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Well darn.

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There's still plenty of hotels that will let you rent porn for exorbitant money, but it's not as fun when the front desk doesn't have to give you a DVD binder to flip through.

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Week of action planned against license plate readers

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Flock cameras are worse, at least imo, because it's "active". The old cameras clocked your speed, took a picture, got processed and sent a fine. The flock cameras will misread your plate, determine you are a violent out of state felon, follow your movement and dispatch a squad to your location. You can be dragged out of the car at gunpoint before you even know what's happening.

Theres also the universal database aspect that can expose all the different department's data to each other, allowing officers to do things like saayy, stalk their ex-wives across state lines.

The history of movement they compile, the analysis tools available, the "proactive policing", and the creep factor of always being monitored all roll together.

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Week of action planned against license plate readers

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Are you mentioning this implying that's sufficient oversight? The alert is minimally providing reasonable suspicion to track and investigate someone. Police don't need to ticket or bring charges to ruin your day.

If everything "checks out" as a misflag hopefully they cut that person loose quickly, without issue. Unfortunately, there's too many videos of innocent people being felony stopped, because cops defer to the lead and treat the situation as they're trained.

Oorr people go running for unrelated reasons except they drew today's lucky number for a stop, leading to incidents.

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Bun 1.4 Rust rewrite is not looking good

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I'm not sure anthropic entirely dictated that bun was rewritten into rust, but I am sure they were thrilled when they got the news it was happening. I'll mention I'm not questioning the feasibility of "Bun in Rust", but I am questioning if the slopmachine can ever get it stitched back together and stabilized. If they end up going 6 months or a year without the release both bun and anthropic end up looking pretty dumb, and I don't know if the dev world is going to have that kind of patience.

This initiative was promoted up as the halo project that proves LLMs are ready to take over a difficult production codebase, and the speed of the conversion was touted as proof that the era of writing code was over. At 3 months I think right now they are still ahead of any "manual" re-write timeline, but it could end up proving the exact opposite as this drags on.