Looks interesting, but I am cautious of uploading any photos to a cloud platform.

Ultrasonic sounds (above 20 kHz) can cause physical symptoms in humans, particularly at high intensities ((>75\text{ dB})), including headaches, dizziness, nausea, ringing in the ears (tinnitus), and fatigue

Animal studies have demonstrated internal tissue alterations at specific frequencies and intensities

https://www.nature.com/nature-index/topics/l4/ultrasonic-exposure-effects-on-human-health

Here’s a short video that goes into the specific and how this affects surrounding neighborhoods.

Datacenters Behaving Like Acoustic Weapons

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bP80DEAbuo

This line from the article about DOGE still trying to shift responsibility to ChatGPT.

McMahon also pushes back on the government’s argument that “there is no real constitutional problem here because any viewpoint-based classification was ChatGPT’s doing, rather than the Government’s:”

“There is no distinction to be drawn here between the Government and ChatGPT. ChatGPT was the Government’s chosen instrument for purposes of this project, and DOGE’s use of AI to identify DEI-related material neither excuses presumptively unconstitutional conduct nor gives the Government carte blanche to engage in it. …There is not a scintilla of evidence that Fox or Cavanaugh, having obtained a “DEI” rationale from ChatGPT, undertook any meaningful review of whether that rationale made sense.”

And this is why I support cyclists and pedestrians having as much right to roadways as a person that chooses to drive their car.

I just sideloaded a applications on windows using a .exe and running through the installation wizard. Microsoft must hate me for not using the Windows Store /s

https://homebox.software/en/

Honebox a simple home inventory management software

Windidn’t

Flock cameras can also pickup conversations of people passing by, let alone the massive amount of other privacy concerns with these being owned by third party companies and how extremely easily hackable these cameras are.

IMO, I don’t see how people in Toronto can support these cameras, especially since Ontario in general had speed cameras removed, and those as far as I know were police operated.

TBH it would probably make more sense to install the speed cameras back, those only captured photos as opposed to 24/7 recordings.

Some links that you might find useful:

Find locations of flock cameras: https://deflock.org/

How hackers can use flock cameras to monitor and stock neighborhoods:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vU1-uiUlHTo

Video that is worth a watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pp9MwZkHiMQ

Edit: Went down a rabbit hole.

Toronto’s speed cameras were owned, operated, and maintained by Verra Mobility (specifically through their subsidiary, Redflex Traffic Systems (Canada) Limited). This is a Arizona-based company. While the City of Toronto selected the locations and processed the tickets. I can’t seem to find any clear info on how the data was processed or how the system was secured.

I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that.

The question is do they have a Copilot?

One option is to use a older version of TrueNAS until some alternatives start to show up.

I would probably keep my NAS offline so it does not phone home.

That can be installed on any hardware, as opposed to just a TV directly. That I could get behind.

Sometimes booking.com is so integrated that even if you do the booking directly with the hotel, you will be presented with a confirmation and charge from booking.com, this is beyond frustrating, to me at least.

Same experience here!

Had to go through the credit card company for a charge back. Took 4 months from start to finish to get a full refund.

This is not a “age check”, it’s a identity verification.

Wait so the “original” was targeted at children specifically?

I was wondering the other day if Lemmy or Bluesky have any algorithms that are actively trying to keep users engaged?

I guess I am on the “watch list” as my company uses multiple different VPN solutions so I can access work files cross offices and remotely when in the field.

Also, what about personal home VPNs where I want to route all my device traffic back to my home when I am out of the house like at a cafe/mall/airport?