Facebook ban on discussing Linux?(distrowatch.com)

746 points by rogerthis 1 year ago | 335 comments

DistroWatch Weekly issue of January 27, 2025, whose site news section reports on Facebook blocking or banning posts that discuss Linux.

The Muscular Compassion of "Paper Girl"(newyorker.com)

14 points by mitchbob 1 year ago | 6 comments

Performance: Adventures in Thread-per-Core Async with Redpanda and Seastar(infoq.com)

67 points by rbanffy 2 years ago | 10 comments

A QR code that sends you to a different destination – lenticular and adversarial(mstdn.social)

512 points by zdw 1 year ago | 71 comments

A Mastodon post showing a QR code that resolves to different destinations depending on viewing angle or scanner, using lenticular and adversarial techniques.

The Supreme Court Made Just About Everyone Happy for Once(motherjones.com)

50 points by jawns 3 years ago | 53 comments

Cannabis users face substantially higher risk of heart attack (2025)(acc.org)

137 points by RickJWagner 3 months ago | 188 comments

Cities Are Forced to Funnel License Plate Data to a Federal Surveillance Program(404media.co)

64 points by ripe 25 days ago | 15 comments

404 Media article on how cities are required to share automated license plate reader data with the federal HIDTA surveillance program.

License plate reader searches should require a warrant(andrewpwheeler.com)

573 points by apwheele 2 months ago | 341 comments

Blog post by criminologist Andrew Wheeler arguing that searches of license plate reader data should require a warrant, citing his expert work in Schmidt v. City of Norfolk.

Flock Exposed Its AI-Powered Cameras to the Internet. We Tracked Ourselves(404media.co)

737 points by chaps 10 months ago | 448 comments

404 Media article reporting that Flock's AI-powered surveillance cameras were exposed to the internet, letting reporters track themselves through the feeds.

Flock Wants the Most Detailed Map of Its Surveillance Cameras Taken Offline(theintercept.com)

134 points by bookofjoe 28 days ago | 59 comments

The Intercept article reporting that Flock Safety wants a detailed public map of its surveillance camera network taken offline.

Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs(stolen-thoughts.com)

665 points by quantumgarbage 2 months ago | 295 comments

Project page for a research paper on extracting hidden reasoning traces from proprietary LLM APIs, by authors from MATS, ELLIS, Max Planck and Tübingen.

California law enforcement misused state databases more than 7k times in 2023(eff.org)

520 points by hn_acker 1 year ago | 261 comments

EFF Deeplinks article reporting that California law enforcement agencies misused state databases more than 7,000 times in 2023.