Is there a difference between a machine and a robot? I would say yes.

A dishwasher to me would be a machine, similar to a air-conditioner or a car for example.

Attacking a countries food supply and food reserves really seems like a act of war.

The term “hackers” really downplays the severity of these kinds of cyber attacks IMO. It makes it kind of sound like a teenager in a basement somewhere, as opposed to some foreign state cyber warfare group or something along those lines.

Also it’s madness that systems like these are connected directly to the internet without read-only permissions implemented. Controls should only be accessible locally on some kind of airgap or local seperate VLAN.

Subordinates

Honestly I sometimes hear it, and my laptop’s not even on.

Flock is not the only brand of ALPR (Automatic License Plate Reader). Its the brand/company that is receiving the most negative press, which means other companies providing the same service are quietly sneaking into towns and cities.

If you drive in an area covered by an ALPR-networked camera, your vehicle’s movements may already be in a searchable database. As the tools for building these systems become more widely available, the pressure for clearer rules about who may collect vehicle-location data, on whom, and for how long is unlikely to ea

As always keep reaching out to your local city council to ask where are these cameras being installed, how long is the information being retained, who is accessing these systems, and who is keeping the individuals accessing these systems accountable?

If you drive in an area covered by an ALPR-networked camera, your vehicle’s movements may already be in a searchable database. As the tools for building these systems become more widely available, the pressure for clearer rules about who may collect vehicle-location data, on whom, and for how long is unlikely to ease

Two website to be stay informed where these cameras are located in your neighbor and province.

https://maps.panopti.ca/?lat=43.7873&lng=-79.5500&zoom=10.24

https://flockcameralocations.com/locations/canada

The fivty camera in Brampton are already operational since March 2026 from what I can gather. Not to mention the countless others spread around the province.

Understandably you won’t be running meta level Machine models, but running olama and downloading a open LLM model can get users started for simple things they might have already been doing.

I am running a fully local model for my smart home needs, since Google’s killed of Assistant and is now pushing Gemini down my throat, I figured I would just do it my self.

For anyone interested take a look at NetworkChuck on YouTube. His videos are a little to sensational for me, but he does have some interesting topics covered from time to time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQEgIo4Juxg

Prices will definitely rise to cover operating costs and to recoup all the investment costs.

I honestly hope the whole thing crashes once people realize they can run their own LLM on their own hardware.

Sometimes the hardware’s good, but the softwares shit. Google’s essentially Hammer Industries.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpWqTjLn7Fg

So it’s good to have alternatives in most cases.

How’s this different from the Chromebook, that Google cut updates to no less.

https://www.osnews.com/story/146052/google-breaks-promise-to-provide-10-years-of-updates-to-chromebooks/

Will these new googlebooks come with the same update cycles?

Sideing with the church on this one

Though the cynic in me believes (at this moment) the church might actually think “AI” is some omnipotent all powerful artificial intelligence, and not just some LLM “word spaghetti generator”.

Probably afraid that people might start treating it as some kind of all knowing “higher power”. (Who needs God if you have AI kind of mentally?).

To shreds, you say?

Probably still easier to just adjust the DNS settings to block Sony servers. Do this under your network DNS setting on your ps5.

Not much TBH, it requires blocking Sony servers using DNS (stoping automatic updates). Then visting a specific website to load the exploits.

After the exploit is loaded your can install any custom packages as you like.

I like your analogy and think it fits better for sure.

Yup that’s what I was getting at, but I like the pet analogy better that another commenter brought up.

AI is a tool

Similarly you can’t blame a hammer for causing harm, you blame the individual who holds it.

I wish there were some viable “fully cooked” alternatives. I won’t touch apple products with a 10 foot poll, and I owned the first and second iPhone.

As for Linux phone i have tinkered with it but its nowhere close to being a daily driver, yet.

Strangely sometimes I wish the Microsoft phone was not a total flop…

I guess the only thing left if a completely dumb phone, but that does not help if you use your phone more as a “pocket computer” then a phone at all.

I’m in the same boat as well, for some reason my music apps can’t seem to see my Google smart speakers, but strangely they can see my Nvidia shield and cast to that.

Looked through my app permissions I honestly can’t see anything out of the ordinary or plainly obvious. Both my speakers and android TV (shield) are on separate segment VLAN.

As for granting the permission, I generally like to grant on a app by app basis, lots of apps ask for internet access as a example but don’t actually require it to function. All my game apps for example are completely offline.

Hey can you let me know where I can find more info on this? I am running GrapheneOS as I was having this exact same issue as OP a few day back.

On my browsers I have network access, but nearby devices was disabled.

I checked my private dns settings and granted nearby devices access to my browsers, which allowed me to hit my local self-hosted services.

Just wondering if there is a better way to achieve the same.