spaghettiwestern
@spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Why are people disconnecting or destroying their Ring cameras? 3 days ago:
Running cables is not possible in lots of homes and there are plenty of wired cameras that send video to corporate clouds. The mistake is allowing those corporations access to those videos. Camera output should be encrypted and only usable for the camera owner unless they choose to opt in to the corporate spy network.
- Comment on Why are people disconnecting or destroying their Ring cameras? 4 days ago:
Booo. Well done.
- Comment on Why are people disconnecting or destroying their Ring cameras? 4 days ago:
The cameras have no Internet access at all. Someone would already need access to my network for this vulnerability to be a problem.
- Comment on Why are people disconnecting or destroying their Ring cameras? 4 days ago:
Your prior comment was for newcomers?
"How is it encrypted, with what algorithm? was the alg implemented securely? who has the decryption keys? how were the keys generated? were they generated from a good enough entropy source? "
This was writting for people with quite a bit of knowledge. Newcomers would have absolutely no idea what any of it means.
- Comment on Why are people disconnecting or destroying their Ring cameras? 4 days ago:
When people in this community say “encryption” it should be obvious we’re referring to effective encryption.
- Comment on Why are people disconnecting or destroying their Ring cameras? 4 days ago:
Frigate is a marvel. Setting it up and tweaking it does take time but once done it requires almost no maintenance (at least in my experience) and is close to flawless. It’s only had 1 false alert in the last year and that was caused by a spiderweb on the camera. I wish all my applications were as trouble free.
- Comment on Why are people disconnecting or destroying their Ring cameras? 4 days ago:
There’s no focus on my cameras, but they’re set not to detect people unless them come into zones near the house.
- Comment on Why are people disconnecting or destroying their Ring cameras? 4 days ago:
I have absolutely no problem using these kinds of devices.
I have an old phone and a generic Play account that I used for setup so the companies have nothing of consequence but my public IP address. Setup takes less than 15 minutes and after that all Internet access is completely blocked just like it would be if I unplugged my cable modem. There is no way for the cameras to override my router settings.
My smart TV is much more of a concern.
- Comment on Why are people disconnecting or destroying their Ring cameras? 4 days ago:
TP-Link (which are cheap but so unreliable I had to add smart switches to reset them when they stop working), Foscam and Dahua. Duhua is by far the best. All of them record to a local server running Home Assistant and Frigate.
- Comment on Why are people disconnecting or destroying their Ring cameras? 4 days ago:
Not always the case. Some cameras require a proprietary app for set up but can then be set to stream to a local server. Internet access can then be completely blocked with router settings.
- Comment on Why are people disconnecting or destroying their Ring cameras? 4 days ago:
The problem isn’t that it’s being sent to the cloud, the problem is that it’s not being encrypted and Amazon is doing whatever they fuck they want with it, including giving it to law enforcement without a warrant.
- Comment on Why are people disconnecting or destroying their Ring cameras? 4 days ago:
My cameras have local network access only. Most people who are tech savvy enough to set up their own storage are also able to block Internet access for security cameras.
But another big concern for externally mounted cameras with microsd cards is the confiscation of those cards. They are are very easy to remove, often without tools.
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- Comment on No One, Including Our Furry Friends, Will Be Safer in Ring's Surveillance Nightmare 5 days ago:
It is never a good idea to trust corporations with anything if it can be avoided. Almost by definition corporations put profit above all else, and many are perfectly willing to engage in blatantly illegal actions if it’s profitable.
Amazon being trusted with video footage from inside and outside people’s home was bound to lead to a surveillance nightmare at some point.
- Comment on No One, Including Our Furry Friends, Will Be Safer in Ring's Surveillance Nightmare 5 days ago:
Crime rates have dropped since their peak in the early 90s
At least partly due to the ban on lead additives in gasoline.
- Comment on Chrome extensions spying on 37M users' browsing data 5 days ago:
I’ve disabled Google’s Play Protect after it deleted multiple apps I rarely use and all their settings and having to spend hours configuring them again. I know I can manually change individual app settings to prevent that from happening, but given all the years Google’s been distributing malware why trust them? The fact Google regularly distributes malware and then wants permission to scan my phone for malware is laughable.
