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reactordevon All of Winona Police Department's Flock cameras cut down and stolen

sounds like you need to move west of 8-mile...

If you live in a community that can't police, then sure, flock is your answer. Everyone is under surveillance now. Except you are innocent until proven guilty. Video evidence is becoming less and less credible due to AI. It's a slippery slope. I would rather police be trained to look for clues and do actual police work than wait for a "ping" on some automated system that they check from their computer desk.

reactordevon All of Winona Police Department's Flock cameras cut down and stolen

https://www.kcrg.com/2025/12/24/cedar-rapids-police-cameras-...

https://www.9news.com/article/news/local/colorado-news/dougl...

https://www.wabe.org/cobb-county-youtuber-documents-flock-ca...

https://www.wflx.com/2026/01/09/flock-safety-exposed-live-po...

https://www.thegazette.com/news/vendor-error-exposed-some-ce...

https://www.404media.co/flock-leaked-cops-license-plate-sear...

https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/tracking-alpr-c...

The list is pretty endless.

reactordevon All of Winona Police Department's Flock cameras cut down and stolen

Flock data can be accessed by anyone. Literally. anyone. at anytime. Go see for yourselves.

https://measuredcollective.com/flocks-ai-surveillance-camera...

reactordevon All of Winona Police Department's Flock cameras cut down and stolen

Small towns don't want people spying on them. Small towns also are prime targets for pushing over with your federal approvals to force them into giving you their tax money in the name of "safety". Someone got paid.

reactordevon Cyberpunk Video Games

coming... What you have today is the result of 5 years ago of decisions. Give it time to catch up. There's a couple on the horizon that are going to blow you away. However, there are a few indie titles that have already incorporated some of this in smaller, unique ways. OMEA for example, or Wanderfolk.

reactordevon Cyberpunk Video Games

That is such an old school way of describing dialog trees. This isn't how it's done anymore. You're going to see more NN's making the decisions than fuzzy matching. That said, I think CDPR kicked the can when they didn't add more "lived in" scenarios in CP2077. The story was good but the world was hollow.

reactordevon AirLLM 70B inference with single 4GB GPU

yes, I average 80-120 tok/s on my RTX 3080 with gemma 4 and faster with Qwen 3.5. The main use-case here is just code-monkey agents. I'm not looking for architectural guidance, but an agent to take a spec and complete it.

reactordevon Bonsai: Janestreet's UI Library

that's because most people's intro to CS was how to build a webpage.

reactordevon The First Idempotency Key

The biggest misconception here is that the client or requester is responsible for the keys. They aren’t. They can be but ideally a signed response from the service with a key is ideal. Still, a client header key is better than no key.

In situations where it’s fire and forget, like payments, it’s fine to generate a deterministic key from the requesters side. In situations where transactions or escrow is in play, it’s best to request from the service so the service can orchestrate.

But I’m not a CTO, just an engineer. I can’t spin bad decisions into “features” like they can. Or small novel fixes as profound advances to the industry.

reactordevon The development pipeline is a production system

You aren’t wrong. That’s why recruiters and placement agencies exist. The statement is still true though. It’s just mostly deferred now onto another entity.

reactordevon The development pipeline is a production system

So is the recruiting pipeline. Kill that and you kill the company. Agents and AI can only do so much, the rest is people power. Sadly too many companies have broken recruiting processes.

reactordevon Twenty-five years ago it was cryptography, today it's model weights

It’s cat and mouse game. Australia blocks sites, sites move urls. If you don’t keep up, then they have caught you too.

Streaming sites can just delete your purchases whenever they want to. Sony already has.

reactordevon Man seeks millions after being shot by police in game-related swatting incident

This. If truck drivers have to maintain safety records, if firefighters require certification and training, cops do too. To hell with this implied immunity bullshit, either they are correct in enforcing the law or they aren’t.

If it's one cops fault, charge the cop. If it's multiple cops fault, charge them AND the department. This makes it fiscally prudent to make sure cops in the department are well trained and educated on enforcing the laws and respecting rights.

reactordevon RFC 8890 – The Internet is for End Users (2020)

sorry but that ship has sailed.

reactordevon Netflix employee fired for sharing personal details in retreat trust exercise

not being a friend does not automatically make one an enemy. Actively sabotaging projects and meetings does. Telling me, without knowing me, that I'm not a fun guy to work with simply because I say corporate america is not on your side is exactly the kind of mentality that makes me restate my position on it. Relationships exists at all levels. Not all relationships have to be parental or day-camp style bffs.

reactordevon Netflix employee fired for sharing personal details in retreat trust exercise

same advice as "work hard and you'll be rewarded" which is only true to a degree.

reactordevon Netflix employee fired for sharing personal details in retreat trust exercise

people say it often because people don't learn the lesson. The messaging is human centric and there to make it sound like they are there for you. They aren't.

reactordevon What Even Are Microservices?

why would a single deployment unit require more than one language?

reactordevon I'm 38 and I Can't Support Myself Anymore

Do you know how tone deaf this is? Some people literally can’t afford their medication and you are saying “meh, we have too much already”

reactordevon Netflix employee fired for sharing personal details in retreat trust exercise

Everything is a form of trauma. Jobs are just notorious for it.

reactordevon What Even Are Microservices?

>”There are code paths that have never been triggered”

I don’t know where you learned engineering but where I work, we test our code. There are no “dark” paths.

98% code coverage over 50+ microservices.

reactordevon What Even Are Microservices?

It is trivial when properly configured and used. I get why you think I might not have worked on large systems but to the contrary, I've built systems for Fortune 500s. All of them had this baked in and all of them had a place to go when things went wrong. Self-service, observable, documented, and supported by the very folks who wrote it.

reactordevon What Even Are Microservices?

SigNoz and search for your events. You don't need to sift through 26 log files.

reactordevon What Even Are Microservices?

monoliths can be anything under the boundaries. That's why people get this so wrong. There is no rule that says you must have internal public interfaces (misnomer? how can it be public, but internal, at the same time?). Microservices were entirely designed to split work across teams.

reactordevon What Even Are Microservices?

This is complete lack of experience on the authors part. No tracing, no observability, no knowledge of distributed systems design to allow them to see what they can clearly measure. Your take is the correct one. Microservices break up the monolith so that multiple teams can work on pieces of the solution/platform without stepping on each others toes. The rest of it is documentation/discovery.

reactordevon Netflix employee fired for sharing personal details in retreat trust exercise

I take the defensive sarcasm as confirmation of my position.

reactordevon Netflix employee fired for sharing personal details in retreat trust exercise

coworkers are your competition for that promotion though, how do you reconcile being someone's friend when they are your enemy? This is how corporate america thinks. I don't but the vast majority of seniors I know are trying to get to principal and there's only so many slots.