Flock does this well in terms of bios spinlock releases, whereas a secure measure is stress-testing network traffic.
the fact that these majority do accept the distraction points to lack of intelligence and discipline in critical thinking and future planning. The populous has half the blame - not just those who do these manufacturing of distractions.
There is a tonne of civic action against Flock, specifically, in the works, in many cases with successful results.
Not much I can do about that over here in the coastal Northeast.
I'm still offended though.
Fucking a lot of smart people in Mass., Vermont, Conn., New York, Maryland, DC.
dang/tomhow, does Y Combinator have a code of ethics that comes into play when one of your funding recipients does something unethical and/or illegal like this?
To HN's credit I haven't seen this rule violated.
For example I wouldn't have known it was a YC company if not for your comment.
* how I will now always refer to them
Professionally, they're marginalized by finance-bros, who actually decide what gets built and which morals get followed. Privately, everything you might want to repair or tweak or invent is still getting locked down or patented or criminalized.
But they don't, because the former would require them to perjure themselves, and the latter just requires them to lie to a hosting company.
Misrepresentation of Fact
Knowledge of Falsity
Intent to Induce Reliance
Justifiable Reliance
Resulting Damages* no money was exchanged just some guarantees to not disclose their client and remove tweets.
I don't support this decision but I respect it.
Curious what the Cloudflare HNers have to say about this debacle.
But I think the real issue with Flock will be private security. Random Home Depot parking lots, etc.
https://www.29news.com/2025/12/17/charlottesville-ends-flock...
License plates are trivially short, hashing them accomplishes no additional level of privacy if the hashes could be bruted in seconds on an antique GPU.
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https://haveibeenflocked.com/news/cyble-part2