You can also use noai.duckduckgo.com to do searches if you want to avoid an AI summary and also AI generated images (hopefully AI generated articles too, but I doubt it).

I mean I'm still posting here aren't i?

Anyway did your account get hacked or something? What part of my post is championing oppressive bullshit?

Or you just call anything you don't like oppressive bullshit? How very libertarian of you. What's next, needing a license to make toast in your toaster?

This is a multi-billion dollar corporation with congressman on speed dial. This is basically setting up the justice department to go after the botnet directly. Google is just filing the paperwork to legitimize everything.

>"According to Google: "Police need a valid legal process like a search warrant or subpoena to obtain Ring doorbell camera footage from Axon"

I would HOPE so. But, color me jaded. A system like this with potentially millions of connected cameras with central control is just SO ripe for abuse in so many ways. Do we really think the three-letter-agencies always go through the correct/legal process? And then there are disgruntled or employees, hackers, accidental security flaws, etc, etc.

>"But that's pretty much smartphones."

Yeah, true that. But a network of more and more cameras knitted together, recording 24/7.... it all amplifies.

>"With everyone posting their videos to social media, is there really much difference?

Yes, there is.

Comparing random people who might record some active event is not at all the same as remoting into fixed cameras all over the place, potentially without the owner's knowledge or informed consent, to go trolling around.

Being "in public" is starting to warp any sense of privacy argument at this point. When that stuff was relevant to say, there was no such thing as the technology we have now.

How would you/anyone feel if someone followed behind you and recorded everything you did and said just about anywhere you go, the moment you step foot out of your front door, because it is "in public"? And those geo-tagged recordings were then available to who-knows what private and government agencies to pour automatic AI searches through, at any time, for who knows how long a retention period. Facial recognition. Object detection. Interfaces with lots of other databases....

It doesn't take much imagination to formulate a very dystopian view of the future. One that could be, or is, extremely hostile to freedom, privacy, dissent, presumption of innocence, probable cause, etc.

Trump is obviously senile. He doesn't understand anything except the hamburgers that get put in front of him periodically.

Our country is run by the heritage foundation not by Donald Trump.

Because it means the American empire, which is propped up by the dollar, will have gone down the drain completely and we will still have the ridiculous military and we will use it.

Failing empires will inevitably invade other countries and loot them in order to fill their coffers. And we have a growing Christian nationalist movement and things we are literally protected by God so the threat of nuclear annihilation isn't going to be a deterrent. Jesus will just swap those pesky icbms away.

>"Or in most cases they could just ask me. But just remoting in? No way."

Yep, that is why I installed a Unifi system. All local storage, no access to third-parties. Plus integrates really well into their great WiFi/firewall/switch stuff.

Now, if there were an investigation and the police told me what it was about and asked me, I would very likely cooperate and supply the relevant video to them.

And after I installed the cameras, I told my neighbors about it and let them know to contact me if they have need of footage for some reason. I know, insane, right?

What the hell are you talking about? If my net worth is $100 million and it drops by 90% I'm still filthy stinking rich and will never have to work again unless I blow through the money on extravagant spending.

And those numbers get a hell of a lot worse when you take into account billionaires.

This is before we talk about nepo babies and contacts and networking that you get to do when you're a member of the ruling class. The ruling elite have class solidarity while anyone that really works for a living does not. They take care of each other. We eat each other alive at the slightest provocation.

I will never understand people that defend the ruling class. It is just the most bizarre thing to me. I can empathize with most things understanding the underlining emotions even if I don't feel them myself but that's one that is completely alien to me.

And telling people they can unionize if they want is like telling Jews in Auschwitz they can go find another job. The people running the camp might have something to say about that...

Again I will never understand why people pretend we don't have a ruling class after they've been told and shown that we do. I get the people who never encounter that information, it's not exactly talked about, but I don't get the people that have the information and just pretend it isn't there.

Just a reminder that the steam machine won in the end.

Historical data has value there though. Even if knowing that flight X is usually around $500 from anecdotal history is the foundation, there is opportunity. A third party has a great opportunity to provide even better information.

It might be bad for people that live in hub cities though.

I've been using LO pretty much constantly for the last two years (even wrote a novel on it). Like any interface, it just takes time to become familiar. In fact, I like the way Writer organizes styles and style configuration far better than Word, and often, even for DOCX files, do initial style set up and layout in Writer and then move to Word if I have to (which is seldom enough).

LO is a damned good office system. Its default UI is older, but since I used MS-Edit and Word pretty extensively back in the 1990s, it feels familiar to me. There is a ribbon interface, but I've only tried it a few times before remembering why it is I actually don't like the Word ribbon.

I'm assuming it's cope. We all know the AI apocalypse is coming for our jobs and our livelihoods and in turn all of our property as we mortgage it off to survive but well, nobody has a solution that anyone is willing to accept. The idea of giving people food and shelter without inflicting pain is just not something we as a species are capable of. At least not at the moment.

To address the specific points in this post the reason CGI took over is because it's cheaper, and the reason it's cheaper is that the CGI guys don't have a good union or frankly any Union at all. Hollywood went all in on CGI not because it was the right thing to do but because it broke the special effects unions.

The thing is there were still plenty of jobs they just paid less. What's happening with AI is that they're just isn't any jobs.

We are going to be left with two classes of people, people who need to work and people who don't need the work because there is absolutely nothing useful they can do for society. Like it or not not everybody can be a plumber.

I'm sure they won't be any problems though with tens of millions of people who are permanently unemployable. Certainly that didn't happen shortly before world war I and I I.

The important thing is that we never actually learn anything from history. And that we continue to function like crabs in a bucket while billionaires going on trillionaires occasionally reach into the bucket to devour one of us.

Who knows maybe you won't be one of the crabs that gets devoured. But man they're getting hungry. I mean a trillion dollars of crab meat is a lot.

My stars and garters! Fetch me my fainting goats!

Every now and then nerds will realize that their computer is kind of suck because we don't enforce antitrust law but we always go back to sleep.