Last.fm is probably the closest thing functionality-wise to what you’re looking for as far as reccomendations go.
You can “scrobble” or log what you’ve listened to or enjoyed from a metric ton of sources, and reccomendations are based off the user community and tagging. Covers popular to underground and everything in between.
Not sure what the whole “federated” part of this adds to anything.
There’s always plenty of garbage on Steam and itch.io
Now that’s what I call shitposting!
That gives me vague ideas for a fun short story: The AI “revolution” has occurred, but due to training data issues it’s all optimizing for some random specific boring schlub. Harold from Oklahoma or something.
Had to argue my case to the transit overseer AI about how me getting to work is vital for Harold’s quality of life again. So fucking demeaning.
Harold posted something to social media 15 years ago about having a bad experience at the restaurant chain I worked at. Overseer shut the while chain down and now we’re all on the run from enforcers that want to kidnap and make us personally apologize to him. I worked on the other side of the country.
Trying to get a new car but all that’s on the market are ridiculous scaled up hotwheels the guy liked as a kid, a shitbox he made teenage memories in, or some generic suburbanite thing that lasted him the longest.
New fashion trend: White t-shirt and green plaid boxers are out, jeans and a grey t-shirt are in!
Depends entirely on the implementation. If it’s wired right into the power line for the camera/mic, then it comes on when power goes to that hardware, but without extra engineering you could just pull off the LED and solder over the gap in the trace/wire.
And I have to apologize, I had forgotten that there are already third party companies advertising services to bypass/disable it on the meta glasses. Have to edit my last comment.
The meta glasses supposedly are designed with a bright led on the front that comes on when the camera or microphone is recording.
Edit: I had forgotten when I wrote this that there are companies already offering services where you can send in your meta glasses and they claim they will somehow disable/bypass the LED indicator.
I’m not sure what you think your threat model is here. I’m not happy about it either, but my place of residence isn’t entirely private information already. I’m pretty certain it’s available through multiple public information sources. Cameras being able to see me in that vicinity might help someone determine my daily habits and schedule, but there are many other ways of that as well.
Again, I’m not happy about it, but I feel like you need to ask yourself what risk you’re trying to protect yourself against here.
As another commenter pointed out, any of the amazon based ones are part of amazon sidewalk and record nearby bluetooth and wifi devices. Sidewalk is also partnering with flock, so that data is available to law enforcement and possibly corporations that use flock for security to be able to use for advertisement.
But so is your phone’s location data.
So if you’re trying to protect against this sort of thing, you’d need to be taking much more extreme steps. Different dogs at different times with entirely different outfits and rocks in shoes to make different gaits. Face coverings. Multiple burner phones not tied to your identity, and only taken out of farady bags to use in association with different identities.
And then it still would all tie back to the same house/general vicinity.
There’s no perfect privacy options, so you need to identify your threat model. What are you trying to protect against, how important is it, what are the quantifiable risks of failure, and how inconvenienced are you willing to be to achieve this.
It sucks. I’m not happy about it. But you can’t stop your neighbors from using them. So you’ll need to accept it, or come up with alternatives. Feel like moving to someplace more rural?
It’s always going to be a balance.
Why bother with creative writing drawing more subtle parallels between fantasy and reality that might be more effective in changing hearts and minds, when you can just point at real things and go “bad thing is bad”.
Anyone who already has a clue gets to go “hahaha bad thing bad they’re so right” and people who don’t just get bounced off the show so there’s no chance to get them to think about things.
Got a coworker where his sinuses just built up again or something after a few years and his doctor told him he’d have to have it done again. Best of luck to you.
It would be lovely if everyone took the time to explain that as nicely as you. Thanks!
It’s not nearly as present in discourse as it used to be, but it wasn’t too long ago that it felt like so many people had internalized the idea that saying “all lives matter” was 100%, no room for nuance, a dogwhistle for racist people who somehow really meant “white lives are the only lives that matter”. Maybe it was for some racist assholes.
I just felt like focusing on any one skin color was limiting. I wasn’t against BLM, I wanted even more!
I have a hard time believing this isn’t a shitpost project.
There’s no need for them to go fishing when they’ve got more incriminating shit from lemmy data for free. Community subscriptions and even up and downvotes on lemmy aren’t private.
You’ve critically misunderstood my post, and a few seconds looking over my previous posts and comments would make it abundantly clear that I speak/write English. To make things crystal: It’s my first language. No machine translation has been used.
