Arthur Besse @ cypherpunks @lemmy.ml

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the fact that they know your plate number is different than knowing if you (or someone) queried a website about which police queried flock about it

reposting my comment from the thread yesterday:

reposting my comment in a thread last month about this:

in b4 haveibeenhaveibeenflocked.

they have a list of their current collection of 239 .csv files but sadly don’t appear to let you actually download them to query offline

they now have 519 sources, some of which are downloadable from muckrock but many aren't.

i still don't understand why this website isn't open source and open data, and i strongly recommend thinking carefully about it (eg, thinking about if you'd mind if the existence of your query becomes known to police and/or the public) before deciding if you want to type a given plate number in to it.

numerous professions are far more dangerous than being a cop. there are well over 700k cops in the US and only around 150 die each year (except during the pandemic when covid killed an extra thousand or so).

paywall bypass: https://web.archive.org/web/20260113155013/https://www.404media.co/police-unmask-millions-of-surveillance-targets-because-of-flock-redaction-error/

also, reposting my comment in a thread last month about this:

in b4 haveibeenhaveibeenflocked.

they have a list of their current collection of 239 .csv files but sadly don’t appear to let you actually download them to query offline

they now have 519 sources, some of which are downloadable from muckrock but many aren't.

i still don't understand why this website isn't open source and open data, and i strongly recommend thinking carefully about it (eg, thinking about if you'd mind if the existence of your query becomes known to police and/or the public) before deciding if you want to type a given plate number in to it.

paywall bypass: https://web.archive.org/web/20260113174554/https://www.thedailybeast.com/personal-details-of-thousands-of-border-patrol-and-ice-goons-allegedly-leaked-in-huge-data-breach/

Who was US President back then?

same guy as now. (were you thinking it wasn't?)

tweet (from 2020) is here

obvious solution is to vibe legislate a law to prohibit opening developer tools on other people's websites

My personal take is that GenAI is ok for personal entertainment and for things that are ultimately meaningless

Were you previously much more pro-GenAI, or am I misremembering?

It's a website.

I found a slightly higher res version; it's west 🙄

In this slightly higher-res copy, it does appear to be "MS13". (Which makes about as much sense as labeling Uruguay "west"...)

for anyone wondering if this actually happened, it did. (in 2019)

Luckily it was just a chmod

that can still render a system unbootable 😅

Use Ctrl-Z

followed by jobs, kill %1, etc

Wow. Although I do still think it is written with some LLM assistance, and I don't think the authors sincerely believe the absurd alt-history they're espousing in this article, I am sad to say I think your assessment here is actually spot-on.

I got a slop vibe after reading just a little of it, and then clicked away and skimmed their other article titles ("Based International Law", "The GIGACHAD Approach", "Shitposting as a National Asset", etc). then clicked to the homepage and saw their "Generated Affairs" (thisforeignaffairsarticledoesnotexist.com) LLM thing under Special Projects, and I naively concluded that the whole thing was merely an edgelord trolling project.

Looking at it a little closer now (and seeing that their other link under Special Projects https://rickovercorpus.org/ is actually a serious thing which links back and thanks them for funding) I am also horrified.

I still think it is an edgelord trolling project, but it is one with a likelihood to be seriously influencing actually-powerful people 😱

This is what the radical far right wing of the US establishment is thinking

No, it isn't. They are thinking and doing plenty of horrible things, but not what is on that website.

i didn't read very much of it because i don't suffer LLM outputs gladly, but to their credit at least the edgelords who created it were nice enough to put a troll face at the bottom to remove any doubts one might have about its lack of sincerity 🙄

Check their twitter and other projects if you still aren't sure, but after you realize what it is I hope you'll delete this post to stop spreading their slop.

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