They already scan every detail about the car other than the license plate (dents, scratches, color, bumper stickers, etc).
Patent US11416545B1 is for scanning humans.
Flock is insidious. Once the infrastructure is in place, all it takes is an update to turn them into something worse. Do some research, there’s plenty of professional information and cases on the risks and “misuse” (working as intended) of these things. Good luck.
If it was hosted outside the US and not on AWS, would you use it then?
Unlike Whatsapp, Signal doesn’t store your network of contacts. They have your phone number, time of registration, and time of last connect to their servers. They go to great lengths to keep the rest private. In Signal’s case, I don’t see an issue at all, but I do see all the benefit.
For starters, it’s open source. And I’m not too into the details, but the creator of Anubis even mentioned that they were interested in creating a non-javascript version for privacy.
Google’s reCaptcha, to which Anubis is being compared to by OP, is obviously far less private. It’s just another mechanism of control and data harvesting for Google. One of the ways that they determine if you’re malicious/human or not is to check if you have a Google cookie in your browser and are signed in. Not to mention fingerprinting (hardware and software info), browsing data, AI training ironically enough (the fucking streetlights), etc etc.
Anubis is relevant here because it is more private, among other things.
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Dark mode is supposed to be released this weekend! 50 weekends ago.
I stopped keeping up with him to save my sanity and excitement for when I can actually see for myself what has changed with an update.
They’re killing third-party client access, limiting adblockers, blocking VPNs, and forcing sign in more and more. I sincerely hate it but this was inevitable. They have their monopoly, this is just the “abuse that position and enshittify for more data and money” stage. I hope an alternative takes off because I refuse to play by their rules.
5 Eyes has been simping for China’s Golden Shield for as long as China has had it. Now Curtis Yarven and his circle of authoritarian tech bro freaks and 5 corpos in a trench coat are running America. Then the UK gets Apple to remove ADP and now, a nation that already has a hard-on for security cameras decides to expand biometric surveillance in quick succession. Hmm… interesting.
But it is open source. And there’s a fork of Signal available on F-Droid called Molly.
I’m just worried a lack of content discovery, (foss) algorithms, other features and consistent development will have an adverse effect on this new growth. I’m glad that Dan finally got the apps on the stores at a critical moment though or we wouldn’t even be here.
Honestly I’ll still be using Proton and recommending it because it’s just good and a net benefit for everyone, but goddammit Andy you should’ve taken Swiss neutrality to heart this time and not said anything.
transgenderism
At risk of going slightly off topic, trans people aren’t an -ism. It’s not an ideology, though transphobes love to frame it that way (not saying you are).
I really hope this gets a proper foss “for you” algo. Personalized content and people discovery features are lacking on the fediverse.
Why not just disable the Ubuntu pro ads in the mean time?
I’m only on the fediverse but I miss algorithms. Recommended accounts (which to be fair exists on a corner of Mastodon), similar accounts to one you just followed, custom home feed, suggested posts, etc. Discoverability sucks on fedi and the lack of interest from devs for some sort of private FOSS implementation is disappointing.
Loops was like let’s have a “For You” algo early this year but even that seems to be a dead idea.
Edit: nevermind I typed a lot but that Lemmygrad user made a far better post that I agree with.
I’d rather donate $750 to Jellyfin than pay $750 to Plex for Lifetime.