- How would one prove that no data harvesting is taking place or would not take place after the sale of the company? a.k.a. bait and switch
- What is the business model? Subscriptions will not pay for the initial OpEx / CapEx investment. How will investors make a profit?
- How will your company lure people away from the other big platforms that all their friends and coworkers are on? What are the incentives beyond promises of no data collection? Most people no longer accept good-faith promises any more as greedy people have emptied that bucket.
Before asking that one would have to ask how much would serious trade negotiations with Denmark cost and are we willing to take the country of Denmark by force required to get Greenland? What would Trump do and then what would Europe do in responce?
In the year of our lord 2025 I expect high quality pictures and videos. Can't be O2 deprivation at 3500 feet so the only plausible things left in my opinion is attention seeking or mental illness. Videos or it didn't happen and even that is hard to take seriously now with AI. Even a sit-down interview with aliens would be hard to take seriously.
>Can't be O2 deprivation at 3500 feet so the only plausible things left in my opinion is attention seeking or mental illness.
A plausible third option is a mundane terrestrial object and not an alien spacecraft. Even the article (despite throwing up as much alien hype as it can) points out that it could have been a weather balloon. As trite an explanation as that is, it's not impossible.
I considered that one but the object was standing still but then floated by which implied to me it was initially matching their speed. A draft could briefly pull a balloon but they would have to be below stall speed to keep the balloon with them I think.
The problem here is that pilots report flybys by weird objects all the time, going back at least as far as the foo-fighters of WW2.
I don't believe it's aliens, and I suspect there must be multiple phenomena involved (including some hoaxing) but it can't all be nothing. Attention seeking doesn't really work because until recently reporting this sort of thing through official channels would get a pilot grounded.
Attention seeking doesn't really work because until recently reporting this sort of thing through official channels would get a pilot grounded.
That brings up a good question. Should some of these pilots be forced into a psychological evaluation in addition to a retake of their 3rd class medical? Or perhaps include a mandatory psychological evaluation as part of the medical. So many people these days are on some really nasty off label mental health drugs. I am honestly surprised more people do not report being tailed by a Romulan Warbird.
The mundane nature of these kinds of reports suggest at least something other than mental illness or drug use might be going on. People aren't reporting being tailed by a Romulan Warbird (obviously, because they would be cloaked.) You'd think the stories would be weirder, but "I saw an object I can't explain do things I also can't explain" doesn't read as a trip to me. Just a lot of unknowns.
That works for me too. Last year I was taking a picture of the sunset and a swarm of UFO's went past my camera. I knew what they were (flock of birds that eat the deer's food) but my camera was in in a mode that could not focus fast enough. I declined to report the UFO's.
In my case it was getting mud into my mud boot from interacting with an aggressive horse. It took me a while to figure out the thing on my foot was not fungal but a parasite. Ivermectin horse paste cleared it up but I also have FenBen just in case I missed one. Most of them exited on their own after applying acetic acid.
Blocking the exit nodes is quite tivial [1] but it would indeed be hard to stop people from accessing Tor and .onion sites. More websites should add some Tor .onion nodes even if they have to put those in read-only mode on user-provided multimedia sites to avoid complex CSAM filters.
Children could go missing thanks to Flock default settings. HN would tell me to never attribute to malice ... but there may be criminal negligence.
To cover their butts I strongly suggest Flock implement a default "grading system" that will show a city in a banner at the top of their management and monitoring system that based on their camera and network configuration they get an A+ to F-. If the grade is below a C then it must be impossible to get rid of the banner and it must be blinking red. The grading system must be both free, mandatory and a part of the core management code. This assumes Flock will have the willpower to say no when a city demands removal of the flashing red banner. Instead up-sell professional services to secure their mess. I would like to see the NCC Group review their security and future grading system.
I always found Hanlon's Razor a bit too optimistic in tone. I prefer it restated in the form of Clarke's third law:
"Sufficiently advanced stupidity is indistinguishable from malice."
Hanlons razor is stupid and we should stop using it.
First off, we don't actually know how ignorant someone is or is not, but from what I see people GREATLY underestimate ignorance.
Rich people building state-sponsored surveillance are not ignorant. They absolutely know the consequences. They either don't care, or they are actually targeting those consequences.
Secondly, it falls apart in organizations. When we apply hanlons razor to an organization, we're claiming EVERYONE there must be ignorant. Which is just obviously not true.
Someone knows, probably lots of people know. And they choose not to act - that is malice. Choosing not to do something is a form of malice.
> The financing was led by Andreessen Horowitz, with backing from Greenoaks Capital, Bedrock Capital. Meritech Capital, Matrix Partners, Sands Capital, Founders Fund, Kleiner Perkins, Tiger Global, and Y Combinator also participated.
Depends where one lives. In my location there is zero dependency on the internet. It's just a convenience thing and the growing number of miscreants on the internet is negating that balance for me personally. Sooner than later I am going back to a landline and ditching the cell phone.
Unlimited on my self hosted mail servers across a dozen or so domains and up to 600 aliases on Fastmail across several domains. I do not have any that I could hand out anywhere as it would get blasted by junk and I would end up having to remove it unless I filtered on a set of GPG keys or something to that effect.
- What is the business model? Subscriptions will not pay for the initial OpEx / CapEx investment. How will investors make a profit?
- How will your company lure people away from the other big platforms that all their friends and coworkers are on? What are the incentives beyond promises of no data collection? Most people no longer accept good-faith promises any more as greedy people have emptied that bucket.
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