I have proposed elsewhere that for companies like Flock doing surveillance of the public, it should be legally required for every company executive and board member to have their cameras, ALPR systems, audio surveillance, drone systems, etc - installed outside their homes and along their routes to work and along their routes to their children's schools and their spouses workplaces - and all of that data be publicly accessible. And I'd suggest the same goes for senior management at decision makers at every town and police department and private company that signs a contract with them.
"For their own safety", as they'd have us believe.
If I was being stalked I'd rather have public surveillance data that I could compile (or pay somebody else to compile) versus relying on law enforcement, who has no duty to protect me.
Making surveillance public levels the playing field for everybody.
...people can just follow you in public. there's nothing illegal about that.
there is no reasonable expectation of privacy in a public setting, nor should there be. anyone arguing there should be is giving up basic rights because they're scared.
the issue is when public feeds get recorded and are allowed to be viewed at a later date. the data retention is the issue, not the privacy.
Ridiculous. Next you're going to treat going to point A to B in a car the same way as walking. Why do you need a license to drive? You don't need a license to walk!
In fact, people had a reasonable expectation of privacy in public spaces before there were cameras everywhere.
If nothing is recorded that helps but it's still a much bigger problem than someone following you because you can see someone that's following you and they also can't be in 50 places at once.
> there is no reasonable expectation of privacy in a public setting, nor should there be. anyone arguing there should be is giving up basic rights because they're scared
I personally value my fundamental right to privacy.
That website tries too hard to write clever marketing copy and does a bad job describing what actually is.
Better description: Pinokio is a free, open-source "AI browser" that simplifies installing, running, and managing complex, open-source AI applications and creative tools (like Stable Diffusion, ComfyUI) with one-click scripts, removing the need for coding or complex command-line setup.
I think in this case browser is meant as a place to browse, e.g. the Google Play store is an app browser. I don't hear it used that way often anymore, but it at least sounds familiar.
What part of making a movie is fun? Acting, costumes, sets, camerawork, story, dialogue, script, sound effects, lighting, editing, directing, producing, marketing?
Creating software has a similar number of steps. AI tools now make some of them much (much) easier/optional.
All parts of making a movie are fun. If you hire people who are passionate at each task, you will get 1000x better result. It may be 10 days late but better to be late than slop.
I also thought immediately of WikiTok and was confused by this exchange and the grammar in the quote here; I thought they were claiming to have made a VSCode extension called Wikitok. I understand now!
I've searched but failed to find anything that works as a standard fiducial-type sound. e.g. With a recording of the sound produced by the fiducial from a set distance (and knowing temperature, pressure, humidity), you could calibrate/adjust recordings.
That is the crux you always need a calibrated sound to calibrate the mic. Best I think this app could hope to do is establish a relative reading. perhaps it could play a set of repeatable tones on the device(assuming being executed from a device that does not have external speakers that can be adjusted/ validate that sound was played from phone speaker and not headphone jack to a dac?) and record those then could replay sounds later to a calibrated device to establish reference. or start recording with some other regular repeatable sound like a vacuum cleaner with video showing how it was positioned for recording.
Don't reward this type of post with your attention. This is messaging from 1 (of 453) Congressional reps to the president and voters. It is not realistic policy.
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