And the other half the old school and new school fight.

a man is standing in front of a crowd of people in a room . ALT: a man is standing in front of a crowd of people in a room .

America's most infamous felon.

Nothing's the same any more.

Not even a hot pocket.

Do you have to let it linger?

Just don't go casual male.

I've gotta say it's cool having 20+ years across digital, film, phone cams in one spot and "today XXX years ago" memories that aren't talking about a dying cat living the good life or reminding me that privacy is gone.

I do prefer non-default storage template settings (the default is cautious to make it impossible for idiots to shoot themselves in the foot I think). Just make an external library with your legacy stuff, let immich manage the new, and you're up and running.

The immich devs have these big blaring warnings "expect stuff to break, in active development, etc" but it's honestly one of the most polished and troublefree self-hosted services out there in my experience. It pretty much just works.

Time to complete the degoogling in his honor.

"Much better than I expected"

It's an awkward camera. Takes pictures that are "good enough" for disposable (for you...the images live on for meta of course) social media use. Spies on everyone.

The *best* thing it does is make it more convenient for you to feed meta personal data.

And for raising awareness overall. The only real way to communicate the absolute ubiquity of all of this is with a fresh example (or 20) every day.

The only opt-out to all of this is a collective one and that only happens with awareness and comprehension.

I really hate giving the clicks, pageviews, etc. to these cursed glow-ups.

At a local community scale there are many things that I don't think you can view as a "right to this service" without first building a community spirit. "We can work together as a community to provide this and make things better for everyone" needs to be the foundation for true local issues.

When you get to the local level, there's no choice but to be responsive to the community.

However...a huge part of making things *better* is reacquainting people with the idea that government accomplishes positive things. People have internalized a lifetime of propaganda that needs to be unwound.

I can say that you don't really have a realistic idea of the politics of many rural communities

The same folks who serve in the fire department *are* the Mayor/Supervisor/Council/etc. Dealing with people who "know their rights" to do whatever the F they want and pay no tax is the job description

They quasi-recently incorporated to better access statewide funding for infrastructure, and the projects that have gone through have delivered services with local costs at or below urban/surburban costs.

But even getting businesses to commit to pay for usable internet...was a tremendous ordeal.

To be clear: my hometown community has had a population of <200 or so for forever. A professional fire department mostly wouldn't have anything to do

The biggest barriers to accessing state funding for more immediate needs like sewage treatment and broadband internet are local unwillingness to pay

A volunteer fire department isn't anywhere near the biggest challenge I'd face moving "back home". Precarious healthcare, hollowed-out professional class, and a school system that's slipped below critical mass of caring citizens (a negative feedback loop from doctors and professionals leaving)

I wouldn't necessarily put things like "having a volunteer fire department" down as failures, depending on the size of the community and local need.

Volunteerism is *much* better positioned to address local fire protection and emergency response than things like healthcare, education, etc.

(Also - this is what age verification looks like. Massive inevitable leaks just waiting to happen)

People need to be shown how nuts they are.

(Or that the api server didn't even authenticate requests, and the api was publicly documented)

Reminders that developers are stupid too are useful.

And pushes to require proper handling of PII can trickle down into better tools to make it easier to handle data properly.

Who could have predicted such a trustworthy-looking app would have an admin password of "Password1!"?

The MN long goodbye.

bsky.app/profile/jose...

This is possibly the best framing of the whole "AI told me X" genre of "reporting".

It's a *literal* public broadcast of low-level AI psychosis - implicitly buying in to the cognizance of an elaborate plausible-text generation machine and presenting the delusion that its outputs are meaningful.

You can avoid that by baking in limits or making the system advisory-only, for example - or limiting update frequency in a manner that's baked-in to the hardware, which also reduces functionality dealing with e.g. road construction. There's probably a middle ground that's OK, but concerns def. exist

It depends on what items are of concern. The sensors and telemetry are already there (and can and do already leak personal information). The immediate misuse that springs to mind - for a system with control authority and dynamic updates - is something like "disabling all vehicles in an area" (1/2)

Did an Orc write this?

Say no to deskilling.