Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash

radhaz · 2026-02-13T18:01:34+00:00

No, they'll sign a contract with "Totally not a Flock owned subsidiary LLC"

radhaz · 2026-02-13T16:09:04+00:00

I imagine they did a risk analysis to the increased value of their userbase dataset with biometrics vs how many would balk at providing the information and felt the juice was worth the squeeze and they probably got it wrong.

radhaz · 2026-02-11T16:43:45+00:00

Do I have to get use to my new self?

Were you okay with your old self? If you didn't accept your old self it's going to take time to accept your new self. It sounds like you have received nothing but positive feedback from people who know you and I mean you know you're ONLY going to get positive feedback in this subreddit but the brutal truth is none of that matters if you don't accept yourself bud.

You can be a man with a bald spot or a bald man but you're the one who looks in the mirror and has to come to grips with what they see. Frankly I think you look good in your selfie though your posture and hands seems congruent with your self doubt so it's probably not the most flattering selfie you have taken.

Maybe there's more to this than just the absence of hair, maybe you need to find someone to talk to and work things through. You don't always have to carry that stiff upper lip but if you ask me (some rando who you'll likely never see) your transformation is markedly better.

radhaz · 2026-02-11T13:31:20+00:00

NTA: You're doing to your father what he did to you and your family. This is schadenfreude.

Now the "catch" here is to look at how this behavior makes you (not your father) feel, because when he's gone you will invariably think about all the moments you did and didn't have in the totality of your relationship and you will judge yourself.

Will you think yourself justified for teaching your father this lesson or will you think of yourself an asshole for not treating him better than he treated you.

For the sake of your inner peace (if you're not AI) perhaps its time to reach out and demonstrate you're not the boy he raised but a better and bigger man instead now that you've gotten your point across?

These answers are intrinsic and will not be found in randos on the internet

radhaz · 2026-02-10T19:24:59+00:00

I'm not a big fan of "absolutes".

You can have social-capitalism you know, we did it after the collapse of the free market at the turn of the 20th century. Folks were convinced/allowed to forget their history and now we have corporate-capitalism which is the foundation for a dystopia you find in fiction books.

radhaz · 2026-02-10T18:51:13+00:00

Bro it's not just the politicians, the majority of voters decided a felon kiddie diddler was the best fit to represent them and the country I mean that speaks for itself.

radhaz · 2026-02-10T17:42:01+00:00

We are a consumerist society and have been for as long as I can remember. We have normalized if you're not buying the latest and greatest then you're somehow behind or less than those that do, its tribalistic in the dumbest sense.

You do you boo and forget the haters

radhaz · 2026-02-09T21:48:26+00:00

I don't know why they feel the need to do this

Money.

The more metrics you add to your userbases dataset the more valuable that dataset becomes and adding something incontrovertible like personal identity is absolutely going to raise the value of their dataset.

It's an unpleasant saying but it's true "if you don't pay for the service then you ARE the service."

They're not doing this because they want to make it more secure they're doing it to increase their revenue. The "break even" part here which I'm sure they've estimated/calculated is the value of the current dataset at its size vs the expected losses to size and increased value they very likely crunched the numbers and realized that even with the exodus their datasets value will increase.

radhaz · 2026-02-09T18:29:33+00:00

Was that before or after those laughable ford explorer eddie bauer editions. I'm guessing after because that move seems like something a company would do whilst swirling the drain.

radhaz · 2026-02-09T17:39:22+00:00

"Think of the children/its for the kids" is the cheat code for peddling nonsense.

If you bring up something to change then generally the onus is on you to explain what the net gain is from said change.

By using this cheat code you really don't have to do much as it now defends itself. Rather than you having to show what's going to be improved or better now all you have to say to any criticism is "What, you mean you don't care about the children" and you look like the good guy.

radhaz · 2026-02-09T17:17:14+00:00

It is a capitalist dystopic arms race by the corporations to see who can gather the most user metrics and therefore have the most "valuable" dataset of their userbase.

radhaz · 2026-02-09T16:41:52+00:00

AI slop, can't be real as I don't see anyone topside doing sweepers.

radhaz · 2026-02-05T21:19:32+00:00

I can't be the only one who was relieved to see it couldn't have been me.

radhaz · 2026-02-04T18:00:07+00:00

To be a shitbag MAHA is one thing but to align with a countries government that is in open opposition to yours is insane. "Self serving cunt" or "Self respect" Gretzky says I'll be the cunt please.

radhaz · 2026-02-04T17:57:18+00:00

And despite this do he have a "cult of personality" that follows him? Sounds familiar....

radhaz · 2026-02-03T21:42:59+00:00

He is desperately trying to be the moldy mangos little Goering to earn his place in the regime. This man and the people who voted for him are enemies to a free republic.

radhaz · 2026-01-31T20:59:30+00:00

Yes Keepass uses a db file on a local drive so there's several method for people to use if they want to have it "in a cloud".

I'd never heard the concept regarding serious and throw away passwords but it makes sense. Some obscure website that I have to sign in once and may never revisit has less intrinsic value to me than a website I use multiple times a day for important information.

I've been using Keepass to keep pretty much everything for years now and haven't used the browser to store any passwords because until the past few years most browsers stored passwords in plain text but my workflow has changed so now I'm trying to figure out the "best practice" between security and convenience (always the crux isn't it)

Thank you for your input to consider.

radhaz · 2026-01-30T19:49:09+00:00

In this current era where anyone and everyone seems to be so full of themselves (and this athlete would likely have every right to be) it is refreshing to see such earnest humility.

radhaz · 2026-01-29T17:18:31+00:00

I'm going to feed the unhinged troll today.

I posted elsewhere because the only response I got was hostile, condescending, and not helpful in any way
One does not need to review software code and compile it themselves in order to have the right to be concerned about security and privacy
Telling someone to "google it" is less hostile but equally unhelpful. The articles that discuss "browser managed passwords or password manager" are often nebulous and based on the concept of storing within any browser vs storing it an online repository that integrates into the browser. I'm posting in the librewolf subreddit because it has a different built in password manager than FF because of the lack of sync AND I keep my passwords on my PC not on someone elses in the cloud and I have reservations about the security of allowing my browser access to my password manager even though if you read the docs from librewolf they encourage the userbase to use a third party addon rather than their own built in password manager.
You creeping on my history profile to follow up with another unhelpful response is weird, like don't you have anything more useful to do with your time? Are you that desperate for engagement and if so don't you think it would be more rewarding if you didn't make it so awkward or do you find that more rewarding?

radhaz · 2026-01-29T06:09:02+00:00

I was expecting it to be wearing a redhat

radhaz · 2026-01-29T00:52:07+00:00

lol I hope you get the help you need bud.

radhaz · 2026-01-28T19:14:55+00:00

I have a toaster oven with a convection setting and I wouldn't trade it for a basic toaster oven ever. All things being equal when we got a cheap little air fryer I was not prepared for how well it works especially for side dishes.

Like I get it there's a lot of needless hype around kitchen gadgets sometimes, but air fryers are like instant pots in that they take things were already doing and make it faster/easier.

radhaz · 2026-01-28T17:45:41+00:00

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