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Do you think people would be okay with 'Recall' if Apple did it? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

I guess there is a chance to see some of code, but I doubt about it being properly open sourced.

While we’re publishing the binary images of every production PCC build, to further aid research we will periodically also publish a subset of the security-critical PCC source code.

Source: https://security.apple.com/blog/private-cloud-compute/

Do you think people would be okay with 'Recall' if Apple did it? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 47 points 3 weeks ago (16 children)

Apple's PR is better. With Microsoft all news titles were like "OMG Windows will take screenshots of all you do and send it to AI", and with Apple it's more like "Apple is carefully adding AI to their products, respecting user privacy as they always have been".

Of course, when one looks into technical details they would find that MS Recall is strictly local and runs only on special hardware that people don't even have yet.

Apple Intelligence does send your data to cloud and scans everything you have in Apple ecosystem, not just screenshots. Of course they say it's done in very privacy respecting ways, and provide a lot of technical information to back this claim. But at the end it's closed source and is subject to change at any time.

Having said that, Apple users are used to and value that Apple magically takes care of everything, so they are happy to pay premium for Apple's products whatever the company does.

World-first tooth-regrowing drug will be given to humans in September in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Natural teeth roots promote bone regeneration around them, while implants don't. Therefore bone loss with age is worse around implants

Does self-hosted VPN make sense? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Yay, I can get some targeted ads about data center hardware!

Does self-hosted VPN make sense? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Mullvad has a feature to add random noise into traffic patterns, actually

Does self-hosted VPN make sense? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

This is a good point. Maybe setting up a VPN at home would the good option for when I'm on the go

Does self-hosted VPN make sense? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Thanks for the suggestion, but anonymity is not my goal with VPN. I known about tor etc, and it is not working well for everyday web surfing

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Does self-hosted VPN make sense? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hey all,

I've been using a commercial VPN for years on my mobile devices and home PCs. Recently I've started to use Tailscale and realized I can easily create a self-hosted VPN on a cheap VPS with unlimited traffic.

But I'm not really sure if that's what I need. BTW, I'm not doing anything dangerous, no torrents, no illegal stuff, no journalism or whistleblowing, not even looking up abortion clinics. I just hate mass surveillance and I don't want to be constantly profiled.

Commercial VPN allows to "hide in a crowd" by sharing IP with thousands of other clients. But there are a few issues:

Often sites blacklist VPN IPs, so I can't get in or pass captcha
Performance is not very good
I have to trust VPN to not keep the logs and not sell data. I used Mullvad and they are considered reliable, but you never know until it's too late

With self-hosted VPN, I'm losing benefit of "hiding in crowd" as my VPN will be used only by me and maybe a couple of other people. My understanding is that my VPS outgoing traffic is from static server IP. So if I login to Facebook once, the address is associated with me. I'll also have to trust VPS provider to not analyze my traffic and sell it. On other hand, I'm still protected from my ISP spying, from exposing my real IP address to web sites, from dangers of public WiFi networks. And I might get better performance for about the same price.

What's your take on VPNs? Tell me if you are using self-hosted VPN and why.

Privacy respecting location tracking without phone in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

I'm probably being overprotective. However, teachers have a lot of kids to watch over. My kid would probably not go adventuring on their own, but we cannot rule out a kidnapper or some natural emergency situation.

Privacy respecting location tracking without phone in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This looks interesting. But the only pre-built hardware option they have on the list, Nano G1 Explorer, is way too big for a little kid. But I may get it for adult family members for emergency situations.

Privacy respecting location tracking without phone in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I've heard good opinions about Garmin before, but that was in context of navigation and fitness tracking. Would it work for my use case, tracking a family member?

Privacy respecting location tracking without phone in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

I'll check that one out, thanks!

Privacy respecting location tracking without phone in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Do I need to have an iPhone to use an AirTag?

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Privacy respecting location tracking without phone (lemm.ee)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hey all,

I'm looking for something that can track location of my preschooler who starts new school soon. He's too young to get a smartphone, so I have to rule out app based solutions I guess.

My initial research found virtually nothing. One candidate is GeoZilla, which sells nice devices and their pivacy policy looks okayish regarding location data, but it still relies on their servers of course. Another option would be an iWatch, which again puts trust into 3rd party, and the device is quite expensive for a small kid.

Any privacy-oriented trackers out there that I'm missing. Maybe there are some smartphone alternatives that can have cell connectivity and GPS and apps installed, but with much simpler interface?

Update: Thanks everyone! I got GeoZilla tag for now. The app doesn't require personal information, which is good. However, it's annoyingly reminds to enable location for itself to track "me", which I don't need at all. Garmin came as a strong second, mainly due to my child age. Garmin devices are not for very young kids, I believe. And it costs more than GeoZilla. I still have some time to think if I really want this, though. It's not too late to return GeoZilla tag

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