Can’t wait for the Flock Equifax/SouthParkWereSorry-esque breach announcement any day. I should start a betting pool w my friends.

Hello, we at Flock are very sad to announce that your data was leaked, but due to the fact that we operate in a legal grey area to get around laws and are nothing more than the domestic surveillance equivalent to a PMC operating overseas, we invite you get fucked

No worries; after Flock gets breached, you'll be compensated with one free year of their services.

I've got $10 on compromised six months before they had their first customer.

If YouTube personalities can break into the hardware, I wouldn't be surprised if foreign intelligence has already figured out a way. Clownin

Why would they break into individual hardware when they have unfettered access to the whole system in certain countries’ cases and can likely just hack into it in more adversarial cases? It is one of the several reasons why … yes, I know YC backed and funded Flock … the company and everyone in government that contracts for them to provide this mass surveillance service, is objectively and inherently treasonous. But don’t shoot the messenger just because people don’t like the message.

“Whoopsie, my negligence I shouldn’t have been engaging in in the first place” is no exemption from being a traitor, betrayal.

What that means for society and if and what it does about it is a different question. Based on historical trends, it all probably won’t matter since we’ve clearly crossed a threshold and the “PPP” tyranny (different from the trillion dollars in PPP loans that were forgiven and contributed to the inflation) is upon us because it wasn’t prevented when it still could have been.

I don’t think people here are even tracking what is going on in TX, UT, LA (and soon to be nation wide); where as of Jan 1st all new accounts will have to provide government ID to install any app on a mobile device.

My breach compensation will be my choice of 3 Flock Cameras from any location in the US with a pole saw.

Beyond sad.

Powerful orgs have powerful enemies. There are many people who want to see Oracle out of the way. They’re not more powerful than the rest of the industry put together.

I have the research to win the race. These people are masters of the fog.

Citizens united maybe? when corporations have liability they’re a group and no one is responsible. when they want to assert rights and make $ “they’re an individual” it’s complete corruption

The NT kernel is splendid. The OS is not.

For its context I agree but the whole chip arch is rotten so it’s doomed too unfortunately

That would just create a bunch of new OSs that are worthless. Don’t forget the real point is to run applications, not an OS.

No the new OS can run the same applications with about 80% less electricity, apps are exactly the point that’s correct which is why the bloat monster stack is ridiculous it’s not needed

I can actually not have a phone like I don’t need one that bad if they want to make it a nightmare. I can go back to a dial tone.

I’m building a new 6502 machine

just means self executing, or more like domino triggered, in practice

quite a bit more advanced than contracts that do nothing on a sheet of paper, but the term is from 2012 or so when "smart" was appended to everything digital

Now we just append AI to everything instead...

thats actually a good idea agentic contracts

or web3 agents

just for their self executing properties not because there are any transformers involved

although a project could just build a backend that decides to use some of their contract’s functions via an llm agent, hm that might actually be easier and fun than normal web3 backends

ok I’ll stop, back to building

just be glad they were named before the AI hype was around