Wait, people use wifi on smartphones? I thought people were stupid but this just makes me wonder if humans are even capable of learning.

All that shit requires you actually turn on those signals, otherwise batteries would never last more than a few hours.

Wait, people still use bluetooth? Also, that would increase the size of the camera to about 10 times its current size if it wants to reach more than 10 feet from them.

Next MAGA technofash company to keep an eye on is Axon. They'll immediately take Flock's place in the domestic surveillance game and SCOTUS takes money from them.

“At a demonstration for police chiefs in Denver last year, Langley described the ability to search every camera in a city for cars tailing an armored truck, pulling up the registered owners of those vehicles and checking their arrest records, in under a minute.

**Investigators who try it, he said, get “addicted.”**

Trump always abuses DOJ powers to ensure he gets his cut of the public corruption.

The Shakedown President.

https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/18/dojs-probe-into-andreessen-horowitz-over-board-seats-baffles-vcs/

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-14/andreessen-horowitz-backs-saudi-startup-in-first-gulf-investment

https://qz.com/saudi-arabia-ai-public-investment-fun-1851350604

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/03/20/saudi-arabia-in-talks-with-andreessen-horowitz-to-create-ai-fund.html

https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/andreessen-horowitz-firm-much-richer-21286440.php

https://www.vox.com/2016/6/12/11916896/capital-gains-andreessen-horowitz-fund

https://techcrunch.com/2023/04/01/andreessen-horowitz-is-now-openly-courting-capital-from-saudi-arabia-despite-u-s-strains/

https://www.arabianbusiness.com/business/start-ups/silicon-valley-vc-25m-series-a-saudi-startup

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/19/business/saudi-arabia-investment-artificial-intelligence.html

It's fine if you're anti-car, but this is genuinely a bad take.

Sure, but I think the most important question to answer is if it's effective against flock and other surveillance systems.

And I too agree that AI is a stupid marketing term. I'm old enough to remember when "expert systems" were the terms used to refer to automated systems.

If motorists weren't murdering more than 20 pedestrians per day in the USA, we might care.

Adversarial Generative Perturbations

Only works against very specific machine learning algorithms.
Having conversed with some heatedly #antiai folk, they don't consider ML to be 'true ai'
Though I consider that line of arguments a folly and distraction.

As a fun experiment use the phrase "Adversarial Generative Perturbation" in conversation and witness some humans brains short and reboot
Maybe human and machine brains share similar vulnerabilities

#aislop

Then it's mistake on my part I glanced at a field and it was probably a donation field that looked like where I read it mistakenly as money raised

I backed it even though I expect the useful lifetime of any given obfuscation pattern is limited. Still, just because the latest software for various cameras might defeat a pattern, that doesn't mean that all the installed cameras in the field are up to date.

And I want the camera assholes and the people who buy them to know that people hate their bullshit enough to try to defeat it.

years ago, local PD put up a PTZ cam that had LoS in to a lot of people's back yards, and I posted a quip on Nextdoor (when it was new and somewhat still working as intended) and got ran off with the "if you have nothing to hide" fucking comments.

Well yes, obviously. Next best thing is ALPRs being under state regulation and not part of any private parties at all. Think toll booths, and express lane infrastructure. You can FOIA that shit all day long, and usually those databased have much tighter controls than "poorly designed web portals"

For some reason, people are oddly trustworthy about the things they shouldn’t be, but at the same time paranoid about things they shouldn’t be.

That may be part of the "compute box" which can be included with a camera, but those functions were not built-in to the actual device capturing images and video.