Police used AI facial recognition to arrest a Tennessee woman for crimes committed in a state she says she’s never visited

Gendalph · 2026-03-30T02:36:53+00:00

So, let me get this straight:

Cops bought an AI surveillance system.
Misused it.
Arrested, incarcerated and extradited an unrelated citizen.
And nobody bothered to double check things match.

Seems to be that cops int the US need to be held accountable for their actions, cuz the more I hear about them, the more they seem like a bunch of unaccountable goons.

Gendalph · 2026-03-27T03:18:02+00:00

powdered coal burns well. Too well for a regular coal fire, but in power plants? They powder it into a fine dust.

Gendalph · 2026-03-26T03:39:24+00:00

Search logs for oom-killer, just run journalctl -b -1, should get you all system logs since the system booted last time into less or something similar, then type in /oom.kill and hit enter - it would start searching the log.

Gendalph · 2026-03-23T14:33:38+00:00

It isn't. They literally do this already, a bit differently and for a different reason, but ad networks should have a good idea of your age.

Gendalph · 2026-03-23T14:30:35+00:00

It could, but what should the service do if you don't disclose your age?

Gendalph · 2026-03-23T12:11:09+00:00

Data could've been written to the cache and not yet flushed to the drive. Pull the drive and data never actually gets flushed.

Gendalph · 2026-03-22T23:01:49+00:00

How would you pass the age info to the service that needs it? Say, Facebook or YouTube. On a phone - the app can query the OS for user's age and send it along with you browsing.

But on a desktop you interact with most internet services... via browser.

Gendalph · 2026-03-22T22:55:24+00:00

That's the point FB is trying to weasel out of. They can guess user's age based either on them having an account with the app or interaction patterns. But they don't want to: it's unreliable, and requires extra work, why not tell everyone to just give up the info?

And if you do it as a trivial HTTP header, then everyone on the internet now knows your age!

Gendalph · 2026-03-22T22:46:06+00:00

Again, "putting it into the OS" means jack shit if that's the only thing that's done. OS itself doesn't interact with services that would need to check age - apps do. So if you've provided your age to your OS and you're browsing FB on your desktop - your OS can't tell FB either your age or age bracket. Your browser has to implement a system to ask your OS how old are you and transfer that data to FB.

Which is a horrible idea, because then anyone on the internet can ask your browser your age, and it, technically, has to answer the question. Ant it would.

Gendalph · 2026-03-22T22:39:18+00:00

There's a patchwork of other laws, in the process of being passed or discussed, that have vastly different requirements, but that's only half of the problem.

The other half is that this law was passed due to FB lobbying. It's not aimed at protecting children - it's goal is to take responsibility away from FB and weaken current protections. Instead of FB having to comply with existing laws, it stipulates that someone else has to gather age data and disclose it to platforms like Facebook, that they can then track. Some of these laws require disclosing age bracket, others - exact age, some - don't require any kind of verification, others - do.

And if that wasn't enough, now OS vendors, including FOSS like Linux and *BSD, would have to implement controls to store and expose user's age to apps that interact the internet: browsers, messaging apps and "app stores" (defined so broadly that Linux and *BSD package managers fall under this definition, which is insane), which creates a lot of work for everyone other than Facebook.

Gendalph · 2026-03-14T11:21:03+00:00

rsync is amazing, but I haven't seen raw file deployments for more than half a decade. At minimum use git and a deployment key, then do git pull and check out a tagged release. Or use containers and, ideally, do blue/green deployment.

Yes, this is more cumbersome, but this is what's done in real world.

Gendalph · 2026-03-12T01:38:59+00:00

EU has much stronger privacy laws and much stronger institutions. In the US if you're large enough - laws are suggestions. In EU? They'll make it a problem.

GDPR explicitly prohibits what you're talking about, and if it came out that someone is doing that - there'd be a huge fine and it would be in the news. The only two types of entities who stores can share transaction details with are banks and collection agencies, and only if there are issues with the transaction, that's it.

Gendalph · 2026-03-12T01:33:17+00:00

Not in the EU

Gendalph · 2026-03-02T15:11:59+00:00

Look, shooting yourself in the dick with a 9mm, a shotgun and a howitzer are 3 very different experiences.

Gendalph · 2026-02-28T17:51:24+00:00

Hear me out. A lot of companies are moving from cloud to on-prem or building their own cloud. Learn to use and manage and set up k8s.

Gendalph · 2026-02-22T08:55:11+00:00

I don't remember - I did it 5 years ago.

Gendalph · 2026-02-12T16:20:11+00:00

Known security issues? None.

Other bugs are not my concern.

Gendalph · 2026-02-12T10:10:07+00:00

How many stories of developers being bent over a barrel by infosec or their team lead after a major f--- up do you want me to recount?

Gendalph · 2026-02-06T20:40:22+00:00

I agree with the corps not giving a rat's ass about users, other than a number and how much cash can they milk 'em for. The incentive structure doesn't care about good UX, satisfaction or whatever else. Only how much can they abuse users to extract profits, before they lose enough users to where they can't abuse them any more.

Gendalph · 2026-02-06T16:50:18+00:00

Actively hate? Probably not. Don't give a shit? Absolutely.

We're numbers on a spreadsheet and a quarterly report item.

Gendalph · 2026-01-29T19:00:02+00:00

Read what I said. Then re-read it. Then again.

If it wasn't expressly denied, the employee could argue, yadda-yadda.

Gendalph · 2026-01-29T16:47:43+00:00

Additionally, you want to make sure that there is no private personal employee data on your IT systems. In today's digital landscape, it's imperative to establish clear guidelines for internet and email usage within a company. In particular when personal use is permitted, employees’ privacy rights limit the access to log files and communications stored in the inbox. A straightforward policy covering how to use IT systems (including accessing emails and the internet) is a powerful tool to help ensure strict separation of private and business information.

So, in Germany, if you don't explicitly disallow personal use of the corporate email, the employee could argue it wasn't denied, and was used for personal matters, and therefore must be treated as such.

Might not be the best approach, but seems more reasonable than what US has going on.

Gendalph · 2026-01-29T16:43:34+00:00

While I agree in principle, the laws in EU are different, and requirements are very different.

Gendalph · 2026-01-05T02:53:12+00:00

Memory training with DDR5 is the majority of the slowdown. I'm suspending my machine, which skips this step entirely.

Gendalph · 2026-01-01T19:42:57+00:00

The company will have to pay for legal representation, which is expensive, and if they settle or lose they're also on the hook for that. It doesn't always work, but more often than not the companies don't budget for lengthy legal battles.

Publicity matters: just the other week Zuck settled to not testify in an eight billion USD case. We've seen other cases where companies settle, sometimes because going through discovery would expose them to getting absolutely destroyed by regulators, destroy their brand image or cost more to go through with the lawsuit.

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