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Magnetic film / ferofluid could also be in there

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Good idea

Feel free to add them if you would like, It’s not just MY thread, it is for everybody.

If anybody else has any more ideas, post them in

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careful with ferrofluid. getting a good clean result is a process. if you buy pre-made ferrofluid online itll be trash after a couple months. if i get some time ill do a small update on my little experiment with ferrofluid

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When is biocompatible ferofluid coming out? Asking for a friend

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Got a free implant, but it wasn’t to last

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Pointy end for easy installation.
Pretty clever.

Where did you aquire such a thing?

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Side of my foot,
Entire length of the object is 1 freedom unit, and it was entirely below skin


Had to seek assistance in it’s removal

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This one?

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No no, freedom unit, not freedom chunk

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How many bald eagles is that?

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Give or take 1/34th a bald eagle

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It would be1/35th if the eagle wasn’t bald

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What’s your experience with nebula?
As much as I enjoy YouTube they’re starting to tiktokify like every other platform and have given me more and more reasons lately to switch.
I just don’t know what to expect from other platforms and what the best choice is? I watch a variety of things from scientific content to gaming to art and am worried I won’t get that diversity on a smaller platform

(I have it in the background when doing other stuff so I have 5+h average daily watch time so I do run out of content quite often)

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Have you tried YouTube revanced? It will let you block ads, has sponsorblock integration, can hide features you don’t use like shorts, etc.

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I have YouTube premium so no ads. Which I’m okay with, paying a reasonable price for a service I use and enjoy a LOT.

I’ve tried a couple tools to remove stories but they are not super reliable and don’t really fix the issue, just cover it up. Also:
I disagree with YouTube’s policy, censorship, greediness and advertiser-centric behavior towards creators most of all and there’s no extension for that. Hence why the Nebula ads are appealing.

Also all of that does more harm to the creator than YouTube itself so I’m not 100% sold on tools like that even though I use adblock all the time.

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So a Canadian farmer found a crashed chunk of SpaceX debris and is trying to sell it to build a hockey rink.

Ya know, sometime the stereotypes ring true. Not always, but how very Canadian.

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license plate reader manufacturer claims to be able to read rfid tags (?) from moving vehicles

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In case anyone can’t get behind the paywall.

New Police Tech Can Detect Phones, Pet Trackers And Library Books In A Moving Car

Thomas Brewster

6 - 8 minutes

Italy-based Leonardo says its tool creates a fingerprint of drivers and passengers by scanning for anything that emits a signal from their car, from smartphones to library books.

Senior writer at Forbes covering cybercrime, privacy and surveillance.

Cars and devices within are beaconing information out constantly. Police and surveillance vendors are trying to take advantage.

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American police are testing a new technology that can scan moving vehicles for anything that emits a signal, including phones, smartwatches, cat and dog tracking chips and even library books, according to its creator, Rome, Italy-based surveillance, defense and aerospace company Leonardo.

The nascent technology, called Elsag EOC Plus, is typically incorporated into one of Leonardo’s Elsag license plate readers, though can be deployed as a standalone surveillance device, and is designed to help police monitor suspects as they move. But privacy advocates told Forbes the new technology could be abused to warrantlessly track people across large tranches of the country, learning more about them by identifying their belongings without their knowledge.

Leonardo claims the tool can identify specific models of devices like iPhones and Bose headphones inside moving vehicles, according to a marketing brochure from the Milipol conference in Paris last year. It can also identify unique signals emitted by pet chips, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth devices, wearable tech like fitness trackers, in-car infotainment systems and tire pressure sensors, and can even detect the RFID of a library book, according to the brochure. For law enforcement, all that data can be linked to a car’s license plate number, becoming a unique “fingerprint.” As a person travels through other license plate scanners, their fingerprint can be followed around a given area, even when the driver or passenger switches vehicles.

“It’s ripe for abuse not just because of how it could be used to track people, but it gives a cheat sheet of all electronic devices on a person.”

“As an example, while 30 cars in 100 may contain iPhones, only one will have an iPhone 13rev2, an Audi radio, a pair of Bose headphones, a Garmin sports watch, a key finder and the license plate ABC-1234. The collection of data represented by these specific things is an electronic signature,” Leonardo explained in its brochure.

Customers of the new technology may not be limited to police departments or public roads. Leonardo wrote in its brochure it could be useful in “off-road areas such as rail stations and shopping centers.” As Forbes reported earlier this month, malls across the U.S. are already equipped with AI-powered car surveillance technologies from Leonardo rival Flock Safety, and are feeding data straight to police agencies in a bid to catch shoplifters. Flock’s AI cameras similarly create “fingerprints” for different cars, but rather than scanning for devices inside, it looks at identifying features on a car beyond the license plate number, such as color, make, model, bumper stickers or wheel rims.

A Leonardo brochure marketing its new car surveillance technology.

Forbes

Leonardo spokesperson Nate Maloney told Forbes the company recently obtained a patent for the technology so it was “going full steam ahead” in trying to sell the product across the world. It currently has no paying customers, though confirmed at least one of its current license plate detection customers was trialing the tech in a test environment, Maloney said. He didn’t say which American police department was assisting in trials, but said they were not currently being used to surveil the public. The company claims to have over 4,000 customers for its Elsag license plate readers across the U.S.

Matthew Guariglia, policy analyst at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, said he couldn’t see how the police “would justify spending taxpayer money on this.”

“I have a hard time seeing a use case for a tech like this when police already have license plate readers,” he added. “It’s ripe for abuse not just because of how it could be used to track people, but it gives a cheat sheet of all electronic devices on a person.” Police could use this information to determine what devices to seize when stopping and searching an individual – especially concerning for activists and journalists at a protest, Guariglia said.

Maloney said that Leonardo would work with police agencies so they stayed within the bounds of the law. If an agency was not permitted to identify any devices within a car without a warrant, for instance, features could be turned off in the surveillance tool to prevent excessive data collection, he said. He noted the tool would not collect content from people’s devices. “We’re not going in and decrypting anything, these are just the signals in the air,” he added.

Last month, Byron Tau, reporter at Allbritton Journalism Institute’s nonprofit publication NOTUS, revealed that similar technology made by a German company called Jenoptik had been trialed by U.S. law enforcement in two Texas counties, though it’s unclear how widely it was deployed. (Jenoptik hadn’t responded to a request for comment at the time of publication.)

Guariglia said the new technologies were “Stingrays by another name.” Stingrays are surveillance tools also known as cell-site simulators, which pose as mobile cell towers to collect information about all phones in a given area. As Forbes previously reported, they’ve also been used to find cars. Because of their potential to harvest information on innocent citizens, they have proven highly contentious, leading some states to require warrants before they’re used.

The Leonardo tool also “tricks your device into pinging against it and uses it to track you wherever you go,” Guariglia said, adding, “Just because it’s pinging a different kind of signal doesn’t mean it’s any more innocuous.”

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