I avoid apps from the Google store because they can be downright dangerous, but I have few worries about that “dangerous” third party F-droid store.
- Comment on Chrome extensions spying on 37M users' browsing data 5 days ago:
If a organization with a tiny fraction of Google’s resources can detect these extensions Google can too. There is only one reason malware extensions and Android apps are being distributed by Google - they make more money distributing malware than they would if they detected and blocked it.
And these assholes pretend they are blocking app stores like F-Droid for “our protection”.
- Comment on Europe’s $24 Trillion Breakup With Visa and Mastercard Has Begun 6 days ago:
Sometimes?
- Comment on Europe’s $24 Trillion Breakup With Visa and Mastercard Has Begun 6 days ago:
I think it’s simpler than that and just is down to the impact on the next quarter’s profits.
- Comment on Europe’s $24 Trillion Breakup With Visa and Mastercard Has Begun 6 days ago:
I wonder how many trillions of dollars of business the Trump dumpster fire will end up costing American business.
You’d think our corporate overlords would remove him.
- Comment on Chatbots Make Terrible Doctors, New Study Finds 1 week ago:
Not a high bar. Doctors make terrible doctors.
- Comment on Spotify changes developer mode API to require premium accounts, limits test users 1 week ago:
I am not referring to smart shuffle.
- Comment on Spotify changes developer mode API to require premium accounts, limits test users 1 week ago:
basically just full of ads disguised as recommendations
Sell ad-free subscription. Include advertising anyway but make up another name. PROFIT!
- Comment on Spotify changes developer mode API to require premium accounts, limits test users 1 week ago:
I haven’t tried to set it up, but It looks like Tidal Connect is alive again and there are several ways to use on Linux, including WINE. When my Spotify subscription runs out I’m going to give it a try.
- Comment on Spotify changes developer mode API to require premium accounts, limits test users 1 week ago:
I looked at a tital a year or so ago and it wouldn’t work for me. Will look again, maybe they’ve improved it.
- Comment on Spotify changes developer mode API to require premium accounts, limits test users 1 week ago:
My “Made for You” has occasional popular artists but most of the songs are from people who are relatively unknown. The only way I listened to a podcast is if I clicked on it by accident.
- Comment on Spotify changes developer mode API to require premium accounts, limits test users 1 week ago:
Even the Spotify shuffle feature is built to maximize profits and to hell with the user experience.
I have almost 2 thousand songs on one playlist and Spotify plays the songs from minor artists (who don’t get paid much) constantly, while songs from major artists (who get paid a lot more) are never played. I’m actually surprised to hear those songs when shuffle is turned off.
They’ve also recently added “Video Episodes for You” to my home screen with no way to turn it off. It takes up 1/3 of the screen with helpful titles like “Session 105, Hillory Duff”, and “Reinvent Life from Rock Bottom and Become Unrecognizable.” I have never watched a video or listened to a podcast on Spotify.
When it comes to enshittification Spotify’s got it down.
Maybe someday one of the other musics service creates their version of Spotify Connect.
- Comment on Amazon misses 4Q profit estimates despite better-than expected growth in cloud computing business 1 week ago:
In the past few months our electric rates went up 14.5%, our heath care costs more than tripled, and grocery and necessities prices have shot way up.
Guess what we’re having to cut back on? The kind of stuff Amazon sells.
We’re just starting to see the Trump economy.
- Comment on Should I be using Debian? 1 week ago:
I have both running right now. Mint on my laptop and media server. Debian only because it was previously required for Home Assistant support, (support which they’ve now dropped.)
Both distros are extraordinarily reliable, but I much prefer Mint. Debian is more focused on security and some of the design choices focus on that over usability. My LAN is completely locked down and only accessible via Wireguard so IDK how much better security it provides in my situation. Mint has every package I’ve ever needed prebuilt while I have had to build some packages for Debian.
Bottom line: For me there is no real reason to switch from Debian to Mint or visa-versa, but if I were installing from scratch I’d choose Mint every time.
- Comment on what is good remote desktop software? 2 weeks ago:
Nomachine with local & Wireguard access only.