At close range they’ll blind them, but the tech is getting better these days.

What knocks out the camera is the auto exposure, they used to just take the whole sensors input, average it and set the brightness against that value. A lot of the newer surveillance cameras will just ignore the overall and compensate pixel per pixel.

Project farm looked at a bunch

https://youtu.be/j0GZKXWf3vg?t=749

nods I suspected as much.

Never seen any search results through :)

Like everything else everyone has ever posted outside the fediverse?

DIscord: GUYs! You’ll NEVER BELIEVE THIS!!! Instead of invasively reading out every one of your personal identifications and selling the data on your likes/dislikes, we can ACTUALLY just use an AI to tell if you’re a child by how your interact with people!!!

Us: Maybe you could have the AI just stop the stalkers.

Discord:

It stops dangerous memory mistakes by design, forces safe handling of data, and eliminates the most commonly used vulnerabilities in C and C++

It encourages secure design, but that forces people who have been writing C/C++ for years to completely rethink how to do many things they’re very proficient at.

To have something optimized they need to start from scratch with clean code

And honestly, that speaks more to the removal of features on the taskbar than Notepad.

One person could have rewritten Notepad from scratch in C++ in a day and bolted in Markdown in a relatively secure fashion in another 2. I doubt security even hit the requirements list. I’m not against moving windows components to Rust. I’ve not against losing features here and there to get there, but blatantly ignoring security because it’s in Rust is downright stupid.

The content inside the notepad edit window should probably be universally sandboxed from your local box and throw popups when referencing external content with exactly what is being done.

They half assed the implementation.

How could one forget?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSfCwfesmVk

The real trick is we need the governments to back down and just make sure we have the power to allow/deny our kids access.

Ok, honestly with some caveats, this might have legs.

What most of us want: to use our services anonymously and privately

What some of us want: to keep youtube/discord/roblox from enabling pedofarms. yes i get the obligatory people should just raise their kids

What companies say they want: to keep kids safe

What companies really want: to appease some users and farm as much data about someone as they can and to comply with the growing trend of places that require age verification.

So, what if they provide an offline model for age verification? download the model, phone in airplane mode. verify yourself, get a digitally signed certificate, expunge the app so shove that verifiable signature as proof that you’re an adult.

From the corporate standpoint, It’s no different than signing into their account and giving them your face. we keep our privacy, they can fuck off about it.

Just roll all this back 40 years and sue TV broadcasters instead :) Nothing ever changes.

start a large company, force all the employees to use the cheap venture driven tokens now to get more done with less talent then fire everywhere when the bubble pops.

and they’re packed with Olestra ™

‘scale Remedy in a way that builds lasting value’

Checks corpo-speak to English dictionary:

Lasting value is cash: Scale plan: First down, drastically, then bisect as many times as possible, then sell off the chunks to the highest bidders.

The uneducated are far easier to control. You take their cookies, then tell them it’s the foreigners. You tell them they’re as smart as anyone need be, and that those highly educated people are smug assholes who are stealing their cookies. If they just vote for you, you’ll make sure that they get their fair share of cookies. (Narrator: They did not get any cookies)

The government / project2025 crew is driving plans to do this, but it’s largely being worked at the state level.

https://hdpulse.nimhd.nih.gov/data-portal/social/map?age=081&age_options=age25_1&demo=00006&demo_options=education_3&race=00&race_options=race_7&sex=0&sex_options=sexboth_1&socialtopic=020&socialtopic_options=social_6&statefips=00&statefips_options=area_states

I think if there is any true truth to it, it’s the systematic dismantling of the education system.

I do have an observation though, there is less need these days to push into the unknown. We’ve engineered everything to come out of the box so user friendly that if you don’t want to know about how something works, you can still get by just fine. Your car tells you you’re low on oil, and your tire is flat and it’s time to replace the transmission fluid. Wifi is ubiquitous. If you want to know about something, it’s available on demand. I’ve forgotten far more details about wars and countries that i’ll ever need to use in my life and if I ever need them, they’re right there 5 seconds to run a search or ask a local AI.

The people who are into tech and history and math are into it because they like it, for the most part machines are here to answer any questions you might have as long as you already have the broad strokes to know what you want to ask.

I’m GenX, My kids are both excelling at math and getting some semi-gentle prodding to get a little programming and art under their belts. I certainly don’t hold them in the house, but I don’t force them out either. There’s hardly any other kids out, they have access to social activities. Free ranging wasn’t all it was cracked up to be. You’re bored, you bike over to somebody’s house, they’re bored, their parents kick you all out, you ride your bikes down roads that are too busy, sneak into places you shouldn’t be just to break off the boredom.

The media is def all propaganda now, it has been for much longer than any of us would like to admit. I worked with a guy in the 00’s that had a CNN lies bumpersticker, I looked it up, yeah they kinda did on a few things. Every news carrier out there as at least some small agenda. TikTok, IG, FB are all full of it practically all you can do is pick some sources that don’t appear to be too bad (AP) and use a large pinch of salt when anything is reported.

who are raising these kids? The government is handing out propaganda. They are convincing the people that private run, for-profit schools are necessary. Everything is a grift. The public is dumbing down, but it’s not just the kids, they’re just the easiest metric to get

yeah, we have states poisoning the fuck out of their education system to try to make education for-profit. Administration is in the middle of trying to do the same.

If I’ve got my story straight. (and if not, someone here will surely correct me)

For Graphene to deliver the advanced security provided by their OS, they need features found on newer processors and want more timely firmware updates. Google currently delivers on both needs.

FP is behind on hardware, prob cost cutting to make modular costs more affordable.

Average users don’t really have to worry about those things.

That’s true, until it isn’t. What’s legal and moral now can change in a flash. Having a phone that’s resistant to software infiltration isn’t a bad thing.

Looks like FP3 is lacking and Telstra are just assholes about FP5