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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/5717757 > Today’s story is about Philips Hue by Signify. They will soon start forcing accounts on all users and upload user data to their cloud. For now, Signify says you’ll still be able to control your Hue lights locally as you’re currently used to, but we don’t know if this may change in the future. The privacy policy allows them to store the data and share it with partners.

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Today’s story is about Philips Hue by Signify. They will soon start forcing accounts on all users and upload user data to their cloud. For now, Signify says you’ll still be able to control your Hue lights locally as you’re currently used to, but we don’t know if this may change in the future. The privacy policy allows them to store the data and share it with partners.

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In this video we show you one example of how repair cost are out of control on modern vehicles nowadays. It is definitely something to consider when purchasing a new vehicle.

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Ah, the wind in your hair, the open road ahead, and not a care in the world… except all the trackers, cameras, microphones, and sensors capturing your every move. Ugh. Modern cars are a privacy nightmare.

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Countless companies and industries enjoy making up scary stories when it comes to justifying their opposition to making it easier to repair your own tech. Apple claims that empowering consumers and bolstering independent repair shops will turn states into “hacker meccas.” The car industry insists that making it easier and cheaper to repair modern cars will be a boon to sexual predators.

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He discussing another right-to-repair story and how apple's genius bars are scamming people - Laptop owner baffled over two very different repair quotes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdr5RKi75NI

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In this video Mental Outlaw discusses how the governments attempts to censor the internet under the guise of safety like the French SREN Bill and the American Kids Online Safety Act do not provide any additional protections for people online and only restrict your digital freedom.

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John Deere brags about sabotaging competitors & customers on hot mic - they're PROUD of it!

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Red Hat stops all upstream and downstream work on desktop Bluetooth, multimedia applications (namely totem, rhythmbox and sound-juicer) and libfprint/fprintd (hadess.net)

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We need to start talking about the Cyber Resilience Act, because according to all major Open Source organizations the CRA is a threat to Free Software itself, and it has been approved by the European Committee that was working on it.

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  • Remontoire Remontoire 1y ago 66%

    It makes me laugh to think of the fake bad language that was invented for the comedy 'Father Ted', feck this and feck that

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    ...with Apple and Microsoft, Mutahar's turn to take a look at "Web Environment Integrity"

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    This video as a text article: https://blog.nicco.love/google-drms-the-web/

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    https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/web-environment-integrity-is-an-all-out-attack-on-the-free-internet

    Read why "Web Environment Integrity" is terrible, and why we must vocally oppose it now. Google's latest maneuver, if we don't act to stop it, threatens our freedom to explore the Internet with browsers of our choice.

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    France passes bill to allow police remotely activate phone camera, microphone, spy on people
  • Remontoire Remontoire 1y ago 66%

    Whoever deleted it probably had the right idea, the source is not french and looks a sketchy as feck. I found the link again in my RSS reader and the amount of seriously dodgy adverts on it. The article is only available on these seriously sketchy so-called news sites.

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  • Google Play Store is a Walled Garden - Here's How to Escape!
  • Remontoire Remontoire 1y ago 33%

    That's grand for the likes of us who can easily install over adb and such but that's no good to those like my 74 year old mother.

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  • Does anyone actually use LibreOffice?
  • Remontoire Remontoire 1y ago 100%

    Ah she doing okay, they have her in a neck brace for next three months and doing physiotherapy to keep her mobile, she has to have a nurse accompany her to stop her toppling over that kind of thing. She is stuck in hospital for the next few weeks until she is safe to let home and has home help.

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  • Does anyone actually use LibreOffice?
  • Remontoire Remontoire 1y ago 80%

    Nothing to learn it's a doddle to use, My 76 year old mother was quite happily using it occasionally on linux box up until she broke her neck two weeks ago - really (4 vertebrae).

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