Flock is bad, but for me, the problem is hypothetical. Additionally, I was actually happy to see that they're doing something to hold officers accountable for misusing it. It is a simple technology problem. Audit all uses and make the officer justify each one. It won't solve all problems, but it will discourage abuse as well as make it easier to determine if someone abused the system. That said, I am not sure what value Flock provides to me as a law-abiding citizen. Just how many threats to me has it stopped? If you're going to take my privacy without my consent, can you quantify the value you provide in return?

However, Ring cameras? Those can burn in hell. I live in the city and there's a ring camera on every other house. OK, it stops package theft, which is cool and all...but the bored retirees on my block have been posting ring footage on social media for the stupidest of reasons. Back when I gave the hellscape that is nextdoor.com a try, there would be weekly posts from mentally ill retirees of footage of dogs shitting on people's yards. I live in an urban neighborhood. The owner was on the sidewalk. The dog was literally a foot off the sidewalk...and some asshole is asking the community to dox them....in many cases, if you read the comments, the homeowner even admitted that the owner picked up the feces afterwards. They were just incensed that a dog shat on their tiny lawn...but were too cheap to put up a fence. It's fucking stupid, but it was happening every week.

Then during COVID, racist elders were posting images of teenage boys (black & latino) not wearing masks in public to go play basket ball. OMG...they're not following the rules!?!?!? Fortunately the community gave a lot of pushback to the assholes doxxing underage individuals about a stupid mask mandate. They're fucking kids...you can debate if what they were doing was problematic, but that seems like a small transgression to post a minor's photo without their consent to shame them.

But beyond dogshit and masks, I keep hearing stories about blackmail or neighbors starting drama. The elderly couple across the block tried to claim my neighbor was having an affair when his wife was out of town....until the wife informed them that the hot blonde visiting late at night was a part-time babysitter they hired. Having AI facial recognition is becoming a nightmare because they don't even have to watch the footage or know me to track me or whomever visits my house.

Rings worry me way more than Flock. I am genuinely surprised they haven't been implicated in more murders and crimes. If you have $50, you can stalk your neighbors to your heart's content. When you live in a city like I do, that's a LOT of people.

Politicians are like toilets. You're not supposed to like them, just pick the least gross one. YOU ARE THE PROBLEM. Sorry, princess, you don't get a everything you want AND a pony. You need to pick the least worst candidate. Even in the primaries. As you admitted, you don't like Joe Biden, but agreed things were better. He was never my favorite, either....but it's him or Trump.

So stop complaining. Pick the least worst candidate and encourage those who will listen to you to pick the rational, sensible decision. Do I like the Democrats? Eh...nope, not really. However, Clinton's record is the best in my lifetime. He entered with a record deficit and left with a record surplus. Bush Jr did the polar opposite. I even think GWB was a cool guy. I'd totally have a beer with him and probably laugh the whole time...would I want him to be president again?...hell no, I thought he ruined the country with his reckless spending and pointless war + that whole patriot act thing....but if he was running against Trump?...OK...GWB it is.

So grow the fuck up, and stop being a democracy pillow princess. Vote with your mind and not your heart. Does AOC/Mamdami inspire me? Nope...not at all. But if it were them or Trump 2.0?...I'd vote for them and not complain.

Democrats are like chemotherapy. It's a miserable shitty experience, but it's far better than letting the cancer spread. This whole liberal vs conservative narrative is a hoax. Nothing about Trumpism is conservative. Similarly, Democrats are not liberal, unless your mind is stuck in the 1950s, back when you could use the N-word freely in most circles.

Modern politics are about adults vs children. The children are fun...build the wall, Mexico will pay for it!...I'll solve all our financial problems with tariffs and China and someone else (China/retailers) will pay it...not you!!!....hey, don't notice our FAILING economy and how your financial prospects are getting worse...look at all the "illegals" we're rounding up like the big tough guys we are!!!. That's fucking fun, but it's a lie and a fantasy. Democrats are boring adults that balance the budget and respect you rights A LOT MORE than Republicans. And I get it, it's a drag....paying for shit in a sustainable way is a buzz kill.

However, the Democrats have no room or freedom to be liberals or chase their ideals because we have this shitty cycle where a Republican breaks the economy (or technically it breaks because through a combination of easily predictable economic phenomena, their reckless laws and tax cuts, and they fail to mitigate the harm through the many obvious solutions available), Bush Sr did, Bush Jr did, and Trump did...and then a Democrat comes in...battles with child like Republican congresspeople who post about Jewish Space Lasers and talk about Pizzagate....fixes the economy...things are boring and stable...and people like you complain about the stupidest shit imaginable, forgetting what we endured...and then a new child gets nominated, makes bold promises...and gets elected...and predictably tanks the economy. Who was the last Republican that left the economy in a better state than it was when he was elected?

