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Flock's automatic license plate reader (ALPR) cameras are in more than 5,000 communities around the U.S. Local police are doing lookups in the nationwide system for ICE.
It’d be a shame if anonymous types started working on poisoning all publicly accessible cameras with ai poison pills that brick whatever model you try to run on the footage
While they're at it, why not just hack the government to reverse last year's election, amirite?
I know most of us loved Mr Robot and watching dinozzo and abby double team a keyboard and Wolverine getting a blowy and all that fun stuff, but that really isn't how things work.
These aren't off the shelf pre-trained models. The model is a big part of the company's product and, increasingly, the cost of training is being partially offloaded to customers under the guise of "tune the model to your data".
And IF we have a Bones situation where someone has inscribed a virus onto human remains to destroy a one of a kind machine or whatever: That is what version control is for. "Hmm. The May 2025 model isn't working. Okay, switch back to April"
Also, these "models" are a lot closer to just running OCR on a feed and logging which traffic camera saw one of the flagged license plates.
In a 58-second video posted on the social media site X, Kennedy said he removed COVID-19 shots from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s recommendations for those groups. No one from the CDC was in the video, and CDC officials referred questions about the announcement to Kennedy and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
U.S. health officials, following recommendations by infectious disease experts, have been urging annual COVID-19 boosters for all Americans ages 6 months and older.
A CDC advisory panel is set to meets in June to make recommendations about the fall shots. Among its options are suggesting shots for high-risk groups but still giving lower-risk people the choice to get vaccinated.
@randompasta @HellsBelle Just because you don't think they're out to get you doesn't mean they're not out to get you. But hey, I have zero issues with you taking 55 boosters.
What happened to the internet to make it so that you now have to say "I'm not a medical expert, a beauty expert, an underpaid Walmart cashier struggling just to make ends meet just to lose my job to a robot or a piercing expert so take my advice with a grain of salt, but yeah, I think it would be wonderful for you get your ears pierced"?
I'm probably aging myself here, but it's mildly annoying to see so many words for something that should just be assumed until someone explicitly says "I'm an expert, make sure you clean them regularly or don't get them at all".
The earrings are just a random example I thought of just now.
(This is somewhat satire, somewhat curiosity and somewhat ranty lol)
EDIT: Thanks for the insightful history lesson guys! I actually learned a little bit about the internet (at the risk of really honing in on my age lmao). I feel I should clarify, though. The issue I want to address isn't the use of disclaimers in general, but rather the need for exceptionally long ones like my example above where the disclaimer is like 5x longer than the actual comment, which, btw, thank you all for commenting at least 5x more information than disclaimers lol
"The Jerusalem municipality advertises the event, known as the flag march, as a “festive procession”, part of a broader programme of events celebrating the “liberation” of the city.
The march has been marred by racism and attacks on Palestinians for years, and is preceded by a campaign of violence in the Old City that in effect shuts down Palestinian majority areas, particularly in the Muslim Quarter."
Pyongyang, June 2 (KCNA) — The chief of the External Policy Office of the Foreign Ministry of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea on June 1 issued the following press statement titled “Our efforts to defend the dignity and interests of the stat…
Pirated and OS software are different things, obviously. But would you prefer one over the other? I'm thinking of switching to both OS software AND pirated software. Just want opinions and tips from this community.
@darkguyman There isn't much I can't do with open source that I can do with commercial software, hence the motive for pirating it isn't there. I used to prefer adobe premier to kdenlive for example, but not so much for what it can do but for the user interface which I found superior, and I was even willing to BUY it when it was for sale but damned if I'll pay a monthly extortion fee.
The Grande Dixence dam, the highest gravity dam in the world, is part of a vast complex which includes four pumping stations (Z'Mutt, Stafel, Ferpècle and Arolla) and three production plants (Fionnay, Nendaz and Bieudron), with a total capacity of 2000 MW.
