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A look at security flaws, police misuse, and other concerns over the 100K AI-enabled automated license plate readers installed across the US, mostly from Flock (Max Miller/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/2203000/flock-cameras-recording-license-plate/

Flock cameras track more than your license plate, and they're spreading fast - Engadget
Mounting privacy and security issues have residents and activists concerned.

So, I'm (as often is the case) looking at social media - mostly dominated by the looming election in Aotearoa NZ. The main sentiment seems to be a handwringing: "Oh won't someone think of the poor hard-done-by rich folks!" They reckon they're being demonised and their hired political parties are using their donations to kick up a big stink in the algorithm (on those shitty platforms that let you buy exposure).

RE: https://front-end.social/@kolombiken/117173776684719994
Hobbies are found primarily in Europe, Asia and Africa.
Unlike Kestrels, Hobbies are mostly unable to hover.
Constantly on the move, they grab smaller prey,
such as dragonf…

50 years ago tonight, the grateful dead in #syracuse with a pretty classic 2nd set jam. fall ’76, show #5.
mostly now on “dick’s picks 20”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oy7jisOTy

Reformatted the list of scientific publications based (in part) on use of The vOICe vision BCI: now mostly APA style where DOI is known https://artificialvision.com/literature.htm

The science behind The vOICe vision BCI
Scientific publications based on use of The vOICe.

Black phoebe, Sayornis nigricans, surveying the cricket field at Woodley Park, Sepulveda Basin
#naturalist #wildlife #bird

"A useful general definition of intelligence is the ability to achieve complex goals by flexible means.
...
Consciousness, in contrast to intelligence, is mostly about being."
https://www.noemamag.com/the-mythology-of-conscious-ai/

The Mythology Of Conscious AI
Why consciousness is more likely a property of life than of computation and why creating conscious, or even conscious-seeming AI, is a bad idea.

🥳 Auto Encrypt Localhost version 11.0.0 released
This is mostly a bug fix, code quality, and modernisation release.
Auto Encrypt Localhost automatically provisions and installs locally-trusted TLS certificates for Node.js https servers in 100% JavaScript (without any native dependencies like mkcert and certutil).
https://

auto-encrypt-localhost
Automatically provisions and installs locally-trusted TLS certificates for Node.js https servers in 100% JavaScript (without any native dependencies like mkcert and certutil).

euroroad: Euroroad network (2011)
A network of international "E-roads," mostly in Europe. Vertices represent cities and edges represents roads. Metadata includes names of cities.
This network has 1174 nodes and 1417 edges.
Tags: Transportation, Roads, Unweighted, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.de/net/euroroa…

Hardening WP sites (I've had a couple compromised recently - mopping up is painful) is a minefield of slop proprietary plugin BS - sifting the wheat from the chaff is hard going. Anyone know of any good tips that aren't trying to sell me something?
Fwiw, the sites I'm running are mostly for friends, and a few consulting customers, but I've already taken lots of steps to secure them, but there seem to be some undisclosed or zero day bugs being exploited.