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partofthevoice@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

My wife and I recently moved to a home with ring cameras preinstalled, but no subscription of course. We can only access a live feed via the cloud service. I told my wife, I don’t think it matters whether we have a subscription or not… if they want to use the footage from our home cameras for any reason at all, it’s in their power to do so. They can save it, scan it, watch it, … they don’t even need to save the video, they can save results from a scan to get out the important details more efficiently.

My wife didn’t want to hear it. She said we aren’t paying them, so there’s nothing they can do. Then this news story dropped about Google Nest. I showed my wife. We no longer have the ring cameras.

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CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I wonder if removing the cameras is the best move.

It might be better to let them run but have them watching a TV streaming Disney movies.

Then drop the dime to Disney that they are copying their IP.

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- Rooster326@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Copyright theft isn’t only an issue for the poor.
  
  Have you been in a cave where AI doesn’t exist, or…?
  
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- partofthevoice@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  I’m half curious if I cut open the box… you think there’d be an easy way to replace the camera with a video stream of my choosing? Because I wouldn’t mind cutting out the camera and leaving the device plugged into my PC for a constant headless stream of video content.
  
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  - Rooster326@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Just print out a image of your asshole and tape it to the front of the nest, and poke a needle through the microphone.
    
    Or you know… Unplug it.
    
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    JillSteinsPuckeredAnus@lemmy.world ⁨56⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago
    unplug what? his asshole?
    
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krashmo@lemmy.world ⁨58⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago
Theoretically they wouldn’t have internet access if a previous occupant set them up unless one of your neighbors has an unsecured AP. Or maybe I’m misunderstanding you and you’re saying you set them up on your wireless network after you moved in. Still a good move to get rid of them but I wouldn’t be as concerned about them if the only AP they were set up to use was no longer present.

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- wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨53⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago
  Nope. Ring cameras are part of Amazon Sidewalk which is effectively an automatic, invisible, and not end-user-controllable wireless mesh network “meant to keep devices working during wifi outages” or in other words to ensure the data makes it back to the cloud at any cost.
  
  Their are more and more device manufacturers starting to use techniques like this to ensure connection regardless of owner intent.
  
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- partofthevoice@lemmy.zip ⁨33⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago
  Interesting, I didn’t think about that nor did I know about the mesh network someone else mentioned in a reply to you. In my case, I’m renting the home. The landlord pays for a very small internet package that is reserved for the cameras. He stopped paying for the subscription at some point but he still pays for the Internet it connects to, which is how we were able to access live footage in the past.
  
  When I said “we no longer have the ring camera.” More accurately I could have said “we stopped charging it.” The landlord would probably have a minor aneurism if we tried explaining why we want to replace the camera he mounted a case for into the stucko by the front door.
  
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