The internal tech consultants in the feds that was disbanded early in the purge has this to say about the combination and collation of data:
https://18f.org/topics/keeping...

All the more reason for Musk to make the flight. He's so sure it'll work. Let him prove it.

Unfortunately, there are a lot of people in those red states that are not pro-business, but are paying the price imposed by those who are. It's the people in government in those places who a) let the polluting companies do whatever, without any kind of preventive or compensatory measures, leading to places like cancer alley, and b) do what they can to keep those people from who are paying the price from having the legal power, or otherwise suppressing what legal power they have, to do anything about the pollution. In some cases, it's also the feds. The D.o.D. has a facility in LA. that "disposes" of all sorts of armaments in open air. There are people in nearby towns that have all sorts of afflictions due to those operations. https://www.propublica.org/art...

In that case, those people have a good idea of what's going on. But they haven't been able to get the support they need.

Practically any parking lot I park in has at least one car sitting there idling. I see cars at the gas station where the lone occupant, the driver, is standing outside the car, pumping gas into the car, and the car is running. The guy servicing the lime or whatever scooters leaves the van running while they're switching batteries on a scooter 30' away. People everywhere parked and doing nothing in their cars and leaving the cars running. The U.S. isn't going to fix anything and it deserves whatever trouble and grief it gets with all the waste it creates.

If a person wrote these recipes for others to consume, they'd probably be considered a criminal, maybe even a terrorist. But a company doing this to increase profit? meh. They just made a boo-boo.

Rocks are not permanent. They weather. The plastic portion of these rocks probably will too. The plastic pollution cycle will keep going.

for location data to be collected and collated and sold, this kind of thing is bound to happen. I'm not writing this to minimize the F.B.I.'s unethical and illegal practice to get around warrants. I writing this to point out that there are other agencies and groups that could be willing to do a lot worse with this kind of data. It'd be great if data brokers could be put of out business. And also if the whole practice of data collection for the sake of data collection would stop.

Thank you.

When I press f9 on Firefox, nothing happens at all. F10 gives me a menu options, like File, View, etc. Is there something in there to look for?

That link is paywall protected with Firefox as well.

Alpine and Slackware don't use systemd. https://itsfoss.com/systemd-fr...

Even if Meta or Facebook or whatever the company is supposed to be called goes bankrupt or folds, Zuck will still be around. Someone somewhere will be willing to give him the means to run another company which will probably do creepy shit in a different way, while turning people into products and making it sound like the company is enlightened and all that.

But before I get to N.C.S.U., I'm not surprised by a repressive govt. like [country]'s doing such a thing.

https://www.technicianonline.c...

' âoeThe main thing to understand about surveillance cameras is that they cannot keep you safe,â [Mike Nutt, a data experience manager at NC State Libraries] said. âoeA camera is not going to make you safer, and the surveillance technology is often misused, whether or not there are good intentions behind the technology. ..." '

I'm willing to bet just about every major university in the U.S.A. has similar surveillance too.

is terrifying.

I see. Even if it's using a different engine, that doesn't mean it's not being built with the privacy standards that Mozilla would use for their standard Firefox, or the privacy-focused Firefox Focus. Focus shows me reports of thousands of trackers it blocks.