As long as the wearable contains open source software and preferably open source hardware, then sure, I’d be willing to do so. Because then I could know that I could control where the data went.
RFK Jr. Wants Every American to Be Sporting a Wearable Within Four Years
Submitted 9 months ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
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shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 9 months ago
baronvonj@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Because then I could know
that I could controlwhere the data went.It being open source doesn’t mean you can music and run your own software on it and still have the agency accept you are compliant.
shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 9 months ago
I said nothing about the agency whatsoever. I don’t give a shit what they see as compliant or not. If it’s not open source, I won’t fucking use it.
lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
Pine64’s Pinetime is pretty close. I use one. I like it.
Guidy@lemmy.world 9 months ago
RFK jr’s wants, needs, desire to continue breathing move me not at all.
He can fuck off.
If we had a science-backing and non-Nazi government who I had any belief in their ability and will to keep our data safe, this might be really cool. When I first got an Apple Watch and saw all the ways it benefits me I honestly wished everyone had one by default.
Instead, something like this would simply be used to further control people especially women since it can track monthly cycles (to my knowledge at least.)
cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 9 months ago
to do what with? unless you're going to also increase grants to nih studies for wearable devices to study and improve something involving the health system, what is the benefit besides making apple richer?
Peppycito@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
It makes the police state more efficient.
elucubra@sopuli.xyz 9 months ago
Don’t wearables cause autism?
Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Only if using 5G.
Ledericas@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Sporting a wearable pump that injects worm eggs into your blood periodically
kreskin@lemmy.world 9 months ago
He reminds me of the ‘precious bodily fluids’ general from Dr Strangelove.
floo@retrolemmy.com 9 months ago
General Jack D. Ripper.
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I think some org could take the initiative and offer a standard protocol for “that” to communicate to this service.
Then you could wear something FOSS and clearly not spying, but send some information (if you so wish). Maybe no location, but vitals. Maybe no vitals, but location (suppose you want RFK to see a big “FUCK THE GOAULD” on the map).
Cause when you put enough money into a project, it might actually happen.
This is also the mistake everyone made about platforms and social networks.
I’ll repeat again my idea that similarly to Usenet, there should be standard protocols and universal services for a global public system replacing those (Facebook, Reddit, Twitter, Google, whatever). You need a service to store data to be always available - have a standard for that service. You need a service to do some computation - have a standard for submitting a task and storing the result (until retrieved or maybe to the previous kind of service). You need a service to search for objects (common task, yes?) - have a standard for that. You need a service for notifications real-time - have a standard for that too, NOSTR does that now. You need some way to financially incentivize people to provide these services - have a “resource market” service, something like MMORPG item markets (where players script their trade with simple constraints, very easily), to buy&sell space&computation, with payments provided with something like GNU Taler, or BTC Lightning if nothing better. Need common identification - well, there’s OpenID, but one can also have cryptographic identities and identity caching services. Need to actually aggregate hundreds of those services for every task - if search service is not enough (suppose we want to also make search and other services somehow partitioned, or something like that, to accommodate for amounts of data), then have an aggregation service (similar to torrent trackers) or maybe just use DNS for that. Structured machine-processable results of those services allow you to never depend on one platform and have everything they offer. With the specific “kind” being provided by the client application.
Humanity in our time has all the technologies it needs and none of the will.
captainastronaut@seattlelunarsociety.org 9 months ago
He can fuck right off with all his worm-brained ideas.
cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 9 months ago
My watch runs for years from a coin cell. There’s no way that I’m replacing it with an internet connected spy device that constantly needs to be charged.
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 9 months ago
Mines an automatic. No electricity required.
FriendBesto@lemmy.ml 9 months ago
Tell that to the Apple Watch wearers.
shalafi@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I’ve got 20 watches and only ever change the Swatch batteries. They’re laughably inefficient. One is an old smart watch, but it needs charged daily and I’m not up to all that.
weremacaque@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
If it ever comes to this, I’m going to “forget” to charge mine. Every day since it comes out of the box.
EighteenthNerd@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I’m sure soon enough we’ll be “wearing” them inside our bodies so we don’t have to be troubled to make sure they’re working. Hasn’t that been the Big Tech dream for decades now?
elucubra@sopuli.xyz 9 months ago
Mine runs on me. It especially likes me waking.
Ultragramps@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 months ago
The thought of a low battery alert saying “fancy a wank. M8?” got a laugh out of me
My_IFAKs___gone@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Good ol’ wank-o-clock.
Quik@infosec.pub 9 months ago
pine64.org/devices/pinetime/ 🤣 (rare case of a valid usecase for this emoji)
solrize@lemmy.ml 9 months ago
No need for vaccines with 5g chips when the wearable will have one right on your wrist.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 9 months ago
The only wearable I would ever consider wearing, is someghing likebthe thing Zack Friedman of Voidstar Labs made for himself.
ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Screw that. Give the government a way to track my vitals 24/7 and sell that information off to their cronies in the private sector? No thanks.
viking@piefed.ca 9 months ago
Vitals? You mean location. They don't give a rat's ass about your vitals.
garretble@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I assume they can already get your location from your phone.
WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 9 months ago
They’ll have a lot of fun correlating your media consumption and your vitals to know exactly what you like and dislike, especially about politics. Then they know who to target for layoffs, arrest and/or deportation.
AdamEatsAss@lemmy.world 9 months ago
False. All data has value. Vitals can 100% be used to sell targeted ads for pharmacuticals, supplements, lifestyle brands, gyms, and more.
roofuskit@lemmy.world 9 months ago
They lobotomized the wrong Kennedy.