jnovek

I agree, we are going to have to make some choices because it’s clear that we now have technology where anyone can track anyone else in public with some cheap hardware (e.g. ESP cams) and a Claude subscription.

I’d actually be OK with a symmetric response to this, in fact, I WOULD LOVE a symmetric response: law enforcement can’t use AI to track citizens and we can’t use AI to track them.

… but there is a lot of 1st and 4th amendment shenanigans going on with all of this and I can’t even guess where it will land.

The majority of my concern has to do with tactics, yes.

The other issue is intent.

I support reasonable immigration enforcement for practical reasons like added strain on public facilities like social programs. That’s rational.

Our 2024 Trump-aligned candidates ran on more of a xenophobia-centric platform. Xenophobia is irrational and unpredictable reasoning for immigration enforcement.

This isn’t “both sides” stuff. We, the constituents, seem to have very little input on what values our parties represent anymore. We just get to pick the one we like best. This has gotten worse in my lifetime, esp after Citizen’s United.

I’m voting against the face eating leopard party every time. I’m not voting for someone. I would like very much to be voting for someone instead of against someone.

I’m not saying that there aren’t people who care in our government, it’s just that the political machines themselves — the political parties — are beholden to big corporate donors until such time that Citizen’s United is struck down.

Including ssh logs sounds like a warrant to me. I doubt fly.io would sell customers’ ssh logs.

Of course, but it is a _crime_ for the bee to sting in this case and I’m (rightly) angry about it. What’s the probable cause in posting public data?

“they are surprised LEOs can compel paid service to produce records”

I’m not surprised, but this is not how it’s supposed to be in the US.

The fourth amendment is supposed to force a high bar for collecting evidence in this way but we’ve been slowly eroding those rights away over the last 50 years.

How are we gonna get them to do that? We have a choice between two parties each propped up by trillions of dollars in donations that are both cool with selling our data.

ICE under the current administration has been “enforcing the law” using excessive force and intimidation tactics.

People have died in our detention centers due to unsanitary conditions.

They arrested a five year old and sent him to one of these detention centers without his parents.

They’ve murdered multiple peaceful protestors in the street.

I favor responsible immigration enforcement. This is not that.

“I mean judging by your career in adtech. Uh Yeah anyway.”

Once again, the “bad faith” thing is something you’re manufacturing.

I have said nothing in bad faith, I genuinely believed you were dumping on something that a person put real work into. I was defending what I believed was someone’s hard work at the time.

You chose to interpret that in the most negative way you could and then chose express that negative interpretation by insulting me.

I suggest that you continue to examine your attitude; based on your previous result, I think you should take a few hours this time because a few seconds clearly wasn’t enough.

I’m not from the Minecraft realm, I had no idea the tools were this sophisticated. That’s pretty rad.

“I'm not interested in engaging with bad faith gotcha-style communication like this.”

It’s not that, it’s an effort to get you to drop into system 2 and think about all the steps it probably took to put this together.

“Beside that, you do realize that this is merely an ad for that GIS provider consultancy thingy that can sell you actual swiss maps, right?”

Yes, I do. I’m not buying their product, selling it or in any way interested in it. I’m just pointing out that your dismissive comment about someone else’s work sucks.

“I mean judging by your career in adtech. Uh Yeah anyway.”

Case-in-point. Stay classy!

Edit: as I’m reading other replies in this thread, I’m finding that I had no idea how sophisticated tools for Minecraft are.

This could’ve been an opportunity to teach someone something cool like your sibling post did, but you opted to be a jerk instead.

Maybe take a sec to examine that.

“No one did this … the whole thing is just an empty husk of an idea“

If you think it’s easy enough that “no one” made it, why not voxel-ize a location yourself to test your hypothesis? I imagine it wouldn’t take but moments of your day to fire off the prompt “Build New Jersey out of voxels”.

Based on your comment, it sounds like you believe that’s the sum total of work the author put into it.

Do you think it’s always been that way?

I have gone through a slow attrition of “serious” subs over the years as they’ve all slowly become toxic. I pretty much just have goofy, fun stuff or niche interests left at this point.