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Facebook is asking to use Meta AI on photos in your camera roll you haven’t yet shared

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A smartphone notification screen prompts the user to allow cloud processing for personalized creative ideas based on their camera roll. The screen features a mix of images, including a view of the Eiffel Tower, a person in colorful clothing, and food. Options for allowing or
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JustOneMoreCat ,

Meta apps / "services" are spyware and social engineering and they're barely trying to hide it at this point. TBH they could say it out loud and like 1% of people would delete the apps

JustOneMoreCat ,

Not so much help but hope: I got rid of Windows 11 and switched fully to Linux Mint a few weeks ago. I had no idea what I was doing but I tested things on USB and also on a very old laptop I had laying around before I made it my daily driver.

I'm not particularly a tech person. I own a small creative business and have a toddler, but I figured out what I needed to quickly. I don't game and didnt use Winsows exclusive software so have no opinions about that.

What I didn't expect: to actually be genuinely interested in my computer again for the first time since I was a teenager (which was not recent...). I love customizing my desktop. I love discovering new open source software. I'm learning more than I expected and it's just a totally different relationship with the tech I use every day, in a nice way. And no more BS ads / bloat when I'm just trying to exist on my computer.

Best place for a community alternative to Facebook group?

I admin a Facebook group with just about 30k people in it. It used to be great, and over the past few years the enshittification has been too much. Lately there is an out of control Facebook AI bot posting constantly pissing everyone off that we can't seem to turn off. I only use FB for the group, and don't have their spyware - ...

JustOneMoreCat OP ,

Maybe I haven't given it a super fair chance, but I was not impressed with Friendica. I only tried it on the webapp, but the interface was just depressing and not super intuitive. I keep hearing it's a good substitute for FB but it needs some work before I would feel comfortable recommending that to people

JustOneMoreCat OP ,

I'd rather keep it part of a bigger social network where people can interact with it as needed while doing other social stuff. Plus I know most people won't leave FB for it, and getting new different people involved would be nice. Just a bonus if people move to the Fediverse to see it and realize there's more to explore.

JustOneMoreCat OP ,

That's interesting (a little chaotic with the different sized images but still). I've been using Interstellar for Piefed and it apparently doesn't support that, so I had no idea

JustOneMoreCat OP ,

You should be able to "archive" a group as admin, which essentially shuts it down. I haven't tried but I've seen it happen in other groups. And yeah, it's really disturbing what people will accept from FB for the sake of inertia and comfort. I've told a couple friends about Meta using the localhost loophole for tracking and recommended they delete the apps and just use the web version if they need to, and they all still have the apps. Who even needs privacy, right? Sigh

JustOneMoreCat OP ,

I just took a peek and you're right. But there is an option to "pause" a group, I didn't explore enough to see if it could be permanent. The rule that you can only delete a group when it has no members is absurd, wtf

JustOneMoreCat OP ,

I had a bad feeling that dual booting wouldn't be the seamless thing I hoped for. I have an old Mac laptop I might try installing on to see how I like it and decide if I'm just gonna wipe Windows entirely.

It's incredible how shit Windows is and everyone just accepts it. It shows me ads on my lock screen FFS (and I know how to disable that cuz I've done it three times now and they keep coming back like a horror movie monster you didn't behead).

JustOneMoreCat OP ,

This. I had to do my attempted Linux install while my kid was napping in like my 30 mins of free time I get a day if I'm lucky

JustOneMoreCat OP ,

I'll check it out, thx!

JustOneMoreCat OP ,

Interesting, what distro did you end up using?

JustOneMoreCat ,

I'd be overwhelmed and convinced someone hates me again within two months but man does that sound nice

JustOneMoreCat ,

Thing is people really don't know what brains look like or the force that would be required to crack the skull. I don't think a deer is capable of it.

BUT it very well could have cracked an antler and busted open a good wound and left a bloody mess that you might assume were brains.

But also this sounds like total BS.

JustOneMoreCat ,

Nope, gross. I was already considering cancelling my subscription, so this makes my decision easier.

JustOneMoreCat ,

And somehow they're gonna go home thinking they're heros.

JustOneMoreCat ,

I know someone who is trying to get their young kid evaluated and potentially diagnosed and now they're having second thoughts. I don't know how they're putting this registry together but I wouldn't want my kid on it

JustOneMoreCat OP ,

Thanks, we're in the US and use a small local ISP that just serves our general area. I keep this account anonymous so wouldn't give specifics.

hAP ac² router, belongs to the ISP. Unfortunately I don't have an Ethernet cable handy to test with at the moment.

Our WiFi hasn't come back yet so I'm probably an hour away from a really awkward phone call 😮‍💨

JustOneMoreCat OP , (edited )

Oh! I just realized we have a Yolink hub connected to Ethernet, and it's online. So yes, Ethernet is working and WiFi came back online after a router reset. Now I just need to figure out how to make sure this doesn't happen again....

