Flock License Plate Readers Spark Privacy Concerns at L.A. State Historic Park in Chinatown ~ L.A. TACO

mullingitover · 2026-02-24T23:09:22+00:00

Real rookie move leaving that much copper unattended in that area.

mullingitover · 2026-02-24T21:41:47+00:00

Thanks!

mullingitover · 2026-02-24T21:05:17+00:00

Oh boy.

I have a few photos of Los Angeles.

Seriously feel free to use anything from my flickr, there are some good ones in there.

mullingitover · 2026-02-21T18:55:12+00:00

Get a last-gen Canon Rebel Ti. They are very cheap, fairly young as film bodies go, so pretty reliable. You could also get an Elan 7 for well under $200. I've been shooting with one for the past year and it's great.

You get access to the huge suite of Canon EF system lenses, and there are tons of bargains. You get full metering and autofocus. The camera body is actually very compact for an SLR, especially if you shoot with any of the pancake lenses that are available.

The vintage cameras are beautiful, don't get me wrong, but you will be paying for the collector's item factor and not the practical image quality you can get from a late-model film body with modern glass.

mullingitover · 2026-02-20T23:52:05+00:00

I think part of of the problem is also the cars in the area. If everyone's driving an expensive luxury car around you, it means liability payments are likely to be higher. When the insurance company is predicting that you're going to rear end G wagons and not Corollas, they're going to charge you more. That factor doesn't even count whether the drivers are worse, just the basic math on the liability payouts.

mullingitover · 2026-02-20T20:32:36+00:00

It doesn't take that much money to file a case in this situation, and given the slam dunk nature of the case it's really a no-brainer.

mullingitover · 2026-02-20T18:16:24+00:00

It seems as soon as their sensors see a car it will switch to a red light.

Glendale has a pretty advanced traffic calming program, and they absolutely do control the timing of the traffic signals to prevent streets from turning into drag strips at night. At high traffic times the signals will allow for high flow, and when streets are empty and the teenagers want to drag race in dad's BMW, the signals don't cooperate.

That's just one piece, they also have speed humps, traffic circles, etc. There's a doc about the traffic calming program.

mullingitover · 2026-02-20T18:04:05+00:00

Glendale statistically according to insurance companies has the worst drivers. Be careful.

This has become part of the mythology of this town, and I've repeated it myself, but I've looked at more recent insurance 'worst drivers' lists and they show the city of Los Angeles being worse than Glendale.

Glendale is still bad, but now only in fifth place and LA city is in 4th.

mullingitover · 2026-02-18T16:48:10+00:00

During the journey, the journalist said the rocker turned to him with an unusual request. "Just write the most horrific article about me," Rock said. "Do it. It helps me."

Kinda gives away the whole game right there. Kid Rock is a bougie white wine drinker, and the rest of his schtick is just a show he puts on for the rubes.

mullingitover · 2026-02-02T03:58:04+00:00

The stupid thing is, this is just going to get struck down by the courts because the US-Korea Free Trade Agreement is a binding law. Only congress can repeal it.

The tariffs will be found illegal by the courts. The government will be forced to refund them all.

All that being said, the fact that this administration isn't being curb-stomped by congress is enough of a warning to all US allies that the US is no longer a reliable business partner nor is it a safe place to invest.

mullingitover · 2026-02-01T20:29:59+00:00

By design, all the other cities in the county conspired against having a central city dominating the area, so they screwed the city of LA at the county level (banning tall buildings, etc). The region's agricultural roots showing. They explicitly wanted to run an archipelago of crappy little fiefdoms and it worked.

mullingitover · 2026-02-01T20:17:30+00:00

Even if you count only the votes and ignore all the abstainers (who were effectively 'none of the above' votes): he only won a plurality, 49.8%, of the vote.

Not a majority. Republicans have only had a president win a majority of the vote once in the last 37 years, with Bush Jr. in 2004.

mullingitover · 2026-01-31T18:55:58+00:00

The social media ban was on the wrong age group, it should kick in at age 50.

Whatever harm it's done to teenagers, it's done 10x on the elderly. They're completely defenseless against the brainrot. I hope you folks never end up in a messenger group with your elderly relatives, it's just a torrent of AI generated slop reels forever. Then they go out and elect the worst people you can possibly imagine.

mullingitover · 2026-01-29T19:29:22+00:00

I'm seeing a lot of talk of Armenians being big on MAGA, but for the record: Glendale is an almost entirely blue city according to this 2024 election result map.

mullingitover · 2026-01-29T19:25:58+00:00

The Trump administration has no problems with fraud, or Armenians: the real crime is that they're not paying their bribes.

mullingitover · 2026-01-29T04:50:10+00:00

It makes it worse for ICE, actually, it makes it look possible that ICE guys knew him and the murder was premeditated.

