One thing to also note, is that grocery margins are tight after they give shareholders and c level staff hundreds of millions of dollars. In other words, if you’re not intent on making a profit and distributing that profit only to billionaires and friends, there’s plenty of space to subsidize costs even before accounting for tax breaks (which probably net even) and controlled rent factors.
People shouldn’t get wealthy off selling groceries while people go hungry.
Like, one of the primary points of home assistant is making it so more devices aren’t connected to the internet. It doesn’t anonymize the data, it makes it so you can fully locally control a bunch of products (eg, I have tons of products blocked at my firewall from sending or receiving data from WAN; the only way for a hacker to change my thermostat is to be on my LAN, they literally can’t do it remotely).
Not sure if you’re an LLM or just enjoy entirely missing the point.
The short answer is, the more of your face you cover, the harder it is to ID someone. If you wear a hat and a face mask, they will not be able to use facial recognition to identify you, to my knowledge.
There is still stuff like gait analysis, but that’s also relatively hard unless they have a bunch of visuals of you walking. Which they may have. But wearing a mask does make it discernibly more difficult for them to ID you.
That said, thank you for having the courage to resist openly. We do need it, and it does matter. I personally mask because of health reasons and generally trying to throw a wrench in the surveillance state (I hate being ad targeted, much less state targeted). But I get so much motivation out of seeing my fellow folks show up to resist in all the ways that they want to personally.
I’ll look into this, but at first blush this is just mostly tool calling with RAG. This does not prevent a whole host of issues with AI, and doesn’t really prevent lying. The general premise here is to put tight guard rails on how it can interact with data, and in some cases entirely forcing a function / tool path with macros. I am not really sure this would work any better than just a stateful and traditional search algorithm on your own data sources, and would require much less hardware / battery / requirements and would be much more portable.
I like the effort, but this feels a bit like trying to make everything look like a nail.
I kinda hope some people join to sabotage from within
That’s where rent control and tax breaks come in, as well as scale if you’re opening multiple stores. I’m not aware of a large non profit grocery chain.