Psychology. Ever see ring doorbell footage where the owner says "drop the package" and people do? Its not like the owner could do anything, but for some reason it makes people behave differently.
Here's a very similar question I asked here a few months ago: "Privacy respecting ring doorbell" https://lemm.ee/post/8165932
The clients are source available for telegram though
I mean technically the client is verifiable if you use discord in a browser tab... and verify it every time you load the web page... 🙃
Elon can't even save twitter. What makes you think he is single-handedly capable of ending world hunger.
Hmm, so we could say the real problem is when someone has wealth disproportionately larger than what they contributed to the world?
That makes sense to me
Is this true even if a person on an island spends their whole life building a wooden mega yacht for themself?
I didnt upvote the other python-beginer friendly meme cause it wasn't accurate. But this one is on point.
What really bothers me is the "measuring foot traffic". I already refuse to use vending-machines because of the pricing and unhealthyness, but you're telling me I need to make GDPR takedown requests just for walking to class?
It gets worse :/
I looked up the brand (Invenda). Their PDF includes "using AI", "measuring foot traffic", and gathering "gender/age/etc" e.g. facial recognition to estimate a persons age and gender
And in terms of "stored locally" this is straight from their website
The machine comes with a “brain” – Invenda OS – and is connected to the Invenda Cloud, which allows you to manage it remotely and gather valuable environmental, consumer and transactional data. The device can be branded according to your requirements to further enhance your brand presence.
The marketing also so fricken backwards that it reads like satire:
For a consumer, there’s no greater comfort than shopping pressure-free. Invenda Wallet allows consumers to browse, select and pay for products leisurely and privately 🤦♂️
Yeah, cookies, account logins, and other stuff make it hard too. Ex: randomly exploring gmail emails at different times of day, but not actually marking emails as read.