Right. That’s why they overreact to everything, and bring old military equipment on swat raids.

They’re much more likely to panic and drive an APC through the crowd or return fire on a mostly unarmed crowd using automatic weapons.

Just ask yourself, “what has Israel done recently?” and remember that US police train with them.

Bottom has infinite density and will collapse into a black hole killing everyone, and destroying the tram and lever.

I live in a walkable European city.

My nearest library is 5 minutes away, there’s a bigger library maybe 20 minutes away, and for anything further I’d take public transport.

Worse, it seems to be Tony Blair.

Id cards were one of Blair’s most unpopular policies, and all the AI first stuff seems to be coming straight from the Tony Blair institute.

That’s funny, because there’s also emoji associated with Trump.

🤏🍊🍆

You can look up what Adobe are doing in this space.

Long-term it’s going to be something like every secure device comes with its own inbuilt unit for cryptographically signing the raw files. These signatures can then be matched against manufacturers databases of approved signatures.

This doesn’t guarantee that nothing has been tampered with, but it does provide a link back to the original device allowing you to inspect it.

There are huge privacy concerns as well, anything that’s used to indicate authenticity can be used to track.

I’m amazed a reviewer read the code.

Hexbear is already flooded with beanis posts.

Looking forward to seeing beanis everywhere in the next version of Facebook’s LLM.

Garmin sends all your health data to the cloud and the app won’t work without an Internet connection.

On the plus side, they’re not part of the Google/Apple/Samsung data ecosystems, and I don’t think actually they do anything with the data, beyond computing statistics for you.

Depends how much you’re prepared to trust them I guess.

For Ubuntu you just run sudo apt install kde-plasma-desktop. Presumably it’s the same for the derivative you’re using.

After that gnome will still be there, and you just toggle between the two at login.

Depends.

You can argue that it’s basically art/political speech. You’ve done it to draw attention to flaws in the approach and to highlight how ineffectual the current system is, and that if you actually wanted to do make fake IDs you’d take a much less high-profile approach. As such, there’s no actual criminal intent required.

Don’t know if a judge would buy it though.

Ok, but one of the most important use cases is non-local access.

If I’m at home I can just go to the door.

Go on, drop a rocket on Zuck’s Bond villain hideout.

Let’s see what happens.

Everytime the supreme Court does something batshit that allows Trump more power, I wonder if this is what Godel was worried about.

It’s a pyramid scheme, and your place in the pyramid/heaven is defined by how many souls you save.

People that convert the most people, or who’s converts go on to convert the most people go to heaven.

To be fair Berlin is 100x better than the rest of Germany.

Ok, so yes it was cool. But even when it first came out the people that were really into it were weird.

The Anti-Defamation League notes that though the symbol is popular with white supremacists, imagery resembling the black sun features in many cultures, and that such imagery should always be analyzed in the context in which it appears, as it may not necessarily be intended to serve as a symbol of white supremacy or racism.

i just googled it. Apparently they’re just really into star wars, and didn’t realize about the Nazi symbol until it was too late.

Wow, I wonder if that’s the same billionaire Bill Ackerman who’s hedge fund owns forty percent of the New York property firm Seaport Entertainment Group?

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/bill-ackmans-strategic-acquisition-seaport-230404410.html

How many millions do you think a rent freeze would cost him personally?

Commercial versions of these systems exist in the UK.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/jun/06/shopper-facewatch-watchlist-39p-paracetamol-london

The Gdpr makes these things harder to do, but not automatically illegal.

Surely you have noticed that there is a lot of criticism of the GDPR and EU tech regulation.

Yeah, and some of it is even true.