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Re: Show HN: I made a privacy friendly and simple app to track my menstruation

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Post by teddyh »

sillysaurusx wrote: post #175
freedomben wrote: post #169

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I debated saying something like this too because I've had it backfire, but in a way I didn't expect. My daughter was excited to go to a coding camp with me, until several people (not all at the same time) each stopped to praise her for being a girl, and me for bringing my daughter. Everyone truly had the best of intentions, but the unfortunate impact was it gave her a bunch of attention that she didn't want, and only…

That! This! Thank you for talking about it and putting it into words. Not only is it applicable, I’ve had so many discussions about it with my wife. Her central theme is "treat us normally; stop making it a big deal" but with the added context of "it sucks that there aren’t many examples of that." So it’s a balance between the two. I told my wife your story and she said yup, that checks out. I wanted to touch on this…

Another person’s explanation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14702676>

Re: Show HN: I made a privacy friendly and simple app to track my menstruation

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Post by YeGoblynQueenne »

sillysaurusx wrote: post #101

I’d like to post a different sort of off-topic comment. As someone who’s married to a brilliant programmer and has a daughter almost a year old, thank you for showing a public example of simply being a woman in tech. We don’t plan on shoving our daughter in front of an editor from a young age — we have no expectations of her, and she’s free to be whoever she wants to. But one reason my wife didn’t get into programmin…

>> It’s a bit like a man not realizing he might be a great dancer, simply because most dancers are women, and so he never explores the question.

No offense but that stereotype is incomprehensible. Outside of gay and lesbian clubs, [roughly} half of all dancers are men and the other half women. I suspect you are specifically talking about ballet dancers, but those are a tiny minority, and don't even exist in most of the world.

Here's a really cool dude dancing a really cool dance for men (Zaouli, from Cote d' Ivoire):

https://youtu.be/jZ572yLH9sc?si=xH4tOaqlfrGYQJiw

Re: Show HN: I made a privacy friendly and simple app to track my menstruation

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Post by bee_rider »

pitched wrote: post #146
bee_rider wrote: post #143

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You would? How?

The only proof we have of privacy is a claim made by an internet account. With source code, auditing that claim is a lot easier. “Trust but verify.”

I agree that it isn’t as easily verifiable that it is privacy-respecting without the source code but that’s a couple steps from saying that it is “a falsehood” to say it is.

What made me wonder about it is that this is very specific wording that indicates that they proactively know the author is lying, when it would be very easy to instead say something along the lines of what you said, that it is too hard to verify without access to the source code.

Re: Show HN: I made a privacy friendly and simple app to track my menstruation

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Post by digging »

xandrius wrote: post #95

I actually built a simple one (also for Android) as there wasn't anything easy out there. One thing that my gf wanted as additional features was the possibility to also track mood (I let her choose among 5 ranges of emojis) and add tags to each day: for example she can create a tag "pains" and set if she had cramps a day or not. All that can be expected to csv/xslx for her own analysis. If you add these features, I'l…

That sound a lot of Pixels[1] but with first-class menstruation tracking?

[1] https://teovogel.me/pixels/

Re: Show HN: I made a privacy friendly and simple app to track my menstruation

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Post by zerr »

freedomben wrote: post #153
stormqueen wrote: post #150

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There are ways to check what data is send trough the network...

Not really, not anymore. Many apps are now using certificate pinning to make it impossible for the user to to modify the trust store. This means that unless it is open source, it is very difficult for people to verify, even when they know very well what they are doing.

But you can verify that the app does not use the network at all, right?

Re: Show HN: I made a privacy friendly and simple app to track my menstruation

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Post by bee_rider »

GlumWoodpecker wrote: post #147
bee_rider wrote: post #143

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You would? How?

Presumably because there is no way to verify the claim.

I think that isn’t it, because it would be easy to say something like “we can’t verify the claim that it is privacy respecting so we should assume otherwise.” Which is a totally reasonable position to take.

I think it is important to be specific, clear, and to have evidence if one wants to call somebody a liar, though.

Or maybe it is something else, it could be interesting if they have some other definition of “privacy respecting” that precludes closed source apps, for example. That is, to “respect privacy” could be understood to actually be to provide users with verifiable evidence that their private info isn’t compromised. I think this isn’t the conventional definition definition of privacy respecting but I’m definitely ready to be pulled on-side if anybody starts pushing it.

Re: Show HN: I made a privacy friendly and simple app to track my menstruation

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Post by stormqueen »

coldtrait wrote: post #162

This is neat. I'm going to try this out. I have to admit though I do cloud sync on my existing app because it's convenient in case I switch devices. I favor convenience over privacy in this case. Do you have a system for when switching devices or is it just as simple as copying the backup data into the new device?

Yes, you can export and import the data in the app

Re: Show HN: I made a privacy friendly and simple app to track my menstruation

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Post by smeej »

This looks great! I'm curious what your roadmap looks like too!

There are so many great ways to understand our fertility, not just our periods, by tracking things like cervical mucus and basal body temperature, which can not only help us get more reliable predictions about when bleeding will start (almost always the same number of days after ovulation, though the days between the start of bleeding and ovulation can vary a lot), but also have better data for health practitioners to sort out how our hormonal health is!

It's not necessarily easy to find practitioners who know how to interpret the data, but they're out there, and having a good way to collect it and share it with them is a key part of the process!

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Post by triceratops »

kylebenzle wrote: post #164
vsnf wrote: post #141

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> ctrl-f > "repub" > 1 result It's just you sewing discord in here. It'd be great if you'd stop, thanks.

The WHOLE POINT of this app and this post is the abortion ban in some states in the US, otherwise this topic or app would never come up. We can pretend we are all idiots but lets be intellectually honest about what this post is about. Now, is it a valid fear that white conservative males are trying to obtain period tracking app data so they can persecute young women having abortions? I personally don't think so, whic…

> is it a valid fear that white conservative males are trying to obtain period tracking app data so they can persecute young women having abortions?

They used FB messages, so why not period tracking app data?

https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/11/teen-and-mom-plead-guilty-...

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