@hyde @KevinGimbel

I remember the RaspberriPi fiasco on fedi. Their response was... bewildering and sad.

Do you remember for sure if the cop was involved with mass/public surveillance? Their copy never specified. I kinda assumed that he focused on surveilling individuals as a part of criminal investigations, while many others jumped to the conclusion that he was involved with mass/public surveillance.

Of course, RPi's response didn't help thing in the least.

P.S. Are dSLRs (non-mirrorless cameras) dead? I haven't been watching the digital camera space, and honestly haven't opened up my camera bag in years.
I'd be sad if the world were mirrorless, though. They certainly have advantages, but I adore an optical viewfinder.

@stfn @hyde @KevinGimbel

And you can get mirrorless cameras with optical viewfinders, they work just like the rangefinder cameras of yore.

* runs for the hills, screaming

There's literally two kinds of rangefinders: the kind you find on super cheap, super endearing plasticky Yashicas, and the kind you find on pretentious $6,000 Leicas.
Which is not to say that one is really all that better than the other. XD

Edit: diction

@rl_dane @stfn @KevinGimbel my XPro 2 and 3 have optical viewfinders. They're great cameras.

About the hire, my sentence was more like "specialized in surveillance in general" not really mass surveillance.

@hyde @stfn @KevinGimbel

Your wording was "population surveillance," so I read that as "mass surveillance."
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