The license can be legally worked around:

1. Have one AI agent document the code fully by explaining how it works in plain english
2. Copy that new documentation to an entirely segregated second agent
3. Instruct the new agent to write brand new code according to the documentation

It's unlikely this will be done for all OSS projects since the result usually has bugs and inconsistencies. But spend a week or two doing passes over it for improvement and you get a functional reimplementation. (What license that can use will depend on how the law around AI code shakes out in the future)

If you're going to pay for sub-standard headphones for $60, you might as well get ones that look less boring: https://koss.com/products/port... https://modretro.com/products/...

Flock gave them a partial identification. If you give them enough rope, they'll hang a stranger with it.

The reason why mass surveillance is a bad idea is that it gives police an excess amount of "leads", which aren't actually leads. It makes innocent people look like criminals purely by coincidence and association. Because there's so much of this false information floating around (because everyone is a target) it creates more abuse.

"they were following a "credible" lead, which is their responsibility"

The police think it's better to blame an innocent person than nobody at all

They can only record what a person already sees, so the harm is... What exactly? It's reproducing the video anywhere else, like online. So the solution to that is to criminalize sharing videos and pictures recorded by these glasses, without the participants' consent. You can replay them for personal use, which is the same thing your own memory can already do.

Yes, native apps. With AI it will be trivial to either support more platforms, or just have multiple apps made by multiple people for each platform. Like really, really trivial. Before AI this might have been difficult, now it's really not.

> other deliberate friction that operating system publishers have ostensibly put in the way of wide distribution of malware that can read and exfiltrate every document in your user profile/home directory. A domain name, an entry-level VPS, and a TLS certificate to operate a web application are a lot more affordable than the code signing certificates

You have captured exactly the dichotomy the OSes don't want you to acknowledge: web browsers are already running untrusted code all the time, so there is no additional danger in running untrusted native code. Sandboxes exist. W need to force OSes, using regulations, to open up their OSes. It will be difficult, but it can be done. We already have the momentum because even senators acknowledge their monopoly power.

> How would I go about convincing the public that a municipal bulletin board system is anything other than a waste of tax money?

I bet you that same municipality has a rec center, fire house, city hall, high school gym, etc, that they use for pot lucks, bingo night, movie night, arts & crafts, etc. The same people who complain about taxes are the same people who use those "free" resources, that are probably already supported by taxes. So you don't ask for tax money. You ask around the existing public structures and say, "anyone wanna run an old Dell server, staffed by the existing local government IT staff?" The server runs all kinds of services for the exact same cost (all run within 90% shared CPU, all use the same 250W power supply), so you're not paying for individual services. The TCO ends up being like $0.10/day per service, for 10 services, so $1; nobody can complain that's too much money to spend, regardless of the budget it's attached to.

The cherry on top is the "liberal media corporations" won't spy on, manipulate, or moderate them, and you add end-to-end encryption to show the government won't be spying on them. Now they can be as racist as they want in private. I'm sure they'll love it.

> Under current law, mobile carriers have power to exclude those devices from their networks.

We can change laws.

1. Make it easier to make new apps. Visual Basic for AI.

2. Stop using browsers. For every thing you normally do with a browser, make an app for it.

3. Open source versions of every service people depend on big companies for. Chat, forums, events, pictures, videos, marketplaces, email, file sharing, news, etc. This leads into...

4. "Local Internet". Your town, city, state, etc, all have people running the FOSS services. It's not run by big corps, but volunteers and municipalities. It can connect to other services though "Federation". You choose who you connect to. Same people and events you care about but owned locally.

5. "FOSS Devices". Apple and Google still control all our devices, what apps we can install. They will stop the plan, to control us and the internet. So we need to control our devices. A truly open, unrestricted OS for mobiles. Nobody can tell you what to do with it. Install what you want. An ecosystem will rise up to protect people and give them only the apps they need.

And that's it. New Internet. Once you have the local services you need, and can federate-connect to any others, and none of it runs Ads, there is no more financial incentive to do the fucked up shit these companies do. We can be normal people again.

Lots of people had different ideas of what web apps should be. The main thing was that everyone wanted more functionality through the browser and HTTP. They just didn't know how to go about it.

The turning point was 1995, with the introduction of web forms and server-side request processing and dynamic response. When that happened it stop being just a document browser. It became an interactive application (well, more interactive than just viewing). You could now receive content, interact with it, send content, process user requests, show updates. Before that you needed a custom application on the client, or a thin terminal client like telnet. Now you could do it in your document browser.

This was made worse by Brendan Eich, who invented JavaScript in the same year (1995) specifically to build onto and "improve" the initial web forms. The browser companies wanted their browsers to be "interactive" and needed a way to control that without shipping custom apps, so they kludged together this scripting language. Once other browser vendors saw what it could do, they immediately adopted it too, cuz $$$. They weren't thinking about the larger implications (literally making a client-side application platform). They were just trying to make money.

Over the years more things were introduced that kept pushing the interactive application aspect of the browser. More logic, interactivity, dynamism, features. Whatever could add more features - because it would result in more money for companies developing and using this technology. Nobody ever stopped to think this might not be a great design in the long run. And I don't think anyone anticipated the quagmire we'd get into, where all new network protocols would eventually have to be tunneled over HTTP, because networks just refused to pass any other traffic (because why would you use an application that wasn't a web app?).

Are they removing JavaScript and adding content integrity to HTTP? Because that was the good old days, before the few with power created the abomination that is the "web app"

You forgot to mention "...And she's a woman! " as one of the reasons not to listen to her, if you're just going to list ad hominems and strawmen. Also, just say "She's Black" instead of "DEI hire", we all know what your real point is so no need to dress it up.

A real, major vulnerability was discovered, its announcement was botched, the whole world rushed to protect people and systems, and we're sad that it wasn't a greater catastrophe. What a wonderful takeaway.

> "the agency had been directed not to alert the voting machine company if it uncovered flaws"

There it is folks. Only one reason you decide NOT to secure the voting machines for your own country.

What I know about Flock is the police are stalking their exes with it, innocent families are being held at gunpoint due to faulty data, and there's cameras in a children's gym/swimming pool that executives are checking out. Oh and ICE is being granted access they shouldn't have so they can detain anyone brown with a spanish accent.

What kind of progress is it they're trying to make here? Because it sounds like progress toward 1930's Germany.

Doesn't matter how big it is, either you're securing it or you're not. If you're saying "because it's big they didn't need to secure it", I highly disagree. It's a bank. Security should be the first thing they care about

They basically admitted that they had done absolutely zero security work before. You can't possibly have that many *real* vulnerabilities internally if you're doing basic security work regularly