Want? I don't know. Outside of draconian regulation and punishment I don't see how you really stop aside from some level of social pressure/norms which can work to a degree. (No, you don't film/livestream the dinner party among friends that you are at.) People post photos from social events all the time. That ship has mostly sailed. Video and audio is mostly just an additional increment.
I'm not understanding how limiting data collection is draconian regulation.
Recording in public is a huge problem overall and is slowly decaying our society. People don't do anything anymore because nothing is sacred. Have you been to a club lately? It's just a room of 500 people standing there.
It gets worse the younger and younger the people are. Kids these days are too petrified to leave their homes. Every aspect of their person is under constant scrutiny.
I'm not sure what I wrote about data collection. But public data/photo/video availability is pretty much a thing and it seems impossible to prevent. Seems you just have to deal with it.
Those are inseparable from data collection, because that is data collection. The only reason we have to worry about things like Flock is because there's people who will die on the hill that filming people in public is okay, even when corporations do it and use that data for your oppression.
I just don't understand how it's impossible to prevent. We haven't even tried. This is a "we've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas" sort of mentality, which is as lazy as it is harmful.
There's plenty of things in public that you CAN do, but which we prevent pretty well. For example, every human being has the ability to flash anyone, at any time. However, we do a pretty good job preventing that via the law, despite the fact there are absolutely zero technical or physical limitations to pulling out your dick. If anything, it's one of the most human things you can do - humans have penises and vaginas because they are animals.
And yet, despite the availability of such actions, I don't have to worry much about seeing a veiny cock at the local starbucks. But you know what I do have to worry about? Being filmed, and that video being uploaded to hundreds of computers globally in real time, where it can be used for any and all purposes. Including denying me a loan, or a job, or even imprisoning me. And humans don't even have cameras built right in to their crotch.
I would really prefer a solution that doesn't result in tangible social harm to me. Ideally, I should be able to live my life in public and have it not be absolutely fucking terrible.
I don't think that's asking too much. Really, I don't. Maybe I'm naive, maybe I have high expectations. Or maybe everyone else is a pathetic loser with no spine who actively advocates for things they know harm them, out of some masochistic desire for punishment.
A few years back there was a prototype contact lens at HotChips for AR. I assume video/audio recording in jewelry of various types today would be fairly straightforward at least in conjunction with recording on a wireless device in a pocket or transmitting over cellular in some manner. Of course, audio recording (wearing a wire) has been practical for decades.
stare out the window. look at clouds. wonder how they take the shapes they do. think about water and how it moves through time and space. how those water molecules were once in a bowl of rice or loaf of bread. how many other things has this water been in? what about the water in my body, right now? holy shit, i’ve been a cloud before…
i've been having fun building with astro on cloudflare workers... i have a few apps that have API endpoints, content, and react/svelte components all glued together in one codebase. it's been relatively easy to add drizzle and cloudflare's D1 database to handle data stuff alongside everything else.
i use obsidian with the daily notes plugin and write stream of consciousness for about 15 minutes. sometimes i type, other times i use a dictation app.
lately i have been taking my daily notes and running them through a local LLM. i prompt it to “think like a therapist” and ask me follow up questions. this can dig up some interesting insights from time to time.
i have a mammotion luba 2 AWD and it's saved me days this summer! so much more time to spend with the kids and less time sweating.
i've had it running since May and it's been amazing so far. i hope it can continue going strong and that the product ecosystem around it continues to improve. if it falls apart, i dunno if i can go back to mowing the lawn without a robot. i recently wrote a review of my experience here: https://mfelix.org/reviews/mammotion-luba2/
it's not hard to see how given enough time, these things will completely replace a whole sector of human labor. why pay someone hundreds of dollars a month (or do the work yourself) when the robotic options are good enough?
Awesome! Thanks for taking the time to share your experience here. I'm excited to hear that the service had the desired effect. I also really appreciate your last sentence, I'll be riding that high all day...
or one that is truly inevitable and can’t be stopped?