It’s also like… When you can have anything in the world it stops having meaning. So you can realistically only crave power, and by pushing others towards shittier and more miserable lives you elevate yours - it’s the only way.

Our brains are wired to seek out efficiency, so yeah, it’s not really surprising.

Doesn’t fucking matter. It’s only a matter of time until they push for full deanonymization of everyone on the internet.

Then use KeePass(XC) and don’t put your passwords in that database. Has/does everything you want if you can survive that it can also do more.

Has support for Steam OTP codes too.

With all these internationally spanning laws lately maybe it’s time we also had some kind of framework for dispute resolution - mostly something like nations staying behind their citizens in stuff like this, telling the other coubtry tp pound sand / do it themselves.

The thing is though you could have both, at least to a degree. You could have much more transparent policing, the cameras could do processing purely locally and based on publicly accessible lists with listed reasons for why the given plates are captured, you could make it so that the only ones who do get the data are actually thr police and not thr company selling the cameras, etc.

But that’s not in the interest of Flock, or even really the powers that be. The surveillance machine needs feeding, doesn’t matter for what cost.

You know you can just use git directly, right? That’s kinda its whole point, that it’s a self-contained topl for source distribution.

You can laterally just git pull from any machine through SSH…

Iran needs a government that doesn’t suck up to the US but also treats it’s citizens well.

Indeed, and that’s not something you can force upon them from the outaide. At some point a country’s people are (at least to a degree) responsible for how their coubtry is ran and by whom.

Outside onfluence almost never works and always exploits the country in some way.

Thw issue you’ll run into is effectiveness at that small scale, so you’ll be tempted to share data with other systems like that, and eventually you’ll end up creating a different flock.

Do they use them because they’re "just there* and convenient, or do they actially like them?

And TBF I was largely referring to how poorly they’re written and performant, which you often don’t need to care about (until you do).