The Grande Dixence dam, the highest gravity dam in the world, is part of a vast complex which includes four pumping stations (Z'Mutt, Stafel, Ferpècle and Arolla) and three production plants (Fionnay, Nendaz and Bieudron), with a total capacity of 20…
I'm writing a tutorial for very secured #communication. I think it can be useful in the near future. I have some thoughts about what #tools to use but want to hear your #experience. What tools would you use for communication if your life depends on the #security? For example if you want to sell 0day #exploits.
@Just Bob 🇺🇲♒🐧🪖 I have less an issue with a city telling me what I can do with their property (forgetting whose taxes BOUGHT that property) than them telling me what I can do with mine, which is an issue here in Shitline (Shoreline), WA.
My "issue" is because I don't live in a box like others, pay extreme hi "bills" to multiple corporations, I don't have a right to life so they do everything they can to murder me.
I swore to defend the US Constitution against foreign and DOMESTIC terrorists. The US Constitution gives me the right to be in public spaces... Are you saying that your okay with them stealing shit (4th Amendment) that literally keeps me from freezing to death?
Back in January, as part of our “predicting 2025” series, I wrote that 2025 would be the year of the Lab Leak reveal, and that the lab leak theory (LLT) would be “quasi-officially…
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Wine is basically an almost complete reimplementation of multiple Windows APIs in a format that Linux can understand. So you're not running a virtual machine, or emulating the system, you HAVE a whole windows environment, except it's not developed by Microsoft, and you don't need a copy of windows to use it.
Wine creates a fake C drive inside your home directory, in the .wine hidden folder, and stores everything here.
Do note that Wine does NOT protect you from viruses. Ransomware and other weird malware can still access your fake C drive, and sometimes even the regular folders in your /home directory on Linux, so don't use it to try some weird stuff you downloaded off the internet, cause it's still not safe.
Bottles is a graphical user interface that sits on top of Wine. It lets you handle each program in its own "Bottle", a bottle being a wine prefix, with different rules, dependencies, libraries, and settings, so each app can run optimally without risking breaking the other ones you're using. It also lets you use Proton to run games that aren't available on Steam, for example, or if you have boxed copies of various games.
The first step to install anything will be to create a bottle to run the application in. The "+" button lets you do that, and you'll get a nice graphical window to let you pick between a Gaming focused bottle, which will have a lot of tweaks specifically for running games, an Application Bottle, with improvements for running desktop apps, or a custom one that has no specific tweaks, so you can experiment yourself. Just select the appropriate Bottle type, enter its name, and click the "Create" button that appeared in the top right corner.
Once the Bottle is created, you can either straight up select an executable you'd have downloaded yourself, and run it, or you can go into more detail.
For now, Bottles only has a few installers that are mostly gaming related, but that list can expand, as anyone can contribute one of these, so I'd be surprised if we didn't see a lot of installers appearing pretty soon, especially for the most used windows apps.
These installers all have a rating, from platinum to bronze, letting you know how well the program will run, just like what you could find on protonDB. Platinum means it should run exactly as on Windows, and Bronze means it will run, but expect a few glitches here and there or some performance problems.
If your favorite program doesn't have an automatic installer script yet, you can configure your own Bottle manually. Just create a Custom Bottle, and head over the the details page.
Here, you'll find a ton of stuff you can configure or install.
"The United States is a dangerous country where human rights for migrants do not exist," says the statement released by Venezuelan Foreign Minister Yván Gil on social media, warning that "if you are thinking of traveling, cancel your plans immediatel…
To my diehard 2A-ers terrified of a registry and basic gun control.. Team #Trump just hired #Palantir to build a master database on everyone. Not just your guns, your whole life. Where you at?
To my diehard 2A-ers terrified of a registry and basic gun control.. Team #Trump just hired #Palantir to build a master database on everyone. Not just your guns, your whole life. Where you at?
News - Middle East:
Commissioner General of the UN’s Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) says the newly established aid distribution sites run by the US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) in the Gaza Strip have become “de…
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The big, main reason social media sucks for news is that they were never designed for that. All the big social media platforms have one goal, and one goal only: to keep you there for as long as they can, so they can show ads, and make more money.
