Ring doorbell camera just became a potential pipeline to ICE. Ring’s October 2025 partnership with surveillance company Flock doesn’t just share footage with local cops anymore—it plugs into a massive federal data network that ICE already uses to track Americans.
Absolutely hilarious how people thought corps collecting data was somehow better than the government doing it. All it means is that data gets sold to anybody who'll pay for it.
Booting a PC from a Vinyl Record
https://boginjr.com/it/sw/dev/vinyl-boot/
#HackerNews #Booting #a #PC #from #a #Vinyl #Record #technology #innovation #vinylrecords #retrocomputing
The State of Modern AI Text to Speech Systems for Screen Reader Users
https://stuff.interfree.ca/2026/01/05/ai-tts-for-screenreaders.html
#HackerNews #AI #Text #to #Speech #Screen #Readers #Accessibility #Technology #Modern #AI
Computing power woven into hair-thin fibers, paving way for smart clothes, brain implants.
https://english.news.cn/20260122/9ed59a9edca14a14bb152afa5e900721/c.html
AI Is a Horse (2024)
https://kconner.com/2024/08/02/ai-is-a-horse.html
#HackerNews #AI #Is #a #Horse #2024 #AIHorse #Innovation #Technology #Future
Project Mercury and the Sofar Bomb
https://www.thequantumcat.space/p/project-mercury-and-the-sofar-bomb
#HackerNews #ProjectMercury #SofarBomb #Technology #Innovation #HackerNews #QuantumCat
Let’s be honest, Ring was already some technocratic, dystopian BS, but if you needed a reason to finally, finally kill it with fire, here’s your reason: Ring is partnering with Flock to help ICE spy on you and your neighbors for the government 👀
#Technology #InfoSec
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/16/amazons-ring-to-partner-with-flock-a-network-of-ai-cameras-used-by-ice-feds-and-police/
Have you ever helped people use their computers by talking to them over the phone, without seeing their screen? It can be frustrating if they tell you mostly irrelevant details that bury the important stuff.
This is the major problem with image description by AI. AI has no idea why the image was posted, so it gives irrelevant details.
Human-written image descriptions are much better at communicating an image's purpose.
More accessibility tips: https://fedi.tips/how-do-i-make-posts-more-accessible-to-blind-people-on-mastodon-and-the-fediverse/
I have stopped putting those descriptions on my images I had no idea what horrific problems they cost
🩹⏱️ Researchers have developed an aerosolized wound spray called SEAL that stops severe arterial bleeding nearly instantly.
The #Baltimore-based team uses a specialized chitosan mixture to create a physical seal, providing a potential lifesaver for soldiers and first responders in remote areas.
👉 https://newatlas.com/medical-tech/battlefield-wound-spray/
#medicine #health #innovation #science #biology #tech #technology #research #safety #emergency
🩹⏱️ Researchers have developed an aerosolized wound spray called SEAL that stops severe arterial bleeding nearly instantly.
The #Baltimore-based team uses a specialized chitosan mixture to create a physical seal, providing a potential lifesaver for soldiers and first responders in remote areas.
👉 https://newatlas.com/medical-tech/battlefield-wound-spray/
#medicine #health #innovation #science #biology #tech #technology #research #safety #emergency
"But, as Michèle Martin documents in her paper “The Rulers of the Wires”, middle-class women’s “‘delinquent’ telephone activities” took the Telegram Men by surprise. This delinquency included not just social telephone calls in the afternoon, but planned and impromptu meet-ups on party lines where isolated women could dial in and get an update from their community.
This was damned at the time by the Telegram Men as futile and frivolous, but that didn’t stop it from happening."
https://medium.com/careful-industries/delinquent-telephone-activity-f75f815d6e9a
I am fascinated by this new strategy where multiple AI company CEOs have been going on tears tours this year so far complaining about how anti AI sentiment has hurt their businesses 😭
#noai #enshittification #technology #ai #slop #capitalism #electronics #sustainability #nature
"But, as Michèle Martin documents in her paper “The Rulers of the Wires”, middle-class women’s “‘delinquent’ telephone activities” took the Telegram Men by surprise. This delinquency included not just social telephone calls in the afternoon, but planned and impromptu meet-ups on party lines where isolated women could dial in and get an update from their community.
This was damned at the time by the Telegram Men as futile and frivolous, but that didn’t stop it from happening."
https://medium.com/careful-industries/delinquent-telephone-activity-f75f815d6e9a
Satya Nadella: "We need to find something useful for AI"
#HackerNews #SatyaNadella #AI #Ethics #Technology #Innovation #Microsoft
