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onethought commented on Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)    · Posted by u/david927
xorcist · 6 months ago
Of course it is. Is this controversial anywhere? I would expect surveillance cameras to be regulated in most parts of the world, certainly around Europe. In the Netherlands I believe you need to register such cameras with the local police and you are responsible for following the relevant regulations and data protection laws.
onethought · 6 months ago
What you are suggesting is basically unenforceable. How would you know what’s in a cameras frame?

What do the police do with that register? That sounds like it’s just helpful for them. If it’s only a registration and not an approval process?

I don’t think you are responsible for data protection laws… like if it’s a ring, that’s amazons problem.

I think this is controversial, because how’s it different from me taking a happy snap on my phone and accidently capturing you in the background.

onethought commented on Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)    · Posted by u/david927
01jonny01 · 6 months ago
There is optimum level of state intervention. IMO monitoring people with cameras for speeding is a step too far.

I bet you are the same type of person who values software privacy haha

onethought · 6 months ago
As others have pointed out, you are essentially advocating for non-enforcement of speed limits.

Which feels an arbitrary line to draw. What about other road rules? Driving on the right side? Using unregistered vehicles?

Countries like India, China and South East Asia, have much less enforcement of these rules… Would you call their driving experience optimal?

Not sure what you mean by values software privacy. I don’t really have a view on it? So no, I don’t think I am.

onethought commented on Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)    · Posted by u/david927
bornfreddy · 6 months ago
GDPR says no. Also, when you are using a cloud service it is no longer private use, you are sharing the surveillance video with Amazon (and almost certainly with the USA three-letter agencies) too.
onethought · 6 months ago
GDPR just gives you the right to have it removed right? Curious to try that out, and request Amazon remove you from every ring recording .
onethought commented on Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)    · Posted by u/david927
xorcist · 6 months ago
You are not allowed to put up unlicensed surveillance cameras in public places, no.
onethought · 6 months ago
What is a licensed security camera?

By this logic, are you saying cameras on private property, that happen to capture public space in their frame are also illegal?

onethought commented on Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)    · Posted by u/david927
01jonny01 · 6 months ago
I'd rather put up with the speeding than aasking for the government to intervene.
onethought · 6 months ago
Said someone living in a comfortable country with a stable government.

You can’t seriously believe this right?

onethought commented on Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)    · Posted by u/david927
Apanatshka · 6 months ago
Is that legal in your country? In mine (Netherlands) there are way too many people with doorbell camera aimed right at the street even though it's illegal to record a public space like that. Most folks are ignorant about it though, or think that surely the internet-connected gadget sold by some anonymous corporation won't be abused....
onethought · 6 months ago
For private use you can film in public places in the Netherlands no?
onethought commented on TikTok says it is restoring service for U.S. users   nbcnews.com/tech/tech-new... · Posted by u/Leary
scarab92 · 7 months ago
Fiduciary responsibilities make it unlikely that many companies would risk it.

There’s always a chance you don’t come back, and there’s likely to be a loss of marketshare for simply being unavailable for a period and forcing users to trial alternatives.

But, TikTok is not purely commercially focused. A majority of the voting stock of ByteDance is held by the Chinese government, who clearly see non-financial strategic value in controlling it.

Otherwise, they likely could have negotiated a spin out the US operation, whereby they retain most of the equity upside but give majority voting control to a US buyer.

onethought · 7 months ago
Which specific owner is the Chinese government?
onethought commented on Hong Kong Jails Benny Tai for 10 Years in Longest Security Law Sentence   bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/JumpCrisscross
uniqueuid · 9 months ago
The promise to implement long-announced and in part contractually guaranteed democratic instruments.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57873484-freedom

onethought · 9 months ago
Sorry, I should have clarified my question further. They already broke their promises on Hong Kong. So I was asking what the other promises people think they won’t break?

Like are we talking Taiwan? Or something in mainland China?

Hence: which promises and which people?

With regard to HK - agree they broke their promises, but it’s not like it wasn’t highly predictable a leader like Xi would do this, the shocking part was the speed, not the action.

Apologies for upsetting people by being too vague.

onethought commented on Hong Kong Jails Benny Tai for 10 Years in Longest Security Law Sentence   bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/JumpCrisscross
Dalewyn · 9 months ago
The truly sad/crazy part is that most people today still don't expect China to break promises quite so quickly and blatantly.

Oh well.

onethought · 9 months ago
Which promises do you mean? And which people?
onethought commented on Solving climate change by abusing thermodynamic scaling laws   ckrapu.github.io/blog/202... · Posted by u/ckrapu
bryanrasmussen · a year ago
there was a quote, and I can't remember exactly so I paraphrase: "the person who creates a new form of energy for the world, without creating an equivalent heatsink, would be history's greatest monster", although I suppose that is very perfect being the enemy of the good.
onethought · a year ago
Isn’t this why solar is good. We already have the heat sink (earth) we just aren’t using the energy.

u/onethought

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