Truscape

Well dang! I was thinking it would be someone else, but that’ll do.

A domain that isn’t hotly contested (basically anything over 10-12 characters), usually goes for under 8 USD a year. So probably wouldn’t jump up that much.

Fair - although there have been plenty of accidents along the way.

Considering we have people who won’t live to see the consequences of their actions in office however, I’m not very optimistic about brinksmanship dying out.

The wireless communication protocol will still be able to be intercepted. A physical port for data transfer will probably be too dangerous to the subject and prone to contamination (and infection).

Aurora should actually say in the description of the installation/update screen if the app requires google play services or any telemetry at all (or for that matter, google sign in).

Yeah, but the issue is intent and actual usage. I don’t want to fuck up my neck by always looking down at a 30deg angle, so I do try to view things on my phone more level with my face. I avoid pointing it directly at people, but I can’t change how others would interpret that.

Shoot, I should 3d print one for mine. I don’t use my camera for much anyway, and better protection from impacts would be nice.

Green light!

Nothing personal, but those glasses are going to come off your face and straight onto the asphalt when I get the notification.

Don’t buy meta shit.

Hmm… I wonder if there’s any solid way to detect a camera lens being in active focus or use. This app works by parsing Bluetooth traffic, but a person locally recording on their phone wouldn’t have such a trail. Is there any reliable way to detect a camera lens reading exposed light?

“I solve practical problems!”

“Don’t do meta, kids.”

Higher education =/= tech literacy, as any enterprise IT worker can tell you.

Plausible deniability is the name of the game, or as my lawyer relative would put it - “without the letter of the law (and hard evidence) on your side, don’t bother pursuing based on the spirit, no matter how blatant.”

From a databroker (legitimate or not), your entire identity goes for less than 5 bucks in a bundle with others.

The multiple layers of redundancy would likely clash with Adnauseum, yeah. Although that probably is just wasted compute - you may only need one or two of those solutions to have effective adblocking (uBlock for supported browsers, pi.hole for devices unable to have uBlock installed) rather than all 3 at once.

All clicks are performed in an isolated sandbox separate from the user area (basically imagine the click register signal going out, but nothing more).