Jason Bassler | @JasonBassler1

Big Brother just got an upgrade.

Starting December, Amazon’s Ring cameras will scan and recognize faces. Don’t want to be in their database? Too bad — walk past a Ring and your face can be stored, tagged, & analyzed without consent.

One step closer to total surveillance.

[Image: A Ring doorbell camera mounted on a brick wall. A digital overlay shows facial recognition scanning a person's face with grid lines. Text on the right reads “Amazon's Ring Adds Facial Recognition to Home Security” with additional text below.]

6:00 PM | Oct 4, 2025

Source: https://x.com/JasonBassler1/status/1974640686419857516

  • Fedegenerate@lemmynsfw.com
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    8 hours ago

    Okay, so that last picture - that knob has 2 positions for locked vs unlocked, which whomever owns the lock presumably would know upon visual inspection. Like how every lock like that works. Are you human?

    Incorrect, thats my lock it spins more than 360 degrees. I’ll prove it

    I swapped its state. Is the first picture locked, or the second? How are you distinguishing between the two states. Your arrogance is astonishing. You do not know how my locks look and function better than me it’s strange to assert you do. Once again, locked Vs unlocked are indistinguishable by looking at the lock. Please believe me, it’s getting weird.

    The rest of that… I go back to my previous point regarding fires and needing a key to exit.

    What’s my current SHTF plan and why do you believe it’s insufficient?

    Changing a mechanical lock is simple and I’d never keep a lock like that on my door, along with most normal and sane people who can critically think. Housing codes were written in blood.

    What’s my current SHTF plan, and why do you believe its insufficient?

    If I changed it to the above lock, would the first picture be locked? Or the second? Please answer you’ve tried to evade the question a number of times now. I’ve given you the lock you want, I’ve shown you locked and unlocked states.

    Second question you’ve ignored: what, in you’re understanding, is the problem I am trying to solve? How do seeing intruders faces solve it?

    You can’t keep ignoring me to assert your position, that’s not a conversation. A conversation is back and forth, you didn’t like the lock, I showed one you like. You didn’t like only having one state, I’ve shown you both. I tell you you’re not listening to the problem I want to solve, you continue to solve a different problem.

    Quit it.

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        Oh I do love a bit of ablelism. I’m clearly disabled. Even if I am, does that mean I’m undeserving of leaving the house safe in the knowledge that if I forget to lock the door, it’s still locked.

        I have shown you that you can’t tell by looking at the lock.

        I have suggested other locks than electric. Yale, keypad.

        I do not want to replace my lock, I want to add another lock.

        1 abhorrent statement and 3 incorrect statements. Can you admit they’re incorrect? Or like the door (that was weird), would you like evidence?

        Now answer the question, which of the above locks were locked?