You'll never feel ready but you will always be ready. One of my biggest regrets is not having kids sooner

If idiocracy is good then yes.

Love seinfield's quote about kids -

"One of the nice things God does, is that he doesn't let people who don't have kids know what they're missing"

One of the nice things about not having teenage daughters is you don't have to worry about Jerry Seinfeld hanging around.

because its open source.

A license doesn't matter if the perpetrator doesn't comply with it.

Open source licence requires attribution which obviously it is not done in this case.

No it doesn’t? Depends on the license

I doubt that there is any open source license that don't require attribution but we are talking about a specific case and the license require it [1]

[1] https://huggingface.co/moonshotai/Kimi-K2.5/blob/main/LICENS...

Like licenses are worth anything in the AI world…

Bold idea but too much money on the other side to let this gain traction

You are saying exactly, and I mean exactly, what they would want.

Dismissing an avenue of progress outright is to be defeatist or to sow defeat.

AI is going to use all this information against us. Because AI alignment can’t be better than people and corporations deploying the AI.

Lack of privacy is now a gaping security hole, being continually exploited on all our devices, across most sites on the internet.

[EDIT: And the leverage that information enables is being auctioned off to manipulators who we are exposed to continuously. This is just the beginning.]

We need to plug this security hole now, before power centralizes further and we can’t.

Google, TTD, Applovin, Magnite, Roku, Freewheel, + 100 more adtech and martech companies.

Lets add Facebook, twitter, openai, claude + all the others.

then lets add Flock, Palantir.

Do you honestly think the lobbying from them would be more or less if this bill gained any traction?

Of course they are going to resist. That is the terrain.

That doesn’t change the critical need to make progress.

Surrendering power, even when apparently outgunned, is a far more insidious enemy than opposition.

Amen! And, in fact, the harder they fight, the harder our resolve.

> Do you honestly think the lobbying from them would be more or less if this bill gained any traction?

Small communities are thwarting these companies’ datacenter buildouts. The difference is they show up. Defeating privacy in tech is easy because there is no functional opposition.

> too much money on the other side to let this gain traction

This view is unfortunately common among regular privacy advocates. That makes them politically useless.

To have a hope, this bill needs to target support outside tech, where civic laziness and nihilism are normalized. I’m not seeing any indication of that strategy here.

My old CEO - ex sun/greenplum/pivotal swore that sending an email in lowercase forced the other person to read the whole message and not skim.

ItisevenbetterwhenyoudropthespacesthatREALLYforcespeopletoengagewithyourcontent. FormaaimxlgarbteihratttenionandHLODitscrmblaetheintreiorofwrdos! /s

On top of using scriptio continua, you can write your emails in ancient Greek for that truly authentic feeling.

you running a server or local llms with a need for 512?

Server stuff. Nothing interesting. Supermicro H11 + Epyc 7xxx + RAM. I have a 6x4090 setup for local LLMs and I got myself a 128 GB M4 Max laptop thinking I'd do that, but if I'm being honest I need to get rid of that hardware. It's sitting idle because the SOTA ones are so much better for what I want.

they prob be upset about the 13th 15th and 19th amendments too

Yea they would have had no issue with flock if it was for capturing escaped enslaved people

They aren't a monolithic group. There was a wide range of opinions on slavery and many other topics. Do a bit of research.

The only acceptable opinion today should be that slavery of all stripes, practiced both before the emancipation proclamation, as well as today in both prison settings and trafficking, is abhorrent.

With all the hate of Flock Online interesting that they were able to find the killer so fast

Please don't editorialize titles. It's against the site guidelines: "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize." - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

If you want to say what you think is important about an article, that's fine, but do it by adding a comment to the thread. Then your view will be on a level playing field with everyone else's: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

Apologies, I will be sure to follow guidelines next time

Appreciated!

Sure, but now there's a highly vulnerable network of cameras that reports wherever you pass to everyone way beyond the few people that saw you go around.

Okay? so what. People can see that I drive? do you not think that verizon/ att /google cant see where you traveling by the phone you carry?

"Oh no, my super secret movement data, which is now being made available to a large number of people" would be more accurate.

Oh no lots people can now see that I go to costco and publix.

Oh no youre one druggie friend (that you didnt know about having a drug addiction) that visits you sometimes got caught by the cops. Oh no they think youre their drug dealer since his license plate got recognized in your driveway a few times. Oh no they are kicking your door in with a search warrant and shoot your dog.

Don't need Flock to have that happen - https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/supreme-court-hears-case-fam...

Cool, so now there are multiple ways to have it happen.

That sounds worse.

Oh no, my bad faith argument!

Downvote all you want but adtechs like magnite, ttd, and applovin Have way more personal data on you and use it to influence. I'll take safety over ads any day of the week.

It's not one or the other. Everyone should be opposed to both.

Psst, hey, we hate all of those, too. Hating one shitty surveillance-state service doesn't preclude hating other shitty surveillance-state services.