This is a great point. Do the cameras have microphones? Is it a two-party/all-party consent state?

Now you need to get consent from every person who might end up being recorded.

Might also be worth pointing out in an HOA meeting that if this guy buys and configures the cameras himself then he has access to watch everybody. How much does the rest of the community trust this guy to not be creeping on everyone else?

IP cameras here that have local access only

This is the right way.

No proprietary SaaS portals, no cloud uploads, no apps, no external network links.

Hopefully the local connections are encrypted and the devices on the network are segmented into VLANs, otherwise anyone on the local network could just watch the video stream.

Roblox exploits child labor for profit:

Investigation: How Roblox Is Exploiting Young Game Developers

Roblox Pressured Us to Delete Our Video. So We Dug Deeper.

The term "hallucinate" is a euphemism being pushed by the AI peddlers.

It's a computer program. It doesn't "hallucinate", it has errors.

In all cases of ML models being sold by companies, what you are actually looking at is poorly tested software that is not fit for purpose, and has far less actual capability then what the marketing promises.

"Hallucination" in the context of LLMs is marketing bullshit designed to deflect from the reality that none of these programs have been properly quality checked and are extremely error prone.

If Excel gave bad answers for calculations 20% of the time it wouldn't be "hallucinating", it would just be broken, buggy software that requires more development time before distribution as a useful product.

These "user-friendly" network cameras are frequently bought and set up by people who have no idea what they're doing, which leads to thousands of them being accessible to anyone on the Internet:

Bitsight Identifies Thousands of Security Cameras Openly Accessible on the Internet

Wyze cameras let some owners see into a stranger’s home — again

Security startup Verkada hack exposes 150,000 security cameras in Tesla factories, jails, and more

Somebody’s Watching: Hackers Breach Ring Home Security Cameras

Even the companies that make and distribute these cameras don't secure them properly.

In some of these cases getting access to the camera barely even qualifies as hacking. If you know the web address of the camera you can just type it into your web browser and get the live video feed because it's just being streamed to the public Internet, no authentication or encryption. That means someone on the other side of the planet or someone in the house next door can just start watching what's going on in your house.

If the HOA insists on installing cameras, you should insist that they hire a professional to install and configure them correctly and maintain them long-term to prevent security breaches. Someone has to keep the firmware/software up to date when the manufacturer releases security patches and bug fixes, not just for the cameras but also for the network they're connected to. This means you don't just need to pay for one-time installation, you need to hire an employee long-term.

I would also ask the pushy neighbor if he was specifically planning on buying Wyze cameras for this. They've had multiple security problems in recent years.

A halfway intelligent thief could just use the camera to see where things worth stealing are kept and what time of day is best for breaking in unnoticed. If this is not done properly it will make the security worse, not better.

Congressional maps have always been redrawn by the party in power to ensure that they remain in power. I would expect Democrats to be doing the same thing if we were talking about California.

Claims made without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.

Those who died are justified

keep up mate

I... I don't think I want to...

uwotm8

Uh oh, did Bezos forget to invite Trump to the wedding?

I always suspected that guy was evil...

"I reject your reality and substitute my own!"

something something rugged individualism

#566

"Hey, listen!"

Separate it from Disney. (financially, legally, ethically, forcefully...)

You mean the placebo button?

Placebo buttons at stoplights are by no means limited to the United States. In places like Hong Kong and London, some buttons work only at certain times of day (if at all).

Actual Budget is an open-source envelope-style budgeting tool similar to YNAB. It has a self-hostable syncing service so that you can manage your budget across multiple devices.

The reason you might want to do this is that it's probably easier to do full account review sitting at your computer, but you might want to track expenses/receipts on your smartphone while you're away from home.

See? Invincible. I can't be vinced.