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I record myself on audio 24x7 and use an AI to process the information

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Post by cameronh90 »

nano9 wrote: post #325
cameronh90 wrote: post #303

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Each to their own. Personally the value these cloud/AI assistants give me is worth the loss of privacy. There's nothing I do that I think anyone would be especially interested in spying on, other than to try and sell me things. Note that I don't think anyone should be forced into this sort of surveilance. It should always be a choice. I also support the open source projects to bring it back to individual control - it…

> There's nothing I do that I think anyone would be especially interested in spying on, other than to try and sell me things. Do Uyghurs have something to hide and are worth spying on? How many times are we going to hear this argument? It comes only from a position of privilege. You're only uninteresting to be spied on as long as it's allowed by the security apparatus you depend upon. There's a reason we have sayings…

I'm aware of all those arguments and I completely agree with them in principle, but I genuinely would be SO far down the oppression list.

It's definitely a privilege to be the majority ethnicity and sexuality in a modern western liberal democracy, but it is what it is. The chances of the British government suddenly turning against white straight apolitical irreligious men are just so low it's not something I worry about.

What I worry about more are things like people breaking into my house, my dog chewing up the carpet and forgetting where I left my glasses.

I do hope that we can figure out a way to package all the privacy violating cloud-based services in a way that's simple to use, encrypted, local only, etc. though so perhaps more subversive people can enjoy these systems without worrying about oppression.

To be quite honest, the most privacy sensitive things in my life are probably my emails and documents, but those are all already in Google Drive and Gmail anyway, along with basically everyone else's. All anyone will get from my cameras is a stream of me feeding my rabbits, browsing tiktok and scratching my arse. GCHQ are welcome to tune in any day, provided they also help me pick out my clothes in the morning.

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roberdam wrote: post #329

MORE INFO ON THE DEVICES: https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256803349510543.html https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256803085687061.html both recorders are using the same generic bios, you have a .txt file called FACTORY.TXT, by changing the values of the file you configure the device, this is the content of the file. --------------- TYP:1 (0:WAV 1:MP3) VOR:0 (0:voice-activated off 1-7:voice-activated sensitivity,higher m…

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Post by narag »

roberdam wrote: post #328
narag wrote: post #259

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Thank you for the links and for the article. How long can record the smaller one? Actually if it can record for a day, it'd be enough for me. I used to record all phone calls, until EU made Xiaomi remove the feature. It was very useful because I always could take notes later if they sent me a number, contact name or appointment hour.

At 128kbps the MP3 takes about 56mb per hour, I got the 16gb, so you have a lot of time, the battery of the smaller one I read is 800 mAh , according to the docs should last around 2hrs, but I try to recharge it as soon as I can

Thank you, hmmm... you wrote 2hrs, I guess it's a typo. In the page it's 20 and more than enough for my use case. And even the 4GB is overkill if you make a daily dump.

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Post by klyrs »

rzzzt wrote: post #241
xerox13ster wrote: post #238

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Who watches the watchmen? The watched.

How many Watchmans would a watchman watch if watchmen could watch Watchmans?

It's the same show no matter matter how many times the watchman watches it, so one.

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Post by lazide »

manholio wrote: post #208
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I‘d be interested in knowing of any cases where someone who recorded their own activities used it as an alibi. Right now it's all theoretical. Dash cams are really strong evidence in traffic court, but this isn’t criminal so it has a lower bar. From the other end, body cam footage is powerful when worn by police, and cell phone evidence by bystanders are also strong evidence.

The body cam footage is a good example, it's deeply hated by the police and a frequent source of incriminatory evidence against the wearer. Since "you got nothing to hide", as the old saying goes, why not bodycam yourself and offer the authorities a great source of evidence they can use against yourself?

Having done so, it completely changes the dynamic.

Especially when you know the criminal code, and can ask questions such as ‘officer, I’m pretty sure they are currently committing felony against me. I don’t want them to go to jail, but I do want them to stop committing felonies against me.’

All the sudden, it goes from ‘nothing we can do’ to action.

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Post by lazide »

twobitshifter wrote: post #203
manholio wrote: post #195

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The trouble with any such footage is that it can be used against you ("as the the defendant's own records show, they were present in the murder area") but they generally won't extricate you when produced by you, since you clearly have a motivation to use it selectively. So you showing a picture of yourself reading a book during what you claim is the murder night is not an alibi, because it could have been produced at…

I‘d be interested in knowing of any cases where someone who recorded their own activities used it as an alibi. Right now it's all theoretical. Dash cams are really strong evidence in traffic court, but this isn’t criminal so it has a lower bar. From the other end, body cam footage is powerful when worn by police, and cell phone evidence by bystanders are also strong evidence.

I was falsely accused of some serious crimes and abuse.

It turns out, having security camera footage of the entire period of time showing that not only did you do nothing of the sort, but fundamentally could not have done anything of the sort, and was actually just playing with your kids the entire time, and the accuser had to have known so, changes the dynamic of such a case quite quickly.

Unfortunately, no one seems to take Perjury seriously in California, at least when the accuser is a woman. Despite it being a felony with penalties of 2,3, or 4 years in prison, and airtight evidence of multiple repeated occurrences.

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Post by wallfacer120 »

I'm in the middle of building literally the exact same thing for myself.

Beyond privacy/security, the aspect of the app I worry about the most is giving oneself perfect memory and then never being able to escape the past. That last fight you had with your ex? Well now its recorded and you can listen to it, and dissect it, and wonder what you could have done differently, right up until you blow your brains out.

But, as always, its up to the user to use the technology in a healthy way. It would be, after all, a choice to remain mired in the past rather than taking healthy lessons from it to make your future better.

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Post by junwonapp »

Interesting to see comments suggesting use of constant recording as a defense against invasion of privacy via constant surveillance.

Interesting that the defense against the harms of technology is technology itself. When the humankind unlocks a new powerful technology, and when it is possible for criminals to use the technology to harm us, our best course of action may be, not to look away from it out of fear, but to spend more time understanding it and its implications, and to get there faster than adversaries do.

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Post by bane »

This is really interesting and many of the comments here go into the utility of this, however, verify that you aren't recording somebody else without their consent, in many places it is illegal to record to conversations without the other party's consent.

I only ran across this problem years ago when, due to a serious potential workplace issue I suggested somebody basically "wear a wire" and record their workday to catch some HR problems. We found out that the state this was occurring in had a two-party consent law and violating it was not a great idea.

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