We need LESS of AI and more HUMAN thinking. The process of thought and the increased difficulty with increased complexity is a feature not a bug.

AI note taking is a scourge on society and needs to go.

i am not sure to be honest if you're agreeing with us or not! but we do think that human thinking is both necessary and important in the future.

wrote a blog about this if you're interested! https://dev.fast/blog/youre-still-going-to-have-a-job-in-5-y...

I think we need less software with AI features. Less stuff chasing the hype train and more "slow" software that encourages thoughtfulness and less reliance on the machine.

I wrote some thoughts on this a while ago. They're not cleanly organized (sorry!) but it's my raw thinking on AI: https://nonograph.com/some-disorganized-thoughts-about-artif...

Also wrote this on the state of VC if interested: https://nonograph.com/write-some-software-give-it-away-for-f...

Maybe not for the HN crowd, but it's a requirement for applying to a lot of places if you're just an average person and/ or not in tech. I only started getting interviews after I finally put a picture on my profile. It sucks, but its used by a LOT of employers if only to try to verify you're an actual person.

Have they never heard of the telephone?

You'd have to ask them. They asked why people would use LinkedIn. "I have to have a LinkedIn profile in order to complete this application on Indeed" is a reason.

This is exactly what I don't want.

I like point-and-click GUIs, no tiling, no MacOS style dock that wastes screen space, just the Windows UI without Microsoft! That's why I picked Linux.

Absolutely! Meetings about the emails and emails about the meetings!

wild conspiracy given what else has come out of these companies.

In all seriousness, I couldn't realiably tell you that this comment didn't come from (say) a Russian disinformation bot. When did HN become the Twilight Zone of content-free consipiracy spam?

A friend in China built a Flock overlay network that sends live video and audio from ~100 cameras near me to an AWS server for processing and search.

This is one of the most interesting comments on here.

Hints at unauthorized, illegal mass surveillance riding on top of authorized (but also possibly illegal) mass surveillance

Totally agree, we already know Flock is inept and lies about obvious truths. I want to know more about this.

Can you provide more details? Do you mean 100 public cameras anyone can access?

This is an interesting claim since their cameras dont seem to capture video. Just still images.

Why would you have a friend that does that

How do I make friends like this?

I’m not sure, but I bet you could find some helpful referrals here https://www.justice.gov/epstein

This is proprietary. Yuck

no email wall: https://nonograph.com/cops-search-thousands-of-flock-cameras...

Fwiw, the FBI use Signal regularly, and it's approved for some specific use cases. Don't ask how I know ;)

There are ways to ascertain how and when a person is using their device by analyzing Signal's metadata, then build a predictive model based on months of daily usage to infer when they're most likely about to pick up their phone.

Delta Chat is years behind Signal's protections, and its claims of "zero metadata" are straight up lies. SimpleX has at least four remote execution zero days that I'm aware of, all relating to media processing. I told Evgeny to make the blur effect actually hash the image instead of acting like an overlay, but I was repeatedly ignored before being set as an "observer" role in the SimpleX Public Group.

Sources about Signal and SimpleX?

Look into SimpleX Chat. It's like Telegram but with trustworthy encryption that's always-on, multiple profiles, and the servers are interchangeable so if one or two go down you can just switch them out.

Evgeny is a venture capitalist (ew) but the product is solid and they've published two TrailOfBits audits with a third completed and awaiting publication by TOB