FoundFootFootage78

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  • The way Bunnings used facial recognition was as private as it could be … mostly. It is possible to run all of the facial recognition locally, but instead they run it on a central Bunnings-controlled server in Sydney. They only scan for faces of known offenders based on previous entanglements.

    My concern isn’t surveillance, but mass surveillance. Because this is exclusive to Bunnings it doesn’t quite reach mass surveillance, but because the processing is centralized and Bunnings is so big it edges dangerously close.

    This isn’t Flock, nor Palantir, nor Google.








  • I’ve changed DE multiple times, most of them are fine. KDE is a bit obtuse but it’s ultimately what I settled on because I want good built-in themes. If KDE didn’t exist I’d go with Xfce, followed by LXQt (never tried LXQt though).

    In terms of how important a DE is, I think picking the right distro is more important. This basically means staying away from anything Ubuntu or Ubuntu-based because in my experience those are the least stable.