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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • This is what I don’t get either. We literally have dozens of various camera options monitoring us in public, from random video doorbells to store CCTV, state/police CCTV, Google Maps cars, people on their phones, police officers and even random hired security thugs posing around with wearable cameras, drones, you name it… but the problem is cameras built into glasses?

    Most European countries have actually codified that one has no expectations of privacy in public - that is, one may be recorded while out and about. Of course there’s legislations about harassment - e.g. following someone with a camera and specifically recording them, in an attempt to harass or threaten them - and what essentially constitutes as blackmail (“I’ll remove this video of you if you pay me”), so people should be using the recourse for those crimes, not criminalising a new product category.

    Just owning a camera didn’t make upskirt photos legal, nor does using a Meta camera glass make harassment legal.




  • The second part is wholly software dependent, so let’s not conflate the two.

    Having local hardware for local LLM (and other models too! there’s plethora use cases for AI models, e.g. easily tagging people in your photo library, automatic subtitles for videos, even realtime stuff, we could even have models that automatically categorise photos and sort them into albums based on previous patterns, and so on) is awesome. Not having to trust some random third party with your data is awesome.

    Blending that in with a specially written agent that can interact with stuff is not awesome. The two should be separate, but problem is, most users won’t understand the benefit of this hardware without being given concrete examples of use cases like this.






  • IMO there’s a handful of crimes - generally, the most depraved ones that cause the most damage, such as murder, rape, sexual assaults - that should be handled as if the defendant was an adult, even if they’re underage.

    It’s borderline insane to think that a 17 year old can walk away from a rape charge with a fucking fine.

    Minor things like theft, sure, have a separate court, take the age into consideration. But anyone who willingly kills or rapes/sexually assaults someone to the highest degree (making the differentiation here because in the UK, only men can commit the crime of rape, as by legal definition, it requires the forced insertion of one’s penis into the victim - any other case what one would colloquially consider “rape” is actually “sexual assault of high degree”… it’s dumb but it is what it is. Upskirt photos are also sexual assault but we can agree on it being slightly lesser than raping someone, I think), nope, you did the adult crime, you sit the adult time.



  • Even without the “browser loophole”, developers are pushing Google and Apple about further permissions being granted and sideloading and whatnot. Apple and Google careth not… Your argument is pretty moot at this point.

    And no, you can already do per website permissions. Or what the fuck do you think the notification settings are for, or the PER INSTANCE BASED REQUESTS for e.g. Bluetooth or USB device access? Or when a website asks you to access your camera or microphone? These are all instances of the browser having access and the website having to request permission separately from it…

    Each application should be separate so permissions are separate

    Ever heard of this nifty thing called “sandboxing” that browsers have been doing for, oh, about a decade now?


  • Inflation doesn’t matter if your wealth is in a (relatively) stable currency.

    Even the relatively fast currency crashes are tracked in Forex quite closely, and nowadays even pedestrian banks us mere wage slaves can use offer near real-time exchange on e.g. card purchases. Billionaire’s banks offer even better rates and closer tracking… so it doesn’t matter if the local currency loses half its value overnight, and prices double - since the US dollar would remain relatively stable, a loaf of bread would still be $1, regardless if it cost 3000 coins in local currency or 6000 the next day.

    Plus he can afford to pay 2-3-10x price for stuff. Thiel could spend as much a day as my annual salary every day for a year and still come out richer than he was…





  • Becau of the push for web apps to get around platform (and platform store) limitations.

    e.g. Apple banned apps for vapes (not just talking about nic vapes but e.g. there’s a number of cannabis flower vapourisers that use Bluetooth for fine tuned settings, those were forced to move over to web apps as the native apps simply got pulled), but also software like ESPHome is completely web based and needs access to raw USB devices to write the new firmware onto them, the list goes on.

    Main issue seems to be that a lot of these APIs don’t require explicit user approval. USB, Bluetooth does, but apparently accessing detailed system statistics doesn’t? Make that make sense…