nullfrigid (u/nullfrigid)

nullfrigid commented on Jellyfin: We're Good, Seriously forum.jellyfin.org/t-we-r... · Posted by u/bo0tzz

eesmith · 2 years ago

I don't understand your viewpoint. Is it specifically about Wales? Are you really that much against driving? Or against expensive sports cars?

Like, David Heinemeier Hansson drives super expensive sportscars - does that mean you don't use anything he works on?

I checked the Form 990s back to 2004 at https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/200... . Wales has never received compensation from the Wikimedia Foundation.

Is your issue that he makes his personal wealth from some other source, and doesn't transfer enough of it to Wikipedia? If so, do you have the same views for board members of other non-profits?

nullfrigid · 2 years ago

> I don't understand your viewpoint.

I suspect you understand it pretty much perfectly, you just don't think the underlying premises of my position are correct.

> Wales has never received compensation from the Wikimedia Foundation.

Buying an expensive sportscar in the name of the foundation and then using it as though it were a personal car wouldn't show up as compensation.

I tried finding more, but the accusations against Wales are mentioned on the wiki page for wiki controversies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedia_controversie...

Maybe it's just accusations, although I remember reading articles as well. Although maybe if Jimmy was more transparent about where his wealth came from, and maybe if Wikipedia didn't disingenuously and constantly beg for money despite having a surplus, I'd be less skeptical.

nullfrigid commented on You can opt out of airport face scans vox.com/future-perfect/36... · Posted by u/rntn

prepend · 2 years ago

Yes, when it comes to face scanners at the airport. You’re standing in front of a government camera for a driver’s license or student id and it can (and likely will) take the same image data that the TSA cameras do.

A high rez image is a type of biometric scan if you’re using it for facial recognition.

nullfrigid · 2 years ago

> Yes, when it comes to face scanners at the airport. You’re standing in front of a government camera for a driver’s license or student id and it can (and likely will) take the same image data that the TSA cameras do.

This is wrong. The TSA cameras are steroscopic and capture significantly more detail.

Additionally, there is no oversight or information given about how that data will be used, sold, how long it will be kept for, etc.

If you want to be entirely complacent that's your choice. But it isn't 'silly' for those of us that understand what's going on to oppose it, and it's disingenuous to easy because we have drivers licenses there is no reason to oppose it.

nullfrigid commented on You can opt out of airport face scans vox.com/future-perfect/36... · Posted by u/rntn

650REDHAIR · 2 years ago

What are they going to do with my biometrics? Waymo, cruise, etc are driving around scanning us every day. My fingerprint is used on my phone. My palm is scanned at Whole Foods.

Clear is the easiest way to fly and I’ll never go back (until it’s as packed as TSA pre…).

nullfrigid · 2 years ago

Congress has been taking a long hard look at Clear and might consider their practices and business model to be illegal, as they rightfully should.

nullfrigid commented on You can opt out of airport face scans vox.com/future-perfect/36... · Posted by u/rntn

1oooqooq · 2 years ago

a bunch of unhelpful commenters will add that they anecdotally did not experience inconvenience.

this was the same play book with milliliter wave scanners, which are now proven to not be completely safe but who cares. at first you could opt out. then opt out was the same as mandatory patdown. then opt out meant an extra 30min wait by the xray scanner... etc. now its fully not an option.

meanwhile i bet the 911 hijackers would have zero problems getting pre check or whatever other private scamer is selling the no-scan boarding these days.

lastly, yeah, this is totally so they do not need a warrant to unlock your phone if you have face unlock. in the most plain and obvious Kafkaesque "he did provide the facescan willingly your honor. not once he opted out, which was always an option".

nullfrigid · 2 years ago

> in the most plain and obvious Kafkaesque "he did provide the facescan willingly your honor. not once he opted out, which was always an option".

Wouldn't that be Orwellian? Which Kafka story did I miss?

nullfrigid commented on You can opt out of airport face scans vox.com/future-perfect/36... · Posted by u/rntn

dheera · 2 years ago

I feel like as a non-white person I would not try to fight these kinds of things. I want to be at my destination, not in a jail. I'll leave it upto the white people to audit their rights, it's less risky for them. I also have a cardiac implant, if they try to tase me I might even end up dead.

nullfrigid · 2 years ago

> I also have a cardiac implant, if they try to tase me I might even end up dead.

Aren't tasers certified not to interfere with pacemakers and similar things?

nullfrigid commented on You can opt out of airport face scans vox.com/future-perfect/36... · Posted by u/rntn

robgibbons · 2 years ago

I've had no such trouble in Boston. In Denver, I got an annoyed agent, but no argument. They flipped through their TSA state ID binder and did the customary comparison, but no argument.

I actually have taken up the habit of wearing a surgical mask through security simply for this purpose, right up until I've opted out and they have my ID in hand. When they ask me to lower it I do, but not until I've opted out.

nullfrigid · 2 years ago

> They flipped through their TSA state ID binder and did the customary comparison

Wait, what is this? I've never seen anything like that, normally they just check the name on the ID matches the boarding pass.

You're saying they literally had a book of all state IDs?