

A microphone that the product user willingly carries around all day to record their actions, conversations, and (if given access) email etc. Of course Amazon want it. It’s a privacy-busting, user metric/advertising wet dream in a wristband.
A microphone that the product user willingly carries around all day to record their actions, conversations, and (if given access) email etc. Of course Amazon want it. It’s a privacy-busting, user metric/advertising wet dream in a wristband.
Both the mice I use are Logitech.
Marathon M705 in work. Bought in 2017 and still trucks away in my 9-5. Fantastic scroll and enough buttons for convenience. Batteries last seemingly forever.
M510 at home. Bought in 2022 and no troubles. Has done me well in the same non-competitive gaming role, but you might appreciate a few more buttons.
Both use the unifying protocol. Both are pretty cheap too.
There’s a world of difference between day 1 and the current build as well. Definitely take another look if you haven’t recently. Devs finally waking up haha.
Favourite part so far has been the lighting system & ragdolls. If you whip a car fast enough in reverse and hit a sweet spot on the swing around, you can send Z flying like baseballs.
RAID1 with 8 drives is definitely in the funsies department
B42 multiplayer can’t come quick enough…
Have you tried unstable in SP yet?
It’s not, and it’s the bloody daily heil too.
Honestly have not bothered too much on the internal security side. Everything is in a melting pot on the same subnet, with pfsense managing what’s allowed out. At the very least, the cams and any other accessible internal devices do not run default/duplicated credentials.
Only two users on the network, and the occasional trusted guest. I don’t see the need to go further quite yet.
Hi fellow HA user in the wild.
Whatever cams you go with, most important thing is that they support a direct rtsp connection. Frigate is an excellent add-on for recording, and for object detection if you want to do that.
We have some generic IP cameras here that have local access only, and a couple of Arduino camera PCBs in printed housings.
A coral TPU is essential if you want to get into object detection on more than one camera. Can use the CPU for testing, but it’s very easy to tap it out.
Use a different service, or encrypt your data before upload & share password separately. For anything remotely private, should be doing that already.
For chaotic good, upload LLM poison to fuck with the training data.
A redlib instance is also an option. Example: https://redlib.pussthecat.org/
To add, see here for a continually updated litany of fail:
https://static.xtremeownage.com/blog/2022/reasons-to-avoid-cloud-based-automation-products/
Hardcore, I love it.
Insane. At the core it’s no more than an extension lead with a shaped plug. Some basic brains for safety.
If I had to go that route, I’d wall it off from the main network/internet at large.
Sometimes they’ll even remove these kinds of feature. See: Yeelink Yeelight removing LAN control from their bedside lamps, as a particularly egregious example.
The goal for me would be to not have to break out the programmer in the first place. The same way I have never felt the need to operate on my toaster, fridge, TV etc.
On a ‘good’ device, having that relatively easy to access is still a bonus though :)
If a device relies on any kind of external service to initially set up or function thereafter, do not buy. Regardless of brand.
Or accept that it has a finite lifespan that you cannot control. It’s not a matter of if the rug will get pulled, but when.
There is a grey area for things that can be reflashed or rebrained, but I prefer to not rely on this. Local access methods like ZigBee, Z-Wave and 433Mhz are immune to this kind of enshittification by design. Even WiFi devices can fit in here, with appropriate restrictions in place.
An acceptable middle-ground would be for EOL devices to be offered (with a big disclaimer) a final update that removes the reliance on the service but retains the core function. That’s a pipe dream though.
…Goddamnit.
Let’s see how well they drop test…
Sorry, should have been clear. Lethal allergen tour = bad. Banning completely = also bad.
My main point was that there is a line between discomfort and danger. That line can move based on the situation, so it is awkward to abstract without getting down to specifics.
If say 5% of the population suddenly developed a tendency to go into anaphylactic shock on exposure to vanilla, then you could easily see it disappearing from fragrances altogether and becoming a non-problem in that regard. Yet it would still have culinary use and join many friends on the bolded ingredient lists on food.
There is a turnover point (that I cannot explicitly define) where the onus is on the afflicted to ensure their own safety, rather than the population at large going out of their way to ensure it.
I am fortunate to have no issues like this. In 5% Vanilla-Death-Land, the smell of the stuff would still give me pause, as I probably know someone who could well die from the idiot that just walked in the door honking of it.
If the same person instead just brought in a vanilla milkshake, I probably wouldn’t bat an eye.
UK is implementing law for age verification on nsfw content, that’s the jist of it.
Some services are choosing to simply not serve the UK rather than deal with the faff and/or the privacy concerns. lemmy.zip where I am from is one of them.
Blame lies squarely with the UK gov & Online Safety Act. It’s a shit law made to pander to the ‘think of the children’ types that are incapable of parenting, also coming with the bonus of grift and doxxing concerns by companies that move in to provide the service.
I don’t blame any site operator that chooses to simply not play. VPN goes on, normal service resumes.