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New ALPR Vulnerabilities Prove Mass Surveillance Is a Public Safety Threat [automated license plate readers]
  • So the very first assertion the article makes is that this creates a giant database of sensitive information (presumably the license plates).

    That's just straight up not true? How can you write an article about this and make such a basic wrong assertion.

    Any reasonable system would work as such: Scan plate -> is it allowed to be here? -> if noy store violation, if yes don't send data

    EDIT:

    It seems like they really do be scanning every single license plate and storing it for no reason.

  • After 16 years, Ecobee is shutting down support for the original smart thermostat
  • I understand you may be from a field where supporting software from the 70s is required, however someone is probably paying big bucks for that software as well. Replacing the software you work on might cost millions, replacing a thermostat costs 300 usd.

    I would love to live in a world where software support lasts 70 years. But consumers don't look at software support, so it's not budgeted in the price, and thus doesn't happen in the consumer space. Getting 16 years in a consumer device is long.

    In the field you're working, stability, longevity, and robustenes is probably a requirement, not a nice to have.

  • After 16 years, Ecobee is shutting down support for the original smart thermostat
  • AA much hate this might be getting, they're offering discounts on a new product, and 16 years is a hell of a lifetime. Imagine having to support software written in c99 maybe even c89, with some homebrew UI full of bugs.

  • PSA: You can't delete photos uploaded to Lemmy. So don't (accidentally) upload a nude
  • I don't think it will ever come to a lawsuit, nobody would ever want that. Under the GDPR you must be able to delete content, and the server must communicate this to all federated servers. So in effect, there is already a legally binding agreement between all servers that this deletion request must be honored (for people physically in the eu), it's just not.

    lemmy servers are already breaking the GDPR if they don't follow forwarded deletion requests from people in the eu. This would just effectively be an extension of this to data from all people.

  • PSA: You can't delete photos uploaded to Lemmy. So don't (accidentally) upload a nude
  • There could be a legally binding contract stating that any deletion request must be forwarded to all parties it was send to, and that upon receiving such a request the data must be deleted. I do not think this would be unreasonable to ask to servers, especially as this deletion receipt could be fully automated.

  • Phones which battery doesn't get swollen?
  • You can use wireless ADB, or try to set the battery limit to 80% and only set charging to only start below 30%. Wireless ADB settings can be found in the developer options. battery options don't always include the option to require battery level to drop below X% before charging starts again, and if it is, it is usually branded as battery saver feature or smth like that.

  • New Plasma 6 Default Icon Theme Looks
  • Gtk 3->4 made a lot of internal changes, and at least some were related to making wayland work. Wayland "worked" in gtk3, however it was very much an afterthought, and half the toolkit was useless under wayland. Other changes are usually required for changes related to rendering, gtk4 had vulcan rendering which may require some breaking changes. Another thing is just general breaking changes that are good, sometimes you realise some decision was bad, and a new major release is just a way to make these.

    From the end users perspective nothing much changes, it maybe looks a bit different, but not much besides that. But a vulcan renderer and being fully wayland compatible are major improvements that also improve the user experience, even if you don't notice directly.

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