Who’d have thought that warrant-less mass surveillance that treats every citizen like a potential criminal would eventually hit a tipping point where people began to fight back against it?
Along with it incorrectly labeling people as a criminal so cops harass innocent families
That’s a feature, not a bug.
The whole point of warrantless mass surveillance where you collect a person’s entire life history from birth to death is to be able to go back through that history at any point they become an inconvenient person, whether because they are protesting or are a whistleblower or anything else that endangers the existing power structures. They can and will use your history to fabricate a “reasonable” narrative to turn you into whatever type of criminal they claim you are.
This is exactly why they’re pushing the “antifa is an organized terrorist organization” so hard.
And they wonder why people have anxiety disorders
“You’d have anxiety too if you knew that entire government organizations were dedicated to watching your every move while everyone told you that you were crazy.”
I watched a video last night. Some guy was banned from a casino. All they had was a blurry surveillance camera photo of him.
The AI tagged some other guy as him. Cops came and arrested him. Said the man’s ID must be fake, or he used a fake ID last time because there’s no way their high-fallutin AI could be wrong! It was >99% certain!
Meanwhile, new age Glassholes Flock to their new Meta glasses.
Any RAM or storage in those things? That solar panel looks useful.
That solar panel looks useful.
Since I have never gone out in nondescript black clothing at night to destroy these things, I can’t say from firsthand knowledge…
But yes, yes they are. They make great trickle chargers for large batteries that only get used intermittently. Or string several together and enjoy an ebike battery charger. I have a similarly sized and shaped panel I found somewhere that I use to charge my 18650 bank.
“That I found somewhere” is funnier than usual given the context
I am tempted to snatch the solar cell for meshtastic nodes. They do look like they are high quality.
Could you replace the insides with a node?
Looks like a small camera and IR LED’s too.
There’s nothing more American than destroying a Flock camera
I was almost gonna say something about killing nazis, but…
nah, not as american
Couple dead pixels from a particularly bright light might well make them unable to do their plate reading job efficiently. Might make for an interesting study.
Lasers tend not to be good for camera sensors, I’ve heard.
That might actually work, but it’s probably easier and safer to just use a can of spray paint
Paint seems easier to detect and remove.
Paint can be seen by passers by. A fried sensor can’t.
I doubt the lenses are glass, which means the solvents in spray paint will be, effectively, impossible to clean off without damaging the lens in the process. I doubt they have a maintenance team with such finesse as opposed to one that just replaces the device, just every other US support service.
These things are usually pretty high up. The camera in my neighborhood are about 15ft / 4.5m up. When one goes down, they have to queue up for a truck to be sent out.
Something something double tap.
I like your style
Ive thought about getting a stick with a cardboard sign that says fuck flock and putting it right in front of all the cameras around me that i know of
Here’s a map of them: https://deflock.org/
Been awhile since I checked out this website and only now just found out there is a new one right next to the office I work at.
I could’ve sworn 2 weeks ago there was an article about people breaking into them to steal the wires and components.
I hear tell them cameras is full of valuable minerals like gold and copper!
Also RAM and HDDs!
hell yeah they are 🤘
