 years from now will be similar to life in 2025 but different in some ways, and life in 2065 will be similar to 2045 but different in some ways, and so on, but, if I were to fall asleep and wake up 1,000 years from now, then the world would be utterly unrecognizable to me.

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THE WAR FOR THE OPEN WEB WILL BE WON IN THE STREETS!
GET OUT THERE!
RAISE HELL!
ATTACK!
ARISE!
BECOME UNCOMPUTABLE!
BE THE GLITCH IN THEIR SYSTEM!
BECOME THE SIGNAL THEY CANNOT JAM!
ON THE BUS!
GET ON THE BUS!
RIDE THE BUS!
WITH THE CARDBOARD SIGN!
CAN'T STOP THAT!
DO YOU THINK THEY'LL BAN WIZARDS FROM THE BUSSES?
THEY CAN'T STOP US!
I HAVE A FUCKING BUS PASS AND I'M PREPARED TO USE IT!
ONE BILLION CARDBOARD SIGNS!
ONE BILLION WEB SERVERS!
NOW IS THE TIME!
BECOME THE FUNGUS!
THE MULCH MUST FLOW!
TRASH ROBOT DOT NET!

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"Cow Tools 🐮" : Brown Swiss (cow) in Austria has been discovered using tools in multiple ways – something only ever seen in humans and chimpanzees

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#Cows

A brown cow using a long stick to scratch her back

Back-scratching bovine leads scientists to reassess intelligence of cows

Brown Swiss in Austria has been discovered using tools in different ways – something only ever seen in humans and chimpanzees
Ian Sample (The Guardian)
#cows
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From the 17 January edition of The Week:
"The US Consumer Product Safety Commission keeps a database of the various items that people in America have got stuck in their rectums. The most recent
data shows that about 4,000 people (average age: 43) seek hospital treatment for such mishaps per year. Among the items recorded were beard clippers, a sandal, uncooked pasta, a dog chew toy, an egg, a turkey baster, a pair of glasses and a shampoo bottle."

The mind is not the only thing that boggles 😂

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