Monument

@Monument@lemmy.sdf.org

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ring is always recording and uploading to their servers, even with you're not paying for the subscription⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I had the creepiest conversation with a cop a few months ago.
  My neighborhood is seemingly getting rougher by the day. I do have a video doorbell, but it’s not one of the major U.S. brands.

  Anyway, it was trash day. Garbage had been collected. I had noticed several police cars around, but didn’t see any police. I went to collect my bins, and one of them popped out of nowhere to chat at me.

  He was light on details, but needed to track the comings and goings of a parking lot across the street from my house. Didn’t need super clear images, just said he needed timestamps for a timeline. Said my camera angle was ‘perfect’.
  And it is! I get so many alerts that I disabled it unless motion is detected within the area of my yard. (Which was not helpful to them.)

  But he was explaining this to me, and said that he needed me to send them the video (before I told him that it was unlikely I had video, and then confirmed that I did not with him). A moment later, he did a quick scan of my various neighbors houses, and said (to himself) “Okay, that’s a Ring, that won’t be a problem.”

  A problem?!? Just casually warrentlessly seizing footage from people’s homes is not a problem?

  For those curious, the system I currently have is by Eufy and I cannot recommend the brand. Anker as a brand has been great (Eufy’s parent company), but I find the Eufy app to be riddled with spam, the offered features to be mediocre, and generally, customer service to be poor. They even had an amazon review removed once. (I called their app a piece of crap, and they hit it with a community standards warning to get it removed.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Legion Go with Bazzite is an excellent machine for gaming⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I got my wife a Legion Go in May and immediately installed Bazzite on it. I think I had a few minor issues, but nothing like what this blog post is talking about. It was a shockingly easy process!

  And yeah, it totally rules as a gaming machine. I’m honestly jealous and am waiting for generational improvements to happen in the space before I buy another handheld. (Or possibly, I’ll buy the Steam Frame instead.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No Man's Sky adds fishing, a fishing skiff, a new expedition, deep-sea diving and loads more⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  A boat load more, one might say.

  Not me, of course. But someone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨VW will invest up to $5 billion in Rivian as part of new EV joint venture⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Well… okay. But only because I’m sleepy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨VW will invest up to $5 billion in Rivian as part of new EV joint venture⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Boooo! Only my opinion is the right one!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨VW will invest up to $5 billion in Rivian as part of new EV joint venture⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Are they gonna fix how dumb those cars look?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit locks down its public data in new content policy, says use now requires a contract⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I used a tool to mangle my comments last June, manually verifying that every single comment in my decade+ account history was changed.
  About a month ago I looked at my profile, and several comments — including ones on the first page of my profile (that I definitely know would have been edited, that close to the top) — were reverted to their unedited state.

  I wonder if an edit then delete would do it - multiple steps.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Lost The Spam Wars To ‘Pussy In Bio’ Spam⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  If Paul Bunyan can’t overcome spam, I don’t think Musk can either.