On top of that, things you are subscribed to might also never be shown to you.
You can't really go back to older things, search through what you archived, sort it in a specific way, create your own organization system.
RSS works with 2 components: an RSS Feed Reader, and RSS Feeds. Feeds are what you'll subscribe to: they're just a simple file a lot of websites have, that can be read by the Feed Reader, which will aggregate all these feeds in one place. And RSS has TONS of advantages!
First, you'll only ever get what you subscribed to. There is no algorithm, no recommendations, no ads in between posts. And you can add a LOT of sources: websites, video channels, podcasts, social media accounts, and even newsletters.
Second, all feed readers have organization capabilities.
Third, you can sort things. Fourth, you can go back and search through older articles. Fifth, you can navigate super easily from one article to the other. And finally, it's portable: all readers will let you export and import your feed list.
RSS is all about adding sources, or feeds to your reader.
A lot of websites will display a small orange square icon, which is the RSS logo. Clicking the icon will bring you to the feed, or give you a URL you can copy. That's what you want to add to your feed reader.
But some websites don't have an RSS feed, or an icon to access it. No matter, most RSS feed readers will let you add any website URL, and automatically create an RSS feed for you.
If you want to add videos from a youtube channel, let's say a bearded french Linux content creator, most feed readers will also just let you copy paste the channel's URL and add it as a feed. On Peertube, it's even easier, just click the subscribe button, and you get the ability to access the feed.
You can even add social media posts if you really want to. Using rss.app, you can just copy paste a social media profile in there, and it will spit out an RSS feed you can add to your reader. And you can also add podcasts.
If you're really into RSS, you can also add newsletters. Using the website kill-the-newsletter.com, you can generate an email address and a feed.
The first thing you'll need to pick is obviously an RSS Reader.
If you want a single device solution, it's very easy. On Linux, Newsflash is the one I use. A few web browsers will give you access to an RSS Feed reader built-in, like Opera or Vivaldi, and Thunderbird also has the ability to do that.
If you want the simplest multi-device solution, Feedly is a good bet. You can create a free account, add up to 100 different feeds, create a few folders, and if you want to go over that, they have paid plans. They have mobile apps, and a web interface on PC.
There's also Newsblur, which does the same thing, and is open source, but the free version limits you to 64 feeds.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has announced the convening of a defence council and expressed fears about a possible prolongation of the conflict in Ukraine.
Not casting aspersions or trying to cancel Skyrim Grandma, but the BDS movement is calling for a Microsoft (and by extension Bethesda) boycott. If you're thinking about buying Oblivion Remastered, maybe don't.
By Badylon Kawanda Bakiman. The relationship between the DRC government and former President Joseph Kabila Kabange has become tumultuous. An unprecedented standoff between the two sides has gained ground.
Meeting with Iranian and Venezuelan economic leaders in Caracas, Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf called for a shore-up in bilateral relations, particularly in key sectors like oil, energy, and telecommunications.
Occupied Palestine (Quds News Network)- Climate activist Greta Thunberg is facing a wave of violent threats by pro-genocide individuals after joining a Gaza-bound aid flotilla. Pro-Israel figures have
There are few doubts in the White House about Jill “Lady Macbeth” Biden’s role in covering up her husband’s cognitive deficits as she urged him to run for re-election.
Here's part of the problem: using platforms owned and operated by big tech to complain about the state of privacy/capitalism/public services/science/education/research/the environment/_________ does exactly the opposite of what you're trying to achieve.
Honestly. I find it amazing that some folks really think that "Unhinged billionaires with 100% more money than brains want to fuck you over even more!" is the tech news we want to read these days. Airbnb CEO wants to make an everything app? Awesome. Fold that everything app and shove up your ass. And fuck you too, the verge.
@benda They go to the same schools, they learn from the same people, they work for the same bosses, they have the same biases, they have the same vices, and they love access more than anything else.
A gift of friendship from the people of France to the United States "The Statue of Liberty Enlightening the World" is recognized as a universal symbol of freedom and democracy. It was dedicated by President Grover Cleveland on October 28, 1886.
