HeartyBeast

If the police lose, you really lose

The technology is magnifying the flaws in capitalism

Go on ….

So, what are the **specific ** privacy problems with Apple Maps?

The two things are orthogonal

Fair enough.

If your concern is privacy, do you have a particular problem with Apple Maps?

If your concern is privacy, do you have a particular problem with Apple Maps?

My view is that Reddit has personally identifiable data but the data that is being licensed to Google, isn’t personally identifiable because the username by itself is insufficient to identify a person, without the additional data that Reddit isn’t passing over.

But I agree I may well be surprised by a DPA decision.

It will reveal the username, not the identity of the author. If I tell you my Reddit username, what do you know about me?

True, however I assume that Reddit is supplying Google with just the text. So, yes Reddit is collecting lots of PII, but that’s not what is going to Google to deduce it - unless you dox yourself in the text.

Not trying to be deliberately argumentative, just thinking this though, much as I dislike Reddit, the case feels weak

While it is clearly a shitty move, it’s not really clear to me that posts on Reddit consist of personally identifying information as protected by the GDPR.

Render distance would be reduced requiring us to come up with plausible theories to account for the fact that there is a limit to the size of the so-called ‘observable universe’

Get out of here with your nuanced take. Where do you think you are?

From the orginal linked reporting, it appears that previously Apple would accept a subpoena subpoena issued by police departments and law enforcement agencies with no judicial oversight. Under the new policy there has to be a court order or a search warrant, both of which have to be approved by a judge.

This feels like a tightening to me. https://techcrunch.com/2023/12/13/apple-push-notifications-government-warrant/

Previously they required a subpoena, now they require a court order. So what was the lie?

Here you go https://www.evehome.com/en/eve-thermo

I have smart radiator valves I use to reduce heating cost. During weekdays the morning when the heating comes on, I know the main living room isn’t going to be used, so the rads turn themselves off, coming on late afternoon, just before the kids get home.

Smart bulbs are only really used while we are away on holiday, to simulate people being in.

I have solar panels, batteries and am on sn agile electricity tariff that changes every 30 minutes with 24 notice. Automations make sure the batteries are charged up ahead of any peak rate. Occasionally energy prices go negative if there is an excess of wind power on the grid. At that point my immersion heater starts heating water in my hot water tank, saving gas and making me money.

Google Wave RIP

I’m going to be 60 this year (I’m officially a boomer, yay me) and I’m about to start a new job. I absolutely enjoy my work and there’s no way I want to retire yet. I think I’m good at it, I think I have something to give to society, I find it fulfilling and - yes - I have kids at university, so I need the cash to support them.

And before someone says ‘you can find fulfilment through volunteering’, yes - and I do plenty of that, but it doesn’t quite scratch the same itch for me.