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Pretty amazing they’re framing it as an “accusation,” when there’s access logs obtained via FOIA request that prove beyond a reasonable doubt that they were spying on children.

Whats worse is the town has snubbed its residents:

https://www.axios.com/local/atlanta/2026/04/17/dunwoody-floc...

How did a Jewish Community Center end up allowing FLOCK to access its security cameras?

Pool and Gymnastics seem like sensitive places unless PEDO.


I hate to say it, but Jewish organizations get threats all the time. Just yesterday I was at a temple that removed its "reserved for Rabbi" parking space, because he had been threatened and didn't want to make identification easier.

An explanation rather than an excuse. But it's not entirely surprising that they would sign up for a service that might help them catch offenders.


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> the Jewish nation

You can just say Israel. Unless you're trying to imply all Jewish people. You do not have to be Jewish to be a citizen of Israel - there are even Muslim citizens.


It's pretty clear that he says Jews and means Jews. Including me.

I don't approve of the current government of Israel, and the many Israelis who support it. But that does not change the fact that the target on my back predates 1948 and has nothing to do with anything going on today.


Yep, the Jewish people being used as scapegoats for political issues dates back a couple millennia.

Once a person or group is singled out, it became easy for others to use that prejudice for their own ends. Just ask anyone who has ever been bullied.

See also: Muslims in the U.S. in 2001 who were treated unfairly and had nothing to do with 9/11.

(I flagged their comment because I think it is antisemitic, but the HN Guidelines say we have to assume good faith.)


> there are even Muslim citizens.

Second class citizens within an Apartheid state and being targeted for genocide, but still citizens.


Which goes to show that not everyone supports what their politicians do - certainly not a whole ethnic or religious group.

Hybrid cars are great if you want the worst of both ICE and EV worlds.

But also if you want the best of those worlds. Specifically: instant acceleration of the EV drivetrain and increased range provided by ICE.

A Dodge Ram hybrid might not be the best example, but do watch some reviews of Chinese EREVs that aren't available in the US. The gap is striking.


Governor says “regulation is hardly ever the answer” for Iowa’s dangerous nitrate levels in its drinking water.

That and paying to offload legal liability to a vendor.

Lots of great, free, widely adopted open source technology solutions aren't adopted by public sector because their legal staff won't accept the liability of not having a paid contract that makes guarantees. Great use of tax dollars.


>>Great use of tax dollars.

I get the sentiment but just note that if you discuss this in public your answer to the problem of staff watching video of kids is... less regulation?


Also a weird set of features to remove from pre-TCL products. This one has me perplexed:

> Set Top Box (STB) TV Menu: - The Set Top Box menu will be removed. - A Control menu will appear instead.


Ah, they’re all one package of functionality: Enrich broadcast TV control and schedule functionality through maintenance of third-party integrations, such as set top boxes or cover art. Because Sony isn’t the authoritative source for an icon for Burn Unit or Hospital Grace or whatever (I made those up, hopefully they’re not real!). Certainly every single integration costs time and/or money. (IF you could charge money for a service, would you give it for free to Sony?)

I wonder if they’re predicting a collapse in data harvesting revenue, or just found that inflation-adjusted wage decreases have shrunk the top end out of their TV market and so they’re cutting corners.


If he treats his kid the same way he treated (raped) his little sister growing up, I feel extra bad for that child now.

Bluesky is a provider. Blacksky didn’t go down.

Is there anything running on Blacksky other than Bluesky with more than say, 100 active users?

AOL never even got to that level of dominance in the internet 1.0 era.

The point is it's not a distributed network if one node is 99.9% of all traffic.


No. You get prompted something like “Application wants access to your Documents folder” and “Application wants access to your Downloads folder” on first attempt of each folder.

Not always though. Adobe’s apps seem to be able to do whatever fuck they want whenever they want. I want so badly to stop them from creating a bunch of bullshit files in my Documents folder but there simply is no way to do it.

The article seems to be saying that is true unless you implicitly and somewhat invisibly grant access via the file picker.

Happy Easter morning


As an aside, what new cars don’t include location tracking?

My experience is they all have satellite connections and require some level of telemetry. My car throws a persistent check engine light and error message on the radio if you disconnect the telematics control unit.


I don't have this info unfortunately. I can say from personal experience that you can remove tracking from the 24 and older Subaru BRZ for about $50 usd, or less if you make your own passive adapter. I can also say the 24 and older low trim brz does NOT have tracking installed from the factory. From my research before buying the brz, many if not all Subarus of this era use the same hardware. There's an older version of this hardware as well that can also be deleted (and should be deleted because it's an older cellular tech that is no longer active and leads to battery drain while the car is unused).

The only problem my car has now is an occasional failure of Android Auto with a time sync error. There's an ota update for the head unit available that may or may not be related. I don't plan to install it. I only put 1000 miles on the car before removing the cellular connection so they could log the engine break in period as being done correctly for warranty purposes, so I'm not sure if it was an existing issue or related to removing cellular.

Afaik, having built in gps is not an issue since it's a receiver and doesn't transmit. The tracking issue is because of cellular.

I would check if the low trims exclude telematics before buying a car. If so, you can probably remove it from the higher trims but do your research.


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