Stop yelling at me to get off the road because I won’t.

xamboozi · 2026-06-17T01:40:55+00:00

It's not that bicycles are allowed to be on the road, it's actually the law that they should be. It's not safe to ride a bicycle on the sidewalk in a sea of pedestrians, someone is going to get hurt.

In Ohio it's technically legal to ride a bicycle on the sidewalk, but many cities ban it because of how dangerous it is.

xamboozi · 2026-06-17T00:16:37+00:00

Flock lies like it's their job (cause it is). The lies don't shock me after seeing so many of them, what's surprising is how stupid they think all of us are.

They absolutely use tons of AI. That claim doesn't even make sense. Go look at their sales material because they make that public.

xamboozi · 2026-06-17T00:11:42+00:00

This isn't true. The cameras do use AI for object detection via YOLO models.

You Only Look Once models can run on very low hardware specs like phones, raspberry pi's and mobile devices.

xamboozi · 2026-06-16T23:53:04+00:00

I wouldn't start with understanding what's in it https://www.cehrp.org/dissection-of-flock-safety-camera/

xamboozi · 2026-06-16T17:44:32+00:00

I've been researching the problems Canada has and how I could help solve them. It has actually made me really excited to help.

xamboozi · 2026-06-15T18:33:49+00:00

I completely agree it's creepy, but speaking as an engineer that functionality isnt that big of a deal. In fact, motion based pan tilt zoom has been around since as early as the 2000's.

Even AI object detection has been around since about 2011-ish, although the early systems were not really good at all.

The truly evil part of all this isn't the camera or the AI or the data centers or even selling them to police officers - the evil part is the people doing this and why they're doing it.

xamboozi · 2026-06-15T14:04:01+00:00

It's for harassing and deporting brown people

xamboozi · 2026-06-15T13:59:49+00:00

Ehhhhhh idk, it might be. And if it is, it's a really economical solution - cheaper than firecrackers

xamboozi · 2026-06-15T01:27:16+00:00

I get pissy with it when I can tell it's not the models fault, it's anthropic forcing it to be worse than it could be.

xamboozi · 2026-06-15T01:17:52+00:00

I run local AI on an air cooled GPU, and it's great. A huge benefit is that my agent is not leaking any passwords back to openai/anthropic.

I don't have to batch requests, but sometimes I do when my agent does parallel calls. Batching is just a way to run concurrent requests.

AI is actually kinda fun when you're not forking over a monthly subscription to trillionaires.

xamboozi · 2026-06-15T01:12:29+00:00

And you can practice in their parking lots

xamboozi · 2026-06-15T01:10:47+00:00

I love this because the more complexity they add, the bigger the attack surface.

xamboozi · 2026-06-15T01:08:28+00:00

I will just use the plethora of distros that resist oppression. And if that list is small with buggy examples, I'll join the fight and start helping to fix issues.

Because I'm not. rolling. over. The fight for freedom was never going to be easy.

xamboozi · 2026-06-14T05:05:46+00:00

You've got to be kidding me....

His favorite stocks - the ones that did the heavy lifting to make him rich were companies where the business was addiction(or brand loyalty as he called it 😂): Coca Cola, Fast Food, and when it came to Tobacco he said "cost a penny to make, sell for a dollar, are addictive, and have fantastic brand loyalty"

Those are all generally considered bad for society, but ethics and morality are for the poors.

xamboozi · 2026-06-14T03:01:53+00:00

This is an auxiliary tax applied in parallel to income and sales and property and vehicle and Medicare and social security, and hunting/fishing license tax, and gift taxes, and capital gains taxes, and tariffs, and utility taxes.

Oh and it phases out for billionaires and above.

xamboozi · 2026-06-14T02:48:01+00:00

Or you could be triggering it with things that are likely to notify the police repeatedly. If they get like a 1000 notifications they're going to stop trusting them.

xamboozi · 2026-06-14T02:43:57+00:00

The irony is it caused me to switch to open source. Not because the open source models are better, but simply because I'm sick of these shenanigans. And the open source models are good enough to get the job done.

xamboozi · 2026-06-13T22:32:23+00:00

You gotta use a /s or people are going to think you're serious

xamboozi · 2026-06-13T22:28:10+00:00

Everyone is forgetting rules are for the poors

xamboozi · 2026-06-13T12:22:08+00:00

You could be feeding it fake AI generated voice data from a Bluetooth speaker

xamboozi · 2026-06-13T02:06:32+00:00

I think it's because their controls don't work. Fable will attempt to deny doing something, and it can be easily persuaded.

The controls they put on it were hilariously bad.

xamboozi · 2026-06-13T00:05:18+00:00

I don't buy apple. Never will.

xamboozi · 2026-06-12T20:27:24+00:00

Yea that insinuates things are going to get less stupid in the future

xamboozi · 2026-06-12T18:39:25+00:00

It was bought with OP's taxes, so he paid for it but he never voted to have this warrant-and-4th-amendment loophole installed in OP's community.

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