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After months of discussion and outrage from residents, the city council of the tiny town of Bandera, Texas voted 3-2 to immediately end its contract with the surveillance company Flock. In the aftermath of the vote, one of the dissenting council members crashed out and said he would be introducing measures to ban cell phones, the internet, cameras, and nearly all technology in the town of roughly 900 people.

Bandera had a state grant to install eight Flock Safety AI license plate reader cameras in the tiny town. The technology proved to be incredibly controversial, with residents repeatedly turning out to city council meetings to say that they did not want government surveillance in the town; the poles that the cameras were installed on were repeatedly destroyed by vandals in protest, leading the town to have to replace them at their own expense. Last week, the town formally decided to abandon its contract with Flock entirely.

After the vote, Councilmember Jeff Flowers, a staunch Flock supporter, said that if people in the town wanted privacy then the city council should basically ban all technology, essentially calling people who did not want government surveillance hypocrites. Flowers said he would propose a series of new regulations at an upcoming city council meeting, which he is calling the “Bandera Declaration of Digital Independence.” In a letter posted by the local newspaper, the Bandera Bulletin, Flowers said that in the name of preserving privacy he would suggest the city go back to the days of 1880.

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“For months, I have listened to the outcry regarding License Plate Recognition (LPR) technology. I have seen the eyerolls, and I’ve even been met with ‘Nazi rhetoric,’ the dangerous claim that believing in accountability and community safety is somehow equivalent to totalitarianism,” Flowers wrote. “Comparing a neighbor’s desire for a safe street to a dark chapter of history is a classic case of comparing apples to oranges; it is a distraction used to avoid the reality of the threats our town faces today.”

Flowers said that at the next city council meeting he will propose “a total ban on all cellular and GPS-capable devices for all operations within city limits. If we are to be truly ‘private,’ we must leave our smartphones at the city line.” He will also propose “a total ban on outward facing cameras,” and “a total termination of all internet services and electronic record-keeping. We are going back to 1880, paper ledgers and cash only.”

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Where are these hyper intelligent machines?

When I look at all the paid streaming services they generally only have about 3 titles that appeal to me. It just makes economic sense to watch those titles that appeal to you and cancel afterwards. If you are making 100k a year then who cares about a $500 in streaming services per year. That just means Gen Z is being smart with their money.

Plus there’re so many old titles you can watch with ads for free on Pluto, YouTube etc. And if you are really poor there’s always the high seas.

How very Don Quixote.

$699

You guys got health insurance?

People still read the verge? After the Stefan fiasco I figured no one would ever trust them again.

Every year there’s one free game that interests me. Otherwise eventually I’m going to give my Epic account to one of my nephews/nieces.

This sounds on par for all the AI I have been dealing with. I find it works best if you give it a lot of rules, then treat it like a 12 year old and expect wild mistakes for anything more complicated than a simple calculator. I work primarily with Gemini and have it build simple HTML/CSS and it’s infuriating how many times I have told it to use &amp ; instead of &.
Now every time it does anything, it’s always telling me how it included the correct ampersand. It can’t tell me why it screwed up like 5 times prior, it just makes up some BS and apologizes profusely.
The more rules you give it, even if it ignores them sometimes, the better.

I just spotted the first logic error.

Every time someone organically refers to their computer as an Apple or Mac, an Apple marketing executive creams their pants.

African or European?

The first time I used Claude, I asked for a simple one page calculator. It made an entire website, complete with navigation and an about us page, and a css style sheet.

At my current job, I use AI frequently.

But it’s nowhere near replacing me. It’s like having a 12 year old intern that’s an inexperienced genius.

It’s great for saving me 10 minutes to write out some simple HTML or structured data. But it’s definitely not perfect and tends to add unnecessary changes, I constantly have to review and add new rules.

So I don’t think it’s replacing any humans any time soon, but it has gotten exponentially better over just a few months. So maybe in a few years, I’ll start to worry.

A good external desk/box/tower fan might be an easier solution

Has anyone tried a pellet gun?

That

And most of the green flags too

On a side note I pulled 2 complete older PCs out of a literal trash can, added a $100 video card and rebuilt and sold them for $700. I still have a new $100 motherboard I found in that trash. People be stupid.

Did they have to hurt the Moose’s feelings first?