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Youre breaking a core tenant
Did you mean tenet?
3·13 days agoI have javascript disabled, and it’s not paywalled for me. Maybe give that a try?
Motorola Mobility, a subsidiary of Lenovo Group Limited, China.
3·18 days agoIt’s an archive.today link. Google tracking/fingerprinting is one of that site’s problems.
Please consider subscribing to 404 Media if you can, rather than just relying on the archive links. Real journalism requires funding.
While the article you linked describes Flock installing cameras without permission from the county, that doesn’t mean they failed to get permission at all. Note that the very first paragraph says the Treasure Island Police Department was their customer, and the bit you quoted implies that the Lake County Sheriff’s Office had previously deployed cameras.
In other words, it looks like Flock did have permission from city agencies, just as I thought. So your claim that Flock installed them without permission appears to be incorrect, at least in those cases. That complicates the issue, and makes arguing for their removal and ban more difficult for the many citizens who want them gone.
(And to be clear, I do want mass surveillance gone.)
Flock installs cameras without permission,
Does documentation of this exist? I have been under the impression that cities or city agencies give them permission.
6·23 days agoI really want something that’s going to be no-fuss, solid as a rock and that’s simply going to get out of my way.
That would be Debian Stable. I’m using it with KDE Plasma (6.3.6), and am pretty happy with it. (I also applied a few backports for gaming and software development, but that was easy.)
Is there something about newer Plasma versions that you absolutely must have right now, rather than living with 6.3.x until next year?
Because despite its name, ICE is no longer about immigration and customs. The Trump administration (and the people behind Project 2025) have appropriated and expanded it into their own private army, circumventing constitutional law for the purpose of turning the USA into a dictatorship.
This is why you might see people comparing ICE to a modern day Gestapo, and part of why many Americans fear that there will be no more elections.
Yet another ruse for Trump and his cronies to leverage in amassing power by bleeding working-class Americans dry.
The USA doesn’t have laws against collecting people’s personal information. Companies have been quietly taking advantage of this for decades.
See also:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LexisNexis
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How?
Describing the saboteur as “The developer of Mumble” is misleading, because Mumble is developed by multiple contributors, and Beatrici isn’t even the most prominent one.
The post’s true headline is:
Statement regarding attempted distribution sabotage
Systemd (along with the various add-on services that come with it on most major distros) meddles with and tends to break critical functionality quite often, except on boring systems where the needs being served happen to be handled well by systemd’s happy path(s).
If the computers you maintain fit Lennart Poettering’s idea of how to do things, then you might never notice a problem. On the other hand, if you’re responsible for systems with unusual or complex configurations, or have need of the flexibility that makes unix so very useful in the first place, then you might very well discover that systemd is a pushy, invasive, poorly considered, buggy, and in some ways just pain broken collection of software, maintained with a level of arrogance and carelessness not often matched in the unix community, and you might rightly come to despise working with it.
Sadly, my experience has been the latter. In the years since the systemd suite was adopted by Debian distros, I have been burned more times by it and spent more weeks of my life troubleshooting it than I can count any more. Because of this, I have come to resent systemd. And I know I’m not alone in this.
So, dear readers, when you see people complaining about systemd, please try not to be like the zealots out there who routinely cry “luddite” and demand proof when they encounter folks who dislike it. Try instead to remember that one size does not fit all, that some of systemd’s detractors are very skilled and reasonable people who happen to run systems that are necessarily different from your own, and have encountered problems that you have not. It has been over a decade. Some of us are tired of it, and tired of talking about it.
Whether 50TB of lost data is “much” depends on what the data is, and whether it’s replaceable.