The feature my company uses is the future of the field I work in. Not saying they are wrong, just that it’s not really news that they have that opinion.

It’s illegal, at least in my country, to use your camera to keep an eye on your employees. You can only view it in case of illegal activities, for example something being stolen, etc. You also cannot save the footage for more than a certain amount of time, unless it needs to be used for an investigation of said illegal activities. I think it was 2 weeks, but I’m not sure.

Using the camera to check up if your employees are working is illegal.

I agree. But the post I replied to literally describes a way for the employer to spy.

Rather than the employer spying, how about we keep the timer local on the vehicle. You don’t even need GPS for that either. Vehicle on, timer starts. Beeping after set amount of time. Beeping gets louder for every 10/15 minutes ignored. Insert an alucap condensator and resistor to not reset the timer after a certain amount of time.

But I have no experience with truckers or their vehicles. So I might as well just be talking out of my ass.

It’s illegal to spy on your workers through a camera in most EU countries. Why should GPS tracking be legal?

But the fines are usually peanuts compared to the profits, so chances are the pigboy is going to sell.

Yeah, it’s bleeding over to lemmy too when you browse by new.

Well, most are run by 1 person or a small team. None have profits. Some have donation pages, and that’s it. So they are exempt by definition.

I didn’t know that, thanks.

I thought it was coincidental that behind the Bastards was covering this subject in the show this week, then I saw the author. It’s Robert Evans, the host. I guess if you want more information for this, listen to this week’s podcast of behind the Bastards, I guess.

Tl;dw: Keep rolling rolling rolling, yeah!

I’ll take greedy corporations for 500!

Alright. I didn’t know, thanks. Though the human motion blur is vastly different to camera blur in my experience. And games that have motion blur look really unnatural.

I never worry about motion blur, because I turn it off. The stupidest effect ever. If I walk around I don’t see motion blur. Cameras see motion blur because of shutter speed, not the human eye.

Now do paint. Or even more useless: calculator.

No need to “fix” notepad. It does what it has to. If you’re a power user, you can download something else. But I’ll bet it won’t have Ai in it.

Shitting is better than working. Next question.

I lived before the internet. AMA

Life’s all downtime when you look at it.

I swear I’m not refreshing lemmy every chance i get…

Sounds like it wouldn’t be a bad thing archiving it somehow. A lemmy archive of sorts. For preservation. Not saying my instance has a lot of value, but linux questions, fixes for games etc on the lemmyverse as a whole. It could be text only, so it doesn’t have to take up an exorbitant amount of storage.

Federation is a double edged sword imo. The data might be valuable to some in the future, like reddit is if you have a problem, there often is a thread about it. But being that most servers are self-hosted, the data can dissappear more easily than a big corporation hosting it. But I rather take it. For the support Foss and for cutting ties to big corporations.

I’m not sure if, for instance, I stop hosting my server, if the community data is archived on other servers. I’m not a programmer.

The value of information or entertainment might not seem relevant. Though the spreading of information or entertainment might.

It’s all personal. A datamining company like Google holds value in it by presenting you ads that are relevant to your interest. Considering that Google holds little power in the fediverse, the value does not come from there.

The value of spreading information or entertainment is subjective, though sometimes quantifiable in that people might buy a product because of a post. I know I bought a few games thanks to lemmy.

I short: not usually financially. Maybe mental value.