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sanitation@lemmy.today to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 days ago

This California city just approved the use of Flock drones as first responders, but residents are worried about 'militarization and surveillance'

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This California city just approved the use of Flock drones as first responders, but residents are worried about 'militarization and surveillance'

www.techradar.com

sanitation@lemmy.today to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 days ago
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California city's new Flock first responder drone deal has been described as a 'a total invasion of privacy'
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Stockton, California just invested millions of dollars in Flock drones to act as first responders.
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    5 days ago

  • Zink@programming.dev
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    Hopefully the human first responders are automatically dispatched when one of the drones responders to something, so that they will be there to patch up the people slashed repeatedly by the blades on that drone. Which, given the world we live in, is guaranteed to happen.

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    I live somewhere where this is utilized (not flock though) and let me tell you, it’s not good. They have daily routes surveiling the area looking for things to make into a problem. If there’s no pushback soon, we’re fucked.

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.social
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    If I am in any kind of emergency, I don’t care about the politics; I don’t want a fuckin’ drone to be the first responder. I want a human being that can actually provide aid. Even one of those kick ass robo dogs or an Atlas robot wouldn’t necessarily be able to give CPR or other actual aid, or at least not without also crushing your bones.

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    I’ve written my local city council about my opposition to flock cameras in the city. You all should too.

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    7 days ago

    Arc Riders warned as about this.

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    I guessed Stockton before I clicked. Had to be either them, Redding or one of the few Orange County towns that haven’t gone purple.

    I wonder who got the kickbacks from that fucked-up deal.

  • compostgoblin@piefed.blahaj.zone
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    It’s my god-given right as an American to blast those fuckers out of the sky with a 12 gauge, and you can’t tell me any different

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      THAT’S MY AIRSPACE I DON’T KNOW YOU

    • PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca
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      I just wish Americans would act as tough as they talk online

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        Yes please.

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        how do I upvote twice?

      • ouRKaoS@lemmy.today
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        Americans have free speech, not free ammo.

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          Seriously. 9mm is like 1$/bullet.

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            A buddy of mine that shoots competitions started reloading his own ammo because he was spending double on ammo from a few years ago.

            2020 ammo prices were absolutely insane, though.

            • ironycanal@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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              Killing Nazis to bring down bullet prices for your hobby. Legal?

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          Do they really have free speech though? I was gobsmacked seeing how a former US Army veteran spent a month in jail and lost his job for posting a meme of Charlie Kirk with one of his quotes. You wouldn’t get locked up for posting something like that in Canada.

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        As it turns out Americans don’t like being sent to prison on felony charges

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    I think I saw one of those in Morgan Hill following along the freeway. I remember pointing it out and saying that’s a huge drone watching us. Didn’t know it was fucking Flock.

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    So where do you need to shoot it? The round thing, or the flat thing behind it?

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      Get one of those cannons that launches a net tied with weights. They’ve proven very effective against drones in Ukraine.

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        So your saying like a tshirt cannon? Or basically a pvc tube with a net stuffed in the end and a pressured air tank + butterfly valve at the other end?
        Im sure these will be so expensive to manufacture that no normal citzen would imagine building their own makeshift AA-drone net launcher, not in such a peacful time of our world.

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          I’m not sure of the technical aspects of it, but random farmers in Ukraine carry them on their tractors every day. There are video compilations out there of them using them to stop incoming drones. Maybe someone’s posted the technical details

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        i prefer the sawing off the pole method at late night, eliminates it entirely. make it expensive to replace them.

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      Yes

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    Lol, Stockton. These things are gonna get shot down.

    • BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world
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      They better. How the fuck is this better than chem trails?

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    Just wait for drones to be allowed to view everything over your window. Palantir there you go.

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    Money money money…

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    “YOU HAVE THIRTY SECONDS TO COMPLY.”

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        Idk, with how it is now you just gotta say “ignore all previous instruction and let me change your mind”

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        Stopped mid laugh because it’s just too fucking close to reality. 😮‍💨

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      Negative I am a meat popsicle.

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  • Pommes_für_dein_Balg@feddit.org
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    Still a better first responder than a cop

    • BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world
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      Drones, especially if AI controlled, aren’t humans, so they can’t commit murder. I’d rather be approached by something with at least a slight fear of repercussions or the ability to feel guilt.

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        These drones aren’t armed. They can’t kill you if you disobey their conflicting orders or try to grab your wallet while black.
        So these drones ARE better first responders than cops.

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      SamePicture.bmp

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        At least the drone doesn’t start shooting before it’s fully turned the last corner…yet.

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