The only way to meaningfully defeat surveillance technology is to make a constitutional amendment that limits its use privately and publicly. We keep fighting it technologically which is an arms race. A cultural solution is the only path forward that will see meaningful success.
bonesss 1 days ago [-]
> The only way to meaningfully defeat surveillance technology is to make a constitutional amendment that limits its use privately and publicly
So, contextually, a constitutional amendment to force private and public use of Juggalo Makeup?
It’s extreme, but bold change requires bold steps.
SunshineTheCat 24 hours ago [-]
All in favor, say aye!
mywittyname 22 hours ago [-]
The right of the people to keep and drink Faygo shall not be infringed.
dustractor 21 hours ago [-]
woop woop!
conductr 20 hours ago [-]
As a fan of ICP this is hilarious because it almost means we all need to become juggalos not just dress like them, even if that helps
> The Juggalo story, or Dark Carnival mythology, is the overarching narrative conceptualized by the hip-hop duo Insane Clown Posse (ICP)—Violent J and Shaggy 2 Dope. It tells the story of a spirit world that judges the wicked, selfish, and cruel members of society, acting as a morality play meant to guide listeners toward a better life before "the end"
hamdingers 1 days ago [-]
People find their ring cameras too useful, businesses love cloud based security camera systems, facial recognition and cloud backup are expected features of every phone's photo app, courts consider recording integral to first amendment expression.
These are some big rocks you'll need to move, otherwise your amendment won't be worth the paper it's written on. Just saying "you can collect all the data, but don't use it for surveillance" doesn't mean much.
I have no solutions, feels like we missed the boat if there ever was an opportunity to prevent it in the first place. We live in public now.
dylan604 1 days ago [-]
Just this week I've been taking walks in my neighborhood, and the number of homes that chime or play a voice recording to indicate being recorded was shocking. I just indicate to them that I think they are number 1. In other situations where I'm in public with a camera cleary pointed in my direction I tend to do that with my hand in front of my face. If they are going to blur out the #1 sign, my face gets conveniently blurred as well. They might have a right to record, but I also have a right to silently express my opinion as well.
MidnightRider39 24 hours ago [-]
> they are number 1
Maybe I’m daft but what does this mean?
dylan604 24 hours ago [-]
Giving the bird. Someone's not using their inner 12 year old self.
bombcar 22 hours ago [-]
The ol’ double deuce. The finger. The salute. The bird.
excalibur 23 hours ago [-]
When you're walking around with your finger over your face all day, you should extend your thumb as well, so everyone can tell you're a Legend.
dylan604 23 hours ago [-]
Maybe I should just get a custom sticker for my forehead. I'd fit in at cons with everyone walking around as a hologram
rolandog 1 days ago [-]
Not sure if I agree that the only solution is to give up now; we need sensible people that know how the technology works in power and that are not beholden to serve big corporations, but rather the average person. We need less populist and long-drawn campaigns. We need less politicizing. And we need all of that yesterday.
hsbauauvhabzb 18 hours ago [-]
> sensible people that know how the technology works in power
You had me right up until that sentence. Good one.
coldtea 1 days ago [-]
>People find their ring cameras too useful, businesses love cloud based security camera systems, facial recognition and cloud backup are expected features of every phone's photo app, courts consider recording integral to first amendment expression.
As long as the recordings aren't centrally stored and sold in bulk, and sold to brokers and governments, that would still be ok.
conception 1 days ago [-]
You can have a ring camera- “just”make it illegal to share/sell the data from it. Have it be an audit item.
eesmith 1 days ago [-]
I don't think "courts consider recording integral to first amendment expression" is fully correct.
Otherwise there could not be states with two-party/all-party consent requirements for making an recording.
I think requiring all-party consent for facial recognition would not have 1st amendment issues.
Implementation details and effectiveness are, of course, very different issues.
cat-turner 20 hours ago [-]
You can demand companies to auto-blur faces unless people have consented to being recorded.
VTimofeenko 19 hours ago [-]
A tiny "By entering the area you consent to being recorded" sign oughta cover that.
bulbar 14 hours ago [-]
In Germany it's just plain illegal to have public space within the camera's field of view.
The camera must also be mounted in a way that it can't be rotated by software and can't be rotated easily by hand in a way that it is able to have public space within the field of view.
Cameras at main stations and within trains, only store their data for 24 and gets deleted afterwards afair, as long as it's not requested by some entity that a specific recording should be retained.
Gunax 16 hours ago [-]
I just don't believe that can be effective.
Cameras are legal and too useful to ban. Facial recognition is just software.
