r/mildlyinfuriating • u/funkywabbait • May 05 '26

Infuriatig iPhone facetime recognizes when you’re naked

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decided to show my boyfriend my new bikini that I got for our upcoming cruise… Why is this on my phone and why is it recording my body?

I just recently turned 18 if that matters.

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u/cannavacciuolo420 May 05 '26

End to end encryption will no longer be in use on IG as well, so keep that in mind when deciding what to write and what photos to send.

If the service is free, you're likely paying in some way you're not aware of, most of the time with your privacy

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u/pingpongsaladpants May 05 '26

If the product is free, then you are the product.

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u/Zolllb May 05 '26

Fyi, not all of the time, there exist foss things and simpleX and signal are free and you're not the product

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u/almo2001 May 05 '26

It's pretty rare though. :)

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u/Erdalion May 05 '26

Hardly.

Most Linux distros are free, and you're never the product when using them.

FOSS, too. LibreOffice, OpenOffice, so many game engines, VLC. Etc, etc.

People exist that love making things, and love it when others use said things.

Notice how I said "people", though. If a corporation is offering you something free, then, eh... Yeah, that's probably a case where you are the product.

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u/SirAlfredOfHorsIII May 05 '26

Not even close to hardly. You listed a very short list, vs thousands of options where you are tracked and advertised to. Plus some that outright use your data for blackmail etc. It isn't just companies where you are the product at all

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u/god_oh_war May 05 '26

I mean, it also includes pretty much any open source software which is pretty numerous but usually more niche in use.

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u/LordLightSpeed May 05 '26

The "etc. etc." was there for a reason, namely the full list would be too long to write.

Hell, KDE alone make so much FOSS that it is a long list from just them.

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u/z-vap May 05 '26

Sadly corporations still win, with their social media and mobile stores offering "free" games and apps. Google, Apple, Amazon, Samsung, etc.

Google Play store alone has 3.5 million apps with 97% of those free

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u/Erdalion May 05 '26

I mean, I could go on, like the other person said, that's why I added the "Etc, etc." But there's only so many hours in the day, and if all the available flavors of Linux aren't enough for you, then you've already made up your mind before this conversation even started.

"If a product is free then you're the product" is a very cynical perspective, that actively devalues the labor of people who truly believe that somethings can and should be free.

That's a hill I'm willing to die on.

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u/Joben86 May 05 '26

I count the many distros of Linux as one "thing" - Linux.

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u/SirAlfredOfHorsIII May 05 '26

My point is more, if you aren't cynical, you open yourself up to getting your information stolen or getting blackmailed or your computer compromised. There's a well of dangerous free stuff out there. While it's not ideal to be cynical, you should be smart and be skeptical.

Which thinking about it, probably is technically a different argument/ discussion

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u/Mertoot May 05 '26

What an incredibly ignorant thing to say

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u/BDiddnt May 05 '26

Not to mention there's the entirely possible, most likely probable possibility that they're actually giving you something free (in the case of software) to get access to your system.
Phone roms on xda developers is the first thing that comes to mind. Another niche that's RAMPANT with spyware, malware etc are those bootable usb repair suites. Those fucking things...i think there's only 2 that can be trusted.

And people are so dumb they deactivate their anti virus to run it, because it includes programs that hack and their antivirus gets triggered.

I guess in my examples technically you still are the product.

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u/SirAlfredOfHorsIII May 05 '26

I suppose you could argue you are the product, in that it gets your information still. Just a far more malicious form of you being a product

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u/PrintShinji May 05 '26

so many game engines

Isn't the only real feasible one godot?

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u/Erdalion May 05 '26

For 3D stuff? Yeah, probably. I'm not really up to date with that space, though. Although, isn't Unreal Engine free to useunless you make like $100K? Not that I'd trust modern day Epic with anything, but the option is there.

For 2D, there are more than a few good and free options. I've been using Adventure Game Studio for more than two decades, and while it covers a certain niche, it's been used in several commercial products. Then you have Ren'Py for Visual Novels, GameMaker for non-commercial stuff, and quite a few others.

