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Re:Xfinity using WiFi signals in your house to detect motion by miki123211 on Tuesday July 01, 2025 @12:10AM (#44430527)
And sometimes, you don't even know what the feature will even be used for.

Today it's an automatic subtitle generator for people with hearing difficulties. Tomorrow it'll be an AI training data generator. In a year, the NSA will re-purpose it into a mass surveillance tool.

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Re:Xfinity using WiFi signals in your house to detect motion by gxs on Tuesday July 01, 2025 @01:21AM (#44430825)
Exactly

Kind of crazy that I’m being downvoted for just expressing some basic, reasonable feelings

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Re:Xfinity using WiFi signals in your house to detect motion by vasco on Tuesday July 01, 2025 @01:39AM (#44430916)
Maybe you're finding they aren't so reasonable.
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Re:Xfinity using WiFi signals in your house to detect motion by david-gpu on Tuesday July 01, 2025 @07:55PM (#44439039)
> And sometimes, you don't even know what the feature will even be used for.

I did some work in the early 2010s that we expected to be used for computational photography, gaming, and little else. Years later, after I had already left the company, its primary use case became image stabilization for quadcopter drones, something that had not crossed our minds at all when we were building that stuff.

Cue in all the drone footage from the Russian invasion of Ukraine. FUCK. FUCK FUCK.

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