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Ya, they offer some perks for sure, but the downsides seems pretty steep. Sadly the self hosted smart home community is very much an enthusiast items with programs like OpenHab and Home Assistant still being based heavily around server speak and coding.

The tree fell on a road during

It is a beautiful day here! Probably not too far from your local weather here in PA today.

Amazon has been under fire as of late after a report showed that they are not requiring a warrant to allow law enforcement unrestricted access to a user’s camera system as long as the access is deemed “an emergency”. Recently, Google has been noted to have a privacy policy that also allows this access if law enforcement asks for emergency access as well. Other tech companies, like Apple, have stood against these types of access and only provide this access if law enforcement has a warrant. Once a warrant is involved, companies are legally required to comply with the access request and while many have tried to fight this with end-to-end encryption and removing user data from their servers, the overall tech community generally does follow the warrant orders. While many users are okay with warranted access, the emergency access that Amazon and Google are offering has little in terms of limits and description on what is an “emergency”. However, it should be noted that other big tech companies have made public statements stating that they will not release user information without a warrant, but most of them have at some point allowed access to their users’ data without such a warrant. With Apple allowing emergency access in the past and Anker’s “end-to-end” video encryption being leaked from their servers. The concern to these requests is that groups have found many ways to basically use these emergency requests to access user data illegally. Both Apple and Meta (Facebook) have not only fallen for these attacks, but the attackers were able to successfully access the private data they requested. We recommend running a self-hosted security system if you do not want big tech accessing your household and you can check out our forums for user help if need be. View full article

Amazon has been under fire as of late after a report showed that they are not requiring a warrant to allow law enforcement unrestricted access to a user’s camera system as long as the access is deemed “an emergency”. Recently, Google has been noted to have a privacy policy that also allows this access if law enforcement asks for emergency access as well. Other tech companies, like Apple, have stood against these types of access and only provide this access if law enforcement has a warrant. Once a warrant is involved, companies are legally required to comply with the access request and while many have tried to fight this with end-to-end encryption and removing user data from their servers, the overall tech community generally does follow the warrant orders. While many users are okay with warranted access, the emergency access that Amazon and Google are offering has little in terms of limits and description on what is an “emergency”. However, it should be noted that other big tech companies have made public statements stating that they will not release user information without a warrant, but most of them have at some point allowed access to their users’ data without such a warrant. With Apple allowing emergency access in the past and Anker’s “end-to-end” video encryption being leaked from their servers. The concern to these requests is that groups have found many ways to basically use these emergency requests to access user data illegally. Both Apple and Meta (Facebook) have not only fallen for these attacks, but the attackers were able to successfully access the private data they requested. We recommend running a self-hosted security system if you do not want big tech accessing your household and you can check out our forums for user help if need be.

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Some double rainbows and most were pretty faint as @Kyng stated. Over wise I normally miss them completely.

Doing well today! Yourself? @Paige Where you going for vacation?

I can't even tell you how many times my stick figures would have non-connected arms and legs and all I needed to do was cross straight lines lol 😅

There are many creators pointing out that YouTube has been pushing mainstream content over creator content to its users and many claim that is happening contrary to what those users are subbed to and looking for. The question is, do you believe YouTube is pushing smaller channels down to promote mainstream media and such? There was a recent video posted by Shadiversity (although you can find many others) explaining the issues:

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I still buy it quite a bit as I run a Plex server for myself, but I do feel like I am in the minority anymore.

It is actually funny on how much you pick up by actually reading what they are saying. I agree with this, although it is pretty rare that a good dubbed anime drops. Hopefully this will be changing with Netflix and such getting involved, but you never know.

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I like were Firefox sits for the most part. It blocks very invasive items and lets minor stuff past. I really don't mind banner ads and such, but popups and those crazy things that just fill the website page drive me insane. Otherwise I don't use any third party ad blockers as they do tend to block things that are needed at times. Plus if a site is all ads, I just use a different site anymore.

How is everyone's day going today?

That is certainly a concern when a multi business owner takes over a database of user information.

Check out our master list of social media tools here. There is a huge market for these tools anymore.

That is an uncommon thing to see anymore. Although most days I feel like not having a phone would be for the best.

Making it fun is the most important part! I always tell people to start doing what they enjoy and then build from that.

This is my biggest issue with diets. They need to be long term plans that are healthy for your body, not just a shock to it that often results in missing nutrients.