Wellness tech, including hardware applications and websites, are relatively new compared to the (technically regulated) for-profit medicine industry.

Flagstaff said it quite well, but the entire US healthcare market is being replaced by a for-profit Wellness industry with no protections

For a security standpoint, it sounds like your company is exposing everyone to a huge data breach if this gets leaked. And that’s assuming Flock has your best interests at heart to begin with. Imagine what an attacker could learn by identifying the nanes, faces, and checkin times of everybody that worked at your company. Nothing good, that’s for sure.

Ethical reasons aside, tampering with the devices is entirely out of the question. First off, it’s criminal, and second, you’ll be on the shortest of short lists of people who might have done it. (This is more for casual readers of the thread and not OP.)

I agree with the comments that recommend talking more to your union about this. If everything’s going to be handled by security anyway, then why even involve the third party?

Great. First tax dollars are being used to falsely accost people in the streets, next it’ll be the IRS in our homes. I hope your last name isn’t Tuttle.

The difference is that public transit surveillance systems would be rolled out immediately, while cars would be a slow realization for all but the most tech aware.

I’d rather have a universal “my tax dollars are being used for what” outrage than a slow-rolling series of complaints from 2027/2028 car buyers (which are statistically going to be less numerous than previous years)

This isn’t a bad first effort, but I don’t know if it’s possible to undo filters, and it might be good to let people place extra censors on top too.

On the privacy side, it’s plenty safe to run. (The only permission is “view networks”, and without any others there’s no real way for it to leak anything). It’s cool there’s automatic face detection built into this, although it didn’t work for one of my test images. Thus my desire for manual censor placement.

I think there’s a lot of confusion surrounding this app, so I’m going to make some assumptions and please correct me if I’m wrong.

1. This isn’t an email app at all, but it’s a messaging app that uses the email paradigm to display how messages are received.
2. “Deferred messages” simply wait in the app’s Outbox folder until your contact comes online and then they will be delivered.

(It’s interesting how Delta Chat is technically an email client that pretends to be a messaging app, but this is more of a messaging app that pretends to be email.)

It’s a rare channel because not only are the videos pretty simple and straightforward, the host is also extremely knowledgeable about the topics. Look for anybody else who’s familiar with the differences of the for-profit/non-profit links with companies like Mozilla and Proton. I don’t think you’ll find them in many places.

I’m wondering that myself. Without digging much deeper, my guess is:

• It’s trivially easy for anyone on Tor to make a service that is accessible to everyone else on Tor
• Two clients can connect directly and communicate if they know each other’s Tor “addresses”

Ironic: the same troll (Facedeer) complained people were too paranoid about job loss:

I think the online rhetoric around AI has been way more apocalyptic than the more vague and abstract political stuff… All jobs will be taken away and everyone will be reduced to serfs or killed as surplus population? Drum that into a sufficiently mentally fragile subset of the population long and hard enough and you’ll get them worked up enough to feel like they need to strike first.

But what’s a troll without inconsistent rhetoric…

I respect what the guys who made it are doing, but if you read the description, it’s pretty clear they just made Debian + a script and called it something else.

Maybe “meme distro” isn’t accurate, it’s meant to be intentionally inflammatory.

Just read their homepage

If you flash Ageless Linux onto a USB drive and hand it to a ten-year-old, you are an operating system provider distributing an operating system to a child.

Or this

Instead of an API, flagrant mode installs a file at /etc/ageless/REFUSAL that explains, in plain English, that this operating system provider declines to comply and invites enforcement action.

Flagrant mode is intended for devices that will be physically placed into a child’s hands.

Or this

John McCardle… I am the covered application store. I am the person who curates the catalog. I am the person who will hand the device to a child. If the California Attorney General would like to discuss any of this, I am easy to find.

I believe Ageless Linux is a meme distro to do exactly that.

Twitter levels are unattainable

I thought Session was decentralized and couldn’t be centrally shut down 🤔

Mozilla settled. But if Firefox advocates want to do “it wasn’t found to be criminal” now, the reasons for criticizing Brave evaporate.

Are you sure that nobody would use a product with code from an unethical company that causes unneeded, disproportionate harm to minorities?

If you actually believe defaults don’t matter as long as you can change them, then you should be super positive about this Waterfox improvement. This feature is the thing Mozilla ignored for years.

Mozilla opened a forum for community members to suggest changes. Members suggested Startpage as a search engine. Mozilla ignored them. Instead, Mozilla added Ecosia, a paying sponsor, as a search engine. I don’t know how much more blatant a faux nonprofit can get.

As a response to some other things… Yes, the Weather widget is sponsored, an advertisement placed in your browser at the behest of a paying company. If you hover your mouse over it, it will tell us you it was sponsored by a third party. Firefox is bursting at the seams with ads.

Using Firefox over Brave gives me 25% less performance on my desktop according to this benchmark site, and that’s with an ad blocker on Brave and none on FF.

Firefox needs every CPU cycle it can get.

They’ve never shipped an ad blocker, period. Sucks to be an iOS user…

But Mozilla Firefox’s default search engines, plural, are sponsored - ie advertisement to the sites that pay them. The homepage stories? Ads. Top sites? Ads. Weather widget? An ad. Search suggestions? Ads.

Mozilla baked an ad network data collector into their browser. But somehow people are mad because a fork is going to… Remove the ads. All the ads, if you flip a switch.