My car got broken into last year. My neighbor was the one who yelled to chase the person off. I was so grateful that I baked him cookies instead of turning my entire neighborhood into a mini-surveillance state with weird fear camera.
I discovered the Rockwell song in a backwards way. WBCN in Boston would play an imitation version that was "I always feel like I'm riding on the T" and then give some information about a subway delay or whatever. I remember hearing Rockwell many years later and thinking "Oh....I had no idea." I just thought it was one of their catchy bits.
I have a Ring camera with motion sensor floodlights I set up a few years ago above my garage door. Changed phones and can no longer access my account on the app... Ring wants me to send them scans of my ID to regain access to my account. Yeah, fuck that, account is long expired.
So I've covered the camera and left the floodlights to trigger when I walk through the back yard. No surreptious footage for those fuckers.
We bought a bird feeder for a fellow birder friend that has an excellent camera on it. She’s sending pictures of birds we’ve not yet seen like a Saw-Whet owl and tricolor blackbird. My husband wanted to get another ring camera. For obvious reasons I downvoted that. Any who who. The optics on the feeder are far more superior. If they want to observe our house via Ring all they’re gonna get is bears and the occasional mt. lion along with deers, foxes, skunks and stray dogs. Plus old people walking around in various states of undress. Enjoy our saggy butts overlords!
A reminder that the surveillance cameras in 1984 started out as luxury products.
We're going to have destroy the data centers
You think you've private lives, think nothing of the kind
There is no true escape, I'm watching all the time
I'm made of metal
My circuits gleam
I am perpetual
I keep the country clean
- Electric Eye (1982), Judas Priest
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=V_M6lccMzek
Click link to read post about creepy lawless surveillance and get: "sign in or create an account to read". uhm ... no.
Thinking, "Well, they won't go after me because they have so much data," isn't very comforting.
Don't use Gmail. If you have an Android phone, log out of Google, and don't let them "back up" your phone. Use the Vivaldi browser and Duckduckgo.
Um none of those are email services. If you want security try Proton Mail.
"We are currently clean on OPSEC" - HicSeth
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71HisnkDEIL.jpg
Sadly, it's becoming well-nigh impossible to avoid Big G.
The non-profit educational group I belong to (the SCA) likes doing all its online business via GMail.....
That's a very fancy way to say that you dress up in medieval garb and smack each other with sticks in the woods. 🙂
All our cameras are dummies. The microphones however...
My car got broken into last year. My neighbor was the one who yelled to chase the person off. I was so grateful that I baked him cookies instead of turning my entire neighborhood into a mini-surveillance state with weird fear camera.
Know your neighbors. Fuck a spycam.
"End the Resistance."
Why do I hear this in a Darth Vader voice?
Him or Sheev Palpatine.
I discovered the Rockwell song in a backwards way. WBCN in Boston would play an imitation version that was "I always feel like I'm riding on the T" and then give some information about a subway delay or whatever. I remember hearing Rockwell many years later and thinking "Oh....I had no idea." I just thought it was one of their catchy bits.
WOW! WBCN. That brings back some memories.
This Smothers Brothers show opener from 50 years ago is eerily up-to-date: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmD2nNSCcaE
The only off-note was when the convicted felon at the end didn't announce his candidacy for public office. (Probably sounded too absurd back then.)
I have a Ring camera with motion sensor floodlights I set up a few years ago above my garage door. Changed phones and can no longer access my account on the app... Ring wants me to send them scans of my ID to regain access to my account. Yeah, fuck that, account is long expired.
So I've covered the camera and left the floodlights to trigger when I walk through the back yard. No surreptious footage for those fuckers.
Thanks Pedo!
Retail sales unchanged in December from November, closing out year on a lackluster tone
Lackluster tone, kinda like his skin.
a good sanding and a power buffer could fix that!
We bought a bird feeder for a fellow birder friend that has an excellent camera on it. She’s sending pictures of birds we’ve not yet seen like a Saw-Whet owl and tricolor blackbird. My husband wanted to get another ring camera. For obvious reasons I downvoted that. Any who who. The optics on the feeder are far more superior. If they want to observe our house via Ring all they’re gonna get is bears and the occasional mt. lion along with deers, foxes, skunks and stray dogs. Plus old people walking around in various states of undress. Enjoy our saggy butts overlords!