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Discussed before, and brought up in comments: - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22247292 (this article, earlier thread) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22803484 (comment by the author of the article) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22512696 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27963867 One of those links was me mentioning it, and this got so under my skin it took Wacom's brand from "premium, resp…
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Huions are pretty great. Very affordable and very high quality. I'm guessing the premium you pay for Wacom has more to do with the brand name than the actual product. I'm not a professional artist though, so maybe Huions are bad for pro work. Idk, but I'm happy with my Huion.
Given that Huion is headquartered in Shenzhen, I'm skeptical that the privacy aspect will be much better.
I never thought I would want a "walled garden" on my desktop, but these shit software stacks that companies are integrating into their products are forcing me to want to fight back to lock down my machine. I would love a simple utility that could not only neatly encapsulate and display the data being sent from my machine out on the network but also allow me to merely check a box to block that traffic. A smart initial…
If I am not mistaken, there was, back in the day, a small program called Proxomitron that did this.
The Wacom data collection program is OPTIONAL. Mr. Heaton buries this in his rant in the second to last paragraph. Any professional digital artist (especially 3d) will tell you they use multiple pieces of software and that many benefits from having the tablet buttons assigned differently to facilitate efficiency as an artist. This is (probably) why Wacom products track the software you're using. Finally, "Being a mos…
I don't see that in the second to last paragraph, and the word "optional" doesn't seem to appear anywhere.
The driver being aware of which software is active makes sense and is legitimate. The driver sending that information to others is unnecessary and illegitimate (since explicit consent was not given).
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I want to make it clear that "taking a holier-than-thou attitude" was never my intention. I wanted to highlight the fact that the title is wrong, and it indeed is, and that users complacency with abuse from the vendors do not help.
You really weren't trying to communicate clearly. Repeatedly referring to "a different driver" or "a specific driver" when you meant "the driver for a different operating system", and writing comments that presume (but only implicitly) a Linux context when the original blog post is analyzing the macOS driver is less than helpful . You also seemed to be going out of your way to avoid mentioning other operating systems…
This was a wonderful read I think when I was younger I’d assumed the sheer number of technical users out there would mean it would be hard for companies to get away with things like this but these days I realize this sort of analysis and public exposition is actually rare and the number of skilled developers investing time in this is slim Perhaps collectively as a community we can create public bug and privacy bounti…
I really like the bounty idea. There are tons of highly skilled and wealthy folks in the HN community, who are upset about issues such as privacy in tech, poor security in public sector organizations (utilities, education), etc. With some good, informal, leadership, we could put the community's resources to good use and help solve these problems. Folks who don't see meaning in their regular jobs could find contributi…
> we can also come up with scenarios that involve real harms. […] I personally use Google Analytics to track visitors to my website. This was a well-written fun read, and I also both care about privacy a lot and have also used Google Analytics on a site too, but at the same time I’m a little bit floored how quickly his own use of GA was assumed benign while Wacom’s was assumed malicious. (Using GA is handing tracking…
> " it’s very, very valuable data if you care about the customer experience. [...] What can we do as developers to prevent customer experience from becoming adversarial? " Pay money for the very very valuable data, instead of taking it and trying to hide behind legalese and finger-pointing and distraction and affront. If studying how people use your thing adds value to your company, run a usability lab where you pay…
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I take it you both also boycott Sony Music Group?
For the spyware/DRM on CDs in the early 2000's? It helps that I mostly just listen to music on YouTube. It's a little easier to remember to not buy something when you're buying a company product like "Lenovo" I guess than something nebulous like Sony Music.