Whether it passes or not, civilians need to start using the infrared on their phone cameras to see through face coverings and profile law enforcement identities during execution of illegal orders anyway.
I cannot believe there is not a widely used FOSS app for this when the hardware is in your pocket already and the research is prevalent for how to do this.
I don't understand why protestors would even show up in Washington DC during the fascist parade like is being implied in the article.
The union protests and social unrest currently underway are not really related to Trump's authoritarian birthday bash except for how the media paints them as a "warm up".
Protesters would be better served popping up all over the country except in Washington DC during their synchronized goose stepping contest.
You know, I was thinking the other day about how it's such a shame that ICE and other federal agents are permitted to wear face coverings so they can act anonymously and follow even the most blatantly illegal orders without the slightest fear of public outrage being directed at them personally.
It's just so cowardly to collect a pay check for something you're so ashamed of doing that you have to cover your face. It's like getting paid to march with the KKK.
Anyway, everybody is carrying an infrared camera that can see through face coverings and pretty reliably identify all of the cowards, even when they're wearing their masks or through things like glasses, perhaps including face shields.
We just haven't started using our phones to do this because the need has not been great enough. I'm sure it would give them pause to be profiled beating people in California and then linked to their true identity and home address back in their hometown later.
I am no expert in this, but I know it's been studied pretty extensively.
Here is what I mean... With low end smartphones: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-540-71629-7_50
General infrared identification techniques: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/227232627_Infrared_Identification_of_Faces_and_Body_Parts
During one of the mass exodus events from Reddit to Lemmy, a lot of people started using these tools they would install to automatically scrub and obfuscate their Reddit comments and posts history. Often these tools would replace posts with random letters and even nonsense links because there was suspicion that outright deleted posts could be detected and then programmatically restored if Reddit really wanted to get that user content back.
I suspect these tools probably exist for Lemmy as well and you are seeing users with long comment histories use them because those also happen to be the users who have a lot of previous content to cover up/obfuscate to maintain/ensure their own privacy.
Inject it with bleach! That'll do the trick.
No, but you have access to the protocol so you write your own algorithm.
Then it is your algorithm, using the common protocol, that goes out and retrieves search results for your feed.
Likewise, 3rd party corporations can write their own algorithms on the protocol and everyone can choose which algorithms fill their personal feed with search results - turning them on or off on a whim, at a personalized level.
I recently listened to Paul Frazee talk about Bluesky on the Software Engineering Radio podcast and it struck me that one thing they got right was looking at social media like a search engine looks at the web, instead of like a centralized platform(Facebook) and instead of like a federated network of platforms(fediverse).
If your feed is understood to be just the search results you see, then users can understand that their algorithm is something they need to work on in the same vein that they change their search parameters on Google or Bing or other search engines.
This is incredibly simple to fix.
Prosecute the power companies for their gross negligence leading to deadly wildfires instead of giving them a free pass every time - there are multiple opportunities to do this every year, like this: Reuters: PG&E Guilty On 84 counts
Instead of plain monetary fees, we just need more severe sentencing.
For example: In the interest of public safety, confiscate large swaths of the infrastructure implicated in the manslaughter, including the resources necessary to maintain it and the consumer contracts funding it.
Build in community service agreements forcing them to subcontract their own personnel to train a new state power agency on the intricacies of the confiscated equipment of the following years.
The more manslaughter, the bigger the state agency becomes until there is no longer a profit motive behind our power infrastructure.
This is a story that's been rotating through the media since ChatGPT first released.
I have an unpopular opinion about this headline after seeing the media cycle repeatedly downplay/ignore what Alphabet has been doing in response to OpenAI: Google the search engine is not in direct competition with ChatGPT, but Gemini is, and Alphabet is smart to keep simpler/time-tested search functionality central to Google rather than react strongly and scrap the keyword-based search bar that users understand are comfortable using - especially older users, but I think most people are starting to discover they have a use for both search and LLM chats.
I think there are two product categories here, which first looked like they were going to converge in 2022-2024, but which are now slowly changing course as customers start to comprehend how both are necessary for different purposes.
When I make chats in ChatGPT or Gemini or Claude etc, I am starting to plan them longitudinally so that I can use them over and over for a specific project or query type.
When I turn to a search bar, it's because I really want a proxy for a specific website or between me and whatever weird site has the answer to my specific question. It's not that I want discussion and a chat about it, I just want Google's card-like results with a website index I can read instead of that website's stylized, animated web design on top or popups or malware.
Every time I get sucked into a chat with Bing CoPilot(ChatGPT) when I really only had a web search query, I regret wasting my time talking to the LLM. Almost as a reflex, I've started avoiding it for most things now.
Iran's government sucks, but this story really shows how the Iranian people are stuck between a rock and a hard place.
Regular Iranians have more in common with western social values than those of the Iranian government or Russia - it's been that way before, during, and after the Iranian revolution.
Not sure what the answer is, but they keep trying to protest and resist their government every few years and they get violently forced back into submission.
Of all the countries with screwed up regimes, Iran is one where I think it's more appropriate to encourage more fluid immigration into western countries - a lot of their working age population is relatively better educated than many other countries too.
With low end smartphones: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-540-71629-7_50
General infrared identification techniques: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/227232627_Infrared_Identification_of_Faces_and_Body_Parts
We just apply these two areas of research above in a mobile app. I'd start with Android so it can go onto jailbroken 3rd party operating systems without the fear of getting banned by Apple. Then move on the iPhone after that.