Raspberry Pi hires a policeman. FOSS users angry. - Also a case study into why the main mastodon instances are shit.

[The Mat Harris]

Note: Don't just jump into raspberry's instance. It litterally runs on a raspberry, you'll DDOS it very easily. Use the archive link.

Raspberry Pi :raspberrypi: (@Raspberry_Pi@raspberrypi.social)

Attached: 1 image We hired a policeman & it's going really great. Meet our #Maker in Residence @TobyRobertsPi@mastodon.social. "I was a #Surveillance Officer for 15 years, so I built stuff to hide covert video & audio gear. I’d disguise it as something else, like a piece of street furniture or...

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Raspberry Pi :raspberrypi:: "We hired a policeman & it's go…" - Raspb…

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I don't like government surveillance but holy crap the responses are something else.

It seems like the main issues come from social media stuff trying to be all funny and cool like we've seen on twitter

Some of the responses are deleted
Oh look here's hector martin.

Parody accounts popped up i guess

Troons on twitter also got into the action

https://mobile.twitter.com/molly0xFFF/status/1601037628450959360

Molly White on Twitter: "raspberry pi hired a cop who used raspberry …

archived 9 Dec 2022 06:17:07 UTC

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[Suburban Bastard]

Note: Don't just jump into raspberry's instance. It litterally runs on a raspberry, you'll DDOS it very easily.

That’s actually pretty funny ngl

Also lmfao, I always keep coming back to the question of what law and order looks like in their own ideal society.

 

[Blasterisk]

one wonders if the outrage would be so outspoken had they hired a private sector pi

 

[Dyn]

All cops are bastards and let them bagpipes play and all that good stuff but even so how the fuck does anyone care if an ex-cop gets a job building video cards or whatever the fuck these retards are mad about?

 

[Colon capital V]

Why would you announce what position someone had before saying they've joined their team? Like imagine if they said they let a cook join them, literally what is the point of adding that detail?

EDIT: Ninja'd

 

[Pee Cola]

Has anyone made a Raspberry Pig joke yet?

 

[F13 Key]

They're all just pissy it wasn't a Pi 5 or new stock announcement.

 

[byuu]

He glows.

 

[axfaxf]

>Builds cameras into "street furniture"
>Confirmed Fed pig
Wtf?

 

[Slightly Apathetic Mario]

I'll never understand linux fags.
>GUYS I DON'T WANT THE FEDS WATCHING ME, SO THAT'S WHY I USE LINUX
>Downloads Discord, Steam, and some pozzed web browser

 

[Ita Mori]

I'll never understand linux fags.
>GUYS I DON'T WANT THE FEDS WATCHING ME, SO THAT'S WHY I USE LINUX
>Downloads Discord, Steam, and some pozzed web browser

Don't forget uses twitter, tik tok and reddit premium.

It's the 2020's version of being alternative and listening to the same 12 grunge bands everyone else did in the 90s.

 

[AmpleApricots]

Super Mario Brothers.

 

[Rusty Metal Skull Gun]

Oh look here's hector martin.

How does he not have his own thread yet? He always has the worst takes imaginable.

Troons on twitter also got into the action

I think the consensus is that Molly is, surprisingly, an actual woman... though she certainly behaves like a troon.

 

[Fomo Hoire]

Why would you announce what position someone had before saying they've joined their team? Like imagine if they said they let a cook join them, literally what is the point of adding that detail?

EDIT: Ninja'd

They're trying to give the new dude some credibility by saying he's been using pis all along, he's one of them and he knows his way around, unlike the Mighty No 9 Community Manager. It just so happens that his previous occupation is part of the context of why he has been using pis in the first place.

If the cook was using pis to make bootleg burger flipping robots, that would be relevant for the same reason.

 

[Trans Fat 41g]

What makes these people think any hardware is safe from surveillance? Unless you do what Snowden and others have where you mutilate your hardware to the point of risking voltage instability, you're shit out of luck.

No amount of software tricks are going to be a permanent solution, if they ever could be at all.

 

[The Mat Harris]

What makes these people think any hardware is safe from surveillance? Unless you do what Snowden and others have where you mutilate your hardware to the point of risking voltage instability, you're shit out of luck.

No amount of software tricks are going to be a permanent solution, if they ever could be at all.

Well there is some hardware that isn't.
If hector martin, developer of asahi linux is to be believed the M1 and M2 platforms by apple have firmware that has no access to the network stack. All the spyware is in MacOS. That means that by installing linux on it you should get a device that is a pretty safe bet.

 

[Rusty Metal Skull Gun]

Well there is some hardware that isn't.
If hector martin, developer of asahi linux is to be believed the M1 and M2 platforms by apple have firmware that has no access to the network stack. All the spyware is in MacOS. That means that by installing linux on it you should get a device that is a pretty safe bet.

Assume of course that Martin himself doesn't glow in the dark. After all, Linus admitted to being pressured by glowies.

What makes these people think any hardware is safe from surveillance? Unless you do what Snowden and others have where you mutilate your hardware to the point of risking voltage instability, you're shit out of luck.

No amount of software tricks are going to be a permanent solution, if they ever could be at all.

My Kindle 3 has a microphone at the bottom - no-one has ever found out what it's for. There's no way to access it in the software.

 

[Miller]

People still support Raspberry? Even after 2014?

 

[Dr. Geronimo]

People still support Raspberry? Even after 2014?

Is there a good alternative to the pi?

 

[Trans Fat 41g]

Seriously, what else is carrying the Pi along except accessories and software?

The Raspberry Pi foundation is getting so comfortable in their position they're letting various tinker kit manufacturers and software distributions fume an outclassed SBC along, even the Zero 2W is horribly outclassed by boards of the same form factor released a year or two back. Relying on woke talking points doesn't give anyone hope that the Pi 5 will make a difference, besides being what most people default to when they hear "single board computer". The fact we don't get any important hints as to what will come is disparaging and reeks of a downward spiral to obsolescence.

Khadas, Odroid, Radxa, and Rock64 all offer options that actually take advantage of their given SoC, offer more hardware expansion, and logical I/O you'd come to expect a NUC to have. If you want to use a tiny little board as your main computer for some reason, everyone else had done it better than the Pi.