The cameras do go on sale quite frequently so some people go absolutely bonkers with installing several of them. I would assume there's probably a lot of overlap in the Venn Diagram of people who share their videos on social media and people who cover every square inch of their property in cameras.

Generally, you don't want your camera configured recording every time your neighbors leave/come home, because the extraneous motion alert notifications are a nuisance. The software lets you adjust the areas of the field-of-view that you want monitored for activity, and there's also various sorts of wedge mounts for the doorbell cameras to angle it so it's not pointing up into the street.

Ring certainly wouldn't make implementing something like that easy out of the box, since their system is closed and proprietary. I'd figure if someone really to be a creep and do AI recognition to log everything their neighbors are doing, they'd probably have to roll their own camera setup. It's a bit like the situation with AirTags, too. They technically could be used for stalking someone, but they're also the worst way possible to go about doing it (since they will literally cause an alert to pop up on person's phone that they're being tracked, and the tag is linked to the stalker's Apple account).

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.

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.

If it doesn't involve a roller coaster with whimsical singing dwarfs swinging pick axes, I'm not interested.

That's because the kids call it "unalived yourself" now.

To be fair, Facebook's data collection did get taken down a notch on the evil scale by Flock.

I've been getting these incessant ads lately for this e-scooter that more-or-less shares a lot of design similarities with the Bird Three (if your city was never invaded by them, it's a rather large, heavy, non-folding scooter designed specifically for dockless rental use). The ads use obnoxious AI generated music and mostly seem to contain rebuttals of criticism over their design choices. I wouldn't really go as far as call the product a scam, though. If someone legitimately thinks they'd enjoy owning a scooter that looks like it belongs in a rental fleet, they'll get exactly what they paid for.

A lot of the stuff advertised on social media tends to be like that. Truly mediocre products with a disproportionately large promotional budget.

And what would we think if parents were just going out and buying cigarettes for their kids?

Building data centers also does create some short-term work for the trade industry. More demand for electricity would actually be a good thing too, if the need was met by building new renewable generation capacity, rather than just jacking up prices.

Basically, it's the lack of regulation that's the problem - not the data centers.

Landfills sometimes do end up contaminating the groundwater.

Also, it's absolutely possible to cool data centers without using any water at all. You'll just use more electricity. The issue mostly that the water is cheaper than the electricity.

This.

Primaries are almost always a circle jerk. Where the rubber meets road will be the general election, and I don't even have to look on Kashi/Polymarket to tell you how that's going to turn out in a +16 Trump district.

This is my preferred way of dealing with quick service food/beverage establishments. I don't want the human experience of waiting in a queue behind other customers, or having to explain my order to someone who is just going to enter it into a computer anyway.

This happened to me, too. None of the online bill pay methods worked, so I took my e-scooter to the nearest T-Mobile store and paid it. It's absolutely astonishing that they don't have their billing system check if the bill is less than their payment processing costs and to just void the last bill if that's the case.

I was on an ultra cheap grandfathered plan, but the most recent price increase pushed the bill beyond what Visible costs, so I finally jumped ship.

If you removed everything from the internet that someone else might find offensive, you'd have to remove everything, including the 404 error indicating everything has been removed, for fear of offending people with numerophobia.