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The use of automatic license plate readers has exploded across the country in recent years. The cameras on roads and freeways that take images of the back of passing cars are popular with police for solving crimes.

But as President Trump's immigration enforcement crackdown has escalated in recent months, residents of various American cities are urging local leaders to stop using these cameras, citing fears of mass surveillance and concerns that local data could be aiding a federal deportation dragnet.

Many of the grassroots campaigns have targeted cameras made by Flock Safety, an Atlanta-based company that has contracts with more than 5,000 law enforcement agencies across the country. Some cities have grappled with the issue and decided to keep their cameras due to public safety, but in a number of places, the pressure has worked.

The liberal college towns of Flagstaff, Ariz., Cambridge, Mass., Eugene, Ore. and Santa Cruz, Calif., are among a list of at least 30 localities that have either deactivated their Flock cameras or canceled their contracts since the beginning of 2025 – with much of the activity happening in just the last three months.

"We are seeing a lot more momentum," said Will Freeman, a Colorado-based activist who opposes the cameras and runs the DeFlock.me website, which through crowdsourcing has mapped the locations of more than 76,000 license plate readers across the country. "I expect there to be more cities dropping Flock."

Seriously, I get curious about Conservative (specifically American Conservative) communities. About why they're so liked. About why my family praises them so much and wants me to be a Trump-worshipping Conservative. But all I find is nonsensical AI slop, insanity, and asshole behavior. Treating minorities like they're non-humans without feelings. Acting like white straight able-bodied people are superior to those who are either not white, not straight, not able-bodied, or none of the above.

They have to be a certain way in order for them to be liked, and all I find is how they claim to be peaceful people, like how my ex said, that respect others, but a conservative teen group online literally raided a safe space for queer teens.

They mostly claim to be respectful, but act like everyone is out to get them. They also complain about queer people who aren't even hurting them and whine about how trans and gay people are "mentally ill", and "Trump is the Messiah". I have yet to find a pro-gay, pro-trans, anti-racist Conservative who aligns with my values, yet I get all that from a left-leaning person.

And even some (SOME, not as much as the right-wingers/Conservatives) of the left-leaning people I know who aren't fully left think people who try to be themselves are cringe, or are just anti-autistic/ableist. But this isn't most leftists, especially the mostly left/"full" leftists.

made it so i just click file and paste YouTube url

Linux is amazing

#! /usr/bin/bash
echo "Enter a url"
read a

yt-dlp -x $a

The Interim Computer Museum (ICM) and SDF.org have made 28 vintage computer systems accessible online for free. There’s a plethora of old but gold - some legendary - systems available, so your visit should be like entering a living museum of computing.

All you have to do is point your browser at connect.sdf.org and login by typing ‘menu’ to gain guest access to the systems. Typing ‘1’ toggles between pages, revealing the full 28 choices.

In a cautionary tale of agentic AI, AWS reportedly suffered service outages caused by its own AI coding tools in December - though the company insists the downtime was ultimately due to human error.

Amazon's cloud platform suffered a 13-hour disruption affecting one service after resident engineers allowed Kiro to make changes, according to four sources who spoke to the Financial Times.

Claudia Sheinbaum is my president.

Russia’s tactical advantage is eroding. And the balance of material power is shifting toward Kyiv and Brussels, not Moscow.

Na toll, die Bahn wechselt ihren Standard Browser. Ich habe das vor dem Stichtag ausprobiert und ein ~~Bug~~ Käfer in der ~~Webapp~~ Netzanwendung, die die Sonderzüge darstellt, gefunden, gemeldet und nur ein lapidares 'Ist bekannt' erhalten. Nun ist ~~Edge~~ Ecke seit 2 Wochen der neue Browser und der Käfer wurde nicht behoben.

The film Traces tells the testimonies of Ukrainians who survived sexual violence during Russia's aggression. It gives voice to those who refuse to remain silent and demands justice.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/43460008

Abdellatif Hafraoui sits at a small dining table in the Bayonne apartment he shares with his wife, Sandra, sipping his morning coffee — a ritual unchanged over their 15 years of marriage.

Since August, however, that routine has been shadowed by months in ICE detention and the black ankle monitor now strapped around his leg.

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The arrest forced Sandra to reconsider assumptions she had long held about immigration enforcement. “To think we were MAGA!,” Sandra proclaimed. The couple even attended a Trump rally in Las Vegas in 2020.

Sandra voted for Trump three times, believing enforcement would focus on people with criminal records — not individuals like her husband.

Asked what she would say to him now, she paused. “You said you were going after the worst of the worst, but instead you ruined our life,” she said.

I'm guessing they lowered the price between me adding it to my watchlist and me seeing the offer, but it still made me chuckle