Showroom7561
@Showroom7561@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Your Exercise Bike Knows a Lot About You—and It Doesn't Keep Every Secret 1 day ago:
If you’re a BowFlex user, however, you might be surprised to learn that the company, in its privacy policy, also grants itself the right to collect and share data on how you smell.
WTF??
Also, data collection like that should be so clear, obvious, and only enabled through an opt-in, so nobody should ever be “surprised” to find out about it!
Tonal, for example, says it stores video recordings of a user’s workout as well as data about the position and movements of their head, arms, hands, feet, legs, and torso.
Broooo???
I absolutely hate how every product is designed as a trojan horse for data collection.
So many of these features can be offloaded to local-only processes, and it kills me that users are paying for equipment, often paying for a subscription to use the platform, and then have their data used as another revenue stream.
- Comment on It's time to stop using SMS, here's why! 4 days ago:
Many others can be run on a variety of servers, with a variety of apps.
Yes,but smaller market share means less optimistic future, or not enough incentive to continue the project, or harder to convince someone to use it.
Sure, but most people these days are expected to have email, and signing up isn’t any more complicated than that. It’s not that hard.
Signing up isn’t the hurdle… Convincing someone they should install a second app for messaging when nobody they know uses it would be a bigger challenge.
Google and Apple teaming up would effectively eliminate basic SMS, but that likely wouldn’t solve issues like privacy or data ownership.
You send them the video in OP. Or try to send them literally any video via SMS.
Dude, I went on a mission to convince the people I know to move away from corporately owned email and to use a private provider. It was excrutitingly difficult, and I don’t think a single person switched.
Family would constantly “not get it” and continued to email my old email address, too, like they thought this was a phase. lol. It was insane.
Personally, I find switching messenger providers to be more difficult than email, so I’m not hopeful that someone would convert without having some strong motivations first.
- Comment on It's time to stop using SMS, here's why! 4 days ago:
I mean, Signal (the messenger that Privacy Guides recommends) only works with Signal, right? And if I recall, it was difficult or not even possible to back up your texts from one device to another.
SMS, especially for anyone who isn’t tech-savvy in the least, “just works” without any setup.
How do you convince people to move away from that?
I’m not saying we shouldn’t, I’m saying it doesn’t appeal to the majority of people.
- Comment on It's time to stop using SMS, here's why! 4 days ago:
And don’t forget that when those apps eventually die, or the company behind them goes sour, you have to switch EVERYTHING again, and hope that everyone you know does, too.
This has NEVER been an issue with SMS. So for all the bad, it does one thing really well: convenience.
As much as I’d love to move to a secure message platform, this definitely falls into the “more trouble than it’s worth” category, and that’s disappointing.
- Comment on First sodium battery urban e-bike offers 45-mile range and operates in cold weather without capacity loss 2 weeks ago:
So many compromises, but it’s only like $500.
- Comment on New website shows you how much Google AI can learn from your photos: Your photos reveal a lot of private information 1 month ago:
That is WILD! This technology could be put to good use, but corporations are abusing it to build profiles on their users so they can weaponize the data.
Random photo I had saved (of a Da-Brim cycling accessory):
- Comment on Modern cars are surveillance devices on wheels with major privacy risks – new report 2 months ago:
Don’t forget that every self-driving car is a 360 camera that’s able to capture real-time photo and video for the car’s manufacturer (and whoever they want to sell this data to).
This would include images inside your garage, even when the car is off.
And they have microphones that can record conversations inside the vehicle, too.
These vehicles, in my opinion, are in many cases more privacy invading than phones.
And with Elon in government, with his BFF President at his side, concerns over deregulation and weaponizing these of moving spy devices seems like a future reality.
- Comment on 4 or more hours of daily screen time linked to more anxiety and depression in teens, data shows 2 months ago:
Just wait until everyone is forced to wear screens on their faces 24/7, because that’s the way tech companies want us to live. I’m not being sarcastic, either.
There’s a reason why so many people consciously choose to “disconnect” when they want a mental break. If we are no longer able to, how healthy do you think our society will be?
- Comment on I'll share a troubling fact with you if you share one with me 3 months ago:
That might be the difference! None of the houses on our street have them, so groceries get unloaded from the driveway, straight into the front door.
- Comment on I'll share a troubling fact with you if you share one with me 3 months ago:
You’ve never seen your neighbors carrying groceries inside.
I’m going to assume that you either don’t have windows, or you don’t go outside.
I see multiple neighbours, multiple times a month, bringing groceries into their house.
Quite a few times this happens while I’m also outside, in passing.
But now I’m super curious how you don’t see your neighbours doing the same! 😂
- Comment on YSK about Darkpatterns.games, a website that rates mobile games on their "Dark patterns" 3 months ago:
I think one of the reasons why I stopped gaming as an adult, is because I realized that pretty much all the popular games are rigged to keep you going. The progression is artificial, and demotivates me to invest time in it.
Old games were basically: play them, and with the right skill you can complete the levels and finish. Simple, fun, and you didn’t have to return back to the game in 11h:23m:45sec in order to “unlock” anything, either. You turn it on when you want, then turn it off. You can return to it months or even years later and it makes no difference.
New games? Always moving the goal posts. You have to pay to level up quickly, but the next level just sets you up for another artificial grind. Spin a wheel or open a loot crate? Those are just programmed to give you exactly the items you need to keep going a little further. Seasons, timed events, social media integration… all the fun is sucked out.
Video games use quite a few of the same tactics that you’ll see in lotteries, casinos, and other “games of chance”.
Once you realize that, you can’t unsee it.
