miike

everybody selling dreams but I'm too cheap to buy one

[miike @meme_mike]

@MrBeast 1,250,999

[miike @meme_mike]

It just keeps getting better 🙃

[DeFlock @therealDeFlock]

Enjoy!

"SignalTrace is designed to help law enforcement identify people of interest by the signals emitted from their electronic devices they travel with, such as fitness trackers, smartwatches, RFID tags, and local signals from their mobile phones...

[Nav Toor @heynavtoor]

Amazon Ring died on May 22, 2026.

It just doesn't know yet.

One dad in Nashville, Tennessee built a free MIT-licensed app that watches your driveway, your porch, your baby monitor, your garage.

No cloud. No subscription. No cop ever gets the footage.

32,057 stars. 3,103 forks. Pushed today.

Here is the wildest part:

You: "How much is Ring Protect Pro?"
Ring: "$19.99 a month. $199.99 a year. Per house."

You: "How much is Google Home Premium Advanced?"
Google: "$20 a month. $200 a year. Per house."

You: "What do I get?"
Both: "We store your footage in our cloud. Ring already paid the FTC $5.8 million in 2023 for letting employees and contractors watch your videos without your consent. Google just raised Nest prices again in 2025."

You: "What does Frigate cost?"
Blake Blackshear: "Nothing. It runs on the Raspberry Pi already on your shelf. The footage never leaves your house. I have a day job."

Ring sells the camera. Then sells your fear back to you, monthly, forever.

Frigate sells nothing. Because Blake isn't selling.

He's a dad with 1,267 followers who got tired of Amazon owning his front door.

100% Opensource.
100% Local.
100% Yours.

The smart camera industry made one bad assumption.

That you'd keep paying rent on a camera you already bought.

That assumption just died in Nashville.

[regular guy @regularguyguns]

Maybe you wonder why I, a mere gun blog, makes a big deal about Flock and similar tech?

OK here’s a real world situation that can easily happen and has likely happened.

Unfortunately to drive on public roads without getting hassled by the cops, your car needs a license plate. That’s tied to you, the owner of the vehicle.

Flock isn’t just a traffic camera, it’s an AI/ML enabled (wait for it) flock of cameras that transmit all their video and audio to the mothership. Not a government server somewhere but, to keep it simple, a big giant cloud computer instance owned and run by Flock, the company.

Government users, as well as Flock employees here in the US and overseas, can log in and query the system based on license plate number or even vehicle description and get a full history of that vehicle’s movements throughout the Flock network over multiple jurisdictions. Someone in New York can track a car from Armonk all the way to Homestead FL if they feel like it from the comfort of their desk.

On a daily level, someone can get a pretty accurate picture of someone’s life just by monitoring their movements via Flock. And I’m using this example to rattle the cage of the “back the blue unconditionally” crowd in 2A.

OK - your car has license plate ABC 123 - and Flock knows this. Someone can enter your tag in Flock and see what you are doing on a daily basis. You leave your home where the neighborhood is under the Flock panopticon. Flock sees you drive to Dunkin’ on Main Street, then you drop your kid off at XYZ Daycare. Then you go to work at the local IT consulting firm in ZZZ industrial park. You go pick up a quick deli sandwich for lunch at Food Lion. You go back to work. On the way home you stop off at Bob’s Guns, and stay for 20 minutes while buying some ammo. Then you go home. Everywhere there’s a Flock camera.

Now Flock knows the following about you:

- You live at 123 Wisteria Lane
- Your kid is in daycare (means he’s likely under 5)
- You work at ZZZ
- You go cheap on lunch
- You own at least one gun

Your license plate is tied to you so they now have your name and assumed-to-be-private details of your life, like that you are armed.

On the reverse of that, the Flock camera outside of Bob’s Guns has been recording the plates of everyone going into the parking lot. No need for a firearms registry when Flock is doing the work.

All of this is done without a warrant and the data is available to anyone with a certain level of access to the system, whether it’s a cop, or a Flock technician in the Philippines. FYI Flock uses overseas contractors for support and AI annotation.

The 2018 Carpenter decision at SCOTUS ruled that pervasive surveillance where one can divine private details of someone’s life is a 4th Amendment violation in absence of a specific warrant.

Flock is illegal, unconstitutional and immoral.

And a danger to everyone, not just gun owners.

[Ziwen @ziwenxu_]

Claude just killed Microsoft Copilot for good.

[Atrioc @Atrioc]

we are reaching levels of debt and gambling that are truly a wonder to behold

[miike @meme_mike]

.@WVFRM trading in the Subaru today and i’ll never forget this monstrosity of a volume graphic

[miike @meme_mike]

@offtherecord267 @rsuyoy replace it with alfred or similar tool. i love alfred. 10x faster

[Marques Brownlee @MKBHD]

Hot take: it has never been more important in history to have REAL photos and videos come from smartphone cameras

[Creatrix @creatrix_ttv]

My old school sorority girl hot take that no one asked for:

Until society can understand the psychological benefits of hazing, we’re going to keep producing weak infantilized adults.

Humans crave rites of passage.

The point of hazing is to mark a transition, to build trust, test commitment, forge strong bonds, etc, etc.

Everything you experience has been experienced by those who came before you, and every experience is meant to instill a deeper lesson. (even if it looks or feels retarded in the moment or to an outsider.)

Your belonging within the group is earned, because you can only truly value what has cost you something.

This shared vulnerability accelerates bonding, a few weeks of collective stress creates more cohesion than years of casual socializing, and it's a beautiful thing when done correctly.

It weeds out the psychologically weak, and this is GOOD because it is MEANT to be exclusionary.

TLDR: Hazing can be amazing and these dudes (probably) did nothing wrong.

I stand with Alpha Delta Phi!

[Dr. Clayton Forrester @DrClaytonForre1]

College was always meant for the top 10% of the population in terms of IQ. That's why it was prestigious and improved a person's lifetime earnings. But that was long ago. College today has degenerated into a grift, conning students and parents into believing that just getting a degree from any college will confer these advantages. It doesn't. There's a huge shakeout coming in high education.

[gabsmashh @gabsmashh]

to the surprise of absolutely no one

[Boring_Business @BoringBiz_]

Realizing that the Federal Reserve has been doing the exact same thing with the U.S. dollar for many decades now

[miike @meme_mike]

@oasishealthapp @grok is this true?

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

That is the objective reality

[Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson]

It’s almost been 24 hours and not a single Corporate Media outlet has had anything to say about this.

Funny how that works.
https://t.co/yYCaq46ohW

[miike @meme_mike]

@kevinhillinger is there way to contact regarding homebridge-tapo-smarthome ? I have a dual outdoor plug I would love to get functional. can provide any logs or config needed. thank you in advance

[JohnRocker @itsJohnRocker]

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[miike @meme_mike]

@BambulabGlobal You’re lying, miscommnucating, and harming your user base. I hope you take a big step back and reevaluate your changes. I’ll be moving to another brand going forward if not.

[miike @meme_mike]

@BambulabGlobal has ruined their printer ecosystem in the name of "security" meanwhile denying users of features when using LAN-only mode. Sad.