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bonestamp2 commented on alpr.watch   alpr.watch/... · Posted by u/theamk
rpjt · 4 days ago
There is also no legal "reasonable expectation of privacy" for a license plate displayed on a public road.
bonestamp2 · 4 days ago
Legally, you're absolutely right. But as camera technology, data transmission, data storage, and automated data analysis progress, maybe it's also reasonable that privacy laws progress with the technology. I expect any police officer or other person to freely view my license plate as I drive around and I have no problem with that.

But, I do not think it's reasonable for an automated system to systematically capture, store, and analyze all of my movements (or anyone else who is not suspected of a serious crime). If they suspect I have done something illegal, they should have to get a warrant and then the system can be triggered to start tracking me.

I understand the desire for the data... sometimes I would like to know if my kids are following the rules at home, but I have a stronger conviction that I don't want my kids to grow up in a home where they feel like they are under constant surveillance. It's a gross feeling to be under constant surveillance, like you're living in a panopticon built for prisoners, which is an unfair side effect when you've done nothing wrong. Mass data surveillance of everyone is a totalitarian dystopian that I don't want to live in.

bonestamp2 commented on alpr.watch   alpr.watch/... · Posted by u/theamk
lutusp · 4 days ago
I hope the article's authors aren't taking the position that mass surveillance is a bad thing, signifying a breakdown in civilized norms ... after all, they're using the same methods to "track the trackers."
bonestamp2 · 4 days ago
Maybe it's one of those situations where it takes a good guy using surveillance to take down a bad guy using surveillance?
bonestamp2 commented on Mark Zuckerberg Had Illegal School at His Palo Alto Compound. Neighbors Revolted   wired.com/story/mark-zuck... · Posted by u/randycupertino
lateforwork · a month ago
My favorite part of that story:

He said a security guard approached him and asked what he was doing.

“I said, ‘I’m standing on the sidewalk looking at this project for review.’ He said, ‘Well, we’d appreciate it if you could move on,’” Mr. Baltay recalled. “I was pretty shocked by that. It’s a public sidewalk!”

Zuckerberg could have built a fancy house in Woodside or Atherton which is where billionaire CEOs live. Instead he bought property in the middle of regular people and disrupted their lives.

bonestamp2 · a month ago
I assume he's planning to build a super mansion once he gets enough acreage.

Reminds me of a guy near me who bought three already massive adjacent properties. Tore down two of them. One become a pond. The other one was rebuilt into a massive $30M mansion. The third was already a $15M mansion so he kept that as his guest house. The funny thing is that his guest house... has a guest house.

bonestamp2 commented on Microsoft CTO says he wants to swap most AMD and Nvidia GPUs for homemade chips   cnbc.com/2025/10/01/micro... · Posted by u/fork-bomber
edude03 · 3 months ago
Yeah, I'm probably splitting hairs here but as far as I understand (and honestly maybe I don't understand) - Rubin CPX is "just" a normal GPU with GDDR instead of HBM.

In fact - I'd say we're looking at this backwards - GPUs used to be the thing that did math fast and put the result into a buffer where something else could draw it to a screen. Now a "GPU" is still a thing that does math fast, but now sometimes, you don't include the hardware to put the pixels on a screen.

So maybe - CPX is "just" a GPU but with more generic naming that aligns with its use cases.

bonestamp2 · 3 months ago
There are some inference chips that are fundamentally different from GPUs. For example, one of the guys who designed Google's original TPU left and started a company (with some other engineers) called groq ai (not to be confused with grok ai). They make a chip that is quite different from a GPU and provides several advantages for inference over traditional GPUs:

https://www.cdotrends.com/story/3823/groq-ai-chip-delivers-b...

bonestamp2 commented on Trump to impose $100k fee for H-1B worker visas, White House says   reuters.com/business/medi... · Posted by u/mriguy
ambicapter · 3 months ago
love it or hate it, it hasn't worked out well for/in the minds of native-born us citizens either, a sentiment which I think this policy is going to tap into hard.
bonestamp2 · 3 months ago
That was my thought too, and then I wondered if the workers are $100k more expensive to bring here then maybe the jobs are just going to go to the same people, but in their home country.
bonestamp2 commented on WASM 3.0 Completed   webassembly.org/news/2025... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
em-bee · 3 months ago
getting rid of javascript entirely means to be able to manipulate the DOM without writing any javascript code. not to remove javascript from the browser. javascript will still be there if you want to use it.
bonestamp2 · 3 months ago
Fair enough, I misunderstood what he meant by "deprecate JS runtimes".
bonestamp2 commented on WASM 3.0 Completed   webassembly.org/news/2025... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
cedws · 3 months ago
But then you need two things instead of one. It should be made possible to build WASM-only SPAs. The north star of browser developers should be to deprecate JS runtimes the same way they did Flash.
bonestamp2 · 3 months ago
I agree with the first part, but getting rid of JS entirely means that if you want to augment some HTML with one line of javascript you have to build a WASM binary to do it?

I see good use cases for building entirely in html/JS and also building entirely in WASM.

bonestamp2 commented on We already live in social credit, we just don't call it that   thenexus.media/your-phone... · Posted by u/natalie3p
seydor · 4 months ago
No there is a major difference when social credit is centralized to a single authority , and people cannot use the law to protect from that authority.

otherwise, people have always judged each other with any way they could

bonestamp2 · 4 months ago
Exactly. Amazon might approve my returns (or not cancel my account) because I buy more than someone else, but they don't share my purchase/return ratio with any third parties.
bonestamp2 commented on Steve Wozniak: Life to me was never about accomplishment, but about happiness   yro.slashdot.org/comments... · Posted by u/MilnerRoute
albumen · 4 months ago
You need to move into a different industry/society. These things are not ubiquitous.
bonestamp2 · 4 months ago
Agreed. We call those people assholes. We try our best to avoid hiring those people and we weed them out of our company as fast as possible if they're discovered. We also try to have as flat a structure as possible so nobody is taking credit for anyone else's work and ideally many of us are working together so we all share the glory or frustration when something goes well or not.
bonestamp2 commented on VPN use surges in UK as new online safety rules kick in   ft.com/content/356674b0-9... · Posted by u/mmarian
nixgeek · 5 months ago
Where do you see people leaving heading towards? What’s your emigration destination? It seems like most countries have their challenges and I’m curious where people who have inevitably done more research than me are landing, literally!
bonestamp2 · 5 months ago
I was going to ask the same thing and I hope they answer.

I can't speak for OP but I can report on what I'm seeing... I know a lot of British, Canadian, and Australian expats that have moved to California in the past 5-15 years.

Why? Healthcare is probably everyone's first concern, but expats tend to be well educated successful people who can afford excellent healthcare... I'm an expat from a different country and seeing the top end of the healthcare facilities in the States is a luxury experience compared to national healthcare where I'm from. I wish everyone here had access to that, but at least poor people in California do have access to state healthcare.

Politics is a shit show, and has gotten worse recently of course, but that's true in a lot of places now and everyone I know came in before the most recent decline. I know a couple of families who have gone back to their countries, but all of them went back because they wanted to be close to family again, but none of them left because they didn't like it here.

Across everyone I know, the main appeals for coming to California seem to be weather and lower taxes than their home country. Cost of living is similar to many of the big cities in the countries I mentioned above. I'm not suggesting America is a better place, that's a different calculation for everyone, just reporting on what I'm seeing.

u/bonestamp2

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