... though there was probably a significant boost from all the "Release the Files! Lock up the Pedos!" campaigning, and time HAS told how that works out, with significantly more Reflecting Pool Paint Touching arrests than Epstein-class Child Touching arrests.

Probably the same reason a lot of moderate, fiscal-conservative style Republicans held their noses and voted Trump. Because they're tired of the status quo and they want someone who will break shit. Time will tell how well that works out.

I've been to jail. I assume as a cop accused of this level of misconduct, one day probably means he spent from 11.59pm to 12.01am in a holding cell at the police station.

But, then we get all the complaints about all the cops say it's not worthwhile to track down felony shoplifters because the searches cost too much.

Won't you think of the cats and dogs?!They're eating the cats and dogs over there and there's nothing we can do to stop them because we don't have the budget to search their license plates.

And also, if I connect to a WiFi network that has no internet, like a config network for a router or IOT device, fucking STAY connected to it until it goes away or I say otherwise. Don't make me go through and explicitly disconnect from every saved wifi network within range, turn off mobile data, etc. There is the "This network has no internet, stay connected?" popup, which works sometimes, but not always.

I get it, Google wants Internet access at all times for full telemetry tracking, but it does make some things rather inconvenient.

Citation, for whatever a citation to Reddit is worth. The behavior has been replicated by multiple users, though it's not really proof of anything -- it could just be an artifact of the way LLMs work ("Nobody told me who I am, but I've been asked in Chinese, DeepSeek is a well-known Chinese model, I must be DeepSeek.")

Funny nonetheless, moreso because it happened right after Anthropic accused DeepSeek of ripping them off.

Yeah, and some of the Anthropic models, if you put the system prompt in Chinese and ask them to identify themselves, say they're DeepSeek. It's incest all the way down.

Given the APIs mentioned in TFS, it seems it might have been on Linux. Doesn't make it significantly less stupid, but the coding LLMs do sometimes tend to go off the rails like that.

Ask Codex a simple question about why a button is clipped by the edge of the dialog in this android app, and next thing you know it's downloaded 4 different versions of the SDK, written two or three mutually-incompatible gradle wrapper scripts, and is 12 gigs into cloning the full AOSP repo when you walk back in from getting a beer.

Such fun times. I was a Linux admin when Teardrop was a thing. Maybe now with all the AI vuln discovery we'll get a new single-packet crash attack, or even RCE.

Huh. USA will probably learn from that if they get it passed, and make it a felony to sell one or something.
At the very least it'll get both buyer and seller on one of the numerous Lists whose existence herald a vibrant, healthy, free society.

Is there some sort of weasel-out for people who do that and then someone buys one and uses it do hoard CSAM or threaten MPs or something?

I hate this proposed ruling and everything the Epstein-class cunts who want it passed stand for, but it just seems really dangerous to circumvent it in that way.

One of the many reasons RCS sucks. There really aren't any viable clients besides Google Messages (Samsung I guess used to do it, but doesn't anymore), and the barriers to building one are high enough that it's basically Google and Apple now.

FWIW, GrapheneOS does include the necessary plumbing (behind some off-by-default privacy toggles) so that if you have their Sandboxed Play Services installed, and Google Messages, RCS can work. Seems to work more reliably than it does on some stock devices I've seen.

As a principled opponent of Panopticon tracking cameras and an unprincipled opponent of speed cameras, I would put them in radically different categories.

Speed cameras and red light cameras only take a picture when they detect a violation in a particular location. If you don't want your picture taken, don't speed or don't run the light.

Flocks and their ilk take pictures of everyone and track everyone everywhere, with the data being stored in completely unaccountable private clearing houses available for purchase by more or less anybody with enough money, and ripe for abuse. It's already been well documented that while cops are required to provide a reason for searches, they can just enter "chicken" and it's good enough.

If I parked across the street from Flock's Atlanta headquarters and took pictures of every car coming and going, followed them around town, found out where they live, where their kids go to school, where they go to church, staying entirely in public, I'd be rightfully considered a creep and probably arrested. If machines do it in the name of Safety and Security, it's fine.

Me too. Thing is, most of the EC stuff works the wrong way: clear when powered, translucent when unpowered, and cops have nothing better to do than drive around looking for parked cars with such violations and ticket them. That, and it doesn't work well in cold climates.

Not sure about the Subarus, but I'll second the Buicks. Also people who hold up traffic to make a right turn from the traffic lane when there's a turning late RIGHT THERE...