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October 3

Does Wuvday violate privacy?

Looking at the photos and videos already published by other users on the Wuvday website, I see that they portray people. Is this a violation of privacy? If I publish photos and videos for tourism and (less likely) journalistic purposes, can I be charged with this crime? 151.95.216.228 (talk) 15:03, 3 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

This website? --Lambiam 16:48, 3 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Yes! 2.194.244.126 (talk) 16:54, 3 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

This is a question about application of Italian law as it refers to the consent of people in photographs used for commerical media. It is not a "computing" question. 12.116.29.106 (talk) 16:59, 3 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

This is a question more for the Humanities board, and laws can vary country to country, but my 2p as a photographer in the U.K

Basically everything you see on public property is free to be photographed, the definition of public/private is a hard one and is a line that's often blurred, it's not strictly outdoors/indoors because car parks are private property but a picture of someone on the street (i.e in public) is legal here, there are rules (most notably no minors and no homeless) and if someone asks you to delete it, you delete it!

Private property is different, things like shopping centers, you should always consult the info boards or ask someone working there before using a camera, photography/videography on private property isn't strictly illegal, but the owner sets the rules including those on camera usage.

Filming police officers in public is also ok, i've done it before, they didn't care.

It may seem an invasion of privacy, but imagine if you couldn't have other people in your photos full stop, it would make photography very hard.

Oddly though i've heard the rules regarding CCTV are the opposite, a CCTV camera must be filming your private property only and not anywhere else, i know someone who had police knock on their door asking for footage of an incident and he was like "it was out of view because of your rules"

If you want to know more you should read the articles on Candid photography Street photography Photography and the law etc OGWFP (talk) 21:42, 4 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not sure if there's much case law in this respect. But I think the issue with doorbell CCTV is a view of the "street", in most situations, inevitably includes other peoples' property. I know there's been software for many years which allows blanking out shapes corresponding to windows, though I think that was done to make CCTV more acceptable, rather than on legal grounds. All the best: Rich Farmbrough 17:48, 5 October 2024 (UTC).[reply]

I can tell you that as a Canadian, and therefore a subject of a separate (but still connected) branch of law in an English common law system jurisdiction, photographing or filming people in the public spaces is legal - as you point out - but what you do with that footage has many restrictions and caveats. You can photograph and film in Canada not on the basis of what is private and what is public, but on the basis of whether there is an expectation of privacy or not. Then, it matters greatly what you do with that footage, and how - electronic distribution is regulated usually by both provincial and federal statute - and broadly speaking, everyone retains the ownership of *their own information* - and images of you would be considered your own information, so that recording you in a public space may be legal Since there is no expectation of privacy for the same purpose as that public space is normally used, so that normally the footage that people take is for their own private use. But it is not normal to record people in a public space and then sell that footage for commercial purposes without their permission, because you would be using their information for your profit. If a person is interviewed, let's say by a News Channel, the act of being interviewed and on camera serves usually as the justification for why that footage can be used. Used. But not knowing you're being recorded and then having your information used for commercial purposes is almost certainly against Canadian law. And I would assume by proxy against UK law, but some of this is statutory rather than common so it will depend on the specific statute in effect. Historiaantiqua (talk) 18:08, 13 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

October 5

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On Windows command prompt instead of up, down, right, left cursor functionality (arrow keys). Any ideas? All the best: Rich Farmbrough 17:26, 5 October 2024 (UTC).[reply]

Your keypresses are being incorrectly converted into control characters. I see the same thing regularly on Linux, though, and not Windows. See here for more info: Stackoverflow question

If you launch the command line from the Start menu, then it shouldn't be doing this at the first prompt.

Are you sure you have launched cmd.exe from your desktop, and it's doing this? Or maybe you have launched Powershell instead, or something in WSL. Komonzia (talk) 23:42, 5 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Absolutely command prompt, and, yes I found the stack overflow and other items. I'm pretty sure some weird keystroke caused it, because I was using up-arrow almost immediately before it happened. It's likely to happen again, and I like to know how to get out of these funny states (there are more of them than most people are aware). All the best: Rich Farmbrough 00:20, 6 October 2024 (UTC).[reply]

I've played around with the keyboard to try to reproduce, no luck with that. However I did find the caps lock temporarily stops the mains hum on my soundbar... All the best: Rich Farmbrough 00:26, 6 October 2024 (UTC).[reply]

Did you try numlock? Or insert Andre🚐 00:28, 6 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Numlock doesn't affect the actual cursor keys which I was referring to. The numpad keys work as cursor keys or numbers as expected. Cheers. Rich Farmbrough 00:38, 6 October 2024 (UTC).[reply]

Usually on Linux and Powershell it happens after pressing another key combination, or after having started a command / program which runs for a long time or returns another prompt.

Ctrl+C or Ctrl+Break to force quit it and return a new prompt usually works. I think in cmd.exe it would return a new prompt which isn't stuck in that mode. Komonzia (talk) 00:59, 6 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Interesting, thanks. I think I did something that closed the command prompt in the end, which was unplanned. I wonder if it's worth writing a little keystroke logging program to help analyze these sorts of things. All the best: Rich Farmbrough 15:26, 6 October 2024 (UTC).[reply]

You can avoid this problem by reconfiguring the shell to a Linux-based virtual drive with parametric feedback. It’s a pretty simple and basic fix. Dikelan (talk) 00:23, 7 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Damn, I was hoping to use hyper-parametric feedback with a conch shell. But your idea is clearly better. All the best: Rich Farmbrough 10:12, 7 October 2024 (UTC).[reply]

October 7

Ripping Google Street View

I'd like to rip entire streets' worth of photos from Google Street View of my old hometown, for nostalgical sake. I've found [1] and its update [2]. However, going by their README descriptions, they only seem to be able to manually select single photos and download them, all manually.

