Relevant video I saw posted elsewhere on Lemmy today.

Tl;dw: Flock cameras are alarmingly easily hackable and many of their security and efficacy claims on their website are outright false.

Not surprising in the slightest.

They hired voice actors specifically to train the speech models. Sure, you can be completely anti AI, but then you probably wouldn’t have even started playing this game, given one of the initial selections is if you’d like to use one of the AI voices for voice chat. There was no deceit here.

I love the user tagging system on Lemmy apps. A nice bright label for this one.

And foreign alfalfa farms.

At first I thought it was a certain member of the group, which sort of fit the context but I’d never heard the term so looked it up.

Because I had to look it up, and to save others the effort, a sounder is the term for a group of wild boar or pigs. Like a pack of wolves or a murder of crows.

Nice, thats clever!

Definitely nice to have for cast iron. Is the long seam on the underside?

I think the focus of the article is more on using services deliberately rather than pure privacy, and I think the all or nothing approach to thinking of online privacy as you mention detracts from any positive effects of the little things people just starting their journey may try.

Those big companies don’t care about you. Every small step taken toward privacy is beneficial, even if it’s just eliminating one data point at a time. If you make it harder to find your info, they aren’t going to hire a PI to track you down, there are plenty of easier marks to chase.

It’s amazing the lengths that politicians will go to waste time doing anything but that which would benefit society.

The one near me got torn down this year…so not a whole lot I guess.

There are quite a lot of fairly good quality IEMs that are really inexpensive these days. Most of Linsoul’s brands come to mind.

Right, if you’re somewhere cold, you can cover up pretty much everything and not be out of place. Now, eating a meal at a restaurant or spending an extended time indoors like that would be a little out of place.

I have a lifetime pass and switched to Jellyfin years ago. Plex shoving their streaming content down my throat while putting my local libraries in the most tedious spots to access in the menus was a very quick turn off.

Sorry, but the shit companies have bought up all the smaller, non-shit companies, leaving us with shit for options.

Avoiding paved roads was a bit odd on first thought, but could definitely be something I’d use living in a place where paved roads may turn into skating rinks, while the many gravel roads are passable.

There’s a reason why data hoarders were archiving the entire CDC website (amongst others) once Don won the election.

If you have a powered doorbell, the Reolink cams can be powered by that too.

Gonna throw in another Reolink recommendation. I use Blue Iris as my NVR and have both that and the Reolink integrations in Home Assistant for motion notifications and lighting control. The cameras are durable (even in my very cold temps like -30C) and have really good image quality. If you don’t have an NVR or Home Assistant, the built-in motion detection and app is still pretty good and you can just pop an SD card in for recording.