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maxeda commented on Cities panic over having to release mass surveillance recordings   neuburger.substack.com/p/... · Posted by u/pavel_lishin
belorn · a month ago
Here in Sweden, the use of license plate scanners has become the norm for basically all parking houses, bridge tolls and road tolls. Even if you don't install the app or become a "member" of whatever system they are using, the license plate scanners is still used to detect when you enter or leave, and in some cases they automatically look up your home address to send you the bill with zero interaction with the driver. Even if they offer alternative ways to pay, by for example sms, it still uses the license plate scanner when you leave.

The only political party to even mention this as a problem was the pirate party back 15 years ago, and even then it never became a major issue that got discussed. Like paying with credit cards rather than physical cash, people see it as convenience or just as the way things now work.

maxeda · a month ago
Unlike toll roads and parking lot entrances it seems like these cameras are being installed for the sole purpose of surveillance and tracking peoples movements.
maxeda commented on Tesla Is Recalling Cybertrucks Again   popularmechanics.com/cars... · Posted by u/2OEH8eoCRo0
WanderPanda · a month ago
Mechanically sure, but I still feel way safer when a Tesla (of any kind) is approaching me as a pedestrian or bicyclist than any other vehicle (except maybe Waymo) because I know they will alert the driver and brake if necessary. Any other car, especially older trucks, I'm quite afraid of, based on experience.
maxeda · a month ago
Given the amount of pedestrians that have been killed by Telsas in "autopilot" mode, I can't say that I agree.
maxeda commented on Tags to make HTML work like you expect   blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025... · Posted by u/FromTheArchives
flymasterv · 2 months ago
I still don’t understand what people think they’re accomplishing with the lang attribute. It’s trivial to determine the language, and in the cases where it isn’t, it’s not trivial for the reader, either.
maxeda · 2 months ago
Another good reason for using the lang attribute is that it makes it possible to enable automatic hyphenation.
maxeda commented on Boring Company cited for almost 800 environmental violations in Las Vegas   propublica.org/article/el... · Posted by u/maxeda
maxeda · 2 months ago
> “Environmental regulations are, in my view, largely terrible,” he said at an event with the libertarian Cato Institute last year. “You have to get permission in advance, as opposed to, say, paying a penalty if you do something wrong, which I think would be much more effective.”

This quote is particularly telling of a billionaire's mindset when the fines are too small to matter.

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