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Comment Avoidence makes me happy. (Score 1) 50

Every time I am not caught on a camera, while not committing a crime, is another happy moment realizing my own or my loved ones' pets will not be shot at home by a panicky LEO asking if I saw anything through a wall, or jumped out of my car walked climbed over the wall and committed the carjacking, I was reportedly near within the hour time span I was stuck in traffic, between times I was recorded between multiple cameras.

Comment Re:So? (Score 1) 50

It is a shame you do not understand police work. The only evidence is You being added to the suspect-to-annoy list for every crime Flock records you face, car, or relative nearby within a range of time near each crime near a camera.

Being a suspect used to mean something. Now it means you were within a mile of something.

Evidence is not what you think it is. (Nor them for that matter.)

Comment Re: Stupidity or malice? (Score 4, Insightful) 42

Flipper IR abilities alone can allow simple IR controlled lighting changes at home, which would be reason enough to have in a pocket.

RF controls for car, garage, door, alarm system or anything RF really, makes it handy is some situations. The same contactless sort of functions a phone (RFID or NFC) or iButton interactions could be useful for security or just control.

There are also add-on modules, expanding it's abilities, like Midi sequencing for lighting displays or music needs. Simple status reporting from other equipment can also be radioed to the Flipper. It is a tool, with many communication methods and options, that can interact with many other electronic devices and systems.

A Pi is a generic computer. If you cannot notice each time one of these could be running displays in stores and other places you move past daily on the street or in stores, you must not be very attentive.

Needed for the show/event activities, or just in a bystander's pocket or purse is not a security issue on it's own, any more than a screwdriver would be.

Comment Re:Got caught off guard (Score 1) 100

safelink url can be decoded by splitting args field=value pairs and using base64 and/or url safe hex (%3A = : ) conversion maybe even more than once, showing you the actual url safelink checks against it's list. Just look for https%3A%2F%2F%2F and search for the domain on a search page. Complaints of victims or valid activity should be in the search results if used much.

Comment Re: Sadistic (Score 1) 236

Dear Head in Clouds,

Having a GoDaddy salary, large or not, does not mean the five other unemployed adults under your roof are not feeding off that solitary stream of income, generating the stress and hardship that urged them to click on an email from management discussing extra money.

--
With my feet on the ground,
Non-lonely, Non-jerk

Comment Re:Not AR, another info sink for your info (Score 1) 34

Someone may appreciate the details you gave, so they do not have to look at the articles or website.

I do not pay homage to the fruit under glass gods. A closed sourced application, using AI, on hardware running software from advertising businesses, is never doing only the parts they publish to you. You cannot say when the data collection starts or stops when it is running. It can change 100s of times in minor ways, with the unattended updates and any remote access for code or data, to validate and invalidate anything you say it does or does not do. That does not even consider the base functions provided by the App stores, and the OSes, that make up the mundane portions of it's final code, which also collects and passes the users' information, connecting it with the images and owners.

Their app even has you pushing their product, using their own advert material, making you just as much a part of this advertising industry as they are. That may be fine for you. A Polaroid and scissors would be better for me. Next, someone will be telling me the gesture control radar on the new smart thermostats are not there to map the room and items within, and to monitor the number of trips family members walk by, sorting by height and weight.

Analytics starts with an appropriate four letter word for this arena.

Comment Re:Not AR, another info sink for your info (Score 1) 34

So it uses your own camera app to get that still shot? Did not appear so in the example video. AR is not still shot. It is enhanced live view. That means it has the current view from the lens at the time of the picture click, as well as before and after that click. The twinkle animation of the targeting three dots represents the AI processing time maybe the only time you seem to believe it is looking at something. Even the pasted image holds across the screen as you place it's final destination. My stock camera app does not do that.

PT Barnum would be proud.

Comment Not AR, another info sink for your info (Score 1) 34

This is a pile of things. This feeds pictures to their AI, allowing it to get better at identifying people/places/things from images, as new samples are always needed. It also adds the items to things of interest to you on your file. It will lead to ads being presented to you from many sources for items you seem to like/use, as if you always need more, or at least need their version of it.

Locations of the items and photographer are in the meta data. This is video, instead of static pictures to allow different angles to be consumed by the AI, mixed with a wide range of unaffiliated items/people from your surroundings.

Do not feed the animals. (Nor their creations.)

Comment Stick your ManDate (Score 1) 149

Stop buying crap designs, and they would still be features.

You yourself are the only one that change things. Every one of you, yourselves.

Keep buying garbage, they will make garbage suitable only for their income, instead of things people need. Cameras would still be just cameras; phones would be just phones; Internet tablets would be just be tablets. Standards, modularity, and repair have all died because you and yours keep buying disposable, self-destructing, half broken, untested, non-quality items.

Comment PBX (Asterisk) (Score 1) 108

The Android apps included PBX like control of the cellphone when they were not tied down to full spectrum ads. You could write rules to route any call, to anywhere, or nowhere. Spies do not like you to have control.
My home PBX has the only number I share with anyone. Calls can be passed immediately to my cell, voice mail in my PBX, or high pitched noises. My cell only has to be called, and ring-able by my home PBX. The VM number on the phone busy-forward is not there, so when ignored, they cannot leave messages, especially not on equipment that is not mine. All it took was dual line voip, and the most basic of cell service. There is an extension to dial to block 10 digits on the last caller, 6 digits for those that try to mimic a number near yours, and 3 digit area codes for areas you never call.

Sad, by I even added a *68 function to start playing "Never gonna let you down" to callers that annoy me after I take the call.

With voip only app usage on the cell, the calls are only traffic on data, with no cell usage, and all calls can appear to come from the same home phone. Wi-fi only home voip. Even the home voip phones can dial an internal extension to get the cell or the other way around. Call stats and logs are also almost useless from the cell side of things.

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