SamInTheShell

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by SamInTheShell 9mo ago
You're wrong. The house literally will come up to someone that is winning a lot and tell them to leave. "You're too good, we have to ask you to leave."
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by SamInTheShell 9mo ago
This is pretty naive. What happens when you develop and extend such a system in a way that it can track who you interact with? What about social credit scores? You might go out to a social event with a very distinguished social credit score
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by SamInTheShell 9mo ago
Nothing against you personally, just so you know. But I have to point out that anyone caring about the reason for the short coming of flock on stuff like this are just crafting soft reasons they can use to justify things later. Being up fro
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by SamInTheShell 9mo ago
> You should probably read the comment you're replying to before replying Congrats you spotted the thing we agreed on between comments. If you fail to see the agreement through parity of the part that was echoed, idk what to tell yo
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by SamInTheShell 9mo ago
You miss the point. This is a law enforcement tool. The average American doesn’t want a surveillance state and that’s literally what’s happening. The legal aspect of it is not in question here. Just because something is legal doesn’t make i
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by SamInTheShell 9mo ago
Rather just see them get Flocked honestly. Seems like the type of tech a child would dream up only to realize when it's too late that it's dystopian, creepy, and a detriment to society.
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by SamInTheShell 9mo ago
If I was 10 years younger, I might agree that they aren't justifying it, but I have enough experience with passive speech to just not let it pass anymore. Regarding remedy, we really need laws on this stuff yesterday. The problem is th
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by SamInTheShell 9mo ago
So you're trying to justify this type of rampant negligence in tech? Do you think justifying such malfeasance makes up for fact we literally have surveillance networks that bad actors can tap to do really awful things? Anyone that care
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by SamInTheShell 9mo ago
Nothing will be done until one of the investors of the tech end up embarrassed from weaponization of the tech against themselves. These people have no clue how creepy some of their technologic betters can be. I once witnessed a coworker sur
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by SamInTheShell 9mo ago
It's 2025. The ISP gateway I got comes with more default security than these cameras. The barrier to entry on security is lower than it ever has been in history. Whoever let this past the QC phase is an idiot.
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Benn Jordan – This Flock Camera Leak Is Like Netflix for Stalkers [video](youtube.com)
270 points by SamInTheShell 9mo ago|4 comments
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by SamInTheShell 10mo ago
Kinda scratching my head as to why this has a backend... uses ruby... needs a database. It's cool though.
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by SamInTheShell 10mo ago
I just imagine the most hilarious form of this idea being a panel that lays behind the plate that is part of the car. The panel containing an array of IR leds that flood everything behind the car with invisible light. Imagine going out side
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by SamInTheShell 10mo ago
Which thing?
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by SamInTheShell 10mo ago
Genuinely don’t know. The hack here is exploiting artifacts from over exposure for the camera sensor. As to if they have mitigating features to filter non visible light, I’m actually curious.
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by SamInTheShell 10mo ago
Seem to recall license plates are required to be illuminated as well. What's stopping someone from just adding an additional IR light to those enclosures? Couldn't you just slap an additional bright enough IR light in that makes i
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by SamInTheShell 10mo ago
Really doubt most people put much thought into it at all. Critical thinking is a dying skill.
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by SamInTheShell 10mo ago
The thing I really don't get is why people are devaluing their own voices with slop. Too many people are just pressing what they think is an "easy" button and calling it good. What they lose in the process is their voice, the
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by SamInTheShell 10mo ago
Kinda funny if it returned an ad for puppy chow. Realistically I doubt an ad presented would actually be tied to the context beyond the seed used for a vector lookup.
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by SamInTheShell 10mo ago
I tried out EmbeddingGemma a few weeks back in AB testing against nomic-embed-text-v1. I got way better results out of the nomic model. Runs fine on CPU as well.
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by SamInTheShell 10mo ago
Not a lawyer, but if you're talking USA, would recommend checking regularly for updates: https://www.copyright.gov/ai/ Even if AI output isn't copyrightable, could you really argue a solid case if I taint ran
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by SamInTheShell 10mo ago
I'm inclined to isolate the chat processes only if I keep the bash tool. I'm undecided if I'm keeping it in. Implementing an MCP server in python is dead easy and so is making a bash tool. Right now I'm more interested i
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by SamInTheShell 10mo ago
I've seen that before. Idk how I feel about that pattern in general. When I see any of the tools I use do stuff like `bash(cmd... I didn't ask your permissions - hehe!~)`, I get a bit pissed that it wasn't a straight up stand
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by SamInTheShell 10mo ago
Isolation is a smart idea for these things, as you literally can't verify their behavior beyond "it's kinda doing the thing most of the time". My chat app just kinda settles for "you can require permissions and audi
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Show HN: Vibe coded an AI chat app with features I wanted, Poe(github.com)
1 points by SamInTheShell 10mo ago|6 comments
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by SamInTheShell 11mo ago
There seems to be about the same level of effort with Elixir as there is for a language like Kotlin. The free sandwich I'm referring to with Go is the ability to just do `go funcnamehere()` and that's running concurrently and in p
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by SamInTheShell 11mo ago
Haha, yeah. Idk any other language where I practically get a free parallelization+concurrency sandwich. It's kept me coming back to Go for a decade now, despite them using a signal that prevents using it for system level libraries. The
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by SamInTheShell 11mo ago
Kinda wonder what the extent of this is. You can get some really great results from your employees by mandating shit like this. /s I use AI daily and frankly I love it while thinking of it from the context of "I write some rough i
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by SamInTheShell 11mo ago
Went in thinking "Have you heard of Go?"... but this turned out to be about GPU computing.
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by SamInTheShell 11mo ago
So what do you do when the context engineer rolls up into chat and jailbreaks the system prompt that was designed? Do you just hire them on the spot? This literally isn’t what LLMs are designed for nor are they good at.

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