The internet is losing it.
Vaseline is cheap and accomplishes the same result
A plastic cover only hinders the camera. There are more surveillance devices within. The only sure method of disablement is complete destruction.
Gotta take out the Bluetooth to make it worth it
This makes me wonder if it’d be possible to print some transparent stickers with some kind of noise pattern that is very subtle, but enough to disrupt any kind of detailed image recognition.
Then maybe it’d go undetected for a while, potentially, but basically would turn the camera into a cctv camera.
Just use crazy glue
Don’t print this if your printer has one of those internet-connected ghost gun print scanning systems.
People who are motivated to print and deploy these are likely not going to have one of those compromised printers.
Maybe out of people in this community and maybe for now. I checked just now and was surprised that even though Bambu has been making all their printers dependent on cloud services and closed source software, they apparently don’t send all your prints to a government-affiliated entity for approval yet. But it’s going to be law in California and New York so expect most printers sold in the US to have this in the future, and most cloud-dependent printers already sold in the US to add it on so they can continue selling their current models.
this has shown not to be effective flock just sends someone to remove it, only sawing the pole off is, it makes them waste more resources putting up a new one.
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The dude they send out to remove my fancy new rainbow sparkle camera faceplate, how much you suppose they pay him per hour? I bet I can make them send him out here at least a dozen times on a single $15 roll of PLA, and I (probably) wouldn’t catch charges if they caught me with it.
Another pointless protest. Do people seriously believe this kind of performative gathering is going to stop indiscriminate mass surveillance? It’s just the organizers creating more noise for self-promotion and microplastics everywhere 💀
Someone in the comments recommended using an actual old sock. I don’t know. I don’t like these things. but I don’t have a circular saw. To be fair, I don’t have a 3D printer either. Is spray paint and old socks the way?
150g filament and takes less than four hours
Seems like a lot to me. I think an old sock is better
Baseball is a popular pasttime in america, perhaps we should all practice. Hrm, I could be in the wrong sub.
Hacksaws are pretty cheap and a good blade on a tight saw makes shockingly fast progress on aluminum and mild steel.
Not that indiscriminate. Flock cameras are concentrated in marginalized communities: https://ideas.repec.org/p/osf/socarx/d6j3b_v2.html
Give me 4 hours, some duct tape, and some old cardboard and I can make more than one Flock Camera UV Protection Cover. Biodegradable too. For the most part.
Why not tie a plastic bag on it though
A garbage bag works too. It’s also apt.