The airspeed velocity of an unladen European swallow is approximately 24 miles per hour (11 meters per second), according to detailed analysis of swallow flight patterns[^1]. However, swallows can reach speeds up to 46 mph (74 kph) during bursts of acceleration[^2].
The question gained fame from the 1975 film "Monty Python and the Holy Grail," where it appears in two key scenes - first during a debate about coconut-carrying swallows, and later at the Bridge of Death[^3]. The guard in the first scene incorrectly claims a swallow must "beat its wings 43 times every second" to maintain airspeed, but actual research shows European swallows flap only 7-9 times per second while cruising[^4].
A comprehensive wind tunnel study conducted in Lund, Sweden found that European swallows: - Achieve maximum speeds of 13-14 meters per second - Cruise most efficiently at 8-11 meters per second - Use wing beats of 7-9 Hz (beats per second) - Have an amplitude of 17-19 cm per wing beat[^4]
The physics behind swallow flight involves the Strouhal number, which measures the ratio of wing frequency and amplitude to forward speed. European swallows demonstrate remarkable efficiency with a Strouhal number of 0.13 - well below the typical range of 0.2-0.4 for flying animals[^4].
As for the African versus European swallow distinction raised in the film, while 47 of the 74 worldwide swallow species are found in Africa, only two are specifically named for the continent: the West African Swallow (Hirundo domicella) and the South African Swallow (Hirundo spilodera)[^4]. However, insufficient data exists on the specific flight speeds of African swallow species for direct comparison.
What Is the Airspeed Velocity of an Unladen Swallow? is a quote from the 1975 film Monty Python and the Holy Grail. The question is often referred to online as a way of calling a topic or question overly trivial or technical.
@pragmaticpedant, it's the first one which appears as an AI enhanced search engine, long before all others, way different from others and one of the most reliable, it don't invent nothing. apart one of the most privat search engines I know (see privacy), anonimous, random proxie, own reader mode, you can watch YT videos sandboxed in the search results, no ads, no cookies, no tracking or logging.
@pragmaticpedant Hmm, while I absolutely LOVED HItchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (both the book and BBC production, much less so the Prisney crapola destruction), when I think of unlaiden Swallos speed, I have to ask, do you mean an African or a European swallow? (Monty Python bridge of death scene).
An unusual star (circled in white at right) behaving like no other seen before and its surroundings are featured in this composite image released on May 28, 2025. A team of astronomers combined data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Square Kilometer Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) radio telescope on Wajarri Country in Australia to study the discovered object, known […]
There are few doubts in the White House about Jill “Lady Macbeth” Biden’s role in covering up her husband’s cognitive deficits as she urged him to run for re-election.
The ebb lasted a lot longer than I was rooting for. But now it seems to have caught a recent uptick. Still slight in terms of its maximum peak, but respectable: 47K Monthly Active Users. (about the same as the total number of MAUs on Lemmy!)
Furthermore, it's also reflected in the half-year Active Users, meaning it's not just people who signed in a couple months ago who are now checking back in -- looks like brand-new active participants.
Any idea what caused this? Another "migrate" campaign? Did Instagram do something stupid again? Or is it just a data glitch?
Pars Today – Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman on Monday stated that Tehran’s response to the recent proposal from the United States during indirect talks...
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in reply to formulaBonk • • •While they're at it, why not just hack the government to reverse last year's election, amirite?
I know most of us loved Mr Robot and watching dinozzo and abby double team a keyboard and Wolverine getting a blowy and all that fun stuff, but that really isn't how things work.
These aren't off the shelf pre-trained models. The model is a big part of the company's product and, increasingly, the cost of training is being partially offloaded to customers under the guise of "tune the model to your data".
And IF we have a Bones situation where someone has inscribed a virus onto human remains to destroy a one of a kind machine or whatever: That is what version control is for. "Hmm. The May 2025 model isn't working. Okay, switch back to April"
Also, these "models" are a lot closer to just running OCR on a feed and logging which traffic camera saw one of the flagged license plates.
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