You do what the police do, and provide a proportionate response.

A gun is only to be used if you are in imminent danger of your life. A robbery is arguably not that, unless they’re trying to steal your organs or prostheses.

There’s a reason your average supermarket security guard doesn’t immediately whip out the Mini-Nuke the moment they see a shoplifter.

There’s also something to be said about the place you’re living in, where you’re to be terrified of stabbists and robberers the moment you step out-of-doors. Do you live in a hive of scum and villainy?

Larger than your average claw hammer or ball peen, at least.

Especially when it causes law enforcement to become so paranoid of the citizens they’re ostensibly meant to protect, that a mere hailstone landing on the car roof immediately causes them to believe they’re being fired upon.

That just sounds like a terrible time for everyone involved.

At that point, you’re basically turning the constabulary into soldiers.

Carry a large warhammer, like Thor.

Is it not the other way around? The stuff in the square brackets becomes the alt-text.

There have always been people like that, it’s just more noticeable now because the numbers are larger.

People still use MySpace and Digg, and there are people on Bluesky, Mastodon, here, etc.

I left Twitter for much the same reasons. All the replies are basically unusable now, because bots just pay to get put at the top of the sorting algorithm, and it’s now full of bait and spam, since the website formerly known as Twitter now pays for engagement, since that apparently worked out well for Quora (!).

They’re doing a Bradbury, in a way, kind of like Tumblr and Steam. Everyone else is shooting themselves in the foot.

Although the quality has noticeably decreased. The number of bots has shot up a ridiculous amount.

Lemmy is nice, but the content on it is quite niche. If you want something less tech-oriented, you’re generally out of luck, for example.

Mine is that they wanted it to stand out, compared to all the other phones with flat screens at the time, especially with all the design clones.

You would look at it and go “oh that phone looks funny, must be a Samsung”.

If you can somehow lick a gas, more power to you.

It’d be a bit unreliable, though. Not everyone has the same reaction to the same thing, nor do they express it in a similar way.

Someone might think a snake or a spider is cute, whereas another would want to incinerate it on the spot. A third might be concerned because they seem to be injured, etc.

Not to mention that image recognition/emotional analysis has been an ongoing field of research for some time. Making the link is not overly difficult.

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You can still turn it off. Not much they can do about your turning it off at the wall.

It wasn’t that long ago that “smart mirrors” were en vogue, which was just a display with a reflective coating.

Although I think that they generally fell out of fashion because people don’t want a contraption for their mirror that they have to plug in and set up.

And it doesn’t preclude the company just deciding your product is no longer worth supporting/going bankrupt.

It might have been fine and seemingly trustworthy to begin with, and then it stops, a few years down the line.

That is a different kind of machine learning model, though.

You can’t just plug in your pathology images into their multimodal generative models, and expect it to pop out something usable.

And those image recognition models aren’t something OpenAI is currently working on, iirc.

Or even a market that let you just buy individual wallpapers as you want them, like how you used to be able to buy individual tracks in itunes instead of a whole album.

A subscription model is a bit silly.

It’s like that aeroplane company who had a chatbot serve answers, and then tried to weasel out of it when the chatbot informed the customer about a refund policy that didn’t actually exist.

If they’re presenting it as an authoritative source of information, then they should be held to the standard they claim.