It's easy to remember Mexico will pay for this wall....but also, don't forget GWB telling you he'll privatize social security...and how he took a record surplus and blew it on tax cuts that only benefited the wealthy, like repealing the estate tax....so rich assholes can pass more of their money to their worthless offspring while starving you of basic gov functions.

Grow the fuck up. You sound like some asshole who nearly died of COVID complaining about a sore throat from having a doctors save his life with a ventilator.

Because they have a representative set of cars for test drives that they then sell at a discount as "ex demo" vehicles. That way, the car you actually get is freshly delivered isn't one that a bunch of other people have already test driven.

So you went straight from, âWould you like to come visit and give us a chance to show you what America is actually like," to, "take the hint." Which is it supposed to be? You're not really as bad as the stories we hear and people should visit, or you really are and it's a hint that you don't want visitors?

I suspected it long ago, but this confirms it. For those following these things, I am sure this will get referenced a lot a hopefully a peak embarrassing moment.

If you go into your phone settings and toggle the "5G only" switch, T-Mobile has the best network coverage in the USoA.

Granted, no sane person would use their phone like that. The correct usage is 4G + 5G. But it points at a fundamental truth: Each networks comes with their own set of strengts and weaknesses

And here, you just answered yourself. If they have good (or the best) coverage in the areas where you dwell for a significant ammount of time (Home, Office, nearby shops, Gym, etc) , then it makes sense to use them, no matter what the national/State average is. You care about your use-case, not some nationwide average.

In my country, is similar for me, my carrier used to have CRAP coverage nationwide, but they arrived with 4G to my parents house (another state, 120Km from me, I live on the nation's capital, so new tech arrives here first) in 2013. The closest competitor? 2018. Doesn't it make sense to go to the weaker carrier nationwide because I serves my use case better?

Besides, there are plenty of phones with multi-(e)SIM support. That same competitor that arrived with 4G in 2018? When electricity fails (a normal occurrence in all our country except the capital), the only carrier that keeps on ticking is that carrier, so, I have their SIM as well.

So, to reiterate:
Each carrier has strenghts and weaknesses
The Nationwide or state-wide averages are almost always non relevant to you.
Choose based on your own use case in he locations that are relvant to you.

I already have. It isn't silly prejudice. You really do your best to make visitors feel unwelcome on arrival.

Nice...you're doing that NRA shit...Guns don't kill people? So yeah...let's put a gun in everyone's hand and a camera everywhere...how about a flock camera in every toilet?...oooh, you're going to stand by that pedantic "the gun never killed anyone, just the operator". That's a bullshit argument and you very much know it.

However, that aside. Well one complaint I made about costs is fully legit and 100% the fault of the tool. AI is resource and power hungry. It's not a human misusing that's going to make me spend AT LEAST $2000 EXTRA on my family's next device refresh, not to mention shortening the supply so we'll feel lucky if we get the devices we want...that's AI being used, as intended. The massive data center buildout is not misuse. That is using AI correctly and as intended and EVERYONE is feeling the pain.

So yeah...AI?...not worth the price. It's not human evil that is making my laptop replacement this year painful, it's AI buildout. It's why we're not getting new consoles and the old ones actually WENT UP IN PRICE. That has never happened in the history of humanity. Never has a 5yo console retailed for MORE than when it was introduced. I am used to costs going down or staying the same for identical computer parts over a 5 year period...or at the very least improving in features and performance. And AI is not improving. The only way people know how to make the models smarter is to throw more resources at it...worsening the problem.

Also, it doesn't work....certainly doesn't work anywhere near as promised. So it's an interesting and very much oversold tool that's causing pain both from misuse as well as correct usage.

Same with Dell with CAMM and nVIDIA+Micron with SOCAMM (similar name, similar idea, completely different use cases). Both of those presented the original stadard as a PoC, and then handed it over to JEDEC, so they became CAMM2 and SOCAMM2, completely neutral industry wide standards.

I suspect the same will happen here, a few demo/lab/PoC products will be produced, and then this will be handed over to JEDEC, so that it becomes an industry wide standard.

