Comment Re:Why would they use a 'Big Brother' example? (Score 1) 107

by Shmoe on Sunday September 06, 2026 @06:38PM (#66326400) Attached to: Flock Offered Webinar Teaching Cops How to Surveil 'No Kings' Protesters

Because it's what the public asked for?

Due to incidents like the Floyd murder, some earlier ones that lead to Seattle Police Department's consent decree and others, the public demanded increased surveillance. Both fixed cameras (Flock) as well as body worn (Axon). In order to provide after the fact objective evidence about police behavior. Now, if you want the cameras turned off, the police beatings can resume.

Big brother watches everyone.

People asked for bodycams since law enforcement personnel can't be trusted without nanny cams.

Comment Re:So much for the free market (Score 1) 504

by Shmoe on Friday September 04, 2026 @01:59PM (#66323444) Attached to: Auto Companies Call For Ban On Chinese-Made Cars

So why do we 100% tariff cars from China?

Comment So much for the free market (Score 1) 504

by Shmoe on Friday September 04, 2026 @11:36AM (#66323076) Attached to: Auto Companies Call For Ban On Chinese-Made Cars

They're always preaching. If our cars are so good why can't they compete openly?

Comment Re:Good on the governor! (Score 1) 61

by Shmoe on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @02:59PM (#66318080) Attached to: Florida Bans Flock Cameras From State Highways

Everybody conveniently "forgot" who directed them to divert the money. Go figure.

Comment Political opportunism at it's finest (Score 1) 61

by Shmoe on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @02:58PM (#66318074) Attached to: Florida Bans Flock Cameras From State Highways

But it's because of the backlash we created that they feel they can take this action now. I'll take it.

Comment Re:This is a crime right? (Score 1) 233

by Shmoe on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @11:44AM (#66317674) Attached to: Trump Tells FCC To Punish Journalist For Calling His Election Results 'Mixed'

When you're an American, they just let you.

Comment Re: That's why I am careful with such projects (Score 1) 45

by Shmoe on Monday July 27, 2026 @11:07PM (#66260000) Attached to: Codeberg Bans Cryptocurrency and LLM-Generated Code Projects

We'll have to talk alot of LLMs down off bridges now.

Comment So consumer friendly (Score 1) 123

by Shmoe on Wednesday July 08, 2026 @03:10PM (#66228672) Attached to: FCC To End Biden-Era Rule That Forces ISPs To List All Their Fees

to remove the detail of the charges and just add them up on one line for us. So considerate of them!

Comment Re:Datacenters have effectively killed gaming (Score 1) 45

by Shmoe on Monday June 22, 2026 @09:20PM (#66205062) Attached to: Valve Will Finally Let You Build Your Own Steam Machine With SteamOS For Desktop

The article quotes that $1000 figure as if it's something outlandish. It was a normal price for lower-mid-tier gaming PC last year. And this year the $1000 mark is more of a floor, a minimum you have to spend to get a gaming PC. Anything under that, you might as well get a Playstation. Although those are raising up now too.

People expected console pricing.. and it would've been if not for the AI run.

Comment Re:If I have steam installed on top of Linux (Score 1) 45

by Shmoe on Monday June 22, 2026 @09:19PM (#66205060) Attached to: Valve Will Finally Let You Build Your Own Steam Machine With SteamOS For Desktop

Then why would I bother with this? Does SteamOS give me more access to games that the regular Steam platform cannot do? I guess I literally don't see the point in SteamOS if you already have a desktop already.

Maybe someone can enlighten me on this one.

Yes, SteamOS has the Proton layer for running Windows games on top of Linux.

Comment Re:I use it (or it's mirrors everday). (Score 1) 50

by Shmoe on Monday June 01, 2026 @09:18PM (#66170370) Attached to: The Pirate Bay Remains Resilient, 20 Years After The Raid

I was gonna say -- this was also the moment when it was mirrored to hell and back so it could never be taken down again :)

Comment Re:I've seen this movie (Score 1) 163

by Shmoe on Wednesday April 01, 2026 @02:59PM (#66072552) Attached to: Startup Pitches 'Brainless Clones' To Serve the Role of Backup Human Bodies

Came to say exactly that..

Comment They don't process human biometrics.. (Score 4, Insightful) 47

by Shmoe on Wednesday February 18, 2026 @12:46PM (#65996766) Attached to: Leaked Email Suggests Ring Plans To Expand 'Search Party' Surveillance Beyond Dogs

But they provide facial recognition of familiar people. What kind of doublespeak is this?

Comment I thought this happened a few years ago (Score 1) 3

by Shmoe on Friday February 06, 2026 @05:27PM (#65973586) Attached to: Salesforce Shelves Heroku

Did salesforce swoop in and save them or something?

Comment Re:Probably one station per state (Score 1) 68

by Shmoe on Monday February 02, 2026 @03:31PM (#65964744) Attached to: Walmart Begins Building Out Nationwide EV Charging Network Across America

Better equipment too.. Alpitronic makes a beast of a unit.