On Sat, 3 Nov 2018 at 22:12, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Leslie S Satenstein wrote: > > voice activation > > IOT functionality > > containers > > flatpacks > > modules > > All these are just fancy buzzwords. When you think it through, all these > concepts actually make the system worse. > > Voice activation means your computer records everything that you say, and > with the current implementations, sends everything after a keyword (which > can be said accidentally, it has happened in practice) to a central server > for processing. So your computer is effectively spying on you. > Just to chip in: worth noting that voice activation doesn't have to be central server based (though that's the approach Google, Amazon et al. take, for the reason they want All The Data), and voice control can be incredibly important for accessibility purposes. -- imalone http://ibmalone.blogspot.co.uk _______________________________________________ kde mailing list -- kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to kde-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