What do they (SKHynix, Sandisk and before them Dell, Micron and nVIDIA) win by doing this? IF (and only if) there are patents involved, they win FRAND revenue (just as an aside, neither CAMM2 nor SOCAMM2 have patents involved). And wether there are patents involved or not, these companies have a leg up on the competition in terms of know-how and practice making the stuff.

Even iFixIt gave the Neo good grades. And iFixIt tends to be very stingy about that.

This is only the kernel. Meanwhile, in the cases of windows and macos, the vuln count is against the whole OS.

The correct comparison in that case would be against specific distros, not against the kernel.

I will not go into amymojo' motives. For me, I do not need to justify windows, or linux, or macos any more than I need to justify a flathead screwdriver, a torx one, or a pentalobe one.

Each one has their uses, advantages and disadvantages.

PS: Fun fact! Before Pentalobes gained world fame by being adopted by apple, they were used in titanium screws, being used specifically for neck surgery.

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Bad AI? Obviously deception and fraud How about fake product images? How about deep faking an actor without his or her permission? I thought I put it pretty clearly. Giving us what we want and spending less doing so? Most of us are fine with that. Giving us less for our money in the name of AI? No one wants that. Obviously those in the entertainment industry want proper credit for their work. It would be quite shitty for someone to mimic Quentin Tarantino's writing style using an LLM rather than actually hire him to write a script as an obvious example relevant to this post.

Are you being autistically pedantic and saying that it's not the AI that's bad, but the application? If so, congrats on being tedious and understanding human communication worse than an actual AI. However, you knew very well what I was communicating even if a minor technical detail wasn't phrased precisely.

However, most of us just fucking hate AI at this point. Beyond those making money off AI and a few evangelists and hobbyists, it's not making our lives tangibly better. However, it is VERY DEFINITELY making our lives worse in tangible ways in the short term...and the only thing that is not making it an apocalyptic disaster is that it is nearly a complete fraud and doesn't work as advertised. If it actually did, society would be in crumbles from the economic fallout and our gov institutions and social norms and contracts having not evolved enough to handle an economic system where the vast majority of people who used to be productive workers no longer have a means of providing value to the economy nor feeding their families.

For 99% of the population, the AI revolution is a bunch of empty promises, some kinda neat ChatGPT/Gemini interactions that are fun for about 5 min until you realize about 50% of the answers are very obviously wrong....and then realizing EVERY FUCKING DEVICE you own and love will be much more expensive to replace or upgrade because of this stupid error-prone bullshit. Oh, and a fuck ton of news headlines where CEOs lay off people and blame it on AI, despite it actually being their businesses contracting. Sorry, I don't want to pay a 25% or greater premium on every device, like my phone, tablet, laptop, playstation, etc... just to support this stupid shit which isn't giving me a benefit...oh, and did we mention it's barely improving and each tiny improvement is drastically increasing the costs of using it?....so yeah...AI sucks...it has done NOTHING good for me or really anyone but pick and shovel vendors yet...and done a lot of tangibly bad things.

This shitty bubble can't pop fast enough.

For ALL OF MY FUCKING LIFE...technology got better and cheaper with each generation. Waiting 2 years to buy typically meant you got something better for your money...at either the same price or slightly cheaper. Today?...no each generation means you pay more for exactly the same thing. Thanks AI Bubble!!!! I love the fact that the Playstation costs more with time for the EXACT SAME hardware as before...same with my next phone, tablet, etc. But hey, Jensen Huang is making money, that makes it all better, right?

Except his complaint is not. AI can replicate an actor's every detail without his consent. AI can replicate a singer's voice quite convincingly. How would you feel about some Russian studio making a fortune using AI to "discover" lost Whitney Houston songs which are actually AI slop and earn money streaming them? How would you feel about Belarusian studios adding Heath Ledger and Jimmy Stewart into their latest movies?...or some Chinese studio using AI to recreate the voice of every actor in the Avengers series into a mobile gambling game?

This is not automation making things better. His complaint was AI STEALING performances. AI can write a Quentin Tarantino script...that probably is far worse...but how would you feel if a Dubai studio started cranking out mock Tarantino scripts and filming them and saying they're from him?...or saying they're Tarantino-inspired? Or maybe just something simple:....a local real estate agency using AI Brad Pitt's voice and likeness to sell their homes. They don't claim it's him, but AI makes one of their employees look and sound EXACTLY like him.

The level of theft is very new and we need to have a serious discussion because no one knows the ramifications. However, I am confident the final output will be a lot worse than anything we're used to. Quality will go down, not up . With the industrial revolution, quality went up, uniformity went up. With AI, I think we all know the quality will go way down and shitty people will use it to steal.