- Comment on YSK about Darkpatterns.games, a website that rates mobile games on their "Dark patterns" 3 months ago:
It’s sad that the most unhealthy games are the ones ranked as most played on the google play store 😮💨
- Comment on Resource efficient AI model for LocalAI 3 months ago:
I dont know if any specific model will be the right answer, but Qualcomm has their Snapdragon event going on right now, and many of the advancements they are touting are specifically for local AI processing.
So, computing power will improve significantly over the next few years, with AI being the largest benefactor.
- Comment on Companies are finding new ways to monetize personal data, too often without proper notice or consent. ICYMI, three current examples that you may want to act on to opt out: PayPal, LinkedIn and 23andMe 3 months ago:
To turn opt out of this (and you absolutely should), log into your PayPal account and then go to Settings > Data & Privacy > Manage shared info > Personalized shopping.
I have personal and business PayPal accounts, and don’t even see those privacy options in either one.
Are these privacy concerns only seen in certain countries?
- Comment on The ability to be spontaneous in life is directly proportion to the size of your bank account 3 months ago:
I’d say it’s more linked to how many dependents you have, rather than money in the bank.
Someone with no kids, no wife, and no pets can be spontaneous without a second thought.
Someone who’s tied down, but wealthy, not so much.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s X is now worth less than a quarter of its $44 billion purchase price 3 months ago:
Those are mostly operating costs, offset by revenue, but are they actually losing 1.5 billion dollars a year? I mean, I hope so, but are they really?
- Comment on Elon Musk’s X is now worth less than a quarter of its $44 billion purchase price 3 months ago:
Source? Where is that money going?
- Comment on Rustdesk not connecting externally 5 months ago:
But key mismatch error when trying to actually connect between two internal systems.
Can you confirm that there are no spaces before or after the key on the client end? Sometimes, copy and pasting can add extra spaces that cause invalid passwords, etc.
I’m not having issues running my self-hosted Rustdesk (docker) externally, but I can’t offer much more than that :(
- Comment on GitHub - Owez/yark: YouTube archiving made simple. 5 months ago:
Yeah, the weird filenames bothers me, too. It does take a hit to data portability, for sure. I’m not using it for some kind of long-term, bomb-proof YouTube archiving, but more to have offline access to instructional videos I might need in the near future. For that, the UI and integration with Jellyfin works well for me.
If I was actually collecting youtube videos, I would go with something else that generates human-friendly folders and filenames! I’ll bookmark Tubesync :)
- Comment on GitHub - Owez/yark: YouTube archiving made simple. 5 months ago:
I’m using Tube Archivist. Works great, too.
- Comment on GitHub - Owez/yark: YouTube archiving made simple. 5 months ago:
“Made simple”, but it’s all command prompt with no UI 🙂
Not knocking it, as I’m sure it works great, but these things end up being a huge barrier to adoption and use by the regular people who might be “self-hosted curious”.
- Comment on Linkwarden - An open-source collaborative bookmark manager to collect, organize and preserve webpages | August 2024 Update - Added More Translations, Code Refactoring and Optimization and more... 🚀 5 months ago:
I will try, but on a whim I just created a new user in linkwarden and that seems to be generating my selected profiles. I’ll wait until I can try 2.7.x before I gather data for a report.
- Comment on Linkwarden - An open-source collaborative bookmark manager to collect, organize and preserve webpages | August 2024 Update - Added More Translations, Code Refactoring and Optimization and more... 🚀 5 months ago:
Looking forward to this new build. Since the last update, none of my links generate Preserved Formats, which makes the service useless. Hopefully, this is fixed.
- Comment on Google is discontinuing the Chromecast line 5 months ago:
Probably the same guy that greenlights unwanted UI changes in all their products.
- Comment on Linkwarden - An open-source collaborative bookmark manager to collect, organize and preserve webpages | July 2024 Update - New iOS App, Full Page Copy, User Administration and more... 🚀 6 months ago:
How does one actually enable Full Page Copy? I don’t see any specific options to enable it in the preserved formats, and I tested two captures, and none had captured the page in HTML.
Using it via docker, if that makes a difference. Confirmed that v2.6 is being used.
- Comment on To those using Tube Archivist, does it often freeze for you too? 6 months ago:
Are there any extensions that are causing issues?
Very doubtful, as I’ve tried this on vanilla installations of various browsers.
Anything in the browser console?
Now that I check, I do see some DOM exception errors in the console, which seems to happen when the UI freezes.
The errors come up after I’m able to interact with the UI (video remains playing throughout):
Uncaught (in promise) DOMException: The fetching process for the media resource was aborted by the user agent at the user’s request.
This might be the first place I should look to find a solution.
- Comment on To those using Tube Archivist, does it often freeze for you too? 6 months ago:
Yeah, I think it really could have just been that. I had issues with titles looking OK, but the descriptions were gibberish. It made it impossible to really use. Then it suddenly worked, and it’s been fine ever since. LOL
- Comment on To those using Tube Archivist, does it often freeze for you too? 6 months ago:
I wonder what heck is going on, then.
I’ve used multiple computers with FF, and it happens on all of them. Granted, this problem happens no matter what browser I use, so I know it’s not a FF problem.
- Comment on To those using Tube Archivist, does it often freeze for you too? 6 months ago:
Which browser?
And do you usually just set the video to play and leave it, or are you pausing a lot?
If I just play a video, I don’t notice the problem. But if I’m watching an instructional video and need to rewind, pause, etc., then it’s really apparent that it froze up.
- Comment on To those using Tube Archivist, does it often freeze for you too? 6 months ago:
but do you use tubearchivist-jf-plugin for getting metadata in to jellyfin? I cannot seem to get that plugin to function on my set up for some reason
Man, I went through several Jellyfin metadata plugins with issues. But that one did work “suddenly”, and I don’t recall any specific steps taken to get it working.
I posted about this months ago as I really wanted TA working with Jellyfin.