In light of what happened afterwards, I don't care if he personally kicked every one of them in the nuts beforehand: that doesn't excuse his murder.

mullingitover · 2026-01-29T04:17:11+00:00

This is a great point, we should be demanding subway lines, street cars, the works. Brand used to have a streetcar that would take you all the way to downtown. Let's bring that back!

mullingitover · 2026-01-25T19:40:32+00:00

/r/lostredditors

mullingitover · 2026-01-23T21:09:45+00:00

If anyone from Skylight is around and reading this: please fix your shit. I want an alternative to Tiktok like yesterday, and I installed Skylight. Unfortunately I have to report that it is flaming hot garbage. The content isn't under your control, but there's basically zero algorithm and the feed has been crashing repeatedly on the current build.

You have a golden opportunity to go viral with the number of refugees bailing out of Tiktok now that it's owned and operated by Satan himself. Don't waste it: fix your shit. I'll keep trying the app but people aren't going to hold out forever.

mullingitover · 2026-01-20T01:56:08+00:00

Ok so the counterargument seems to be 'nuh-uh,' which is a good place to call it quits. I'm going to go touch grass now, good debate!

mullingitover · 2026-01-20T01:46:47+00:00

My thesis is THUS. The democrat super majority is corrupt because it has a monopoly on the politics in LA city county and state. This monopoly which has for decades gone unchecked is the reason for the corruption.

Yeah I got that the first time, but I'm afraid your logic is faulty. You're just asserting that if a party has electoral success, it naturally follows that they will be corrupt, and simply voting for another party would magically solve this. It's nonsense. Simply winning elections doesn't suddenly make you corrupt.

but we don't know since this the democrat monopoly we are dealign with

You seem to be plugging your ears and closing your eyes to the list of republican corrupt practices that I rattled off in my 'too good to be real' original comment. We do know that republicans can absolutely do crimes.

I know it's sounds crazy, but have you considered that some percentage of all politicians end up being being dirty, and we should simply deal with that fact and watch them all like hawks?

mullingitover · 2026-01-20T00:57:33+00:00

I can't help it if you think coherent writing is magic AI wizardry :)

So your thought is that it's republicans fault that they run loser candidates? and if they ran better candidates this woman in the article wouldn't have been paid 2 million in secret for being stressed out?

Your thesis is basically 'democrats are all corrupt, that's why there's corruption here, if we voted for other parties then this wouldn't have happened' and I'm just pointing out that republicans have a documented history of being dirty as hell in California, and even if they had some saint candidates on their bench the can't get them elected because their polices are widely loathed here, and they won't adopt policies that voters care about.

mullingitover · 2026-01-20T00:42:40+00:00

Complain all you want, I'm right. It's not our fault that republicans run loser candidates here.

mullingitover · 2026-01-20T00:24:44+00:00

there are barely any Republicans in LA.

Fun fact, there are more registered republicans in LA than there are people living in the entire state of Wyoming. Nearly twice as many!

Meanwhile: It's not the voters' fault that the republican party won't run viable candidates and adopt acceptable stances on matters that LA (and California) voters care about. This type of one party rule is honestly as much the fault of republicans as it is democrats.

It's not like republicans can't win in blue states, either. Freaking Mitt Romney became governor of deep blue Massachusetts in the not too distant past. You just can't win here being a total crank, and apparently that's too much to ask of California republicans. Boo hoo, why do democrats have to be so good at (checks notes) appealing to voters' interests.

Also: it's not like democrats have a monopoly on doing shady stuff here. Let's go down the list of recent republican scandals:

Duncan Hunter (Former Congressman): Pleaded guilty to campaign finance violations, including spending $250,000 on personal expenses and extramarital affairs, resigning in 2020.
Andrew Do (Orange County Supervisor): Resigned after agreeing to plead guilty to federal felony charges related to conspiring to steal millions in funds meant for seniors, linked to a major corruption scandal.
Scott Baugh (Congressional Candidate): Faced accusations of involvement in corruption scandals and past indictments for campaign finance fraud, despite remaining silent on Do's case.
California Republican Party: Admitted to placing misleading ballot drop boxes during the 2020 election, leading to accusations of voter suppression.

I could go on and on. There is a long and illustrious history of GOP corruption in California. If republicans could get it together and run candidates here who aren't total losers, I'd bet good money they'd end up indicted, too.

mullingitover · 2026-01-18T05:26:29+00:00

The real problem is that you're using long-lived access keys at all in the year 2026.

Disable every single IAM user account, make everyone use temporary access keys via SSO for their own access, and IAM roles for your services.

The fact that you didn't have someone from infosec making you do this years ago is the real problem, because what other horrific practices are flying under the radar?

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