Comment on Weather app asking for permission to manage calls
HiddenLayer5@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
I feel like most people nowadays are just typing math calculations into their search engine. Which obviously has massive privacy implications.
Once upon a time I wrote an IRC chat bot for my friends and I that could do calculations and convert units (metric -> imperial) with a command.
My friends were impressed that I included units like furloughs, leagues and bushels.
My chatbot was just googling their request and returning the result haha. This was 15+ years ago.
Which obviously also has massive privacy implications.
How so? I don’t know much about this stuff lol
I’m mainly concerned with people using it for calculating things personal to them, finances/taxes is a huge one. While the search engine may not know with certainty what the numbers represent, they have so much data on you that they could well start inferring what those numbers are to add to your profile. I might just be paranoid though.
With all that’s going on to systematically profile each and every person that ever went online, goes online, and will go online, that sounds 100% plausible and realistic to me.
Love your username person
Thank you!
There are many fun ways of calculating stuff.
echo $((5+8)) or abusing REPL mode of python3 or node.
My colleagues once made fun of me using galculator with a tiling wm:
Call me a plebian but I still open up Python when I want to do calculations in the command line because I don’t know how to in Bash.
It’s complicated.
$((5+8))doesn’t support floats. For float you needbcand I always have to look up how to use it. You have to tell it how many numbers it should showscale=2;5/8, by default it also only does integer.
rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Yeah. If a search engine knows you didn’t know 5x(30/47)^2 they might be able to derive your SSN from that information.
Lemminary@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Well, if I start converting 23 cm to inches, you’ll know that I have a massive dong.