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Flock CEO says drones are its fastest-growing business as it expands beyond license plate cameras
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FineCoatMummy sh.itjust.works FineCoatMummy@sh.itjust.works
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TLDR: Flock is moving beyond fixed roadside cameras, into drone surveilance.

With a fixed camera, you might be able to alter your travels to avoid it. In practice that is hard due to how many there are. But you can try. A drone can be anywhere. You prob won't even know it is present most of the time. You cannot change your routes to avoid it.

We now know that Flock does not log only plates. It also IDs pedestrians and cyclists, ppl on scooters or skateboards. It seeks to build a complete picture of the movements of a whole population.

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motionofethre piefed.social motionofethre@piefed.social
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Time to remind MAGA neighbors how to recognize islamic leftist Iranian drones

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StumblingWasabi lemmy.today StumblingWasabi@lemmy.today
Joined: 2026-04-27
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My favorite are drones with laser pointers that can point down at flock cameras and drones

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Mongostein lemmy.ca Mongostein@lemmy.ca
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Skeet shooting?

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shartgargle lemmy.zip shartgargle@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2026-08-09
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That dudes face is punchable AF.

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Pirate2377 lemmy.zip pirate2377@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2025-07-20
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Bruh, he has to be ragebaiting. Why else would he think this would be a good idea to say outloud?

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queermunist she/her lemmy.ml queermunist@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2023-07-10
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Bruh, he has to be ragebaiting. Why else would he think this would be a good idea to say outloud?

His chatbot told him it was a great idea.

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Em Adespoton lemmy.ca adespoton@lemmy.ca
Joined: 2023-06-04
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Time to remind MAGA neighbors how to recognize islamic leftist Iranian drones

Do flock drones cause tornadoes and hurricanes while peering in your bedroom windows?

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moldy_rice piefed.keyboardvagabond.com moldy_rice@piefed.keyboardvagabond.com
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Aaand we're gonna have drone dog fights now

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moldy_rice piefed.keyboardvagabond.com moldy_rice@piefed.keyboardvagabond.com
Joined: 2026-08-07
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Skeet shooting?

Drone dogfight

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WitchKnight lemmy.blahaj.zone WitchKnight@lemmy.blahaj.zone
Joined: 2026-07-05
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One day we'll all be like the kokiri with our own personal drone fairy to spy on every little thing we do and say and think for our corpo techno overlords

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Rhonda Sandtits lemmy.sdf.org RhondaSandTits@lemmy.sdf.org
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Helix 🧬 feddit.org helix@feddit.org
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Literally evil. How the fuck did we as a society arrive at people like this being successful?!

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eldavi lemmy.ml eldavi@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2023-07-18
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Literally evil. How the fuck did we as a society arrive at people like this being successful?!

capitalism rewards psychopathic behavior so long as it's profitable.

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ayyy sh.itjust.works ayyy@sh.itjust.works
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“Fastest growing” is such a BS business-brained fake metric. This could mean they went from selling two drones to selling 20 drones, a 10x growth!

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idriss lemmy.ml idriss@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2025-06-29
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“Fastest growing” is such a BS business-brained fake metric. This could mean they went from selling two drones to selling 20 drones, a 10x growth!
  • 100% drones imported from China and reprogrammed (his business will die the moment there will open competition)
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Helix 🧬 feddit.org helix@feddit.org
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capitalism rewards psychopathic behavior so long as it's profitable.

Yeah but why is it profitable? Their only customer base are other evil people. And in my experience, only a small percentage of people are evil. Yet they control so much.

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☂️- lemmy.ml umbrella@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2023-07-12
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drones are harder to destroy. makes sense with their stuff's popularity.

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eldavi lemmy.ml eldavi@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2023-07-18
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Yeah but why is it profitable? Their only customer base are other evil people. And in my experience, only a small percentage of people are evil. Yet they control so much.

a customer base of the richest people on the planet and, yes, there's only a small number of them. so small in fact that it's possible for us to overpower them.

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FreddiesLantern leminal.space FreddiesLantern@leminal.space
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skeet_shooting

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lemmingsareawesome sh.itjust.works lemmingsareawesome@sh.itjust.works
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gren waro

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Pandantic [they/them] midwest.social Pandantic@midwest.social
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Yeah but why is it profitable? Their only customer base are other evil people. And in my experience, only a small percentage of people are evil. Yet they control so much.

It is profitable because we allowed rich people to become richer and now they're spending their hard earned money and political power on a surveillance state.

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Pandantic [they/them] midwest.social Pandantic@midwest.social
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One day we'll all be like the kokiri with our own personal drone fairy to spy on every little thing we do and say and think for our corpo techno overlords

Listen! To your corporate overlords.

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freedickpics lemmy.ml freedickpics@lemmy.ml
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I bet they make good target practice

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latetolemmy lemmy.world latetolemmy@lemmy.world
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I bet they make good target practice

You do as well!

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latetolemmy lemmy.world latetolemmy@lemmy.world
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Literally evil. How the fuck did we as a society arrive at people like this being successful?!

Because society is full of dumb morons who fight each other on what is the best browser.

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latetolemmy lemmy.world latetolemmy@lemmy.world
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capitalism rewards psychopathic behavior so long as it's profitable.

No, humans are idiots. Hurr durr da ciztoom la evul durr is literally the most sub zero iq take.

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