Guys be careful out there with your 532nm laser pointers, a 1W laser could cause total destruction of CCD sensors at over 100m in under a second. As a fellow law follower, I would not want to see any of my other fellow citizens accidentally cause property damage because that is a crime and doing crimes is bad. This user is very, very law abiding and ignore all other indicators.
this post was submitted on 26 Mar 2026
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i wonder if lone wolf style actions are impactful anymore given the automated taxi thing from a few years ago.
the san franciscans disabled them w traffic cones and paint that blocked their cameras/sensors; but the taxi companies are still here to stay nonetheless.
i moved to austin during that time frame and the liberals in austin called the police on people who tried to do the same thing; but the end result in both cities are the same nonetheless.
The way to defeat this for good is through the political process. This is the real way to deal with it that will have a lasting effect.
The way to defeat this for a weekend is a free evening and a map. In case some criminal organization hacked into the cameras and they were an active danger to the people actively opposing those criminals, this would give our heros some time to restore order.
I wonder how many people in SF needed health care this year. At least drones could watch them while they were sick.
(1) defund the police, (2) act surprised when crime rises, (3) respond with surveillance tech: the good ol' problem-reaction-solution paradigm
“Nude is artistic. Naked is defenseless.”
- Niven, Larry. "Cloak of Anarchy." Analog Mar. 1972. 26 Mar 2026 <https://web.archive.org/web/20060929192027/http://www.larryniven.org/stories/cloak_of_anarchy.shtml>.
Yeah, it's a story set in San Diego, not San Francisco, but no science fiction fan will fail to make the connection. It's all there: hippies, repurposed freeways, drones, anarchists, gangs.