I mean, if you’re confident about security best practices, have a moderate amount of networking experience, and are a seasoned web developer, it’s not too scary at all. I realize that’s a lot of prerequisites though.
it’s not a fair comparison with Google because Google has a much bigger target on their back. There are millions of users of Google, so the value of hacking Google is very high. The value of hacking a random Immich instance is extremely low.
from my understanding of educational outcomes, the BIGGEST factor in a child’s success in school is their home life. At least for K-12. Multiple studies come to this conclusion.
Obviously “home life” encompasses many things like parental involvement, stability of family relationships, socioeconomic status, etc. And it’s not the only factor of course.
So the question is hardly uncalled for IMO. Could have been worded in a less accusatory tone though! The person was pretty rude.
not even moral decline! I’d personally feel like a fraud every day if I “made it“ by using 5 different _unnecessary_ accommodations. Where is the satisfaction in that?
I’m a slow reader. Do i have a disability? Who cares - i can still read well and did OK at school, that’s all that matters.
People that game the system in this way are basically frauds. They take resources that are intended to benefit people that ARE struggling with basic life skills in some way.
i remember being woken up at 3am by him vomiting in the middle of the room. In the morning he used my swiffer to clean up his vomit. I told him to keep the swiffer .
On the bright side, i met my spouse and we’ve been together for 10+ years so not all bad lol.
Yeah fair fair. It's high variance. My roommate once had a bunch of his highschool friends over for a weekend and one of them sleep-peed onto my roommate's stack of books.
hyphen + space in microsoft word will often (depends on your settings) produce an em dash. It’s not some crazy hidden feature.
These days word is less popular though, with google docs, pages, and other editors taking pieces of the pie. Maybe that’s where the skepticism comes from.
- you are in a high crime area. footage can be useful to police.
- you have a babysitter or nanny for a young child, and want to deter unethical / wrongful behavior.
- you have a pet that you leave at home for parts of the day, and want to keep an eye on them. to “check in” while on the go.
- you have an elderly family member and don’t live nearby, and want to be able to quickly see if they’ve fallen. for example if they call you daily and suddenly aren’t answering their phone. Good peace of mind.
- pointing a camera at the stovetop can be useful to solve the age old question “did i forget to turn the stove off?”
- pointing a camera out the window to see something fun. For example birds, deer, squirrels, etc.
That’s just what i could think of in 2 minutes. I’m sure there are other use cases.
i think practically all of these hypotheticals can be addressed without signing over your in-home privacy to a third party who doesn't consider IT security a top priority though.
I hear you. But for a normal consumer who’s afraid of technology? Doubt it.
As a nerd I can easily set up some webcams on my wifi, place them on a firewalled IOT vlan, and securely expose them through the ios home app (with HomeAssistant)…and call it a day.
But your average person has no clue how to do that, or anything similar…nor do they care. Sad but true.
Based on your comment it sounds like you rarely travel (booking hotel / flights online), don’t have mobility issues (ordering groceries / household essentials online), don’t participate in online banking (do you write checks? carry cash with you all the time? go to an ATM weekly?), you don’t stream movies or tv shows, and you enjoy looking for apartments to rent in your local newspaper listing, and you enjoy using paper maps when traveling around the city and world. I could go on…
literally everything useful works on the business internet. Also how do you think local businesses near you operate? They don’t call each like the 1900s lol. They order stock from distributors, some local and some overseas. Often they are doing this on the business internet. Today’s global supply chain makes this a non-starter.
It’s OK if YOU personally prefer doing everything slowly and in person and don’t value the convenience of the business internet. No judgment. But don’t pretend this would be an easy transition at all. Or that most people would prefer to live that way.
IMO it would make _way_ more sense to introduce reasonable privacy regulations that are better thought out than GDPR and have proper enforcement.
Maybe a formal “community” version of the internet would be appropriate as well.
>you rarely travel (booking hotel / flights online)
Yes, and I really dislike traveling when I have to. I personally wish that air travel would become unaffordable for most people, including myself.
>don’t have mobility issues (ordering groceries / household essentials online)
No, but mobility issues existed before the modern internet.
>don’t participate in online banking (do you write checks? carry cash with you all the time? go to an ATM weekly?)
I do online banking, but I also write checks and use cash. I don't use Venmo or similar services. Once I can get ahead of my chores & projects I'm thinking about getting a local branch at a credit union and totally avoiding a banking app on my smart phone.
>you don’t stream movies or tv shows
Sometimes, but I'm getting away from it. Interestingly I'm getting a blank screen (but there's still audio) when attempting to stream on Linux. I haven't fully researched it, but some preliminary research suggests that it's anti-Linux blocking. (at least one user reported the problem went away -- in a repeatable fashion -- when switching their use agent to Windows) So although this is not confirmed, I'm preparing for a time when this is unavoidable and I won't stream movies or TV whatsoever at that point.
> and you enjoy looking for apartments to rent in your local newspaper listing
Don't see anything wrong with this. I would actually argue that you don't need authentication in the way discussed in this conversation for this, though -- all you need is the listing, which can be totally anonymous. The actual application for the apartment can happen in person, and that's when verification needs to occur.
>you enjoy using paper maps when traveling around the city and world.
I use an old-fashioned GPS in my car that I paid well over $100 for a number of years ago. There's no tracking whatsoever, unlike the GPS used in a smart phone.
>literally everything useful works on the business internet.
>Also how do you think local businesses near you operate? They don’t call each like the 1900s lol. They order stock from distributors, some local and some overseas
Except we did fine for most of human history before all this. And I'm sure there were no such think as stock orders or warehouses or supply chains before the modern internet. They cropped up over night the moment the first tracking cookie existed. /s
it’s not a fair comparison with Google because Google has a much bigger target on their back. There are millions of users of Google, so the value of hacking Google is very high. The value of hacking a random Immich instance is extremely low.
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