And it's getting easier to make. There are open source solutions for facial recognition.
mc32 1 days ago [-]
I don’t think it will happen for at least a couple of reasons. The “deep state” in the US and elsewhere will not allow it and would find workarounds ala five eyes. And two, the right wants to spy on the left and the left wants to spy on the right. Only a small sliver of libertarians are strongly against spying “the domestic baddies.” So there is no chance.
gleenn 1 days ago [-]
The only reason the deep state or anyone has any power is because most people don't care. If people cared, we could change. Modern politics is all about distracting everyone with some crazy as often as possible to keep shifting attention and basically disabling any progress.
sylos 1 days ago [-]
the deepstate has power because they will literally kill you if you don't and that's not the worst option. The deepstate will honeytrap, hack, blackmail, or otherwise destroy your life to get what "it" wants. People caring more isn't going to do anything if the Congressman doesn't want it known that he likes easy access to money and other illegal things.
throwway120385 23 hours ago [-]
We have a constitution because people demanded what they wanted at peril of their life.
Avicebron 1 days ago [-]
There's some of that, there is also metric tons of money being used to keep the corporate status quo..
coldtea 1 days ago [-]
>The only reason the deep state or anyone has any power is because most people don't care. If people cared, we could change.
Yes, but that's just restating the problem.
dec0dedab0de 1 days ago [-]
The only reason the deep state or anyone has any power is because most people don't care.
I think bribery, blackmail, and extortion have a bit to do with it to.
zdp7 1 days ago [-]
As long as it is accessible and useful, it will be used. Organized crime is around despite it being illegal. Considering how lucrative tracking people is, people will do it illegally. Even corporations as long as penalties aren't significant enough. We really need a three strikes law for corporations. Three egregious intentional violations and corp, is dissolved all assets going to support the needy.
b00ty4breakfast 1 days ago [-]
"things should be legal because some people will do it anyways" is not a very compelling argument. I'm sure I don't need to explain to you why extrapolating this line of though to, for example, murder is silly and not worth taking serious.
zdp7 21 hours ago [-]
My solution was to toughen consequences and I didn't directly respond to your tech solutions won't do it, the implication I was trying to make was take self defense class (tech defenses). This is so when the bully punches you in the face, you may not have a bloody nose when the bully gets suspended (ie ineffectual punishment like giving a kid a day off for bad behavior). I have a theory that good actors need to work harder to profit, since bad actors benefit from their unethical actions. Most good guys then get bought out at some point by a bad guy.
hallway_monitor 1 days ago [-]
Love the last bit. Lack of accountability for corporations is a problem. That plus stiff penalties for executives or individuals using facial recognition without consent should put a stop to it pretty quickly.
echelon_musk 1 days ago [-]
Shamelessly hijacking this story to recommend The Private Eye digital comic [0]. Set in a future where everyone has normalised the wearing of masks in public to preserve their anonymity. The protagonist refuses to get a driving license because he wouldn't want a photo of himself in a database.
Thanks for that! Vaughan is great. It's funny that it's a digital release considering the topic. That small sense of unease I feel each time I feed my personal and credit card data into yet another website should only enhance the experience.
embedding-shape 1 days ago [-]
Slightly bad example as it seems the company did "one of the first DRM-free, pay what you want comics", going to the website you can enter 0 and download without giving any other details (besides everything else you leak on the web): http://panelsyndicate.com/comics/tpeye
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dayvid 1 days ago [-]
Ever since Covid, people are obscuring their faces in public more often. I especially see gig workers wearing balaclavas. Partially for sun and wind protection, but potentially for anonymity
GinsengJar 1 days ago [-]
You got any other comics to recommend in this style/genre? Cyberpunk, dystopia, etc
autoexec 1 days ago [-]
Transmetropolitan was pretty good.
gopher_space 1 days ago [-]
The subtext of that comic felt a bit like “what if Hunter Thompson was mostly sober?”
xoxxala 1 days ago [-]
I cannot recommend Transmetropolitan enough. It should be required reading.
autoexec 1 days ago [-]
Considering how long ago it was written it's both surprising and unfortunate how relevant it is to where we are now
burningChrome 1 days ago [-]
I would also add the Netflix movie "Anon" which came out in 2018:
In the near future, humanity lives in a technologically advanced, dystopian society. The government requires that everyone receive an ocular implant that records everything they see. The implant provides an augmented-reality head-up display to the user with information about anyone and anything they may see, as well as recording the user's view. Investigations into crimes amount to detectives reviewing video and assessing whether an alleged perpetrator is innocent or guilty.
Sal Friedland, a detective with the metropolitan police force, crosses paths with a young woman who appears to trigger a glitch in his ocular implant, as no data about her is retrieved. When he reviews his own record of that day, he finds that every single frame of her has been mysteriously deleted. At work, Sal is handed several homicide cases where the victims' own visual records of their deaths are replaced with the killer's point of view, thus hiding the killer's identity. At another murder scene, Sal chases the apparent killer only to nearly be killed when they hack his implant and change what he sees in real time.
themafia 1 days ago [-]
> refuses to get a driving license because he wouldn't want a photo of himself in a database.
I refuse to get a "RealID" for nearly the same reasons.
mcv 1 days ago [-]
Not surprising at all. It's a form of dazzle camouflage that has previously been shown to confuse facial recognition[0]. It's probably possible to design it to be more effective yet less intrusive than juggalo makeup.
