Aral BalkanJan 9, 2023

Today, you can choose not to drive a Tesla if you don’t want Elon Musk, Inc. knowing everywhere you go.

Tomorrow, you might have to limit where you live because you won’t live in a Google Home and reconsider having 20/20 vision again in exchange for the artificial lens company seeing everything you see.

Privacy is not something you can “vote with your wallet” on. We either protect it as a human right or we lose it altogether.

#privacy #humanRights #BigTech #peopleFarming #capitalism

Show threadLoyJan 9, 2023
@aral It's such a fricking shame: I'd marvel at a AI home assistant type thing, ie. what Google Home and Amazon Echo claim to be. But I won't use them because they won't really work for me but for those companies.
Show threadAral BalkanJan 9, 2023

@loy Exactly. The question to ask whenever someone pitches you a “smart” thing is: “Who’s getting smarter about whom?”

If it’s you (and just you) getting smarter about yourself, that’s perfectly fine.

If it’s some corporation getting smarter about you, then “smart” is just a euphemism for “surveilled.”

#smart #tech #privacy #surveillance #capitalism #BigTech #peopleFarming #SiliconValley

Show threadLoyJan 9, 2023
@aral Most of the time "smart' means "connected" And most of the times "connected" means surveillance. A 'smart light' would know when to turn on and off, eg. to turn on when I walk in, but not turn on when I bring in a sleeping baby that'll wake up when bombarded by bright lights. But no, at best they'll know to show diaper ads I'd imagine.
Show threadBrax
@loy @aral There are a lot of Chinese cheap (less than $20) IP cameras and none of them work without the vendor's own cloud service, so...
Jan 9, 2023 at 6:17pmWeb
Show threadmike805Jan 10, 2023
@braxuss @loy @aral https://theuncloud.co/ click on Watch and use any spare phone or chromebook as a cloud security camera.
UnCloud

Show threadBraxJan 10, 2023
@mike805 @loy @aral It seems it uses Cloud Firestore as cloud. That's a cloud.
Show threadBraxJan 10, 2023
@mike805 @loy @aral I see you are the developer. :) I think cameras should alow you to install your own server. Images of your home streamed 24/7 are something really sensitive. I'm sure your app is really useful in other situations.
Show threadmike805Jan 10, 2023

@braxuss @loy @aral @braxuss @loy @aral Uncloud Watch is just a javascript client application and a nodejs server process. The server handles the webrtc handshake and then gets out of the way.

You can download the server under "Documentation and Code" and run your own. A 1GB R-pi works fine, that is what I used to develop it.

You can view stuff at home using webrtc with no external dependencies.

Show threadBraxJan 10, 2023
@mike805 @loy @aral Cool :)
Show threadmike805Jan 10, 2023

@braxuss @loy @aral Uncloud Watch is just a javascript client application and a nodejs server process. The server handles the webrtc handshake and then gets out of the way.

You can download the server under "Documentation and Code" and run your own. A 1GB R-pi works fine, that is what I used to develop it.

It does not use firestore but it does use mysql for the optional camera list feature.