Not just perverts. Women have repeatedly caught police stalking them with hidden cameras. Journalists have caught police committing all sorts of crimes with hidden cameras.

Here in my home town, someone caught a local business trying to extort them with a hidden camera.

You'd think that with the possibility of hidden cameras being anywhere, evildoers would be a bit more careful. Nope!

Instead, they're trying to be the ones controlling all the cameras and secret surveillance. If they're the only ones that are legally allowed to secretly record people, then what you've got is a much more powerful police state.

Let me take a moment to state a universal truth: There's no such thing as "too much regulation." There's just good regulation and bad regulation.

Want to regulate a category of technology that covers, "glasses with built-in cameras"? Ok! We'll just mount the camera somewhere else.

Or perhaps you want to regulate cameras that have lenses too small to notice from say, a dozen paces? Well, that would ban cameras on smartphones.

Why not ban strapping smartphones to your head while you're at it? That's basically what these glasses are, after all.

Tell us: What, specific regulations would you be looking for?

Yep. And?

Just like today: You have no idea if that person has a hidden camera or a gun or anything else dangerous or what their intentions are.

Meh. They said the same thing about integrating semantic search into KDE. Yet I have turned that indexing off since forever and it never really changed much.

I guess I spent a lot of time tagging my files back in the day so I could find them better, haha. What a huge ass waste of time!

AI is so vastly superior for searching than all previous efforts combined, it feels like renaming, tagging, etc are just pointless tedium.

Don't use FTP!

SFTP 👍

That type of thing is typically a decision made by your distro. For example, since most people don't have the necessary hardware to use decent models, I'd imagine that the AI packages wouldn't be installed by default.

Only people that manually install the packages will get the AI features.

It sounds useful to me. But who cares? This is KDE we're talking about! It'll be a subsystem you can disable at will just like everything else in KDE.

Yet another reason why local AI models are so important.

You don't need to be sending people's faces to a super sketchy dossier-building company like Meta when you can just do face/object recognition locally on the device.

This tech can be life-changing for people who are visually impaired. I would hate to see it banned just because the first adopter is an evil corporation.

Dozens of dozens!

I play about an hour every day unless I'm sick, away, or (painfully) injured. I think my most recent play streak was over 6 months of playing every day without a single day off.

I'm a 48yo, BTW 😁👍

Absolutely! Beat Saber is the best!

I'm in the GENX clan where we have grandmothers capturing maps for the clan by getting some absurd level of accuracy on 1-5 ⭐ (aka super easy) maps. Clan Wars on BeatLeader is a silly thing that doesn't mean anything in particular but it still amazes me that someone in their 60s can play a VR game and actually make a real, quantifiable difference.

On our Discord you can see the BeatLeader Clan Wars announcements in the "Battle Dispatch" channel. On any given day you really could see something like:

EvilKittyMom captured BREAKSH!T Hard for GENX, getting 98.17% ACC

(That's an imaginary name I just made up to protect the totally guilty party that often steals my thunder 🤣)

It's so much fun, I love it! ❤️