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    JustOneMoreCat ,

    We were told it was not optional coming home from an international flight last month. However, our toddler was with us and nervous and they said we could opt out for him. I said great, thanks. Picked him up while we were talking and I wasn't really thinking about where I was holding him. The agent looked over, smiled and said hi to get their attention, and I saw him take the image, seconds after we verbally opted out. Sigh.

    JustOneMoreCat ,

    I'm an exvangelical atheist and I do find myself wishing this whole administration would go rot in hell, so I guess you could say in some small way they've brought religion back to my life.

    But seriously, this is fucked.

    JustOneMoreCat ,

    There really is no rock bottom for how fucked this situation is, is there?

    JustOneMoreCat ,

    I used to have a few of them. Everyone who saw them thought they were diseased, but they were just my cute mini vultures to me 🤣

    JustOneMoreCat ,

    So people are supposed to get excited about voluntarily scanning their eyeballs and giving the data to a private company to prove that they're a human, to theoretically protect themselves from AI imposters generated by... The same dude's other company. And people are actually doing it because crypto bribes.

    Goddamnit, Black Mirror is supposed to be a cautionary tale, not aspirational. I'm so tired.

    JustOneMoreCat ,

    No food individually "causes" obesity and health issues. Overuse of some foods can. If we want people to be healthier, maybe we should offer free accessible cooking classes, or (gasp) not put people in the position where they have to work so much to pay the bills they don't have time to prepare healthy food.

    All this does is punish people who are already in shit circumstances. Maybe they want a treat for their kid, maybe they want to have a fun movie night, maybe it's none of your business?

    JustOneMoreCat ,

    Yeah its not like our bodies need sugars for so much critical functionality that we evolved a reward system for eating it /s

    JustOneMoreCat ,

    This is the corect answer

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    JustOneMoreCat ,

    I don't believe in angry spirits with unfinished business destroying the lives of those who caused them harm until they also die and are tormented for eternity, but if evidence arises for such things they have my full support

    JustOneMoreCat ,

    Pink cupcakes with green frosting. The color scheme began when we made strawberry cupcakes and our toddler asked to make the frosting green "like a leaf" so the whole cupcake looked like a strawberry. Now regardless of the flavors, he always wants those colors. I think it's great 🤣

    JustOneMoreCat ,

    I feel so bad for anyone who lives there through no choice of their own

    JustOneMoreCat ,

    Sorry to inform you this is real, we apparently are in the timeline where The Onion became reality

    JustOneMoreCat ,

    Damn you have some good nurses. In my liberal area the best they did was mention that it's optional (literally some people think it's not). We also have liberal relatives who did it to their son just so he'd "look like dad." Wtf

    JustOneMoreCat OP ,

    One of these days I'll have the bandwidth to learn about self-hosting. It seems like there's some real benefits and cool stuff out there. For now, I have a toddler taking up most of said bandwidth as well as copious amounts of photo space 😅

    JustOneMoreCat OP ,

    Is raspberry pi pretty easy to set up? Or if you were starting over would you go with something else? I have a windows laptop and an android phone, so that's the extent of what I'm familiar with so far. But Immich does look so promising!

    JustOneMoreCat OP ,

    Link looks awesome, thanks! Do you also keep a separate cloud backup of your photos in case your server is damaged (like in a disaster or something)?

    JustOneMoreCat OP ,

    I've seen them recommended before and had been wondering about finding a trusted server to have it hosted. I'll check out Hetzner, thx!

    JustOneMoreCat ,

    Once I bounced a check to our water company and they refused to take checks or credit cards from me for a YEAR as a punishment. It was a one-time accident after paying on time for around seven years. I literally had to drive my ass down there with cash. It's a small rural water service, not a big corporation - they chose to be complete assholes even after I explained the situation (we had a baby that month and forgot a monthly $ transfer in the chaos).

    Same mistake probably cost us $120 in overdraft fees. Society financially punishes people who need money the most and rewards the people who have plenty. It's ridiculous.

    JustOneMoreCat ,

    These things have been on my mind recently too, about public photos in general. I recently learned that you can scrub metadata from photos by messaging them to yourself on Signal first, so I've started doing that for photos I share online. Otherwise I just try to avoid identifying information and ask myself if I really want this to be public for eternity.

    Also make sure if you don't want to be identified, you're posting through an account that you use to remain anonymous. So don't reuse your username, have your personal email connected to the account, etc. Or post things that could be tied to you / your location using the same account.

    JustOneMoreCat ,

    Whoa... Your cat is basically identical to our gray girl. Who also hides in our bedroom to avoid everyone 90% of the day.