Seriously; fuck the people that just abandon their vehicles in emergency lanes with the hazard lights on.

“I’ll only be a minute” Fuck you, you’ll be more than a minute, your shit is in the way, and that ‘minute’ could and has literally been the difference between life and death in an actual emergency.

I hope your shit gets towed and you face a huge fine. Or a fire fighter smashes it up to get to a fire hydrant.

I’ve been running two piholes for a few years:

I let the router handle dhcp, while having it hand out each of the piholes IPs as DNS #1 and DNS #2. Those piholes settings are mirrored using Nebula-Sync, so any change made to one pihole gets copied over to the other automatically.

Both of those piholes are setup to wrap outbound DNS reqests in DOH as well, with the router blocking port 53 outbound. So all DNS traffic leaving the network has to be DOH/DOT or it just gets dropped. Currently using NextDNS and quad9 as my upstream DOH providers.

Note: the cloudflared method for DOH is outdated. I’m still using it via the docker image “image: cloudflare/cloudflared:2025.11.1”

I believe This (dns-crypt) is the more recent method.

For a while, the windows machine I was using kept randomly becoming unresponsive (both via network, as well as the keyboard+mouse) and I just could not figure out why. Everytime it did, I’d have to force a shutdown by holding the power button until it shutoff, then press it again to start back up. Sometimes this happened while I wasn’t home, so it had to just stay offline until I was.

I got sick of having to do this; so I replaced the power button with a transistor and a RPI. The PI would ping the server every 5min; if it failed to get a response 3 times in a row, it would trigger the transistor for 10sec, release for 3sec, then press and release again; forcing a poweroff then starting the machine again. It’d also write these events to a log file. I think it was around twice a week ish.

Never did figure out what the cause of the lockup was; but it stopped when I replaced windows with Debian.

Last time I was using Windows; the weather widget you can put on the taskbar was locked to Edge. If you changed your default browser, it’d still open Edge when clicked on. If you went to the effort of removing Edge from the system, the widget still displays the current weather, but when clicked on, it’d just do nothing at all.

Much happier with Debian.

Yup, just go back inside for your change.

Youtube regularly makes changes that break third party apps/clients/frontends.

Give it a couple days, the devs will catch up and fix the issues/incompatibility.

Did you read the article provided?

Even a police officer cannot just follow someone around all day every day, without reasonable articulable suspicion. They would also be guilty of harassment and/or criminal stalking.

Again, it’s not that a camera is recording that’s the problem. It’s the infrastructure behind those cameras that aggregate all the data into a single database which requires no cause to search. Anyone with a badge/title can track anyone throughout the whole country, with no probable cause, no warrant, and no oversight. They don’t even have to say why they’re searching the system.

An ex partner fleeing an abusive boyfriend/girlfriend that happens to be a police officer (or that has a police officer buddy) can and will be hunted down by that ex, and nobody will know until it’s too late. This system directly puts people in danger.

at least 50 documented cases across the United States in which law enforcement officers have been charged with or accused of misusing AI-powered automated license plate reader systems to conduct unauthorized surveillance of intimate partners, ex-partners, or women they wanted to meet. In 26 of those cases, prosecutors and investigators concluded that officers used the technology specifically to spy on wives, girlfriends, former partners, their exes’ new partners, or women they sought to approach.

These systems also get used by government agencies (on both sides of the spectrum) to track anyone that disagrees with their political stance, fishing for ways to harass, jail, or run them out of town/state. Governments given this type of power stop being democracies and become dictatorships; because anyone that could or would challenge them get hunted down.

I see nothing wrong with what you’re doing in public being available to law enforcement.

It wouldn’t be a problem if every person with access to this system was 100% honest and just; but thats simply not the reality of the world. There are ALWAYS people that will abuse these types of tools for evil purposes. That’s why we have a court system instead of just making every police officer ‘judge, jury, and executioner’.

Flock removes the court system and puts all the power in every single officers hands. That is NOT a good thing.

‘Every police officer has good intentions’ is a fantasy. If you can’t see that, you’ve spent way too much time inside.

