This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Deflock.me is absolutely depressing to see the amount of surveillance present.
Would be great to have a navigation app that could map routes that avoid or minimize the number of surveillance points.
Currently I just try to be diligent about marking any police or ice activity in waze but a FOSS option would be great.
We already have the openmaps project. Perhaps someone could make a CoMaps plugin or add-on? Might be neat.
You might be surprised at how many Flock cameras there are in your community. Many large and small municipalities around the country have signed deals with Flock for license plate readers to track the movement of all cars in their city. Even though these deals are signed by local police departments, oftentimes ICE also gains access.
This is so dystopian, even before ICE comes into play.
Because of their ubiquity, people are interested in finding out where and how many Flock cameras are in their community. One project that can help with this is the OUI-SPY, a small piece of open source hardware. The OUI-SPY runs on a cheap Arduino compatible chip called an ESP-32. There are multiple programs available for loading on the chip, such as “Flock You,” which allows people to detect Flock cameras and “Sky-Spy” to detect overhead drones. There’s also “BLE Detect,” which detects various Bluetooth signals including ones from Axon, Meta’s Ray-Bans that secretly record you, and more. (...)
There are several more examples of apps, sites, inventions and FOSS community efforts to deal with surveillance, just read the article. As bad as the circumstances leading to it are, it's good that such projects get more public attention.
TL;DR From the article:
But a few enterprising hackers have started projects to do counter surveillance against ICE, and hopefully protect their communities through clever use of technology.
Further on the article goes in dept in what ways the ICE is monitoring communities and possible ways to counteract it.
this reads like an AI overview that doesn't tell you shit about the content
I agree, that's why I added the last part. Still very brief, but it does the job.
Yes. That's what "How Hackers Are Fighting Back Against ICE" means...
This ads more nuance, "How hackers are fighting back against ICE" is a bit broad. Which is fine for a title but doesn't tell us much.
You can see Benn Jordan's videos (referenced in the article) here: https://peertube.gravitywell.xyz/w/5xhkuDuVsWZ2jbsVw32Una
This man is a gift to all in these times.
Spread his word.
Learn his craft.
Build those tools.
Oooh, he publishes on peertube? That's really cool
Yeah I there is starting to be enough content on peertube to be interesting
Sorry, it's off topic, but how do I subscribe to this guy from the instance I've signed up with? I searched his channel but nothing showed up. So that does that mean I'm SooL because my instance isn't federated with his?
I went here: https://peertube.gravitywell.xyz/c/benjordan/videos
Then I clicked the subscribe button.
Then I entered the url to my peertube account.
Then it opened the peertube app to my account and I had to hit subscribe again.
Not painless but not bad for being federated.
If you're a firefox person, there's an add-on called Peertube Companion which will convert peertube links to use your instance. So for me, that link takes me to peertube.wtf rather than peertube.gravitywell.xyz
Apparently it will also redirect you to your peertube instance when you watch a video on YouTube that also exists on peertube (I've never had this happen though! Not sure how it does the comparision - hashes I suppose?)
For the redirect from YouTube to PeerTube, it just uses the video title. This sometimes results in a “false positive”, but it does work.
You can try it with “The Linux Experiment”.
Might not apply to Lemmy, but I'm pretty sure PieFed users can follow from !benjordan@peertube.gravitywell.xyz
I wish I learned how to hack
No time like the present
You're forgetting
If there's any lesson we should have been taught by this timeline, it's that even the moronic can spark large changes with enough spite.
(Although the more you learn, the less wasted spite you need XD)
The online communities are typically great. If you get really stuck, LLMs can be nice for dealing with your specific confusion.
Edit: ... but it's better to ask the community so others can benefit from the answer.
that's hilarious. I remember the scene back in the day was more like, "if you don't know, get fucked because nobody is going to be responsible for your incompetent bullshit."
oh how times have changed.
They have lots of snobbish gatekeeping still, it just exists at a higher level. Entry level knowledge is abundant. But once you seek a community with more specialized expertise, the IRC channels will be private and have passwords, and you better have contributed something to a novel exploit or something...
Please no. Absolutely not. LLM is absolutely not "nice for dealing with confusion" but the very opposite.
Please do consider people effort, articles, attributions, and actually learning and organizing your knowledge. Please do train your mind, and self-confidence.
You can't rely on LLMs to get actual answers for technical things but it can help avoid a huge amount of wasted time and effort, back-and-forth, going in circles, talking around or past the issues etc. that is seen in threads everywhere in these types of expert niche communities. Besides, maybe my question has already been answered.
When I don't know the specific terms or framing, am missing context or am trying to get from A to C, but have no idea that B even exists, nevermind how (or who) to ask about it. If I can accelerate the process of clearing that up, I can go to the correct human expert or community with a much better handle on what it is I'm actually looking for and how to ask for it.
