gigel82

But... why? </s>

This reminds me of C++ Template Metaprogramming (TMP) (it's Turing-complete so people wrote "games" that run at compile time). The same with TypeScript types, I think someone got DOOM running entirely in the TypeScript type system. An interesting tech demo but entirely superfluous.

Fun, but... how is this not already taken down by copyright strikes? I mean straight rips of audio assets, music, 3d assets, graphics, even the damn name...

They're getting desperate for more user data... and the funny thing is folks will likely line up to buy and install this TeleScreen 84 in their home like they did for the original Alexa... we're all doomed.

This is good news, I like Pi with local models, but the MCP needing an external plugin and extra "discovery" proxies was never smooth.

This was the case for at least a year. I used to use AliExpress for affordable small electronics, and when this came into effect, it killed the whole thing (and my hobby, because no way I'm paying the Amazon or eBay tax).

This is confusing; what happens to you if you refuse a warantless search of your property?

I'm a US citizen returning home. Do they just... send me back out of the country? :) I don't suppose they'd have the grounds to arrest me since there is no law that I can see being broken. I suppose they could keep the device until such time that a warrant could be obtained to digitally search / break into the device (but that requires some reasonable suspicion - simply refusing a warantless search isn't it).

That's eerily similar to the argument used by mass surveillance systems like Flock around expectations of privacy in public.

Yes, it's fine if the little old lady around the corner writes down the color or plates of cars driving through the road a few hours a week, but no, it's totally not fine for an all-seeing, all-powerful entity to collect all license plates, and photos of drivers and passengers, with exact metadata to automatically process and sell that data for profit to anyone who would pay.

What search terms did you use? I'm in the US, can't find anything with an oled panel that's not a smart tv or a computer monitor.

Let me know when they (or anyone else) comes out with an oled model.

"As a rule, regulation is acquired by the industry and is designed and operated for its primary benefit." - George Stigler

<s>Get the Flock out of here with those ideas, that's conspiracy thinking; those poor CEOs only want what's best for us</s>

Nothing says "social change" like building a Flock of predictive-surveillance cameras capable of spotting the revolt before the flock even knows it’s a flock.

Damn, we pay $110 for 5Gbps in Seattle only because the 2Gbps would be $100.

Cellular plans are also a lot cheaper in Europe :(

Without access to the code, I imagine it'd be extremely difficult even with unlimited API calls to the watermarker.