@otter@lemmy.ca

otter

@otter@lemmy.ca

I waddled onto the beach and stole found a computer to use.

🍁⚕️ 💽

Note: I’m moderating a handful of communities in more of a caretaker role. If you want to take one on, send me a message and I’ll share more info :)

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otter, (edited )

Sorry for the bite. Couldn’t wait.

Most of my food photos end up half eaten

otter, (edited )

Yea I didn’t know internet dashcams like the above existed, sounds like it would be expensive to get the same benefits out of it. A dashcam should work like a blackbox, it can’t lose data during a collision. The data should be easily accessible and not locked behind some proprietary format.

I’ve heard Garmin recommended for watches, maybe similar for dashcams? But again, like others are saying, most brands should probably be ok

Better to look for other factors like tolerance to shake/temperature or video quality in poor conditions (darkness, fog, glare)

otter,

I’m sitting on the bus giggling at this

The elephants face lol

Scam Numbers - Reddit's (and possibly the internet's) largest scam number depository, now on Lemmy! (lemmy.zip)

With almost 40k subscribers on Reddit, r/ScamNumbers is one of the most useful online databases for tracking down scam phone numbers. Some use the information for awareness, while others take advantage by prank calling scammers to waste their time....

otter, (edited )

Welcome! Consider sharing on !communityPromo

Also these are a universal links and they makes it easier for people to subscribe from other instances

  • !scamnumbers (simplest, but some apps don’t support it)
  • link (more complicated and requires someone to be on Lemmy when viewing the link)

Otherwise people can use something like the instance assistant browser extension

otter,

Maybe some here?

lemmyverse.net/communities?query=Watches

otter,

Try to not trade our current infective diseases with whatever future disease they might have carried back

otter,

Looks fun! Subscribed to stay updated

Are you making the questions or is it on the instances to make them?

otter,

Oh cool, even better :)

otter,

What are some missing features? I’m only familiar with jellyfin

otter,

Didn’t know about findroid, looks cool

I’ll probably keep both installed

otter,

Lol every time

I know it’s just psychology (and any resource reallocation that happens when task manager opens) but it’s still funny

otter, (edited )

::: spoiler spoiler, try the link first The giant text makes it even better ::::

otter,

Cool!

Alternate link because some apps don’t support those links yet: LINK

Also considering promoting the community on !communitypromo

otter,

I wonder why this didn’t happen

Was Netflix being too greedy?

otter,

it’s just about reading their implementation and providing an alternative implementation that doesn’t copy code…

That sounds difficult though. Didn’t companies have to set up ethics walls to protect against lawsuits for things like that?

otter, (edited )

What are you talking about?

Ah the term I was looking for was “clean room”

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_room_design

See the bit about examples and IBM. While you could probably look, the easiest way to defend against a giant tech company’s legal team is to do the clean room setup

otter,

Someone needs to go through and add inline images to each of these

The Irish government wants to pass a law that could see you or your loved ones jailed for possession of memes, cartoons or any content that could be deemed "hateful".

The Bill includes no definition of hate and is wide open to abuse by bad actors. Defend free speech – say no to this legislation, and any legislation of is kind… Anywhere!...

otter, (edited )

Cleaned and redirected link

nitter.net/FreeSpeechIre/…/1746854766032846910

Still, the news link below is probably a better source. I don’t know what ‘FreeSpeechIre’ is

otter, (edited )

There’s a potential for abuse with paying for donations (not saying it should never be done):

  • risk of unsafe blood supplies if people lie about their health history in order to be able to sell their blood
  • ethical concerns around exploiting financially vulnerable people, and turning a life-saving act into another commercial transaction
    • In areas where those vulnerable people aren’t protected by the legal system, there’s also the potential of OTHER people “harvesting” and selling the blood

Voluntary and altruistic donations are best, and ideally those values are maintained all the way through the donation process. Hopefully technology continues to improve so that we can support those donations with synthesized alternatives

I believe we’ve had some discussion around this in Canada recently, specifically with donations for plasma. I’m not caught up on it to comment further about it

otter, (edited )

Yep, also the ads don’t get initialized at all if the user buys the ad-free version (going to top all in the Lemmy Boost community should bring up the post about it). It’s relatively cheap and the dev is very active with bugs and requests. The dev is developing for the Fediverse and I’m happy to support that (as well as devs for Sync, Connect, Lemmy, etc.)

I like Boost and paid for ad-Free, but a lot of other clients should work for your needs. While they might not be privacy focussed, many are open source so you can check what is going on.

My preference goes

  • Boost (not FOSS, one time payment to remove ads)
  • Connect (not FOSS, ad free)
  • Eternity (FOSS & ad free)

I uninstalled the other ones and haven’t kept up with them. There may be better ones out there, these are the ones I’m keeping up with

otter, (edited )

Yes I know, a few months ago a post with the exact same title was shared […]

I think reposting after 7+ months is more than ok regardless :)

otter,

I’ve used HTTrack in the past

It worked well for the websites that I tried it on and it’s pretty easy to run. You could give it a go?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTrack

otter, (edited )

I’m not familiar with the companies mentioned, but have you tried talking to the doctor or the clinic? They may be able to provide you with better guidance, or tell you about other machines that are compatible with your treatment plan. Even if they don’t know about the privacy aspect, that might give you a shorter list to follow up on.

My guess (or hope) is that this is the option that the average person finds convenient, which is why the doctor recommended it. There should be other options that the doctor / clinic knows about, especially because an IOT CPAP machine is a fairly new thing.

Doctors modify treatment plans fairly often, even for things like patient comfort, and bringing this concern to their attention could also change what they recommend to future patients.

Personal thoughts unrelated to your case: This is a growing concern with healthcare technology and I think we need more attention on the harms. “Your insurance company will use it against you” is something that most people will understand.

otter,

Isn’t that how the game works? You buy everything from the bank, but at least the bank doesn’t take advantage of that monopoly

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