they started out as openstreetcam. they turned out to be not open, in source code and licensing of uploaded content. their app couldn’t even be open source, as it used closed source components (including facebook data mining components), that they did not want to remove. they have got renamed to kartaview and belong to a crappy company. they also don’t value user privacy, shown partly by using facebook (among other) tracking code both on the website and in the app.

at first, they turned out they don’t value privacy of its users, but with an openstreetmap adjacent project that is essential. most OSM editors and users are here partly for the privacy properties of the services and accompanying apps, and like that we can’t honestly recommend something to others that we ourselves wouldn’t use.

openstreetcam privacy policy said they share user data with third parties for analysis of the users. that alone shows how they treat their users, but their website contained facebook tracking technology among others, which is significantly worse for reasons I will not detail here.

in the openstreetmap ecosystem another thing that is important is openness and free software. because that’s how you can know how is your data handled, or how you can continue development if the original devs abandoned the project. all significant android osm apps are available on the F-droid store. F-droid vets all apps it accepts, including all updates to them, and closed source components are not allowed in any of them, because what they do can not be audited.
openstreetcam (at some point renamed to kartaview) was not willing to remove the unauditable components for f-droid inclusion. it was more important for them to collect enormous amounts of user data for facebook and other data brokers.

then the open source app completely stopped being open source. they did not officially stopped development, they just started to forget uploading the source code changes. they even tried to argue other points with “but our app is open source!” when it could not be built from source for several years already. that shows they only used open as a marketing term.

later it turned out the app was owned by a crappy company, and that they take all rights, irrevocable, for all images uploaded.

probably other things also happened I don’t remember now.

I’m not sure if tracking can be fully disabled with DNS blocking. they could easily implement DoH usage or direct IP connections as fallback

kartaview is not better either. they are hypocrite liars: https://github.com/osmandapp/OsmAnd/issues/4942

panoramax thought, that is promising.

does 11 even has that feature by default?

“hot” does not mean “boiling”. nobody even assumes it to mean that.

what kind of place has those trash bins?

LTO-8 is 12TB native per cartridge. A used LTO can be as little as $300 USD with a 12TB cart $65ish. Ancient LTO-3 can be had for like…$5…and stores upto 800GB per tape.

how do you find so cheap LTO drives?

how do I carry RF remote signal from each room back to main unit…oh, I don’t need to, could I make a web ui that controls the shuffler via a Pi to RS-232, that you access on your phone?..Shit…i could do this.

you could also do an RF IR remote bridge with two minimal Pis

if you are also annoyed qbout the tracking and ads shit smart TVs pull off, you could by a mini-PC to fix all of these at once. making an IR remote work will be challenging, but if you go for plasma bigscreen, you can control it fine with kde connect on your phone.

it not only stores your search history, it sends all your start menu searches to bing, to give you useless web results for the installed programs and local files you actually need. there’s no setting for it. o&o shutup10 can disable it with registry… on most installs, because on some it ignores that registry value.

There are apps for adding photos, such as Mapilary

just in case you don’t know, mapillary is a facebook project

There have been a few attempts at FOSS review projects, like lib.reviews or mangrove.reviews, although it is tricky to reach critical mass.

I think it’s even impossible if not accessible in a popular OSM map app

The phone caused a stir when it was announced a week ago. First, there was the thrill of 80s computing legend Commodore making a phone.

garbage “journalism”. the writer should have really known the company has nothing to do with the original Commodore, other than buying rights to use the name.

If there’s anything useful that came from the discussion with @whatiswrongwithyou@lemmy.ml (to answer your other reactions too),

I just want to mention, that thread turned out to be genuinely interesting, as you gave response to multiple things I myself couldn’t have put into words.
my problem with his attitude is that I worry it’s effective to deter most people from seeking privacy, or actually from seeking the ways to keep being off the record with your daily habits, when you would prefer that way. but it was good to see he couldn’t put you off with that.

is that “anonymity” might actually be a reasonable fit, that is if:

data couldn’t, in any way, shape or form and without measurable confidence, be attributed to a person (or context related to them: a car, or a specific shirt worn that day, being examples); then details about one’s private life couldn’t be inferred, based on publicly available information.

I think to me anonymity is not quite that. my desire is not that I walk on the street and nobody recognizes me.

but, now thinking about this again, maybe pseudonimity as we use it on the threadiverse, is quite close to it. but something tells me that would also sound like silly term to the generic person.

I personally have no confidence in any “anonymization” post-collection; and a camera for example, physically unable to capture my likeness, being the only meaningful reassurance anonymity is being preserved.

I agree on that. that depends on the operator doing the right thing, for which there is no incentive by not being verifiable.

Setting Valve aside for a moment, people used to think Sony wasn’t as bad as Microsoft. The truth is, they’ve always been worse. Big on exclusives and third-party exclusives, and opposed to cross-play and cross-progression, they’ve always been a company for shareholders first and gamers not even a distant second.

I think the things that made Sony really bad was all the DRM shenanigans they pulled off. but all of these are not common knowledge I guess, the bad things Microsoft did/does appeared more in the press, and still do. all the while, Sony does not do much these days other than their locked down gaming console, do they?

Valve isn’t your friend. None of these companies are.

that’s right. However, the way I see it, they are doing the least of the bad things, and they are even contributing significantly to future I want to live in, in contrast to the other two. that’s something to consider.

But anyway, I used ddg too, and it gave me that link among the first results, which is weird. I thought their search was reproducible, but turns out it’s not, just like google…

sometimes I navigate to a result in the same tab, but just before clicking I notice another result that could also be relevant. then I navigate back, and now the results are somewhat different, usually the result I was looking at being omitted, and with a different order too. after that reloading it always gives the same results.

not easy sync. possibility of sync conflicts make sync hard.

bitwarden logs me out and some of my friends once or twice every year. It’s not reliable for that. I’m pretty sure there’s an undocumented logout trigger in the code somewhere

maybe something with the word “record”. the right to be unrecorded, not recorded…

maybe it would be better to replace “privacy” with “recording” or something everywhere. “recording policy”, “right to not be recorded”, “being off the record in public”. sounds much clearer than “privacy in public”, and more to the point, showing that the problem is not that we are not invisible, but that more of our life is being recorded without us agreeing to it.

Of course noticing stuff will tell you about relationships. If I always stop at the same gas station at 12:30 and then lean on my truck eating a moon pie and drinking a coke a person can infer that I’m eating my lunch there.

the huge difference, is whether it’s recorded in a searchable digital system, or just some random people see it who if sane have better things to do than trying to figure out where are you eating lunch.

Just like your example: if I always go to a specific house an observer is gonna reasonably assume I have a relationship to keep up in that house,

and a very limited circle of people will have information on that. that information is not easily accessible and searchable, and that information also decays over time.

I’m not trying to make you feel bad here, if you are developing those types of tendencies please seek help.

of course not, you are yet again trying to stir shit, and convince people that the need for privacy is degeneracy, that resistance is futile anyway, and that cameras on the pole pointing at your entrance are completely fine.

When you’re on someone else’s private property and you recognize your rights are being violated somehow the expectation is generally that you will leave.

the problem is majorly about public property locations that you cannot avoid while living life.

don’t bother with that user, it’s a professional shit stirrer. he is here to divide a community, not to participate in it. I don’t downvote much, but so far all of his comments I have came across through different topics deserved a downvote. just look at the username.

wow, still manages to be consistently so wrong about anything this user writes.