Pretty much, yeah https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempora

It’s because Apple products are instantly recognizable but the logo gets covered up in media for legal reasons. A big BBC sticker on the back of a macbook just makes it even more obvious that it’s a macbook because it draws the eye to it and often the light bleeds through the thin stickers anyway

It is! There’s community-decided standards for how to tag most of these things: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:man_made%3Dsurveillance

A more generalised map of CCTV can be found here with data crowdsourced by people like you on OpenStreetMap.

If you’d like to help map our world, the app StreetComplete is a wonderful place to start (think Pokémon GO but actually beneficial for the world)

He’s literally said that people “won’t have to worry about voting” once he’s in power. Sounds like a direct threat to democracy, no?

If only one could move old posts etc over to a new account and truly migrate servers on Mastodon

wtf is a Menards

I don’t know what platform you’re using but for desktop linux I use Nerd Dictation and for android I use FUTO Keyboard, both are completely offline and FOSS.

Surely a “friendly state” wouldn’t, on several occasions, purposefully bomb evacuating civilians or UN health workers or starve civilians? Also, friendly state is an oxymoron.

Teardown has wonderful raytracing but again they’re not going for photo realism

Hundred Rabbits is a two person collective living aboard a boat, planning for the collapse of modern technology and how we will rebuild it. They have a wonderful knowledge base about off-grid living and you can view it offline with Kiwix, a wiki reader designed for situations without internet. You can download Wikipedia, medical articles, stackexchange forums etc

• Pride (2014)
• if we’re doing TV, which I don’t think we are, then The Prisoner

I was looking at ISPs yesterday as my current contract ran out so they’re taking the opportunity to wring me for all my money. One place I looked at has a regular price and “members price” for every plan. I go to see what a membership entails and it points me to download an app. No clue if the membership is free or not because I don’t want or need an app for every utility and purchase I make. People like you and I are not the norm but from my viewpoint you’re being reasonable and the world has lost all sense of normalcy and reason.

I think you’d appreciate The Prisoner. One of the core themes of that show is the misuse of technology by the ruling class

My parents got an EV recently and whenever you start it up you have to hit OK to a data collection thing on the touch screen before it let’s you drive off 🥴

To avoid these things I use uBlock Origin and Consent-O-Matic

Have you heard this Everlong and What You Won’t Do for Love live looping mashup? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gl9GtO_vQxw

Sometimes if I’m stressed I play guitar and something I quite often play is Time After Time!

The way I look at it, if Elon Musk is gonna deadname his own child, I’m sure as shit gonna deadname the corporation he tanked

Lots of these games were designed on and for CRT screens and they look worse on a modern one without filtering.