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I've definitely turned into the paranoid nutcase within my friend group in recent years, I hate that everything is "smart" nowadays requiring an app/internet connection & account, just to do basic things that didn't require any of that before.

What's some things currently making you ramble like an old man?

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[โ€“] WittyProfileName2@hexbear.net 51 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Doorbell cameras.

Let's turn the whole fucking planet into a surveillance state because some people like to jerk themselves off about (typically racialised) fears of petty urban crime.

[โ€“] Awoo@hexbear.net 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Literally every single door on this street. Can't go anywhere without bezos and the cops with backdoors knowing.

[โ€“] WittyProfileName2@hexbear.net 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Innovation is when you make every street a panopticon.

One time I was walking down a street and this woman rushed out of her house and starts yelling that she knows what I've done and she's got it all recorded on her doorbell camera. To this day, I still don't know what I was supposed to have done.

[โ€“] spectre@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago

One guy was so paranoid that he had a camera in his yard (out in a well-off suburban neighborhood) pointing at a public path that strobed and vocally warned you that you were being recorded. Totally unhinged

[โ€“] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago

not to forget getting their pizza slaves to dance for them.

[โ€“] Syldon@feddit.uk 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Let us see that same opinion once you have been the victim of a burglary. I have replaced two back doors to the tune of a few thousand quid. I spent years with higher home insurance because of the claims. Yet they never even got in. My cameras only record when my property line is breeched.

[โ€“] WittyProfileName2@hexbear.net 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"Oh you don't like the idea of always on cameras monitoring every street at all times? Guess you want burglaries to happen all the time."

Statistically, doorbell cameras don't lower this risk of burglaries. A lot of the claims that they do come from companies selling them.

This study found that they actually increase the risk of being targeted by burglars

All the while you are sticking a camera with a history of shoddy cybersecurity to your home.

Look at this case of harassment that involved the use of a doorbell camera and try to pretend my concerns aren't valid.

[โ€“] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago

I don't understand the assertion that if I'd been burgled I'd agree with you.

I do: chuds have this power fantasy that they are the keepers of exclusive truths that everyone would agree with if only they could see those truths, and by see those truths, they mean getting their brains flooded with cortisol and adrenaline after a burglary and deciding that a surveillance police state is cool and good. grill-broke