lol, I have no idea why someone down voted you.
But yea, the plural of code in the context of programming scripts is just code, but if you were to talk about codes like a code to get into a door pin-pad, it has an “s” at the end for plural. To be honest, I’m sure there’s plenty of native English speakers not in the tech world that would likely also call it “codes” when talking about programming.
When you said “I highly doubt it” in response to the first comment, what were you doubting? You comment does not seem to make sense in response to the comment. They said that the open source project has likely cost more money in lost subscription fee’s than in AWS API calls, and you said you doubt it?
Then the person replying to you said “The general population is very much influenced by the Home Assistant community” not that everyone knows about it. But your comment talks strictly about how commonly known things in the tech world are not commonly known in the general population (which I think is pretty commonly known in the tech world as well).
This comment chain does not seem to be talking about the same things.
I think it could definitely be possible to do locally, and I wouldn’t want a car where I have to connect to servers to connect to it. But I am also not sure I want a car that can be opened with a command on the car itself. The code to access your CAR being stored locally on the car itself, with no server side validation, does seem kinda scary. It’s one thing for someone to manage to get into your online login where you can change the password, it’s another for someone to literally be able to steal your car because they found a vulnerability. It being stored locally would mean people would reverse engineer it, they could potentially install a virus on your car to be able to gain access. Honestly, as a tech guy, I don’t trust computers enough to have it control my car.
Generally, an engineer wants their product to work well and work efficiently. They put effort into a product, and it feels good to see people benefit from that work. The ones making the decisions have money on their mind. If a FOSS version of their paid platform costs them too much money, they will shut it down. Not because it was the engineers decision, but because the one’s making the decision likely don’t even know what github is and just know it’s taking away that sweet subscription money.
Not all of us are so lucky. I was hospitalized for 3 weeks until I was able to get my PiHole back up. I was nearly a goner.
Realistically, the only thing we can do is make sure people understand to a certain extent what privacy they are giving up, what that can mean for them, and what are their options to increase privacy (both practical and advanced, for those that want to know). If they fully understand what it means and they truly don’t care about their privacy, there is nothing that can be done.
Though I think most people care about their privacy when it comes to physical privacy. Nobody wants a stranger looking over their should at their phone screen. How many people would care if someone were sitting further with binoculars looking at the screen? Would people not care if they have their physical space, or would people care more about the fact that someone is watching what they’re doing? Let’s say anytime you got on the subway, it was guaranteed someone was always watching over your shoulder (tbf they might be), would you give up riding the subway? Some might, but I feel like people would make the compromise of their privacy for the convenience of the service. The only realistic way to get them to not take the subway would be to give them a private option that is just as practical. Otherwise, people would often give up the privacy for convenience.
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Honestly, I feel like it’s from technological incompetence. These people don’t understand how a basic website works. They think facebook is entirely on their phone. Which, don’t get me wrong, there isn’t really anything wrong with an older person not understanding how it works. But it’s entirely different when you’re the one responsible for making decisions on laws involving technology.
Technology is developing at mach speed, and the government has a pack of snails pulling it forward. Couple that with many of the people making decisions being ancient, and you have laws that are not even close to matching our technology. Shoot, even photography laws are outdated. In the US, photography laws are practically non-existent. The only laws that apply to people taking pictures are trespassing laws. If you’re allowed to stand there, and you can see it, you can take a picture. Laws weren’t really needed when cameras weren’t in every single persons pocket all the time.
300 million AWS api calls costs $1.00. If they lost even 2 sales because people could just use HA instead, they 100% lost more money in subscriptions than the cost of AWS api calls