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 Are you searching for abortion pills? Checking abortion law? Are you talking in front of your phone, with an always on microphone? "Hello google, get me arrested" Did you say in front of a home nest that youd be seeking doctors? Police can tell you. Did you scream in your home? What words did you say alone in your bathroom? Ever wished some jackass ill during the news? Did you say it out loud? Can your watch detect your cycle? The balloon 40,000ft up isnt surveiling you, your home nest is. 20 comments
Translation can be done locally. I want, hope to inspire, pretty well demand that we have an annual Awards Program honouring apps, people, companies and innovations that work just for you. Translation, dns look ups, weight watching, excersizing, anything, so long as it acts for you, giving what you need, withiut telling a selfserving monopoly, a political vengence group or legal authorities that you are pregnant, like men, or need an abortion, or fight monopolies, or raise wages.  No tiny device is going to do voice transcription locally beyond the activation words. But the recordings listening for it can and are uploaded. Almost like we need a TOR type protocol to send the data thru so you can make use of the power of the cloud without it making g use of *you* With an open source local device of course! @pixelpusher220 @kevinrns what about the people who had pictures of them on the toilet end up on the internet because employees of Roomba was passing them around Except those cameras that automatically upload to a monoploy for "ease of use" oh, that, wait, wait, the picture that proved I was at the party where we discussed mocking new british laws! Oh no! Ill bet the biggest cpu phones have the power to transcribe, but, Id nominate the app that a local sequesteted network to share that duty, for a Jeeves (needs a better name) Award. Heres a four year old story about some devices you can get in a remainder bin. And just to point out, Android is enshittified open source. "Pixel 4 Recorder app can transcribe speech in real time without an internet connection" Color me skeptical that smart speakers are remotely as powerful as a phone. Sure you *could* but they didn't b/c they didn't have too. Not at all the same thing. I don't want my speaker to translate, or transcribe or listen, really ever. But if I had a tool, I'd want it done with as much privacy as my parents and yours had. I want, I think we all want tools that just work for us, like a shovel. Really tired of surveillance, and at this time of billionaires paying to get rid of democracy, its downright dangerous. My phone, my computer, all my devices, no reporting to some corporation or anyone. An Awards Show, every year.  Ppl are so immersed in whatever vein of online bullshit & propaganda that strikes their fancy they are mostly quite incapable of taking a step back and asking a question like that. Look at your coffee table: How many streaming remote controls are there? How many have those "little holes" (microphones)? Oops. Wireless speakers? They are usually equipped for "making calls". Therefore, those speakers have mics built-in. Some TVs have mics. Even some refrigerators advertised as having "vibration sensors" that can tell when you knock on the fridge door. Cars now have mics as standard equipment. Its a major proliferation trend, a total nightmare IMO. This era is the next stage of what 'Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman' lampooned... the credulous consumer acting stupid. Calling the 200 million victims credulous, may be the insult needed to get the millions to begin acting in their own interests, but Ive found agreeing with complaints loudly helps us feel as if we are doing this together, and spreads the message. "Knowing first" is no honour. And studies in education suggest that learning happens deepest, best, when the student is happy, and learn nothing, while feeling anger and depression. They are victims. @kevinrns what about people who wear those Amazon Halo rings to detect their βtoneβ to let them know if theyβre sounding βnegativeβ. How do we know they only listen to the person wearing it? I have heard comedians laughing about lthe need to bluetooth in everything; ballcaps with bluetooth, chalk with bluetooth, my new bluetooth bar of soap. But really, yes youre right, its microphones that are being added to everything. |
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@kevinrns I tried explaining that to people who believed bill gates was putting microchips in the vaccines... I'm like you willingly pay for a tracking/listening device
Why would they do that?