Xposts on Lemmy are so weird. I don’t quite understand how they’re linked and not duplicates, and which one was first. Risa was first in this case?

Boo go home!

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Nice to see them talking about this

I think one of the ninja turtles quotes this in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2: Secret of the Ooze.

You are playing fast and loose with your assumptions.

1. “They” do not have a database of our faces. More specifically, states do, at the DMV, and the US state department does, for passports. Also, private companies do, harvesting publicly available photos from Facebook, etc.

A few years ago this was no big deal, and lots of people tagged pictures of themselves, but now that facial recognition algorithms are here, we have to start thinking about how to mitigate the privacy concerns.

There is a big privacy distinction between looking at someone’s face, and taking a picture of it.

I reject your terms and definitions.

Whether it is for commercial advertising purposes or commercial surveillance purposes, I don’t see why surveillance should have less protection.

So far you are all saying this is not correct, but without some kind of documentation it seems like companies and governments are seeing how far they can go before getting pushback.

Just because you say it is public doesn’t make it so.

The fact that you have to sign model consent forms is proof enough that it’s not public.

No my face is not public data. While I may choose to appear in public with my face, if a private party wants to use my likeness, in advertising for example, they have to get my consent. It’s not in the public domain, unless I’m a celebrity. I see no reason why we should just roll over and allow anyone to use our faces for any purposes without contesting it.

If some government spy wants to make a dossier on me, it would be easy to hire a photographer to take a recent photo. But they can’t do this on a large scale. What they can do is pay a company that already has a model of my face, which I object to, and then they can try to run facial recognition algorithms on anyone who turns out at a demonstration, for instance.

I can only mitigate the threat of public photos of myself so much, like not having photos on social media or LinkedIn. Maybe someday I’ll be able to opt myself out of facial recognition databases.

Choosing not to let the TSA routinely take a high quality photo of my face is just a small way to mitigate against how many facial recognition databases I’m in, and how high quality their models are.

If any of this is wrong I would be glad to be corrected.

Why would you defend this?

We trust an enormous amount of data to the federal government, and until recently, that privacy risk was mitigated by the fact that the branches did not automatically share data with each other.

Now, they are trying to vacuum it all up, and increase the power of the government.

Why should the federal government have my driver’s license photo anyway? That’s through the state. And even if they did, why should I give them easy access to an updated photo of me, cross referenced with my name and identity?

If the answer is it speeds up the TSA’s job and makes them more accurate, I don’t think that’s a compelling enough reason for me personally to give up that little bit of privacy.

You don’t need to provide a reason, you just have to say you choose to opt out.

Frankly with how easily this administration attempts to skirt the law, and defy judges that tell them to knock it off, I would not trust that the TSA is always deleting the photos that they’re supposed to.

Does pine pods do syncing?

I’ve never used Antenna Pod, but I’ve used Podcast Addict for more than a decade, I’ve paid for the pro app, and I’ve been really impressed by what it can do.

I like to have many podcasts downloaded to my phone, and Podcast addict has really granular controls for what to download and keep for how long, in the general case, and for each podcast you can dial in custom settings, for example not auto-downloading or deleting. It helps me have plenty of audio to listen to at all times without blowing up the storage on my phone.

The various automatic playlists for downloaded episodes, new episodes, and recent episodes are also very useful to me.

I’ve found the developer to be really nice and he will personally respond to bug reports and support requests if anything doesn’t go as planned.

I actually do like the Oxford Comma a lot, but there is a Vampire Weekend song like what I quoted above.

If you are mostly hosting files, open media vault has minimal command line, and it’s mostly administered through a web admin. It’s still fairly complex however, and I definitely recommend reading the manual thoroughly and sticking with easy tasks at first. https://www.openmediavault.org/

Can anyone explain what this is

I don’t give a fuck about an Oxford Comma

I could never figure out NFS … ( it only works with unix usernames??) But since I have smb servers I can use that with Android

This meme is priceless really

These are the true points, however the 4th reason to use a VPN is if you are using a fingerprint-resistant browser and lots of other people are too, it’s harder to track who is going where, since the exit IP is shared.

If tor isn’t working for whatever reason