> Running around in the woods, firing small plastic pellets at other people
sounds like an environmental nightmare
What if I don't want videos of my hobby time available to the world?
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#672Earlier quoted context omitted.
We, a group of people living on a street where we get a lot of dangerous motorbikers passing our homes, started collecting these video's recently. Our goal is to get the roads closed for motorbikes, place bike-repelling infrastructure and to have police involved in the many cases of one-sided accidents. For that we need to convince local governments that motorbikes are misbehaving. So we now sift through instagram, y…
lol why do you want to punish all motorcycle riders instead of the actual people who are misbehaving....
New people will always be popping up to misbehave. Addressing the problem at the infrastructure level is the only way to ensure it's permanently solved.
Kind of like "why would you want to build a pedestrian bridge instead of just jailing the driver who hit someone at that intersection." The odds that it'll be the last time are basically zero.
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#673> Clearly, one should be able to exist in society, including going outside one’s own home, without needing to accept this kind of thing. This is not clear at all to me. When you go into public you’re accepting that you might be filmed. The reality is that you are being filmed constantly. It’s just that it bothers you sometimes. It reminds me of The Light of Other Days (a book about a society where technology makes an…
So you only have to worry about consequences from not-normal people, and that's the good news? EDIT: to bring a specific real-world example: A friend of mine does classes at a local studio that also offers martial arts courses, and some of the local right-wing bubble has gotten it in their head that this has to be "antifa combat training" and keeps screaming that this needs to be monitored. The current local governme…
No, you only have to worry about the consequences from everyone.
You certainly dont want the government defining “not normal” people. Or maybe you do!
Re: What if I don't want videos of my hobby time available to the world?
#674> Clearly, one should be able to exist in society, including going outside one’s own home, without needing to accept this kind of thing. This is not clear at all to me. When you go into public you’re accepting that you might be filmed. The reality is that you are being filmed constantly. It’s just that it bothers you sometimes. It reminds me of The Light of Other Days (a book about a society where technology makes an…
> Nearly everybody gets over it really quick and the world moves on. Perhaps this article being #1 on HN right now is evidence that your perspective is not the same as "nearly everybody" else
To be fair the sentence prior I thought made clear I was referencing the plot of the book.
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#675Earlier quoted context omitted.
> How would you solve the problem in large scale, low effort way? The problem is solved in a large scale low effort way (in many places)! If you are in public you can be legally filmed.
- I was at public park. There was an event. I remember there was a warning/poster/whatever - this place features XYZ and is being photographed. If you do not like, do not participate or stand here or something along the lines. - When kids came to my workplace as part of educational program to show how people work - we gave them out papers, adults had to give approval that their child will be photographed and photo sh…
Yes that all does seem like too much.
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#676Earlier quoted context omitted.
I did, have again, and still have no idea what you mean.
>> The platypus is a special animal because it lays eggs but nurses its young with milk. > I hear chickens lay eggs, too?
No. I just thought it was amusing/redundant to describe the UK as among the Anglo-Saxon sphere; your mock example is irrelevant - the point of mine was that 'US culture dominates the USA' is obvious, I wasn't just... I don't even understand what you think I was doing, just stating some random other fact?
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#677Earlier quoted context omitted.
You may need to define your terms more precisely. By “Blighty” are you referring to Great Britain, or a town in NSW, population 326? That seems to be a vast difference! And I am at a loss to imagine security guards checking invitations at a church door and giving heave-ho to the unworthy. What particular denominations have you polled on this? How many different types of ceremonies have you crashed?
It’s a 326 to 60,000,000 chance they are referring to NSW.
Do Englishmen frequently refer to “Blighty” in ordinary conversation?
I refer to my homeland as “The States” out of courtesy to those from Canada, UK, Australia, but I had to rack my brains, and Wikipedia, about “Blighty” because it seems archaic, stilted, and arcane in a tech forum.
I’ve heard England called a lot of things by its citizens, but I was under the impression that “Ol’ Blighty” died out with Queen Victoria.
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> So you won't consistently get basic human decency any longer. That's something which is extended to the in-group with which you have real social ties and obligations. This is nonsense. People started taking photos of crowds almost as soon as the camera was invented.
But back then 99.99% of those pictures did not get published anywhere.
That’s true, but what does publishing have to do with being indecent, and how does that relate to in-groups and out-groups?
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#679Genuinely curious: what concrete negative consequences are there from appearing in the background of other people’s photos/videos, in a full face mask no less? Is he afraid that someone will be able to identify him as engaging in a hobby that some people might be judgmental about, e.g. a potential employer finding the footage and concluding “this guy spends lots of time and money playing a children’s game; he’s clear…
> Genuinely curious: what concrete negative consequences are there from appearing in the background of other people’s photos/videos, in a full face mask no less?
How about if you're overweight, doing airsoft to try to get into shape, and bellyflop into some mud on video?
That's social media crack right there, boys and girls.
Can you understand why someone might not want that kind of thing posted?
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#680I get it, but the alternative is what? Get model release forms from anyone in a public space every time you turn your video camera on? Who's to say how much of you I have in the shot? Do you feature? Did you flash by? Are you blurred? Recognisable? I was shooting video of a car park exit last year. (I was trying to prove to the shopping centre owners that it was dangerous.) Mundane footage. Some lady drives out in he…
> I get it, but the alternative is what? Get model release forms from anyone in a public space every time you turn your video camera on? I find it interesting how the winds have changed on this topic. 5-10 years ago it was a hot topic in online tech spaces (HN, Reddit, Slashdot and adjacent sites) about preserving your rights to take photos and videos in public spaces. I can understand some people preferring not to b…
>I find it interesting how the winds have changed on this topic. 5-10 years ago it was a hot topic in online tech spaces (HN, Reddit, Slashdot and adjacent sites) about preserving your rights to take photos and videos in public spaces.
I don't know about that. Aroudn this time was the peak of "Glassholes" for those who remember that phenomenon. People really didn't want someone to be potentially, passively recording their conversation. Would that not be a thing should Google re-launch Google Glass today? That might be a real factor given how Meta is trying to push AR glasses.