Showroom7561
@Showroom7561@lemmy.ca
- Comment on More than half of adults worldwide will be overweight or obese by 2050 – report 11 hours ago:
Have you met an obese person? It’s like they are never satisfied. Eating just to est.
Sorry to be the Debbie downer 🫣
- Comment on Release FreshRSS 1.26.0 3 days ago:
The only feature I want in FreshRSS is a way to DELETE entries. This is critically important if you’re using RSS feeds for something like Lemmy (or Reddit) where some very NSFW or illegal content gets through before it’s moderated out of the platform. I really don’t want to be archiving that shit!
- Comment on Proton will no longer post on Mastodon 5 days ago:
Proton the privacy company… “follow us on reddit”?
I think I’ll cancel my services with them now. Thanks for making it easy. Idiots.
- Comment on ‘The tyranny of apps’: those without smartphones are unfairly penalised, say campaigners 1 week ago:
Even if “better” is just lack of nags.
Well, they just swap nags from “download out app” to “rate our app” no matter what you do, you’ll be nagged…
- Comment on ‘The tyranny of apps’: those without smartphones are unfairly penalised, say campaigners 1 week ago:
That’s exactly it. Easy to block ads and trackers on a website, but more difficult or impossible on some apps.
One of the banking apps won’t show the total balance of the account unless I’m using the app. How ridiculous.
- Comment on ‘The tyranny of apps’: those without smartphones are unfairly penalised, say campaigners 1 week ago:
As I’ve been making an effort to replace apps with the browser version of the service. It’s so abundantly clear that companies don’t want you using their website.
Even if they don’t outright cripple functionality, they’ll hound you endlessly to install the app.
It’s infuriating to say the least.
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- Comment on What is your favorite app for Lemmy? Include Platform 2 weeks ago:
Was using the Voyager app. But now I use the Voyager PWA version through the Hermit app.
- Comment on Those YouTube ads everyone hates made $10.4 billion in just three months 3 weeks ago:
I’ll just share with you my experience:
I was also paying for a YouTube Premium family plan, but still got ads. What made me cancel was the fact that they’re still using trackers, so they were making money off me three times (subscription, ads, and selling my data)!
Coupled with the fact that “content creators” don’t really make content for the love of making it. It’s all created “for the algorithm”, especially the “watch to the end”, clickbait titles and thumbnails, “like and subscribe” begging, “only 15% of you are subscribers”, sponsored content disguised as education, etc… Videos today are nothing like they were 15 years ago, because it became solely about making money.
Google is one of the pioneers of the enshittification movement!
- Comment on Those YouTube ads everyone hates made $10.4 billion in just three months 3 weeks ago:
… And has made video content for billions of people unbearable to watch or enjoy.
- Comment on The biggest breach of US government data is under way 3 weeks ago:
Much of DOGE’s work is avoiding oversight and transparency…
How can any voter be OK with this?
- Comment on Synology NAS Patch Required - MitM Vulnerability 3 weeks ago:
Just got the update. Good timing, because over the last week, I’ve had DOZENS upon DOZENS of IP addresses auto-blocked.
Before that, the last blocked IP address was like in September, so someone/something is probing.
- Comment on Got myself some energy monitoring Zigbee plugs and made an interesting discovery 3 weeks ago:
I bought two “Eightree” brand Zigbee-compatible plugs to see how they fare.
Did you need a Zigbee hub to get them working? I was gifted an Eighttree Zigbee plug with energy monitoring, but it seems to require using a hardware hub :(
- Comment on Tesla pulls out all the stops as Cybertruck sales grind to a halt 4 weeks ago:
Not even Hitler would buy one. He’s got too much self-respect than to associate with Elon.
- Comment on Flohmarkt - a Fediverse replacement for Facebook Marketplace 4 weeks ago:
Maybe just like Facebook Market, simply ignore it? /s
- Comment on Your Exercise Bike Knows a Lot About You—and It Doesn't Keep Every Secret 4 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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 1 month 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 2 months 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 3 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 3 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 4 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 4 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" 4 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" 4 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 4 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 4 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 4 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.