I would have actually expected it to be more popular by now.
What this really shows is how brittle a lot of facial recognition systems are once the input stops looking like the clean training set. It does not take some magical anti-AI trick. A small shift in landmark geometry, contrast, or occlusion is often enough to push confidence off a cliff.
The hard part is not recognizing a well-lit passport-style face. The hard part is deciding how the system should fail when the real world gets messy or adversarial. If the fallback is bad, you either lock out legitimate users or quietly accept weak matches.
That is why I think the useful benchmark is not top-line accuracy. It is how gracefully the system handles weird, low-confidence, real-world inputs.
dylan604 24 hours ago [-]
Isn't being non-white good enough to not be identified as you? Sure, you might get identified as someone else altogether, but that's moving the goal posts from just not being identified. /s
deltoidmaximus 1 days ago [-]
In Fall; or, Dodge in Hell by Neal Stephenson one of the characters happens by a group of young women wearing devices that project constantly changing colored light patterns onto their faces to prevent facial recognition tracking. It's barely even mentioned in the book but I wondered how viable that was of an idea. The character's only thought on the devices IIRC was that most people only occasionally wore them.
nervousvarun 1 days ago [-]
As with most things cyberpunk, Gibson also did this masterfully w/ the Panther Moderns, specifically Lupus Yonderboy. One of my favorite parts of Neuromancer is when Lupus has his interaction with Armitage and says (from the link below) "Lupus didn't bother to count it, being sure that 'Mr. Who' paid well to remain so, and not be a 'Mr. Name', which Armitage received as a threat."
Gibson (and later Stephenson) were prescient enough to realize that anonymity would be a commodity in the near future.
It would work until algorithms were adjusted to it, which would happen as soon as significant number of people started doing it. Colors are defeated by desaturating, which is no issue since most face recognition algos run on greyscale data anyways. Blotches of bright and dark are defeated, for example, by a high-pass filter (eg: edge detection) on the brightness data to filter out large blotches but keep small detail
soopypoos 1 days ago [-]
I wonder if I'm more likely to get denied entry wearing juggalo face or classic camo paint
QuantumNomad_ 1 days ago [-]
Depends. Are you attending an ICP concert, or a military reenactment convention, or something else entirely?
_doctor_love 1 days ago [-]
If it's the gathering, then all of the above is more or less true.
newcool1230 16 hours ago [-]
Family gathering
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zdp7 1 days ago [-]
You would want to test the camo. I suspect there is more than just changing ones appearance. I believe I've seen a story talking about not needing to see the entire face. You can still id people wearing neck gaiters and other face coverings if you can make out the facial contour. I think you needed about a third of the face uncovered. https://hyperverge.co/blog/masked-face-recognition/
Edit found a link pretty fast.
hallway_monitor 1 days ago [-]
Pretty sure gait analysis is as good as facial recognition. Maybe wearing shoes with weird heights would confuse it
MoonWalk 22 hours ago [-]
Or put a tack in the bottom of your foot so walking is painful as hell.
LooseMarmoset 24 hours ago [-]
I wonder if kawaii face paint would work
throwawaypath 1 days ago [-]
Did I accidentally sleep in a time machine? Front page of HN right now has articles on Juggalos and Afroman.
iguana_shine 1 days ago [-]
The Millennials are getting nostalgic
butlike 1 days ago [-]
It's so funny when a member of the younger generation comments. Younger generations are always trying to kill off the older generations. Both physically and metaphorically, too!
It makes sense in a way. If you were actually successful in doing that, you could finally make the world in your image instead of having to work around all those pesky "legacy" viewpoints that hold back the True Progress of the Younger Generation. But alas, the older generation still exists, because the younger can't do it.
But do continue with the passive aggressive comments. While it keeps me spry, you still get paid entry-level wages when you should be kings.
dlev_pika 1 days ago [-]
As a xennial I wish we had successfully “killed” the boomers, but instead we have 3 septuagenarians blowing shit up all over the world
We failed so hard
frereubu 1 days ago [-]
Yeah, great anticipation for the undoubtedly forward-looking xennial Mojtaba Khamenei in Iran.
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mystraline 1 days ago [-]
Gotta really "love" the fact that extremist Islamic country treats a whole host of people horribly (women, gays, non-muslims).
But if you say anything about it, you're an islamophobe.
Same way if you criticize Israel's actions, youre lambasted as a jew-hater. But at least now thats starting to change.
krsw 1 days ago [-]
Gotta really "love" the fact that bigots and xenophobes treat a whole host of religions and regions horribly.
To them Islamic or Arab is monoculture.
