This bodycam video shows the aftermath of a wrongful arrest where police relied heavily on an AI facial recognition match, leading to an innocent man being taken into custody. The clip highlights not just a specific incident, but a broader problem with emerging policing tools that can produce false positives with serious consequences.
I think banning IPs is a treadmill you never really get off of. Between cloud providers, VPNs, CGNAT, and botnets, you spend more time whack-a-moling than actually stopping abuse. What’s worked better for me is tarpitting or just confusing the hell out of scrapers so they waste their own resources.
What I’d really love to see - but probably never will—is companies joining forces to share data or support open projects like Common Crawl. That would raise the floor for everyone. But, you know… capitalism, so instead we all reinvent the wheel in our own silos.
Meshtastic is fun but limited—more of a radio chat app than real mesh infrastructure. If you're serious about decentralized comms, check out Reticulum: https://reticulum.network
It’s not limited to LoRa—Reticulum works over IP, serial, packet radio, or whatever you have. Delay-tolerant, multi-hop, encrypted, no servers needed. Still lots of work to do and apps to build, but the foundation is solid.