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This bodycam video shows the aftermath of a wrongful arrest where police relied heavily on an AI facial recognition match, leading to an innocent man being taken into custody. The clip highlights not just a specific incident, but a broader problem with emerging policing tools that can produce false positives with serious consequences.

I think banning IPs is a treadmill you never really get off of. Between cloud providers, VPNs, CGNAT, and botnets, you spend more time whack-a-moling than actually stopping abuse. What’s worked better for me is tarpitting or just confusing the hell out of scrapers so they waste their own resources.

There’s a great talk on this: Defense by numbers: Making Problems for Script Kiddies and Scanner Monkeys https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9Kxas65f7A

What I’d really love to see - but probably never will—is companies joining forces to share data or support open projects like Common Crawl. That would raise the floor for everyone. But, you know… capitalism, so instead we all reinvent the wheel in our own silos.

Meshtastic is fun but limited—more of a radio chat app than real mesh infrastructure. If you're serious about decentralized comms, check out Reticulum: https://reticulum.network

It’s not limited to LoRa—Reticulum works over IP, serial, packet radio, or whatever you have. Delay-tolerant, multi-hop, encrypted, no servers needed. Still lots of work to do and apps to build, but the foundation is solid.

Great talk from EH22: https://media.ccc.de/v/eh22-97-eggceptional-meshnetworking

Presentations and transcripts of the 2nd Workshop on Research and Development for the Development of the Copernicus EU Security Service, organized by the European Commission on 12/12/2023 in the framework of the Strategic Research Agenda and hosted by EMSA.

Requested via german POI plattform fragdenstaat.de.

Full request can be found here: https://fragdenstaat.de/anfrage/dokumente-des-2-workshops-ue...

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... that also worked out pretty well in the 1930s for all the jewish people trying to flee europe.

But there is also no possibility to ask for asylum in an embessy. Asylum is a right given by the constitution in germany and its not possible to fullfill this right because of the european border politics.

Sure you can go to turkey - where you have no chance to legalize your status in mid- or long term. Where your children are not allowed to go to school.

... no sh*t sherlock?!

To legally claim asylum in a schengen state which has no external border to non-schengen states you literally have to fall out of the sky or travel into the country on a tourist visa.

Guess what happens in the moment a crisis breaks out like it happened in Syria? Yes right, all the wealthy northern european states do not give out tourist visas anymore.

... that actually seems pretty legit^^

I just wrote a fb scraper, using a headless browser: https://github.com/niczem/trawler

Still a d*ckmove from FB, especially considering that a browser plugin can not really be used to scale up. Anyway, looking forward to hear from FB :)

... the first time is always free ;)

Not so sure, as lonng as you can not disable logging:

https://www.perfect-privacy.com/en/blog/wireguard-vpn-pros-a...