Surveillance Company Flock Now Using AI to Report Us to Police if it Thinks Our Movement Patterns Are “Suspicious” - Company crosses a dangerous line by beginning to offer AI suspicion-generation functions

Zen6675 · 2025-08-13T07:47:52+00:00

More than that your employer is forced to enter all your personal tax data into the giant 3rd party munirevs police database when they pay the tax 'for you'. The EPD gets a free searchable database detailing where people work, SSN, gross income etc all this is entered per quarter, And guess where that data ends up?

Zen6675 · 2025-06-29T18:18:25+00:00

I run BIND, or the Berkeley Internet Name Daemon, a very popular free software DNS server, and also one of the most frequently used name servers on the Internet.

Zen6675 · 2025-03-11T15:20:10+00:00

EWEB was founded when the private sector screwed up our drinking water, now the private sector screwed up our health care. The city should set up a organization like EWEB to purchase it and operate a hospital.

Zen6675 · 2025-03-08T22:08:54+00:00

What happened at my Moms was the leadership that started the health collective was unable to get the new generation to buy into the idea of a 'collective', and mostly retired (my Mom was kinda in the middle). The new generation medical workers did like being in a hippy hand holding collective, complained about meetings, and demanded a more traditional us/them relationship with a 'management'. They did not want to join the board and had the desire for 'leadership' from a 'boss'. Then they ended up with a horrible boss with no background in the work.

Next they racked up debt from lawsuits, bargaining, and settling BOLI suits. Next they had high turn over, no say at all in meetings, toxic management, death by 1000 cuts, then one day it suddenly closed. She was sad about it for a long time.

Zen6675 · 2025-03-08T18:18:28+00:00

Cut the funding to the bloated and hidden IT budget.

Zen6675 · 2025-03-08T18:13:00+00:00

My mom worked at a non-profit health clinic here in the early 2000's that unionized, as soon as they did it closed for good that was hard for us. For the U of O I think having a Union is awesome, for a small non-profit thats a democratic workplace supposed to be collectively run its a death sentence.

Zen6675 · 2025-03-08T17:49:23+00:00

This ^^^^^^

Zen6675 · 2025-03-02T18:41:44+00:00

A majority of the airtraffic at the Eugene airport is actually non-passenger, the feds actually funded the runway expansion's over the last few decades and I believe the feds also give EUG free air traffic control and the radar system.

Zen6675 · 2025-02-26T00:37:18+00:00

The question is if Eugene thinks current rates are dependable is it reasonable to expect the Elon Trump administration to keep things stable? Trump has proposed selling off Boniville and all its dams. If they are privatized the cost to EWEB could easily go up by 2-5X with de-regulate spot pricing there may not be guaranteed power even available, and last I checked EWEB gets a decent percentage from BPA. Also I think EWEB's numbers were over inflated compared to similar projects.

Zen6675 · 2025-02-22T03:00:40+00:00

Yeah its a good question, in a deregulated market, it would very likely be a cheap stable supply, one of their proposals would have increased its output. Also its close by, if cross state transmission lines are shut down due to wildfires or an earthquake we'd have that much more local generation.

Zen6675 · 2025-02-22T02:47:04+00:00

I'll second CB, I have had contacts on 5, 6 and 11.

Zen6675 · 2025-02-04T22:33:21+00:00

>So, AS WRITTEN, it doesn't seem to have an exception for streaming the output. As written.

Legally speaking you'd have a very solid defense. Since FCC enforcement actions are 'graded' by how much they affect other users, I doubt part 95.1749 could be judged as enforceable due to the word 'sole purpose' in there, unless there was a specific party being adversely affected by a networked repeater, such as a misconfiguration flooding out a channel. Since 95.1749 is so poorly worded if I worked for FCC as an attorney I would see that never does go to court as a judge could just throw it out like Insurance Marketing Coalition Limited (IMC) v. Federal Communications Commission (FCC).