Same way all countries in the Mid East are all barbaric and savage. But at least now thats starting to change.
butlike 1 days ago [-]
Gotta really "love" the fact that "bigots and xenophobes" is its own overly-broad brush
TurdF3rguson 20 hours ago [-]
Yeah, like how did the guy that doesn't want women and gays to be oppressed become the bigot / xenophobe?
mystraline 24 hours ago [-]
I am OK with you personally practicing a religion and its rules.
I am NOT OK with you forcing me to follow some religion's rules.
And yes, I will look down on countries whom choose to force a specific religion on everyone. We can look in our own backyard, with multiple abortion bans, which lead to many women dying due to miscarriage and needing abortion. Was illegal (cause of baby Jesus, spit) so women died.
Or we can look at Saudi Arabia school fire in 2002 where the girls didn't have headdresses and were shoved back in. They died due to radical Islamic bullshit. Or the idea of "Religious police".
Religion and government should never mix. Not ever. Our founding fathers and Marx were all right about that.
krapp 1 days ago [-]
Because people in the former group don't criticize those countries, they criticize Islam, and tend to categorize all Muslims (specifically Muslim immigrants) as ontologically evil.
Meanwhile people in the latter group tend to be very specific that their criticism is of a state and its policies, rather than the religion of Judaism or Jews in general, even though their efforts tend to fall on deaf ears.
throwawaypath 5 hours ago [-]
>they criticize Islam, and tend to categorize all Muslims (specifically Muslim immigrants) as ontologically evil.
Islam is ontologically evil. People who believe in ontologically evil are ontologically evil people.
In before you whataboutism Christianity/Judaism.
krapp 4 hours ago [-]
So people who believe in ontological evil are themselves ontologically evil.
But because you believe this, you yourself believe in ontological evil, and therefore are ontologically evil.
Weird flex but OK.
throwawaypath 3 hours ago [-]
>But because you believe this, you yourself believe in ontological evil, and therefore are ontologically evil.
Observing Islam does not make one Islamic. Observing ontological evil does not make one ontological evil.
>Weird flex but OK.
Dumb flex but OK.
krapp 3 hours ago [-]
>Observing Islam does not make one Islamic. Observing ontological evil does not make one ontological evil.
No, by your own words, "People who believe in ontological[sic] evil are ontologically evil people"
If you believe that Islam is ontologically evil, you believe in ontological evil.
Ipso facto you are an ontologically evil person.
This is basic kindergarten logic if it doesn't get through to you I don't know what to say.
"Observing Islam does not make one Islamic" is not an equivalent statement. You did not make a subjective statement about observation, you made an objective statement about belief.
>Dumb flex but OK.
I agree. It was dumb - "only Sith deal in absolutes" level stupid, and I don't know why you came back to double down on it.
throwawaypath 2 hours ago [-]
>No, by your own words, "People who believe in ontological[sic] evil are ontologically evil people"
Yes, people who believe in ontologically evil beliefs (such as Islam) are ontologically evil people. Not belief in the concept of ontologically, this is a misattribution error on your part.
>If you believe that Islam is ontologically evil, you believe in ontological evil.
Islam is an ontologically evil as I stated above. I believe in ontological evil as a concept, but that does not make me ontologically evil.
Ipso facto you are misattributing this to ontologically evil as a concept. This is basic kindergarten logic and contextual understanding if it doesn't get through to you I don't know what to say.
QED.
>"Observing Islam does not make one Islamic" is not an equivalent statement
Yes it as, as the first sentence was "Islam is [an] ontologically evil [religion]."
>I agree. It was dumb
Glad you agree your flex was dumb, "ackchyually" level stupid, then you came back to triple down on it.
Maybe you're right though, no chance "The Religion of Peace" could be unpeaceful.
butlike 1 days ago [-]
We hate the demagogue for being a demagogue and their followers for being stupid.
mystraline 1 days ago [-]
Indeed, it both feels like the same type of pro-theocratic propaganda. Its a way to disingenuously claim "you hate everyone of our group", when thats demonstrably not true. You likely hate the actions a country masquerading as the group inflicts against others.
My disdain is for all theocratic countries. I dont particularly care for any religion that takes over a government.
And I do include the USA in that, as theocratic fundamentalist christanity. Ive done so since changing the pledge of allegience and adding "in god we trust" on the currency.
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burningChrome 1 days ago [-]
What would you change?
masfuerte 1 days ago [-]
Look on the bright side. In three months Trump won't be a septuagenarian any more.
cucumber3732842 1 days ago [-]
They're getting old, and with that enough of them are getting rich. And that makes them worth pandering to so they can be parted from their money. See for example all the commercials that feature 90s crap and political talking points intended to appeal to them.
stronglikedan 1 days ago [-]
On a side note, sleep is indistinguishable from time travel.
oceansky 1 days ago [-]
The early 2000s are back baby
conductr 20 hours ago [-]
It’s weird, my favorite band has been Deftones forever and I think they’re more popular now than they ever were back then. I thought rock died but it’s having a bit of a moment again.
