Technology

Just a reminder! You don’t own your Ring videos, Ring/Amazon do and they’ll do what they want with it.

$5 million is peanuts. The company ought to go under.

I remember in the 80s when I was 5 years old, I'd spout off all these crazy ideas, and say how one day we'd get these things.

My parents disregarded everything I said as rubbish.

Today most of what I said is just common shit that doesn't even seem futuristic. You'd think I'd be happy to be validated.

But it's a monkeys claw situation.

I said that one day you'd be able to get McDonalds delivered to your door. Wish granted. It cost 4x the normal cost, comes to you an hour later, usually cold and soggy, and theres no way to know that your driver wasn't snacking on your fries. Monkey paw curl.

I said that you could watch tv on the go. Wherever you are. Now, at the time, it's possible that portable TVs existed. I was 5. They didn't exist in my world. I knew nothing of them. So from my perspective, they didn't exist. Now you can watch your favorite tv shows, or news, or sports, or movies, or whatever. Live or pretaped. Anywhere. But you need 5 different services, each costing a shitload, and each constantly raising prices. Monkey paw curls.

I also said you would be able to answer your front door from anywhere in the house using video screens and cameras. I was envisioning those security cameras you see when you walk into walmart. When you see yourself on camera. I was imagining that, but on your porch, and a TV/camera in every room with a button to answer the door. Well thats real. The video quality is way better than I imagined. And you can actually answer from anywhere in the world. But also these cameras are linked together, spy on people, and contribute the death of privacy through a police state network of corruption. Monkey paw curls.

Which makes me genuinely terrified for one of the only ones that hasn't come through yet.

I imagined a paralell dimension with an exact 1:1 clone copy of everybody in our world. Except there's a massive wall that runs the line of the equator. And every single clone person is shackled to that wall naked. And I could visit anytime I wanted, and torture people until they agreed to be my friend. But they'd have to stay chained there, because otherwise they'd leave me, like everyone else.

I was a weird kid. But how do you monkey paw THAT ONE???

So what? Couple grant to some politicians, Blackmail committee by sniffing their internet history, and we are back again!!!!! Let's go USA! USA!!!!!! The rest of the world sucks.

Why has Amazon been single out when loads of doorbells do face recognition? The description of the feature in the article sounds exactly how Google do it.

Last fall, Amazon launched a new "Familiar Faces" feature inside Ring doorbells. Utilizing AI, Familiar Faces scans and identifies visitors to a Ring owner's home. When Familiar Faces recognizes a regular visitor — whether it's a family member, mailman, or delivery driver — Ring can tell users who is at their door instead of providing a generic notification.