Are you suggesting that Discord didn’t have any technical means to detect and ban that activity before? And that having face scans of some users not only gives them that ability, but it’s the most reasonable and sensible way to achieve it?

I thought it was pretty funny actually.

They didn’t come here; they’re from here.

Because we don’t really care about protecting kids.

lol… that’s a perfect, concise description of transit in the bay area. Slow, expensive, and still requires a lot of driving to get where you want to go.

Of course, but the Superbowl media circus does go to the city, and it’s pretty obvious from the article that’s where they were talking about.

Lotta Stockholm Syndrome in that blog.

In California we enacted Prop 65, which requires business to tell you when the business or product exposes you to cancer causing chemicals. The result was that every business and every product now has prop 65 warning labels. The warning itself immediately became meaningless, and now we’re left with a compliance regime and no consumer benefit.

Hopefully New York can learn from California’s foolishness and not just end up with an AI warning on every article.

He doesn’t have a chance, because it’s going to be a fair primary all the way thru.

I’m not sure the Dems remember how to do one of those.

They will have 100 different reasons to invalidate the results anyway.

That’s not fair. They are still working super hard to disarm the people in blue states.

Something maybe wrong? I have 58k photos and it didn’t take anywhere near that long. If memory serves, I just let it rip overnight and it was done the next day.

I think your description is reasonable, however I’d argue that they are not security cameras. Rather a nationwide public surveillance network intended to circumvent the 4th amendment.

Flock doesn’t secure people or property. They merely catalog the movements of people and vehicles for future law enforcement work, allowing both current location searches and comprehensive retrospective location history searches, all without warrants or court orders. Again, not picking on you here; just adding some color because while security camera is easy to understand, it also has a connotation that is quote different from what flock does.

Could it be that he observed that the so called “agentic” operating systems (current versions of Windows, MacOS, iOS, Android) are essentially screen-scraping everything people do, and funneling it to the intelligence apparatus? Security researchers have been squawking about this for a while, and even recently the Signal Foundation CEO pointed it out. Or is that too mundane? Is it much worse? Intelligence gathering tools like Microsoft Recall are an intelligence agency’s wet dream.

The election interference thing certainly doesn’t strain credulity, but wouldn’t he be able to disclose something so wildly illegal? That is the whole point of congressional oversight.

OK, so after a bit of poking at it:

1. I agree. The OnlyOffice mobile Android app (called Documents) is a much better mobile spreadsheet viewer/editor than Collabora.
2. What’s even cooler is that the app works with Nextcloud as a cloud backend. So I can log into my existing Nextcloud instance and get the benefit of the better sheets editor on my existing files with no extra work at all!
3. They say that OnlyOffice supports markdown as of version 9, but I think they mean the broader platform itself, not the Android app. For example, you cannot create a new .md file from the mobile app, and if you try to open an existing .md file, it displays a “wrong file type” error, but it does successfully open it as a .docx.

In any case, since it works with Nextcloud, the app, out of the box, is already a more functional mobile spreadsheet editor. That’s a big win in my book. Thanks!

Face detection as well, and partnered with Amazon Ring.

Admit nothing, deny everything, and make counter accusations has been the standard argumentative tactic of “the good guys” for generations.

Haven’t tried it. Is it better in this regard?

Yeah. That’s what opencloud uses. Their app does a handoff to Collabora.

Ill have a look at Joplin. Thanks.

they would have won the AI race not by building the best model, but by being the only company that could ship an AI you’d actually trust with root access to your computer. […] So why didn’t they? Maybe they just didn’t see it.

Apple has never been a early mover, they always intentionally come very late to the game. And Siri has been well behind the curve for more than a decade. Leading the way in a new product domain like this just isn’t in their DNA.

I think the author is right that people would have trusted Apple, but people use co-pilot, and people use Gemini. The bar for trust is already pretty low.