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[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27965979
Also, I called it out that time, I knew this was going to be huge: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27965979#27970968
Side note the landing page with it's hard gradients and shadows looks like something from the late 2000s when you would buy Mac apps without the App Store
The compression rate seems like a magic. Surprised nobody talks about that point... Signed up for the beta. Really curious about it.
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Totally understand how it might feel that way initially. Rewind is built privacy first. Unlike other cloud-based products, all of the recording data is stored locally on your Mac. It's not accessible to others (or to us as employees). Not only that, but we have the following features focused on privacy: 1. Full control: users can pause and delete recordings at any time 2. Exclude apps: users can exclude specific apps…
> all of the recording data is stored locally on your Mac Actors can easily access data on a local machine, with the necessary tools and desire. Still seems like something that could be accessed and abused.
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> all of the recording data is stored locally on your Mac Actors can easily access data on a local machine, with the necessary tools and desire. Still seems like something that could be accessed and abused.
That could be said of anything one does with a computer. The point is that if it's stored locally YOU have responsiblity over it, rather than trusting to some other party to hopefully protect it (and not sell it or expose it or what-have-you).
Claim: For your privacy, we store all of the recordings locally on your Mac. Only you have access to them. From the docs: > Video data is never sent off your Mac. The only data sent to a cloud service is the audio. We send it to a cloud transcription service in order to generate a transcript of what was said. This transcript is created so you can read it and search for specific words that were said. [1] Yeah, we only…
The reason we wrote that article is to be 100% transparent about what happens to your data. No reading between the lines necessary. The only time this cloud-based transcription is used is during a Zoom meeting, which is already in the cloud. When you join a new Zoom Meeting we prompt you to ask if you want to record & transcribe the audio. You can choose to do this selectively for each meeting, or not record & transc…
In the modern world even the most genuine and honest people can't be trusted on black boxes so such kind of memex while wonderful and potentially useful have a so big safety trade off that's a no-go for me... Personally I do not even live my smartphone near me at home since I consider it a macro-spy tool operated by someone else. I can't do much for in-car stuff since I need cars and can't live on historic one for mere comfort. But more than that is beyond personal Overton window of acceptability...
Anyway, that's a very nice implementation of a very nice idea.
Interesting product. I will take a wait and see approach though because my trust of companies pinky promising not to upload my data, especially when dealing with such invasive data as camera and audio and screen recordings, has been wearing thin of late. I've been recording my desktop on Mac, Windows and Linux, recording audio in my office, including transcription of the audio, and multiple camera capture for over a…