Flock effectively follows you around like a stalker.

If I was to follow you around all day, recording everything you do (even if I just stay in public spaces), I would be guilty of harassment and potentially criminal stalking. Flock does the same thing, just via a network of cameras instead of literally following you in person.

There are tons of public cameras, but they’re owned by seprate individuals/companies. You’d be required to get permission from each ones owner to collect their footage, which in itself provides saftey against stalkers. The owners of that footage are in no way obligated to provide it and will likely refuse without being given a good reason. They may even still refuse until provided with a court order. That oversight, from both the footage owners and the courts that order it to be handed over, protects people from unlawful harassment, particularly stalkers.

The fact that Flock provides anyone with a badge/title the ability to freely search a massive database for every public location a person has been, what they were wearing, how they walk, what bluetooth devices they had, their mode of transport (plus every detail about it Flock can extract), facial recognition data, and more - is terrifying. 0 oversight: no warrant, no reasonable suspicion, no evidence of a crime; just following you around hoping to catch you doing something they don’t like (regardless of whether it’s illegal activity or not).

If you haven’t yet, you should really read that article I posted above.

A single search query recruits that entire network as a passive tracking apparatus. An officer who sets a specific plate on a “hot list” receives an automatic alert whenever that vehicle appears anywhere in the system — across city limits, across state lines, across jurisdictions the officer has no authority in. The abuser does not need to be present. The cameras do the watching for him.

Your presumptions aren’t helpful in the slightest. Educate, don’t enflame.

Being unaware of the ramifications is not even remotely the same as being ok with them.

One camera isnt the problem.

A whole network of cameras tracking your every move, logged in a national database that doesn’t require a warrant or oversight is.

Police require a warrant to get your phones location data, but they don’t require one to ask Flock for your every move. This has already been abused hundreds of times by police and city employees to stalk their ex partners and more…

Here’s one article of many

HR departments get flooded with AI generated applications by the truckload making automating rejections the only viable way to keep up

That goes both ways. Employers have been auto rejecting applicants for years, so applicants have shifted to automating applications.

Why should someone looking for a job take the time to craft an application, when it gets rejected without a person ever actually looking at it.

Last time I went job hunting (2yrs ago), I got a response from less than 1% of the jobs I applied to.

It’s the classic World War II napalm.

https://rxmechanic.com/styrofoam-and-gasoline/

Acetone works too. You really don’t have to be that picky.

Gasoline will do the same.

Molotov’s are pretty cheap/easy to make and they’re pretty effective during construction, before the sprinkler system is installed+charged.

I set a walmart on fire once… ~12 years old, unsupervised, and playing with flamable liquids in the garden center…

Identified and spoken to by investigators, but still unpunished. I happened to be leaving the country with family in a few weeks, so they just let me go.

Perfect, draw my attention so I remember to fuck with it

Seems easier to just look at how many were rung up at the till…

Something like a TSA key that fits the lock in addition to the owner’s key.

‘TSA approved’ locks have a seprate keyway specifically for TSA to open and inspect your bags.

There is something called ‘Master Keying’ (not talking about the master lock company), where you can setup the pins in a lock to open for multiple different keys. Commonly used in places like hotels and motels: one key only opens your door (this is the one given to you at check-in) and another key that opens all the motels locks, given to management/cleaning staff so they can get into each room without needing dozens or hundreds of keys.

This requires each lock to be explicitly setup with the correct pins to accept both keys. Not super common now, but you still find them now and again.

The TSA have 3-4 specific ‘TSA keys’ (which are easily purchased), and they demand you use a ‘TSA approved’ lock which has an extra keyway explicitly for them to use. If you don’t use one of these locks, they’ll cut yours off during inspection and give it back to you in pieces, with no compensation.

Yup, considered another type of lockpicking tool. Depending on the lock; clumsy, loud, and often ineffective. Usually defeated by security pins and/or different strength springs in the pin stacks. Plus you have to have the correct key blank for the lock cylinder you’re attacking.