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CircuitSeuss··on Every new car sold in the European Union must include a driver monitoring camera
Driver monitoring systems will be required in all 2027 vehicles in the US as well.

https://www.gadgetreview.com/federal-surveillance-tech-becom...

CircuitSeuss··on GAO: DOE Is Prematurely Excluding Less Expensive Options for Nuclear Cleanup
Tangential:

https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/07/nuclear-regulatory-c...

CircuitSeuss··on Organic Maps
Sorta. It’s still worse than proprietary solutions: in reality when on wilderness backroads (US and CA) I find myself juggling four apps at a time. CoMaps for course tracking, offline apple or google maps for navigation and satellite, Gia or All Trails for accurate topo and trails (even though I hate having to use it), and an ArcGIS app for information like additional land ownership or historic data. It’s frustrating juggling apps, but the lack of accurate (or sometime any) topo or additional map layers in CoMaps is the most galling. I’ve tried finding springs with OSM but I find i still have to verify on findaspring.org. Would be great to have am OSM based app that did it all, but that seems unrealistic given a) the horrible data accuracy and OSM’s (entirely understandable) unwillingness to pirate and consolidate large proprietary data sets from multiple competitors b) unpaid developer hours needed to create and maintain an accessible user friendly and modern UX that can compete with premier apps.
CircuitSeuss··on Organic Maps
Cool; but this is one of those instances where I wish the wonderful and benevolent FOSS developers of the world would consolidate efforts behind existing projects to make fewer better things instead of many never-finished forks. Especially since there is not yet a single open source map ui that is polished enough to compete with enterprise maps.
CircuitSeuss··on Organic Maps
Unfortunately I have yet to find an OSM app that offers a properly usable modern interface. Most are passable if you are a nerd who doesn’t mind being inconvenienced and can work around the quirks; my non techy friends open the app once and immediately delete it. We really need an Apple or Google maps clone.
CircuitSeuss··on Flock cameras track more than your license plate, and they're spreading fast
Imagine if your neighbor walked past your house every day and recorded your property with their phone camera. Imagine thirty strangers did that every day. Imagine being unable to walk more than two blocks out of your neighborhood before passing a random stranger standing up in a crows-nest on a telephone pole with a zoom lens camera photographing you and your kids and taking notes so they could sell your behavioral data to law enforcement and advertising agencies. Imagine several hundred strangers concurrently following you around your grocery store and silently monitoring your shopping habits. It’s okay though, these are public spaces, and you shouldn't expect to have power of consent over who is watching you.
CircuitSeuss··on Flock cameras track more than your license plate, and they're spreading fast
Seeing commenters defending privatized mass surveillance tech in 2026 is crazy.
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