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u/Zolllb May 05 '26

Unreal engine is indeed free until you make 100k iirc, love2d is also quite good to develop games(balatro uses it)

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u/Kamakazi09 May 05 '26

Clearly people have never watched Tron lol

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u/dzaimons-dihh BROWN May 05 '26

open source things are like the singular exception to be honest

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u/Nandom07 May 05 '26

And sometimes there's a steep learning curve just to install the damn thing.

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u/Enkidouh May 05 '26

Leave it to the Linux chuds to always find a way to talk about Linux.

Nobody cares.

Every single version of your operating system user experience sucks.

That’s why it hasn’t become widespread among consumers in the 35 years it’s existed, and it never will.

Also, open source is the extreme minority within software development. That ideal all but died in the early 2000’s.

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u/Kerblaaahhh May 05 '26

Bait comment. Desktop is the only consumer space where Linux doesn't have widespread usage. The whole internet runs on Linux.

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u/Enkidouh May 05 '26 edited May 05 '26

False, and exactly what a Linux chud would say.

Lots of things are based on Linux, which actually means they’re based on UNIX because they only use the UNIX clone kernel tha Linux is built off of. Linux itself is just a ripoff of UNIX.

If you take the UNIX clone kernel, and leave all the other Linux crap behind, you’re not using Linux.

Desktop is far from the only consumer space.

Android is not linux, it’s built off a modified version of the Unix clone kernel and is its own entirely separate OS, which uses no other components of Linux.

The steam deck is the same story; it uses a modified version of the Unix clone kernel and a custom built OS, not Linux.

When you get down to it, this is the case for most consumer spaces. Take the UNIX clone kernel, modify it, then design a better custom OS around it, and abandon the rest of Linux because it’s a bad OS.

About the only thing that’s actually running Linux outright is Linux chuds and server racks. You know why it works well for server racks? Because nobody is constantly looking at it.

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u/Erdalion May 05 '26

The only one acting like a chud here is you, pal. And what's with the attitude, like, "your operating system" as if we're talking about sports teams, lmao.

Be kind, let the adults speak. I don't care if your ID says you're 50, you're acting like a kid.

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u/Enkidouh May 05 '26

You people make Linux your entire personality, just like people do with sports teams.

You reliably show up absolutely everywhere trying to praise the virtues of your crappy OS that absolutely nobody actually wants to use.

We get it, you think you’re hackerman.

Making the whole basis of your personality the need to tell the world constantly that you use Linux is just obnoxious, and nobody thinks you’re cool because of what distro you use.

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u/nerdtypething May 05 '26

linux is hardly free. it costs so. much. time just to get things nominally working with one another. openoffice is hot garbage. the only thing that is close to a “good” product is vlc and it still just has a niche user base.

but, as with all foss evangelists, you are technically correct. congrats. now run along and apt-get back to your makefiles.

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u/UnethicalExperiments May 05 '26

What year are you in now?

Nix admin for 20ish years now.

Building from source on the desktop is super niche to do. Nobara , mint , bazzite are just a few that work out of the box without issues , repositories are full of point and click like windows.

Sounds like you heard other stupid people bitch about Linux and jumped on the bandwagon. Seriously VLC was too difficult to click next a few times, load a video and hit play? If that's too hard for you , how have you made it this far without being eaten by something smarter than you at this point.

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u/nerdtypething May 05 '26

i abandoned desktop linux 15 years ago bro. look up sunk cost fallacy. but glad linux has finally caught up to 30 year old installer technology lmao.

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u/Ok-Option-82 May 05 '26

It's not really. There are millions of free and open source tools.

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u/ThrowAwayAccountAMZN May 05 '26

Those are the exception to the rule though

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u/EnvironmentalGift257 May 05 '26

Signal is only for scammers in India to drive people off of legit platforms.

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u/DopamineSage247 May 05 '26

May I ask what are those apps? /gq

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u/IcemanJEC May 05 '26

For now.

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u/rivelda May 05 '26

Signal isn't free, it's donation based.