Guessing that the uni in question has a deal with apple - teaching at a uni with a Lenovo deal, most lectures look exactly like this but with a different logo on the laptops
[email protected] kindly commented that wifi network names of you and your neighbour can be used to locate your address, so please be aware to avoid betraying your privacy. Peace!
As of 3 November, according to Ministry of Health data, 2326 women and 3760 children have been killed in the Gaza strip, representing 67% of all casualties, while thousands more have been injured. This means that 420 children are killed or injured every day, some of them only a few months old.
I donate to the Mozilla foundation, and I love Firefox a ton. But I can’t seem to like the UI by installing a theme, and when I change it to look better the browser slows to a crawl. Does it really matter all that much if I use Chromium?...
In the summer of 2022, with a spike in violent crime hitting New Orleans, the city council voted to allow police to use facial-recognition software to track down suspects — a technology that the mayor, police and businesses supported as an effective, fair tool for identifying criminals quickly....
Once watched a facial recognition system fail to match a driver’s license photo against the driver’s license photo database. Same exact pictures, both digital images that weren’t scanned or anything. Slightly different resolution. Totally failed, repeatedly. A different system, same application round, would flag any man with a beard as a match for Muhammad Al-Sayyid. As a joke one of the techs fed it a photo of Shaggy Rogers and it found multiple “95%+ certainty” matches.
There’s absolutely software that can identify people, some of it deeply scary in how effective it is, but facial ID technology that works with a photo alone is never going to work until we get HD camera footage at eye level installed in every building in the country.
But its not nearly as good a pun as ring/death knell
Generally though FUSUS is… not great. They do nothing innovative and every city I know of already has access agreements to commercial property cameras / lots of residential ones. They’re banking on security camera manus or home security systems integrating with them directly, but again that’s just… not going to work well. Georefing a city’s worth of cameras is an constant, arduous and expensive task. Even though they plan to pass the setup costs to the private parties installing the cameras they’re not going to subsidize the actual cost per unit, so the footage will be exactly as fucking worthless as it ever was…
It’s powerful and scary tech, and things like it have been in use for years and years, without much real effect. They’ll still encounter the technical barriers, still encounter the legal barriers, still struggle for broad adoption. Until there’s legislation mandating participation, they’re just yet another vaporware company trying to cash in on the bloated US LE markets.
Edit: besides, we already have Fusion Centers and those are in a true leage of their own. FUSUS only dreams about that kind of integration. They’re the privacy violation equivalent of bringing a howitzer to the siege of rome.
Edit 2: TALEN is another big one right now, worth looking in to. Very worrying, even just because it seems to be very popular with the masses…
If you live in an area where bikes are viabl3/safe they are - provided you dont need to haul tools / groceries / other people and you’re not mobility impared. It sucks that so much of the worlds infrastructure was built to be as hostile as possible to any other form of transit.
Think different (lemmy.ml)
Just like everyone else...
What's the funniest WiFi network name you've seen?
[email protected] kindly commented that wifi network names of you and your neighbour can be used to locate your address, so please be aware to avoid betraying your privacy. Peace!
What the actual fuck?! (lemmy.world)
Some random website knows which school i go to, this is the second time i have received this message
On average, 420 children are killed or injured in Gaza every day. (www.who.int)
As of 3 November, according to Ministry of Health data, 2326 women and 3760 children have been killed in the Gaza strip, representing 67% of all casualties, while thousands more have been injured. This means that 420 children are killed or injured every day, some of them only a few months old.
How much does it really matter to use firefox?
I donate to the Mozilla foundation, and I love Firefox a ton. But I can’t seem to like the UI by installing a theme, and when I change it to look better the browser slows to a crawl. Does it really matter all that much if I use Chromium?...
‘Wholly ineffective and pretty obviously racist’: Inside New Orleans’ struggle with facial-recognition policing (www.politico.com)
In the summer of 2022, with a spike in violent crime hitting New Orleans, the city council voted to allow police to use facial-recognition software to track down suspects — a technology that the mayor, police and businesses supported as an effective, fair tool for identifying criminals quickly....
and no this is not an invitation for oil addicts to rant about EVs (lemmy.world)