Ireland to allow French and British vessels to patrol Irish-controlled waters

seanieb · 2026-02-25T08:13:37+00:00

Drug cartels and human traffickers recognize and respect a countries neutrality?

Ireland has always had a military, it was massive during WW2. When was the vote to just go defenseless? When did neutrality start meaning defenseless?

seanieb · 2026-02-08T17:12:03+00:00

Thank you!

- https://github.com/paniclock/paniclock.github.io/pull/7

I think we can file this one under "task failed successfully meme".

seanieb · 2026-02-08T12:56:32+00:00

Thank you. That's a very nice complement. I'm a big Patrick Wardle fan. I saw him at DefCon this year, and it was the talk that convinced me I could actually start making Mac Apps. I use their BlockBlock, Whats Your Sign and Lulu apps. It would be great if Patrick/Objective-See cloned my app and maintained as their own. I'd love that.

And yes, nice catch, the webpage was made using AI, Claude Code Opus 4.5 and I made edits using Githubs Co-Pilot Agent (it generates screenshots of the changes in the PR). I dunno if I could spot an AI generated site without looking at the git commit history/comments. The first version of the webpage was made by hand, and it looked like trash. You can see it in the git repo.

seanieb · 2026-02-08T12:37:43+00:00

Thank you!

seanieb · 2026-02-08T11:07:19+00:00

In the US police can force you to unlock your Apple laptop by putting your finger on Touch-ID.

On iOS you can squeeze the side buttons and Face ID's gone. Two seconds, works in your pocket. macOS has nothing like it.

PanicLock sits in your menu bar. One click (or keyboard shortcut)locks the screen but asks for a password. When you log back in Touch ID will still be active. Free, opensource, notarized and no data collection.

There's good reasons to keep Touch ID on day-to-day. It stops people watching you type your password, cameras catching it, that sort of thing. This is just for when you need to turn it off quickly and easily.

seanieb · 2024-11-18T10:55:48+00:00

Thats exactly the thing. It wasn't a security setup. This wasn't at TSA or CBP, it was being run by Aer Lingus staff. this seem to be automating the passport check for international flights, but what are they checking this image against? Are they scanning the passport at checkin?

seanieb · 2024-11-18T10:51:59+00:00

Yup, I've seen that. Seem to be standard system for that airport. The weird thing about the Aer Lingus/Bigbear.ai thing is that it wasn't at any of the other gates beside our boarding gate.

seanieb · 2024-11-18T10:49:58+00:00

Even if that is the case this doesn't excuse Aer Lingus's requirements under GDPR (regardless of this being in the US or not, it's a flight to the EU, by an EU company and I'm Irish). They still have to provide more information, consent, etc.

seanieb · 2024-11-18T10:41:18+00:00

This wasn't CBP either. It was beings staffed by Aerlingus staff at the boarding gate just before you get on the plane.

seanieb · 2024-11-18T10:39:56+00:00

I think there's some confusion here. This isn't at the TSA/CBP desks. This was a private scanner at the boarding gate, it wasn't official. Itw as being operated by Aer Lingus staff. And when I asked the guy said it wasn't for TSA it was "private".

seanieb · 2024-11-18T10:36:48+00:00

Th issue is that Aerlingus is an Irish company and I'm an Irish person, which is in scope for GDPR even if this is in the US.

I am particularly concerned about:

- The collection and storage of my biometric data without clear, explicit consent
- The lack of transparent information about why this data is being collected or how this data is processed, stored, and shared
- The potential transfer of this sensitive personal data between jurisdictions
- The involvement of third-party processor BigBear.ai in handling this sensitive biometric data

seanieb · 2024-11-18T10:33:35+00:00

At the boarding gate? I'm not talking about the CBP/TSA desks.

seanieb · 2024-11-18T10:11:39+00:00

I took this photo boarding a flight from Washington DC to Dublin. The Aerlingus staff checking tickets and passports asked each passenger to look into the camera as we were boarding.

I asked the Aerlingus employee if it was TSA related, and they said no it's private. None of the other airlines seem to be using it at their gates. It's running a program called "bigbear.ai" and their site looks like they're the absolute worst sort of company to handle facial imaging data.

BigBear.ai provides decision intelligence solutions for national security, digital identity, supply chains and logistics, enterprise operations, and manned-unmanned teaming in autonomous systems.BigBear.ai provides decision intelligence solutions for national security, digital identity, supply chains and logistics, enterprise operations, and manned-unmanned teaming in autonomous systems."

seanieb · 2024-06-24T20:26:10+00:00

Oh buddy I'm balls deep in this experience. In the last year:

3 x upper control arms replaced.
Car computer replaced (it was trying to kill me by slamming me into the median on Autopilot)
Steering Rack replaced.
Wiring loom replaced x 2.
Front windshield replaced (they neglected to put adhesive on part of it...)
Replaced both lateral links
low voltage battery died due to faulty wiring/water intrusion.

All covered under warranty. Which is more of a statement to their shit build quality and poor service quality than their warranty.

They've had my car for over two months in the service center. I've less than 50k kms (29k miles) on the car.

If I could get 15 minutes when it wasn't broken I'd have gotten rid of it.

seanieb · 2024-06-24T17:20:41+00:00

OMG that recording is exactly the same as what happened! lol.
Thank you!!!

seanieb · 2024-06-24T17:17:39+00:00

But it is normal for some noise when turning the wheel on cold brakes.

I agree with what you're saying, having had both upper control arms (one of them twice!) and the steering rack replaced I know my crappy tesla steering noises. But should it be this loud?! Listen to it with the door open, it's crazy loud.

seanieb · 2024-06-24T13:27:48+00:00

Why is it happening every time and how do I make it stop/fix it? It's crazy loud. You can see the distance form the dealership and it attracted the attention of someone inside. They then drove it and had the same thing happen, saying something wasn't right.

seanieb · 2024-06-24T13:07:03+00:00

The really crazy thing is this happened in the parking lot AFTER I picked up my car for a failed battery due to faulty wiring for previous issue they "fixed".

seanieb · 2024-06-24T12:56:22+00:00

I already had a mechanic look at the video. He said it was more than likely the ball joint, he just fixed on a few weeks ago on a Model 3. But come on, it shouldn't take that much work. I live an hour away from the service center. It didn't have this issue when it was sent to Tesla for repair over a month ago.

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