To clarify I listed here behaviors that I believe is common. I'm NOT listing behaviors that somebody privacy conscious is. That same person could around the neighborhood with a hoodie, glasses, hygiene mask just the same way.
What I was trying to highlight wasn't extreme behavior, one way or another, but rather typical ones.
See my earlier answers. I'm not justifying any of that infrastructure or behavior, only trying to highlight that this information, namely that OP is walking around the neighborhood, where and when, is already available to numerous of the actors including :
neighbors, just visually seeing him with their eyes
mobile operator via their 5G/4G towers
mobile OS via their positioning data
WiFi hotspots
ISP via WiFi hotspots
any app with geolocation tracking and any of their commercial partners purchasing that information
connected devices via BT scanning potentially sending back data to their manufacturer, assuming most are connected
governments with abilities to get information from ISP, mobile operators, mobile OS maintainers
So... the question IMHO is : is there are NEW data with or without the camera network? I'd argue marginally more.
Well I get why you stick to a hardware device you like... but honestly that's 15 years old. You can get something better and cheaper delivered to your door tomorrow.
I personally went down a similar path while discovering https://www.rockbox.org/ was still a thing, looking for old iPod or Archos I could refurbish, checking 2nd hand market, etc. As much as it pains me to say, unless you are a collector it's not "worth" it. You can get something ridiculously smaller, with more memory, more features, etc for the price of a meal.
IMHO it's better to get rid of Windows by purchasing new hardware that is genuinely interroperable by supporting standards.
Nothing you (nor I) know of but that doesn't mean it's the case. I can't evaluate but https://www.openimagedenoise.org/ is publishing by Intel and in 2026 so maybe it's good.
To clarify for others though as I guess I wasn't clear based on the downvotes : I'm not suggesting a single piece of software is a viable alternative to Lightroom. Rather I'm saying Lightroom itself is a collection of algorithms dedicated to photo editing wrapped in a UX one is familiar with. On the other hand ImageMagick (just to pick one I know relatively well) is a set of command line tools for image editing. It's mostly used as a backend with other tools as interface. I imagine there are plenty of alternatives to ImageMagick too, probably some that can include arXiv STOA algorithms for photo editing, maybe some even with a GUI but my point again is to reconsider the workflow to understand how the tools one rely on actual work.
So to hopefully express myself better this time, ImageMagick + Gimp + Krita + some script in a Github repository based on an arXiv publication + I don't know what + ... all together or in part might be better for some people but no I don't know an all-in-one open source alternative that cover ALL needs without them being expressed first.
Ugh, hopefully they fix this. Or maybe then don't and the whole glasses get banned, I'm fine with that.
That being said, as I mentioned in my other answer building such glasses is pretty trivial. Sure it might not look as inconspicuous as the Meta ones (or at least popular... which might lead to people better identifying them in fact) but recording covertly is indeed now trivial.
It's wrong though and AFAIK in the EU at least it's illegal without consent, you can't publish the recording so the technical implementation is not really the problem, it's the usage.
If at any point it seemed like I justified the usage of such glasses for covert filming let me clarify : no, it's wrong, regardless of how technically feasible it now is, without or without Meta.
That being said I never said "I have nothing to hide" nor do I believe we as a society should accept the permanent surveillance of civilians. In fact I do believe the opposite and that the chilling effect, as highlighted here by OP, does have a toll on everyone.
Neat, did you write a short blogpost about it? I'd be curious to learn about the pitfalls, if any, and good things onboarding for somebody without prior experience went.
I'm particularly interested to see if my own open source project (VR for pedagogy) should stick to what I know well (e.g. Docker/podman) but isn't very practical for newcomers, to something more inclusive like YUNOhost.
Sure, I've even made my own with a RPi0 and 3D printed frames at home https://twitter-archive.benetou.fr/utopiah/status/1449023602079240194/ so my point isn't that Meta is fine (it definitely is bad) or that finding workarounds isn't easy, solely that they seem to legitimately try to prevent circumvention measures despite picking bad designs, like removing a flashing red LED lights like ALL cameras did until now.
Goes against https://duckduckgo.com/privacy which is basically also their main selling point. If they don't have that, they have nothing. So... FUD until you do have data. You clearly did run an experiment, show us the proof.
Now to be slightly more helpful (apologies for the provocation) I suggest you consider alternatives to Lightroom. I know that instantly you will receive countless comments on how alternatives are just nowhere near as good as Lightroom... and that's OK. IMHO it's OK because I bet YOUR usage of Lightroom isn't the usage of others. So... I recommend you forget the brand "Adobe" or the product "Lightroom" and instead you list here the actual function of a tool you need.
This way, by listing actual needs rather than a bundle product with branding and specific UX, you go back to the root of your problem, namely WHY do you need such a piece of software in the first place.
Sure, you might end up with an entirely different workflow. Sure it will probably be absolutely alien at first... but so was learning how to use that piece of software in the first place too. Right now you do have the concepts, so replacing one click by a command line tool, or 1 piece of software by 10, is IMHO acceptable. What you will hopefully have in the end if YOUR workflow that is even more adapted compared to what you had first. It will be "weird" and maybe nobody else will get it but for you it will be exactly what you need.
Behaviors changed a lot but even then according to
that's an incorrect stereotype. According to this dataset for example since 1990 to 2021 France always had lower share of deaths attributed to smoking than e.g. the US.
Not really BUT they are definitely more specialized and have a lot more dedicated resources, including other dedicated people, who are paid to get information on you and your behavior. One does not have to be "smart" to excel in security compared to a normal user who cares very little.
That being said, no matter how smart and how much resource they have, they also can't break encryption. They can though ask a cop to come to your place and incarcerate your regardless. So... do with that what you will.
To clarify I listed here behaviors that I believe is common. I'm NOT listing behaviors that somebody privacy conscious is. That same person could around the neighborhood with a hoodie, glasses, hygiene mask just the same way.
What I was trying to highlight wasn't extreme behavior, one way or another, but rather typical ones.