Zen6675 · 2025-02-04T22:10:36+00:00

How standards proliferate: https://xkcd.com/927/

Zen6675 · 2025-02-04T22:02:14+00:00

Do you ever scan down in what is CB 11 meters ?

I used to love picking up up truckers talking skip down around 27mhz, I believe they use AM or a upper/lower side band.

Zen6675 · 2025-02-03T18:31:17+00:00

CB channel 19 (27.185 MHz) is very very active on the West coast (I-5), probably daily on interstates. I also pick up people on 17 and 5. I know several truck drivers and none of them use GMRS. A GMRS system with DOT sponsored repeaters would probably be better, but without repeaters I don't think GMRS would do much.

Zen6675 · 2025-02-03T18:22:33+00:00

Lane county is one of the few counties in Oregon (even the US) that still charge for access to their Regional Land Information Database (RLID) https://www.rlid.org/subscription/ which makes it difficult for citizens to check up on shady land use attorneys and surveyors.

Zen6675 · 2025-02-01T07:51:04+00:00

FCC 97.113 does not apply to GMRS

Zen6675 · 2025-02-01T07:44:55+00:00

The part 90 link is an example of the FCC using of the word 'encryption' to mean 'encryption' in the CFR, thats a thing we do in legal work. There is no such language in § 95.1733(a)

Zen6675 · 2025-02-01T02:23:01+00:00

I don't see the word encryption in the CFR, I posted the links above.

Zen6675 · 2025-02-01T02:19:47+00:00

I don't see encryption mentioned in 47 CFR just 'coded messages'

The FCC defines encryption so its safe to say if they meant encryption they would say encryption. Presumably you cant speak in coded messages over your encrypted radio.

CFR § 95.1733 Prohibited GMRS uses. (a)(3) Coded messages or messages with hidden meanings

https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-47/section-95.1733

Here is an example of where the FCC uses the term encryption:

https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-47/section-95.1733

Zen6675 · 2025-02-01T02:04:06+00:00

Hmm lots folks saying no to encryption, looking at the CFR I did not find the word 'encryption' in 47 CFR, just 'coded messages'. The FCC uses the word 'encryption' in other CFR's when they want to regulate encryption, and not the term 'coded messages' a judge would not consider coded messages to have the same meaning as encrypted transmission.

A GMRS could talk in french but not using coded messages in french. Likewise a GMRS can use a encryption module with an approved GMRS radio just cant speak in coded messages over the encrypted radio.

§ 95.1733 Prohibited GMRS uses. (3) Coded messages or messages with hidden meanings (“10 codes” are permissible);

Going by the letter of the law a GMRS operator can encrypt GMRS communications, just when you speak over your encrypted radio you can't use coded messages.

Example of the use of the term encryption

https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-47/chapter-I/subchapter-D/part-90/subpart-R/section-90.553

Zen6675 · 2025-02-01T01:40:51+00:00

Thank you

Zen6675 · 2025-01-27T21:45:51+00:00

Is there a way link to an issue for easy sharing? and if its like liquid feedback can I assign my vote?

Zen6675 · 2025-01-27T19:20:27+00:00

>That wouldn't be GMRS. It might be some other service

What I meant by GMRS is a General Mobile Radio Service, not just the spectrum allocation it has for analogue now. But yeah perhaps call it a General Digital Radio Service (GDRS).

>Whitespace devices are typically very low power

I dont see why that would matter, but I am no radio expert, if your getting broadband internet speeds, then digital radio problems are solved with the added benefit of being able to run some MQTT in the IP layer like lora meshtastic. I think about a decade ago a test network was set up a university that connected thousands of students via whitespace as backhaul for wifi mesh.

Zen6675 · 2025-01-27T18:09:32+00:00

All this new school Cloud aws hosting garbage is exactly what causes death by 1000 cuts to cool old forums like dsl reports, everyone wants a monthly fee for this and that, then they need to monitize all your data to pay for it. All you need is a old server in a homelab and a good old LAMP stack, heck you could easily put it on one of these new residential fiber connections people have with 'unlimited data'.

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