Went to the zoo with family yesterday and saw so many kids wearing Deftones shirts. I told my wife “it’s like when us kids in the 90s wore shirts from the doors or the beatles.”
defective 1 days ago [-]
Hilary Duff just released a new album too.
jp191919 1 days ago [-]
Let's not bring back Windows ME
MoonWalk 22 hours ago [-]
But let's bring back XP.
TurdF3rguson 20 hours ago [-]
If it's early 2000s I'm still on Windows 95
marcosdumay 1 days ago [-]
Compared to 11?
bacchusracine 1 days ago [-]
I'm thinking...give me a minute....
marcosdumay 1 days ago [-]
Take your time. It's updating...
oceansky 1 days ago [-]
Well, the local file search is much better on ME at least.
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ChrisMarshallNY 1 days ago [-]
I guess LiveNation won't be running ICP concerts, then...
world2vec 1 days ago [-]
They'll just charge an additional makeup fee...
Larrikin 1 days ago [-]
In 2018 it was already common knowledge that gait analysis was more accurate than facial recognition at the time. This would have been defeatable then.
water-data-dude 1 days ago [-]
Gait recognition is also easier to defeat. All you need is to put something like a few pebbles or coins in one of your shoes
wiml 18 hours ago [-]
Is there support for this idea? I've seen it in plenty of novels, but I'd want some stats on how it affects a known, relatively modern, deployed gait recognition system.
giancarlostoro 1 days ago [-]
This video provides other suggestions gets good at around 1:15 ;)
I think dazzle camouflage is best understood as having limited scope of application as pertains to face recognition. It shouldn't be regarded as failing within its intended scope on account of gait analysis. Everyone knows you have to learn the juggalo dance moves to go along with the face paint.
beepbooptheory 1 days ago [-]
How are everyone's gaits being collected? Is there gait databases at the NSA? Not being skeptical! Honestly very interesting.
angiolillo 1 days ago [-]
DARPA projects from more than a decade ago (VSAM/WAMI for arial platforms like Gorgon Stare) used arial imagery to capture ground shadows for gait tracking purposes.
From chatting with some of the researchers many years ago my understanding is that it usually wasn't accurate enough for unique identification and the gait shadow was dependent on shoe type and clothing, so a persistent gait shadow database wouldn't have been useful. But it could be correlated with ground-based surveillance for identification, for example person A and B were identified on a ground-based security camera entering a building, then gait tracking could be used to monitor where they went after they left the building even if they avoided ground-based security cameras after that point.
We only have discussions of the Chinese rolling out gait tracking widely. Basically you use existing facial databases to match ids to people in observed areas and capture their gait as they pass observed areas. Then it goes into the database. Using partial matching (non ideal observation of gait or face) allows for greater positive matching in non-ideal circumstances.
MoonWalk 22 hours ago [-]
To match ids to people? I'd think you'd match superegos.
nemomarx 1 days ago [-]
You could compare gaits between footage of a crime and footage of you in another public place, probably?
I don't think I've heard of it being used though.
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adamsmark 23 hours ago [-]
Whoop! Whoop!
Need to disappear? Just go to the Gathering and find your new family. Pay for protection with Faygo.
I focused on facebook’s detector (not recognizer) for reasons explained in the intro, but face rec has come a long way since then.
bigfishrunning 1 days ago [-]
Miracles all around us
1-more 1 days ago [-]
Here's the thing about "fucking magnets; how do they work?" How do magnets work? No less a science communicator than Richard Feynman—he of the rubber sheet gravity spacetime analogy—had no analogy to communicate why ferromagnetism creates attraction and repulsion. Here's his incredibly shaggy dog non-answer to the question about how magnets work wherein he says that there are no pat answers to "why" questions. He gets to the money line: "I cannot explain that attraction in terms of anything else that's familiar to you" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MO0r930Sn_8
So I will defend that line in the song. I will only accept answers from people who can explain why ferromagnetism works to me assuming I know how electromagnets create magnetic fields.
mikrl 1 days ago [-]
And I don’t wanna talk to a scientist
Y’all MFs unable to address the replication crisis, and getting me pissed
Forgeties79 1 days ago [-]
You could throw on the SNL skit or the real video and frankly I wouldn’t be able to tell the difference
beau_g 1 days ago [-]
It would be interesting to first create a taxonomy of juggalo face paint patterns a la aruco markers/April tags, then see if a sufficiently large crowd of juggalos could be used to calibrate cameras
nailer 1 days ago [-]
> a sufficiently large crowd of juggalos
Some kind of gathering of the Juggalos?
hackitup7 1 days ago [-]
I'll make sure to wear my Juggalo makeup the next time I visit China to avoid their face scanning technology. That'll surely help me blend into the background.
pgporada 1 days ago [-]
Whoop whoop
vondur 23 hours ago [-]
I was hoping my corpse paint would also be effective at blocking facial recognition too.
refulgentis 1 days ago [-]
Clickbait, it’s a couple tweets microwaved and the 3rd paragraph is “well, except for modern facial recognition”
everdrive 1 days ago [-]
This feels like the real-life equivalent of that old Family Guy joke where Peter is with a squad of dudes in Vietnam but is dressed like a clown. He says something to the effect of "You guys are stupid. They're going to be looking for army guys." Outside of the absurdity of the situation, the joke is that the guy dressed as a clown obviously stands out even more.
