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Cake day: November 12th, 2024

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  • This also boils down to who is in control of the data.
    Whoever gets to approve the data requests, needs to be answerable to those whose footage is being recorded.

    If footage is asked for, then such a request needs to be logged publicly, with the requester’s identifiable information and stored as a permanent record, regardless of approval.


    If any legislation is to be made regarding this, it is important to keep in mind that incomplete footage can be more harmful and will be misused.

    Then comes the point where cops don’t really care about correctly solving a case and are happy with propping any random citizen as a criminal. And considering how easily they can get away with harassment even after being exposed, it honestly doesn’t make sense to me at all that they be given absolutely any extra privileges.


    From my standpoint, if I can’t use a local police camera to get informed on who cut the brake-cable of my bicycle, then there might as well be no police camera.

    Everytime I have personally seen the police go out of their way to do something, they never had any legitimate purposes.






  • In this case, I would say Gnome was a good choice.
    Just looking the same as macOS would not be the real requirement, as long as the user gets a sense of familiarity.
    You really want to give them as simple a configuration system as possible, for which Gnome is a good idea.

    I won’t be going to Gnome, because I am fine with putting a few extra seconds to understand the options to get the high configurability in return but that might not be the case for OP’s parents.
    And if some specific unavailable feature was required, they would probably ask OP, who can then install a corresponding extension.



  • That’s how it is done.
    If it is a public camera, it has to be a public record.
    And if not, then anyone having access to the feed, has to have their whole life (both work and personal) be available as a public record.

    If not, then you now have cases where most people can’t afford to defend themselves from malicious cop allegations.
    To prevent this, anyone arrested, pre-trial has to have access to all searches done by cops, related to the allegation and ability to pull-up 100% of their own footage anytime near the event in question.

    If any part of the footage is deleted, due to “technical issues” like, “the footage was deleted” or “some of the cameras were not working”, then the arrest is illegal and the police department is responsible for compensation.





  • I hope you’re not seriously telling me that they would be significantly more satiating if they were made with butter instead of vegetable oil

    You’d be in for a surprise…

    There is this thing called clarified butter (Ghee) and you can actually cook in it (not affordably though, as any good quality one would be in Olive oil like category).
    I tend to try it out a few times (because it is still way cheaper than eating out, where they would still use palmoline despite their markup) when I am free and although heat control can be tricky depending upon the Ghee source and target recipe, it can make a great difference.