Civil liberty fears as police consider using drones that film from 1,500ft
Link: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/oct/29/police-england-wales-long-range-drone-footage-tender-filming
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29038500
#introductions
👋 I'm a hobbyist programmer and sysadmin who is passionate about #CooperativeTechnology, #smalltech, and other forms of user empowerment with technology. You may have seen me before.
I'm interested in #Gemini and other small internet protocols, along with mobile Linux, real sustainability, and various computer languages (including Rust and Zig).
I won't follow too many people here, or engage in politics, but I will share some updates on the things I'm working on.
Very interesting exploration of non-Git* solutions. I particularly liked his point warning of vendor lock-in.
https://sumnerevans.com/posts/technology/migrating-to-sourcehut/
@freemo Integrity is not whether you follow rules other people made. It is about consistent ethical or moral behavior, especially in the face of pressure. That pressure could even be a law in some cases. You can't have too much integrity, but it is possible for one's moral/ethical framework to be too simplistic to handle the complexity of the real world.
The confusion between legality and morality is because quite a few laws are intended to enforce moral behavior. The idea of "moral laws" is a leaky abstraction, though, which is why you end up needing to follow the spirit of a law rather than its letter.
Also, I disagree with using "Love" on the Selfishness/Enablement axis, but I'll admit I'm not sure what I'd put there instead.
Just introduced this classic talk to some of my #clojure devs, when introducing David Nolen and why his perspective is good to hear besides Rich Hickey. https://youtu.be/8o01g6C7jWg
Proprietary control over education is growing and it is affecting students' rights to information. Watch and share "The University of Costumed Heroes and fight for young people's freedom. https://u.fsf.org/fsfheroes
@collappsar If some of "The Juice" are alcoholic and a little salty, maybe they can be called "Margaritas."
@collappsar "The Juicers" is more accurate. The Juicers squeeze Juice from the Juiced.
I like the point that many Linux users actually know how to make bug reports, and there is transparency in where they go
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RT @nixcraft
Despite having just 5.8% sales, over 38% of bug reports come from the Linux community https://old.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/qeqn3b/despite_having_just_58_sales_over_38_of_bug/
https://twitter.com/nixcraft/status/1452348305510260736
@blueberry @redoak @be sometimes uninstalling app remove config or app data, which may be messed up for some reason.
@worldsendless Yes, it is at least one of those. What colors are you using in Emacs?
@Deiru
I wouldn't be all that surprised. After all, ~25% of devs use it as their primary OS.
Tutanota depends on lots of open source projects. Now we are giving back to the open source community with free Tutanota accounts! 🥳🤩👇
https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/tutanota-for-open-source-teams
@Salaru @Kelly_NAproducR @adam
The Australian mandate not leaving any room for religious exemptions just goes too far.
en: Mostly tech, but not entirely. Privacy is a human right.
ia: Principalmente technologia, ma non in toto. Privacitate es un derecto human.