The post got removed a year later, by Reddit filters?

wtf

Pebble was from a time when enshittifiaction wasn’t as terrible as it is today, and died (post acquisition) before it could really be implemented in its products. Eric Migicovsky is an odd duck in that regard. Between this and Beeper, privacy has always been “not great, not malicious (yet)”, and before enshittifiaction could set in under his watch, the company gets bought out by a bigger one with a truly lousy CEO.

Under his watch. Heh.

Pebble was possibly one of the last great tech innovations before AI, in its desperate attempt to sell our stolen data back to us in a thoroughly butchered format. Which means it pains me to read

Upgrades to the hardware will include a speaker alongside the microphone, which Migicovsky teases will be used for talking with AI assistants (ChatGPT being one example).

Personal home labs might be able to go much further with this, I hope.

Considering how popular this product originally was with hackers and open source enthusiasts, I really hope the hardware has as much longevity as its predecessor. And considering that was closed source and got so much mileage, I have the feeling that this will be better simply by how open-source works.

I miss those old images that would show you your IP address and ISP name, which were generated dynamically based on the request. They were designed just to be a bit frightening. But, because they were rendered on the server side, there was definitely nothing stopping them from recording your IP address too.

https://imgur.com/aYxadwg

https://help.kagi.com/kagi/company/

Read about Kagi’s origin story and The Age of Pagerank is Over blog post, which serves as our manifesto.

https://blog.kagi.com/age-pagerank-over

Previously posted at kagi.ai on a page titled “Our Manifesto”

https://archive.is/PtPdj

Kagi doesn’t just add optional AI features, they are an AI-first company that wants to turn search into an AI agent. They wrote a manifesto about it.

Maybe manifestos aren’t worth much anymore, what’s with Mozilla abandoning theirs, but I tend to believe a company when they tell me what they are.

The nice thing about Fennec is you don’t have to accept a Mozilla license to use it, and those Mozilla services are (AFAIK) disabled by default. In fact, when I look at their settings menu, there is no “data collection” section to speak of.

The not-so-nice thing about Fennec is a little while back, it just didn’t receive any updates. For something like a month.

Just about every browser that’s based on Firefox is going to be slower to update than mainline Firefox, with perhaps the exception of Tor and Mullvad because they work hand in hand.

Just keep in mind: your upvotes on Lemmy are visible to anybody who runs a Lemmy instance.

God help us if Elon Musk figures out how to run one.

ETA: I mention this because the current government wants to find anyone who does this.

The [unelected president] moaned on his platform that some Reddit users on the subreddit r/WhitePeopleTwitter had broken the law after they allegedly revealed the identities of his so-called DOGE goon squad.

He was discovered by 4channers and harassed up until his death. His choice of language, and mental deterioration, were due to them in no small part

It’s a bit worse than that, the term started with a slur attached

Glowie, also known as a Glown*****, is a slang term popular on 4chan’s /pol/ board used in reference to CIA or other governmental agents posing as ordinary 4chan users…

Has been since he got ousted from Mozilla for funding anti-gay stuff

But the backlash on Reddit could be contained!

• Half of it was on their subreddit, which they have full control over
• Half of it was on r/privacy, which got removed by a Proton fan.

Some tangential preventative measures:

uBlock Origin on Firefox (and their browser of choice, if necessary). Preventing scam websites is a useful preventative measure that you don’t have to monitor.

Maybe have remote support software set up on their computers set up already. Something scammers don’t like to use.

Other thoughts:

I know this isn’t exactly what you’re asking, but if you can get your family/friends to know to never download a program or call a phone number… Or better yet, get them to simply reboot their computer, a lot of pain will be averted.

I wonder if there are ways you can manually lock down the computer that would also help.