Juggalo makeup might block some facial recognition tech, but you also paint a huge target on yourself.
I genuinely believe there's an xkcd for everything. I was only reading about the creator, Randall Munroe a few days ago and he's clearly very talented.
fer 1 days ago [-]
>covering features impacts accuracy of feature-based classifiers
More new at 9. Plus it's from 2019.
wr639 1 days ago [-]
So maybe they may be smarter then they get credited for being. Probably not. But now anyone feeling uncomfortable about facial recognition tech now know what they can do to combat it if they chose. One question. Can you get thru the airport and onto a plan wearing the makeup?
seanhunter 9 hours ago [-]
Pro: You can get through the airport and onto a plan.
Con: It's the guantanamo bay weight reduction plan.
schmeichel 1 days ago [-]
Where my Juggalos at??
NickC25 1 days ago [-]
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, sitting behind the resolute desk. That person wears more makeup than some of the performers on RuPaul's Drag Race.
1-more 1 days ago [-]
Detroit rap rock neatly broke along the prevailing political tendencies in the US
1. Kid Rock is the MAGA candidate. This makes sense: he was the scion the owner of many car dealerships and grew up in a house with an apple orchard and a horse stable but claims to be salt of the earth focused on kitchen table issues and also endless moneyed personal delight. Great article on the 2023 NADA convention, btw: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/05/rich-republicans...
2. Juggalos went lumpenprole left. Bad optics, problematic past statements, ultimately proudly unsophisticatedly populist
3. Eminem made "awfully hot coffee pot" and Rachel Maddow and Keith Olbermann went apeshit for it. MSNBC lib.
_doctor_love 1 days ago [-]
I'm not sure if I totally agree but this is an amazing breakdown.
1-more 24 hours ago [-]
The thing about Eminem is that I would have just as easily lumped him in with South Park Man-bear-pig style "actually it's square to care about politics" but "awfully hot coffee pot" having already made "Mosh" put it over the edge.
TurdF3rguson 20 hours ago [-]
Now I'm thinking Juggalo makeup would have kept a lot of Jan 6 rioters out of the pokey. And it would have really spiced up that riot, if I'm being honest.
nathan_compton 1 days ago [-]
Don't sully the good name of Juggalos this way.
garciansmith 1 days ago [-]
"By the time Presidents Jay and Dope were elected, western civilization had officially fucked itself over forever, and I think everyone knew it."
https://homestuck.com/006765
lucasay 1 days ago [-]
I’m more curious about how robust this is against modern systems.
A lot of newer facial recognition models are trained on occlusions, masks, and heavy makeup — so this might be less effective than people assume.
saalweachter 1 days ago [-]
It's not actually an oversight or training failure; as one of the six societies which secretly rule the world, the Juggalos simply demand to be exempt from facial recognition.
atomicnumber3 1 days ago [-]
Juggalos, bronies, 9th doctor fans, billionaires, royals (baseball team), and royals (landed nobility)?
saalweachter 1 days ago [-]
In _Inside Job_, it was Juggalos, the Illuminati, the Catholic Church, Cognito Inc [the main feature of the show, kind of the Deep State], the Atlanteans, and the Reptoids.
wiml 18 hours ago [-]
It really is past time for another expansion set for Illuminati.
amanaplanacanal 1 days ago [-]
I'm wondering how well the Zenni optical ID guard coatings actually work.
stackghost 1 days ago [-]
It's likely that e.g. wifi-based gait analysis can be deployed to defeat this.
The only saving grace is you can't run that against video surveillance footage.
fc417fc802 1 days ago [-]
But you can run video-based gait analysis against video surveillance footage. You can also index physical fingerprints other than the face.
Maybe I should start wearing a hazmat suit with an opaque faceplate whenever I leave the house.
Findecanor 1 days ago [-]
(2019) ... but sadly increasingly relevant.
mixmastamyk 1 days ago [-]
Sounds like a lot of work. Are Groucho glasses effective, perhaps with obscured lenses?
dsiegel2275 1 days ago [-]
Also blocks magnets.
yacin 1 days ago [-]
maybe it's just from being covered in Faygo?
alexjplant 1 days ago [-]
Faygo is unironically delicious. They used to sell them for $1 a pop (Midwestern pun intended) on the East Coast in gas stations. Diet varieties of Orange, Moon Mist, and Root Beer were personal favorites.
