The aspect you're overlooking is that Ring cameras are, for the most part, only found in residential areas. Even if you do make it a habit of driving through random neighborhoods, generally they're only able to resolve enough detail to determine that a $COLOR car drove by.

Every once in awhile some kids cut through my lawn and my camera records them (and no, I couldn't care less that they're walking on my lawn). Could I pick those kids out of a line up if the situation arose? Probably not. The footage isn't clear enough. For the most part, Ring cameras are just about deterrence (thieves tend not to be the brightest sorts of people) and having proof that your package got nabbed. They're not very good for actually catching a distinctive image of the person unless the suspect gets right up in front of the thing. Mostly, I have a ring camera because, as demonstrated quite readily on YouTube, door locks are only for keeping honest people honest.

No, I haven't had a situation that's come down to having to grab my home defense (sponsored by the number "2" and the letter "A"), but I do have what is quite possibly the worst luck imaginable with my vehicles being hit on the driveway. Since living here, I've had my vehicles get hit by:

A 3rd party Amazon delivery driver.
A lawn service vehicle with an attached flatbed trailer using my driveway to turn around.
The former neighbor across the street's teenage kid.
The current neighbor across the street's teenage kid.

None of the drivers stopped to knock on my door or leave a note. If it wasn't for my Ring camera, I'd be on the hook for damage to my vehicles 4 times. I really wish we lived in a society where people did the right thing without being forced to, but that ship has apparently sailed.

Maybe I'm missing something, but it seems like this is just cloud storage for the md5sums of the images you've captured in the app. The signatures would be broken the moment you upload the images to pretty much everywhere that hosts images, these days.

It's pretty much useless unless you're absolutely sure you're sending the original image file via a method that avoids recompression. I guess there's a few niche use cases where this makes sense, but in most situations where you need to send photographic proof, the party requesting the images is still going to want the actual images, not just their cryptographic signature.

Oracle may not, they are way over leveraged. Ellison caught FOMO disease. The Fed. Gov. cutting them a deal with the Department of DEFENSE was throwing them a fish to help them get by a disaster, but it's still peanuts compared to what Ellison sunk into the craze. And their reputed expected winnings are from AI companies, just the companies that will take it in the neck if China AI steals their markets.

Right, this is an indictment of policing in America, not Flock.

But since you clearly cannot trust the police, you double cannot trust them with access to Flock.

You cannot keep the police from getting access to Flock, therefore the only reasonable thing to do to Flock is destroy it.

Yes, this is only* because the police are corrupt, but since they are...

* Yeah, and some other people too, this hyperbole is for the purpose of the discussion in scope

I think we both know that ship has sailed

Unstable:
      1. ditching American allies (just about every one) over perceived slights to Dear Leader,
      2. attempting to curtail voting because they might vote Democrat but positing the inane travesty that "illegal" immigrants are voting (no evidence),
      3. promoting fossil fuels while the American West dries out, forest fires in Canada and the U.S., glaciers worldwide shrinking, Europe's rivers disappearing, all the while claiming global warming is a hoax. . . . even the planet appears in on the Conspiracy,
      4. promoting the South and slave owning as beneficial for blacks,
      5. coercing soldiers to take testosterone supplements because some idiot in charge gets his science from FOX news,
      6. judges telling the Justice Department there is no more regular order, i.e., presuming the Justice Dept. isn't lying their asses off and demanding evidence,
      7. electing a convicted fraudster and flim-flam man pres, even after also convicted of sexual abuse and then convicting him again for defamation against the woman he was convicted of abusing,
      8. ditching environmental rules because pollution is good for everyone, especially when the polluters pay kickbacks to el Bunko,
      9. standing up a Geheime Staatspolizei* to kidnap people off the street because they look brown or have been living here too long "without papers", and sometimes killing people in the process,
    10. shaking down companies for contributions to Dear Leader in exchange for gov. favors thus increasing his total take to over $2.8 Billion (that we know about) in under two years and turning the gov. into protection racket,
    11. Setting up a Fascist state with the gov. taking stakes in private companies thus protecting them from competition and creating an uneven playing field,
    12. Setting up some whack-job of a commission that claimed billions in saved tax money when in fact it was less than $50 million but cost much more in side-effects,
    13. fucking up the lives of millions of migrants whose only crime was to come here, get a job and see their kids do better than they, in short, the crime of believing in the American Dream,
    14. Pop. the fed. bench with crooked judges who will bend over backwards and forwards (they are not particular) to satisfy the el Bunko's whims,
    15. Starting was with Iran and losing the Strait of Hormuz to them causing gas prices to be jacked up,
    16. Curtailing alternative energy so Americans are tethered to the oil market with little means of escape,
    17. promoting data centers everywhere with their pollution and noise and jacking up peoples' electric bills,
    18. paying off those nice billionaires who desperately need more money to make up for their short dick length,
    19. feeding those nutjobs in Silicon Valley who really want some sort of Singularity and setting the world on a path to environmental catastrophe because they figure the their Singularity machine will discover warp drive and allow them to escape the catastrophe they caused,
    20. making America reviled throughout the free world but loved by dictatorships,
    21. pardoning criminals who attacked the Capitol on Jan. 6 because el Bunko's ego. . . .shrinkage.

Nope, no stability issues here!

* Geheime Staatspolizei is the long name of the Gestapo

Offshore wind has a decent capacity factor, with show term variations smoothed out with batteries. In fact some of the North Sea turbines are rivalling French nuclear plants for capacity factor now, although that's more a statement on how old and unable to deal with heat the latter are.

Low cost healthcare and cheap renewable power too.

Do you think the democrats would actually limit Trump in any meaningful way? Last time Biden didn't do much to reverse what Trump did, even carried on doing some of it.

They don't staff them in China anyway, robots make a lot of stuff now. Don't even need the lights on in the factory.

China has the supply chains. Anything you need, from raw materials to completed OEM goods, you can get in a few days max. You can innovate and iterate so fast, and it's all competitively priced because they do capitalism better than capitalist countries.

Good thing we hardly are made out of any bacteria.

Wait...

In which subfield is development not happening rapidly?

Won't you want those things to be software upgradable?

Suno was neat for making goofy meme songs to listen to by yourself, but the latest free model kind of sucks. The only people actually paying to use this are folks gaming streaming platforms, and for background music in ads (which is a trend that really needs to die).

I'm also kind of surprised they've mentioned copyrighted lyrics being blocked as if it was a recent thing. It's been like that for awhile, ever since it became relatively well known that if you spun up enough generations using existing popular song lyrics, you'd eventually get it to spit out something that sounded remarkably close to the original. That was also kind of fun for changing the genre, so you could do things like reimagining a Dr. Dre song as Big Band.