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US CBP has installed facial recognition software at over 175 airports in the USA to scan arriving passengers:

https://www.wired.com/story/face-recognition-banned-but-everywhere/

this was tweeted september 7th. it's still accurate, more than 90 days later, during yet another huge wave. tests are not widely available, and where they are, they cost 3-5x this amount.

america is dumb

does anyone know of a pixelfed client for any mobile OS that works and does not crash?

pretty sure Bezos read The Machine Stops and decided to build the machine

for reference the most expensive apple phone right now (1tb iphone 13 pro max unlocked) is $1600

and people say apple phones are expensive

the signal client is now panhandling. sweet.

wish this were open source so i could patch out the ads.

spacex just launched a turkish communications satellite into geostationary orbit yesterday from florida. this means the operators had to send the satellite to florida first to be launched; do non-US governments usually send minders/guards with their satellites to monitor them 24/7 from delivery to launch so NSA/CIA can't add firmware goodies?

this continues to slay me

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29373436

ITT: people who don't know how to do math

https://old.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/rgyuh5/after_30_years_of_mortgage_payments_i_paid_it_off/

it's astounding the level of financial illiteracy in the USA

i hope to be enough of a baller one day that the nyt knows not to capitalize my nick