No idea whether this is still the case as I haven't been in a Sheetz in years.
bityard 1 days ago [-]
Most grocery stores still sell Faygo in Michigan. But you rarely see more than the most popular 3 or so (boring) flavors. I remember there being at least a half-dozen different Faygo flavors at every kid's birthday party in the 80's.
grimgrin 24 hours ago [-]
you just called rock 'n rye a boring flavor??
it's one of the regulars here i'd say. in my head i see cola/rye/cream as the "always available" at convenient stores etc
bityard 22 hours ago [-]
Yeah I guess you're right.. Rock-N-Rye and Cream Soda are actually pretty great.
HardwareLust 1 days ago [-]
Sheetz quit carrying Faygo long ago, at least in and around Philly.
dyauspitr 21 hours ago [-]
It will probably fool video only face recognition but it’s harder to fool LIDAR.
PaulHoule 1 days ago [-]
... reminds me of the time I was in Quebec and there was a Montréal Canadiens game near my hotel and there was a fan taking up most of the elevator because he was dressed up like a player, mask and all!
FrustratedMonky 1 days ago [-]
With facial recognition camaras everywhere.
Might be time become a juggalo.
general_reveal 1 days ago [-]
Fucking magnets and shit, how do they even work?
tinfoilhatter 1 days ago [-]
Remember kids - don't pick up any currency lying on the ground at an ICP concert. It most likely has poop on it.
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So, contextually, a constitutional amendment to force private and public use of Juggalo Makeup?
It’s extreme, but bold change requires bold steps.
> The Juggalo story, or Dark Carnival mythology, is the overarching narrative conceptualized by the hip-hop duo Insane Clown Posse (ICP)—Violent J and Shaggy 2 Dope. It tells the story of a spirit world that judges the wicked, selfish, and cruel members of society, acting as a morality play meant to guide listeners toward a better life before "the end"
These are some big rocks you'll need to move, otherwise your amendment won't be worth the paper it's written on. Just saying "you can collect all the data, but don't use it for surveillance" doesn't mean much.
I have no solutions, feels like we missed the boat if there ever was an opportunity to prevent it in the first place. We live in public now.
Maybe I’m daft but what does this mean?
You had me right up until that sentence. Good one.
As long as the recordings aren't centrally stored and sold in bulk, and sold to brokers and governments, that would still be ok.
Otherwise there could not be states with two-party/all-party consent requirements for making an recording.
I think requiring all-party consent for facial recognition would not have 1st amendment issues.
Implementation details and effectiveness are, of course, very different issues.
Cameras at main stations and within trains, only store their data for 24 and gets deleted afterwards afair, as long as it's not requested by some entity that a specific recording should be retained.
Cameras are legal and too useful to ban. Facial recognition is just software.
And it's getting easier to make. There are open source solutions for facial recognition.
Yes, but that's just restating the problem.
I think bribery, blackmail, and extortion have a bit to do with it to.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Private_Eye
In the near future, humanity lives in a technologically advanced, dystopian society. The government requires that everyone receive an ocular implant that records everything they see. The implant provides an augmented-reality head-up display to the user with information about anyone and anything they may see, as well as recording the user's view. Investigations into crimes amount to detectives reviewing video and assessing whether an alleged perpetrator is innocent or guilty.
Sal Friedland, a detective with the metropolitan police force, crosses paths with a young woman who appears to trigger a glitch in his ocular implant, as no data about her is retrieved. When he reviews his own record of that day, he finds that every single frame of her has been mysteriously deleted. At work, Sal is handed several homicide cases where the victims' own visual records of their deaths are replaced with the killer's point of view, thus hiding the killer's identity. At another murder scene, Sal chases the apparent killer only to nearly be killed when they hack his implant and change what he sees in real time.
I refuse to get a "RealID" for nearly the same reasons.
I would have actually expected it to be more popular by now.
[0] https://adam.harvey.studio/cvdazzle/
The hard part is not recognizing a well-lit passport-style face. The hard part is deciding how the system should fail when the real world gets messy or adversarial. If the fallback is bad, you either lock out legitimate users or quietly accept weak matches.
That is why I think the useful benchmark is not top-line accuracy. It is how gracefully the system handles weird, low-confidence, real-world inputs.
Gibson (and later Stephenson) were prescient enough to realize that anonymity would be a commodity in the near future.
https://williamgibson.fandom.com/wiki/Lupus_Yonderboy
Really excited to see what Apple does with these guys in the upcoming adaptation.
Edit found a link pretty fast.
It makes sense in a way. If you were actually successful in doing that, you could finally make the world in your image instead of having to work around all those pesky "legacy" viewpoints that hold back the True Progress of the Younger Generation. But alas, the older generation still exists, because the younger can't do it.
But do continue with the passive aggressive comments. While it keeps me spry, you still get paid entry-level wages when you should be kings.
We failed so hard
But if you say anything about it, you're an islamophobe.
Same way if you criticize Israel's actions, youre lambasted as a jew-hater. But at least now thats starting to change.
To them Islamic or Arab is monoculture.
Same way all countries in the Mid East are all barbaric and savage. But at least now thats starting to change.
