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

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Post by voakbasda »

krzyk wrote: post #374
reisub0 wrote: post #160

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Even better is something like the Guardian Project's Haven( https://github.com/guardianproject/haven ) which IIRC Snowden contributed to. It's incredibly cost-effective to just buy an old Android phone (which comes integrated with multiple microphones, with good signal processing and noise cancellation), instead of building it with components. Haven is specifically designed for intrusion detection, and for preventing…

Interesting concept, but the issue is that one would need to constantly charge the phone and batteries have a tendency to go bad after some time with such usage.

Seems like this application would justify strapping the phone to a large lead acid battery.

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Post by stcredzero »

fragmede wrote: post #353
stcredzero wrote: post #337

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a managed record of our own activities can be extremely valuable I've thought of this as a hardware product: A device that records your own voice and non vocal sounds, but which does not record the words of others. (That, plus maybe location and a video stream, provided one is in a location without "a reasonable expectation of privacy.") Perhaps it doesn't even have to be hardware at this point! Maybe this could be i…

a throat mic would do the trick

Except, if it still faintly picks up the speech of others, then that's a violation of the law, and it opens one up for lawsuits.

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Post by phendrenad2 »

gaucheries wrote: post #403
phendrenad2 wrote: post #354

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Vague snipes like this are generally not allowed on HN, FYI. (Source: I've done it myself too many times)

you're falsely characterizing my observation as a vague snipe.

Just trying to help.

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Post by csallen »

xcambar wrote: post #320
csallen wrote: post #313

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He seems to have them right where we he wants them, too. Mutual transaction. Everybody's happy.

The benefits of the consumer measures in comfort or social status, mostly. The benefits of the producer measures in dollars. However you balance it, the producer wins. By many orders of magnitude. And since were talking about privacy and personal data, the more consumers there are, the more the producers improve their margin on each and all consumers.

Why is it a competition? If you give me a slice of cake, and I give you $5, and we're both happy with that, why should I care if you're somehow "winning" or I'm "losing"? That mindset seems like a self-fulling prophecy that robs me of my satisfaction.

Also, I would argue that receiving money does not mean the producer wins, since ultimately the producer is also a consumer, and who will thus be spending those dollars on the same things as every other consumer… comfort and status, as you put it.

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Post by hipjiveguy »

dsalzman wrote: post #128

I've been experimenting with this recently as well, but with an app on my apple watch. Looking for a method/model to split different speakers into different tracks to only look at audio from myself and certain people.

what app are you using on the apple watch?

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Post by Jach »

xyzzy123 wrote: post #348
Jach wrote: post #211

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Why not just have the device occasionally send sha256 sums of chunks to a third party service, like Twitter tweets, where it's clear you can't forge the date of the message? If you need to produce some chunks, the matching hashes provide an independent time stamp showing you didn't just produce the content at any time. This sort of trick is already commonly done to demonstrate prior knowledge of something at a later…

You could queue it up to send chunks of reassuring alibi video (or checksums of same) while you are doing your murders or crimes. Put another way, the possibility that you could have done that renders the timestamping useless.

f4d4cb1c06b690f5d6ee5d9012f743c330511effdb24e55b04e602f87d38d89e

I could have produced this hash at any point in the past, but after HN's edit window expires, one can be very certain I did not originally produce it at any point after the timestamp. This is far from useless, even if it doesn't cover all possible objections. The objection in the original comment that it does cover is: you just made up this footage/other evidence post-hoc to establish an alibi now that you've been accused, as people frequently do, or you can't prove you didn't make it up post-hoc so we want to get it tossed out as non-reliable.

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Post by bane »

prmoustache wrote: post #405
bane wrote: post #369

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 c…

I don't know of any juridiction where it is illegal to record someone else. What is usually illegal is broadcasting or making that record available to someone else.

There are many examples, for example in the state of Pennsylvania, all parties must consent. While it is a felony to record and then playback without consent (you are correct in this case), it is a punishable misdemeanor to violate privacy (broadcasting is not required) with a fine of up to $5000 in the first violation and 2 years of prison and/or up to a $5000 fine after the first violation.

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Post by dang »

hatware wrote: post #31
Waterluvian wrote: post #2

> My biggest problem with “OK Google” is that I don’t know by heart what it can do interactively Maybe it’s just me but this feels unaddressed and that seems ridiculous. Why is it so hard for me to find a single, precise location on my phone with an enumerated list of every command Siri or Google can work with?

> Why is it so hard for me to find a single, precise location on my phone with an enumerated list of every command Siri or Google can work with? Because engineers (and managers) contrive problems like this to the point they are useless solutions.

(I'm posting here because it's the most recent comment by your account).

You've unfortunately been breaking the site guidelines repeatedly and egregiously:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33585475

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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33468223

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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33447930

If you keep doing this, we're going to have to ban you. I don't want to ban you, so if you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and use HN in the intended spirit, we'd really appreciate it.

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Post by hatware »

dang wrote: post #418
hatware wrote: post #31

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> Why is it so hard for me to find a single, precise location on my phone with an enumerated list of every command Siri or Google can work with? Because engineers (and managers) contrive problems like this to the point they are useless solutions.

(I'm posting here because it's the most recent comment by your account). You've unfortunately been breaking the site guidelines repeatedly and egregiously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33585475 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33550821 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33547727 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33472366 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33472317 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?…

Oh cool, even the site admins are ganging up on me. Most of those comments are taken entirely out of context, or direct replies to comments that were replies to my own, but you do you.

I am using HN in the intended spirit, and I'm sorry that you're letting the echo chamber color your perception of perfectly acceptable comments. You can email me if you'd like to continue discussing this in a more professional manner (why else would I fill it...?), but I have to say this is an appalling showing of leadership on your behalf, and I hope you address it soon.

Public intimidation does not make for a safe and healthy culture. Period.

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