https://www.gadgetreview.com/someone-cut-down-every-single-flock-camera-in-this-town-in-a-single-night

https://web.archive.org/web/20260731231849/https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/ice-airports-immigrants-22365537.php

I have javascript disabled, and it’s not paywalled for me. Maybe give that a try?

they’ll also support Motorola.

Motorola (the company whose name and reputation has been well known for decades) no longer exists. Its successor is called Motorola Solutions, and it’s not the company making the upcoming GrapheneOS phone. That device is coming from Motorola Mobility, which is a completely separate company, owned by China’s Lenovo.

thus making me wonder whether the Chinese government can affect it

They absolutely can. And, since they have the means, the incentive, and no reason to fear repercussions, they probably will. The questions on my mind are how they will affect it, and who will find out.

I hope the hardware and firmware features used by GrapheneOS will become common some day. I think Sony’s Xperia line comes close. Perhaps the GrapheneOS maintainers should talk with them next.

I had been massively burned by empty and dull mission based open world games.

Some “open world” games merely tick the boxes of having a somewhat large area and the ability to traverse it. That alone turns out to be incredibly boring to many of us.

Give me a game world that’s interesting and rewarding to explore. Unique encounters. Unmapped discoveries. Surprising characters. Varied environments. This aspect of an open world is one of the things that Skyrim did fairly well. I wish more game designers would run with the idea.

Motorola Mobility, a subsidiary of Lenovo Group Limited, China.

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Joust, Jumpman, Lode Runner, and Prince of Persia were good on at least some 65xx machines of that time.

It’s an archive.today link. Google tracking/fingerprinting is one of that site’s problems.

Here’s an infamous one:

https://hackaday.com/2024/01/20/how-a-steam-bug-once-deleted-all-of-someones-user-data/

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.

Guy looks like Run DMC or something.

Run and DMC are two different people.

How much are they going to pay me in advance to make shackling my work to their future licensing whims seem wise?

Actually, never mind. I think I’ll godot instead.

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.

Did you know that you can list every process running on your system along with their various categories of memory usage?

man ps

Or for a rough idea, just browse them wtih KDE System Monitor.

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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