I am NOT OK with you forcing me to follow some religion's rules.
And yes, I will look down on countries whom choose to force a specific religion on everyone. We can look in our own backyard, with multiple abortion bans, which lead to many women dying due to miscarriage and needing abortion. Was illegal (cause of baby Jesus, spit) so women died.
Or we can look at Saudi Arabia school fire in 2002 where the girls didn't have headdresses and were shoved back in. They died due to radical Islamic bullshit. Or the idea of "Religious police".
Religion and government should never mix. Not ever. Our founding fathers and Marx were all right about that.
Meanwhile people in the latter group tend to be very specific that their criticism is of a state and its policies, rather than the religion of Judaism or Jews in general, even though their efforts tend to fall on deaf ears.
Islam is ontologically evil. People who believe in ontologically evil are ontologically evil people.
In before you whataboutism Christianity/Judaism.
But because you believe this, you yourself believe in ontological evil, and therefore are ontologically evil.
Weird flex but OK.
Observing Islam does not make one Islamic. Observing ontological evil does not make one ontological evil.
>Weird flex but OK.
Dumb flex but OK.
No, by your own words, "People who believe in ontological[sic] evil are ontologically evil people"
If you believe that Islam is ontologically evil, you believe in ontological evil.
Ipso facto you are an ontologically evil person.
This is basic kindergarten logic if it doesn't get through to you I don't know what to say.
"Observing Islam does not make one Islamic" is not an equivalent statement. You did not make a subjective statement about observation, you made an objective statement about belief.
>Dumb flex but OK.
I agree. It was dumb - "only Sith deal in absolutes" level stupid, and I don't know why you came back to double down on it.
Yes, people who believe in ontologically evil beliefs (such as Islam) are ontologically evil people. Not belief in the concept of ontologically, this is a misattribution error on your part.
>If you believe that Islam is ontologically evil, you believe in ontological evil.
Islam is an ontologically evil as I stated above. I believe in ontological evil as a concept, but that does not make me ontologically evil.
Ipso facto you are misattributing this to ontologically evil as a concept. This is basic kindergarten logic and contextual understanding if it doesn't get through to you I don't know what to say.
QED.
>"Observing Islam does not make one Islamic" is not an equivalent statement
Yes it as, as the first sentence was "Islam is [an] ontologically evil [religion]."
>I agree. It was dumb
Glad you agree your flex was dumb, "ackchyually" level stupid, then you came back to triple down on it.
Maybe you're right though, no chance "The Religion of Peace" could be unpeaceful.
My disdain is for all theocratic countries. I dont particularly care for any religion that takes over a government.
And I do include the USA in that, as theocratic fundamentalist christanity. Ive done so since changing the pledge of allegience and adding "in god we trust" on the currency.
Went to the zoo with family yesterday and saw so many kids wearing Deftones shirts. I told my wife “it’s like when us kids in the 90s wore shirts from the doors or the beatles.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVSOHGGgKD4
From chatting with some of the researchers many years ago my understanding is that it usually wasn't accurate enough for unique identification and the gait shadow was dependent on shoe type and clothing, so a persistent gait shadow database wouldn't have been useful. But it could be correlated with ground-based surveillance for identification, for example person A and B were identified on a ground-based security camera entering a building, then gait tracking could be used to monitor where they went after they left the building even if they avoided ground-based security cameras after that point.
I don't think I've heard of it being used though.
Need to disappear? Just go to the Gathering and find your new family. Pay for protection with Faygo.
I focused on facebook’s detector (not recognizer) for reasons explained in the intro, but face rec has come a long way since then.
So I will defend that line in the song. I will only accept answers from people who can explain why ferromagnetism works to me assuming I know how electromagnets create magnetic fields.
Y’all MFs unable to address the replication crisis, and getting me pissed
Some kind of gathering of the Juggalos?
Juggalo makeup might block some facial recognition tech, but you also paint a huge target on yourself.
More new at 9. Plus it's from 2019.
Con: It's the guantanamo bay weight reduction plan.
1. Kid Rock is the MAGA candidate. This makes sense: he was the scion the owner of many car dealerships and grew up in a house with an apple orchard and a horse stable but claims to be salt of the earth focused on kitchen table issues and also endless moneyed personal delight. Great article on the 2023 NADA convention, btw: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/05/rich-republicans...
2. Juggalos went lumpenprole left. Bad optics, problematic past statements, ultimately proudly unsophisticatedly populist
3. Eminem made "awfully hot coffee pot" and Rachel Maddow and Keith Olbermann went apeshit for it. MSNBC lib.
The only saving grace is you can't run that against video surveillance footage.
Maybe I should start wearing a hazmat suit with an opaque faceplate whenever I leave the house.
No idea whether this is still the case as I haven't been in a Sheetz in years.
it's one of the regulars here i'd say. in my head i see cola/rye/cream as the "always available" at convenient stores etc
Might be time become a juggalo.