Almost all of your posts, especially the titles and the display name of the community you made, use emojis in ways very similar to output from LLMs. In ways that I honestly have never seen an actual human do, unless they were doing something fucky like trying to game youtube video titles for higher views.
They are very long winded while not saying a ton, and have some questionable turns of phrase. “Mother tongue” is an immediately present one I can point to. It’s not wrong, but quite less commonly used than “first language”.
They match up with a pattern seen in other posters that used to spam up other free software communities on the fediverse using LLMs and machine translation.
You have a ton of posts with very few comments, which also matches with spammers.
I’d suggest that the large amount of downvotes this post received, as well as the upvotes my comment received, indicate that I’m not the only one who had this assumption about your post.
I spoke of privacy because I assumed you had privacy concerns. This community is on the infosec.pub instance, and cybersecurity and digital privacy tend to be a focus of posters here.
Also, I didn’t think that someone would refuse to use a bug tracker entirely as a boycott of the company hosting it. That’s extreme. At that level of “acting purely on the principal of things” than you really should make peace with not being able to use or interact with projects hosted on github, instead of looking for some way to make an end-run around the dev’s preferred bug tracking chanmel.
Regarding my suggestions of workaraounds?
Those were for your benefit. I’m not the one who clearly refuses to use github and has strong opinions about it.
I’m not surprised by the fact that devs have different priorities. And they’re allowed to.
whether it was a brain malfunction or technical.
That sort of attitude, as well as the one demonstrated up and down your comment, are a big part of why people find people who treat FOSS as a religion objectionable.
That is not the “best” you can do. It’s the least you can do.
My point was that, as you seem to be aware through experience, you can’t make other devs abide by your own principles.
Go do it the right way yourself, demonstrate it works better. Keep doing that. The more projects doing things the right way, the more momentum will shift away from github being seen as the easy standard.
Anyway, especially with this response, it seems clear that you weren’t posting looking for any options, you were posting to complain about other people “doing it wrong”. You already know there’s no way to force devs off Github, by your own admission.
Don’t bother responding further on my account. I have no interest in arguing about this sort of shit and I’ll be blocking you.
I’ll say it again: You’d get more engagement if you laid off your odd usage of emoji. It screams LLM output.
Using an LLM to slop out your post in a FOSS community is a bold choice.
Beyond that, there are plenty of ways to engage with github while protecting your personal privacy. You can use a throwaway email address to make an issue on github asking them to migrate to a better alternative. You could email them directly by grabbing their email from the merge logs (if I recall right, I haven’t worked with github in a while).
You could contact them on other socials they list. Usually those also aren’t privacy respecting or FOSS, but it’s something.
The best any of us can do is to not use github ourselves for our own projects. If enough projects are elsewhere it can just be normalized away from github.
It’s stupid to assume these people know that Trump said the same thing. There are a shocking amount of his “supporters” who don’t follow what he’s spewing on social media, so this sort of shit appears to them like complete non-sequiteur insanity.
Instead of this childish “Then what about Trump?” response, just link them to the Trump tweet and be direct. "This is literally what Trump posted about someone else with the name swapped out. (LINK)”
Lol, you don’t. There’s a whole bunch of reasons they enjoy Facebook that you can’t replicate outside of it with privacy respecting social media. Mainly, all their friends and other pages they interact with already on Facebook.
This is a pretty frequent question in privacy spaces. The best you can do is manage your own, and maybe talk to them about the risks. Maybe. If they’re open to it.
… maybe? It’s “anger powered jet packs” from an ancient meme image that I’m not sure the source of: 
Oof, I always forget about that last one.
Lol, I’ve just had an ex where we constantly tried to find ways to make our sex better.
Initially connect when the target isn’t home, as a number of speakers make a distinct “startup” noise when a device connects.
After that, bear in mind that most bluetooth speakers have a small delay before they play audio, and this often means that the first second or so of audio will be cut off. Unless you use another app to keep a constant silent noise playing. The silence being sent as audio to play effectively “warms up” the speaker so the cut off portion is during the silence, not the actual noise you want. Some speakers need this silence to be infintessimally quiet static, as they’ll just drop pure silence. Pretty sure there’s an app on F-Droid for this.
You wouldn’t want your friend to only hear part of the chirp after all.
Also, most devices with a screen have a way to display the name of what device is connected. This especially applies to casting to screens. Name your phone something generic for safety.