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They seem to be going up rapidly at the moment.

I live in a county where the county seat is <15k people (<40k in the entire county). There are two camera locations listed on deflock - four cameras total, since they face both directions. In the past month, I’ve discovered an additionally six locations (twelve cameras), all of which show signs of having been very recently installed.

I went to add them to Deflock, but their process requires an OSM account. I wasn’t able to do that on the side of the road, and haven’t gotten back to it yet.


Which is better than Flock's "Transparency" Report. I live in WA, ex-Flock employee, and in my County, half of the agencies with Flock agreements are not on their Transparency portal.

And at the very least - why can't you search the Transparency Portal? You have to try each and every agency name. Let's try https://transparency.flocksafety.com/ ...

<Error> <Code>NoSuchKey</Code> <Message>The specified key does not exist.</Message> <Key>index.html</Key> <RequestId>[redacted]</RequestId> <HostId>[redacted]</HostId> </Error>

Has been like that for a year plus, at least.


> And at the very least - why can't you search the Transparency Portal? You have to try each and every agency name.

Was it different in the past? It seems like it'd be beneficial to Flock and their customers to make obtaining this information as obtuse as possible, while maintaining the vaguest appearance of "transparency". If they could charge you $10 per search, they probably would.

As an aside - can I ask why you left Flock? I assumed that the people who would've wanted to work there would be fully invested into the idea. What changed your mind?


Holy crap, there are almost 1000 in my part of my city.


District of Columbia, Maryland, Virginia according to wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMV


I read a long time ago that Fran Drescher of The Nanny fame was huge in replacing those audiences with extras instead of random people.

https://www.news.com.au/entertainment/tv/flashback/how-fran-...


That’s true, but the article also explains it isn’t nefarious; she had a stalker (after past horrible trauma), and was terrified, so replaced the live audiences with extras. It just happened to work so well it caught on and became a mainstay of sitcoms after that.


The Academy Awards can’t even trust the extras to fill empty seats in the audience, so they use lawyers and accountants who have already signed NDAs with the Academy for their day jobs.


`I want to express my sincere gratitude to those who have left.`

they didn't leave. they were shown the door.


I didn't know you could do that with ublock. Thanks!


It was Mortal Engines by Philip Reeve. Was an ok book. (Better than the film)


Serious question: Are actors, writers, etc not considered "Independent Contractors" in the US?


Isn't this what amazon's Whispernet is for? Always on low power bluetooth listeners embedded in echos and other amazon devices. If the TV supports it and you don't have an echo it can use your neighbor's echo/internet to send telemetry data.


Now imagining somebody planning to use metallic conductive paint on their TV, grounding the paintjob...and eventually painting the whole flat with it (with ordinary paint on top, for appearance).


Sorry but what's overlay scrollbars? (I found a few results but I'm not sure if they're the same thing you're talking about)


On macOS, when you use Apple input devices, the scrollbars work like on iOS and Android. They appear on top of the scrollable content when you start scrolling and disappear shortly after you stop. You can make them visible all the time, but then they will take up space like they do in e.g. Windows.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/guide/mac-help/mchlp1225/mac


Not parent but probably this from GNOME https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-control-center/-/issues...

I disable them in settings. I want to see them all the time.


Ah, ok. Completely different from what I was thinking with regards to scrollbars/css. Thanks!


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