As said, I wanna be able to just enter a street name (together with town name) and rip frontal views of the houses left and right from the 360° views as single JPGs, BMPs, or TIFs for the entire street, and on each position, I additionally want shots when rotating the view at 45° degrees horizontally (as when the viewer is rotating around his own axis), so I'm getting 8 shots (360° / 45° = 8 shots) per position.

Additional requirement is that on full zoom out (which is the default with Google Street view, and it's where it jumps back everything you move from one position to the next), the place looks kinda alien (see perspective distortion). I've found that when zooming in by means of mouse scrolling, the first and second zoom-in level below full zoom-out look perfect. So, that would make 16 screenshots per position (8 shots, each at two different zoom levels).

Is there any way to do that in an automated fashion: Ripping an entire street worth of photos by street name and town name, rotating at 45% on each position, zooming in on level 1 and 2 below fully zoomed out, and taking a screenshot? Whether by means of the linked GitHubs or another way? Or could it be easier ripping the entire 360° views for each position and then use a different tool or script on those downloaded 360° views to get those 45° screenshots? --2003:DA:CF2E:4532:8439:C5C9:2522:57ED (talk) 15:05, 7 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I think the first program you linked can work for what you want to do. You could get the coordinates for where each street starts and ends (Google Maps), interpolate between them to get a list of positions on the street (scripting language of your choice), then grab the closest panorama for each. GIMP has a perspective tool, but there's still the issue of automation. FifthFive (talk) 17:48, 7 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

October 12

OneDrive

I uploaded a ton of files off my Windows 10 PC to transfer to my Windows 11 PC, but I can only see them on the former. Wazzup? Clarityfiend (talk) 07:09, 12 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

You should check if you use the same Microsoft account. Ruslik_Zero 12:11, 12 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I checked in Settings. It says both of my PCs are registered, plus it shows most of my free 5 GB is used up. However, when I log into OneDrive, it says almost all of that space is free. Clarityfiend (talk) 22:28, 12 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Can high memory usage make the Internet not work?

My phone company had a lot of problems on October 6 and 7. A man came to my house and got them fixed, or so I thought. For the third time in two days, someone from tech support was able to fix the problems remotely. There are still occasional brief outages, lasting a few seconds. But one of them stopped when I heard my computer "turn on". What I believe it is doing is storing information to clear more memory. Maybe that was a coincidence, but McAfee keeps telling me they can solve the memory problem if I pay them even more.

Windows 11, Microsoft Edge. What other details do you need and how do I provide them?— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 18:59, 12 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

What do the phone company's problems have to do with anything you can fix?
What was fixed at your house?
What was fixed remotely?
What do you mean by "turn on", in quotes, and why did you say heard, not saw?
What changed at that point?
Do you think McAfee might possibly be ripping you off like a bunch of scammers?

Card Zero (talk) 02:20, 13 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Is it all right if I number the questions even if they weren't numbered?

1. I was just saying it may be their problem since I had some more serious problems earlier.

2. He didn't tell me. He didn't even have to come inside. He just told me it was fixed and asked me to go to the Internet on my computer and it was fine.

3. Don't know. Do you actually think tech support gives us details? He did have to put me on hold and my Internet went out while he was doing it.

4. There's no message on the screen. All I know is the computer occasionally makes a noise that sounds like something turning on.

5. The Internet outage resolved itself, but that could be a coincidence.

6. Could be. I should have asked for help with the specific problem when I called them to tell me the scan wasn't working. He told me he was uninstalling and reinstalling their software because there were problems on their end.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 16:31, 13 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

In general, especially for later versions of Windows like 11, high memory usage (RAM) is not necessarily a problem: and this is very probably not connected to any internet problems you may be having.
Were you aware of high 'memory' usage before the problem with the internet?
How much RAM is installed (often 4 or 8 GB)? How big is your hard drive/SSD?
Was there a time when everything (ie PC/laptop and internet) was working properly? What changed?
To repeat, was anything changed just before you started having problems?
How do you know that your internet connection is dropping out for only a few seconds? Are your router's lights flashing or often changing colour? Are you streaming or playing games online?
You said: "I believe it [what] is doing is storing information to clear more memory." I'm afraid this is nonsense. Are you confusing disk space (hard drive) used for data storage, with RAM for temporarily executing programs? Lots of people call them both "memory", but they are very different.
Did you install McAffee to try to fix the problem, or did it come installed with the PC? Has McAffee been telling you, unprompted, that you have problems?
McAffee is simply horrendous bloatware and always has been. I'd rather stick red-hot needles in my eyes rather than use it.
Try using Windows Task Manager to see whether the CPU or RAM are affected - generally, the lower the levels in the graphs, the better.
Are you using Wi-Fi, or a wired (network cable) connection?
For low disk space, try Disk cleanup in Windows from M$.
Can you take the PC to someone else's house (or a free wi-fi spot) and use their internet connection, and see if you still get the same problems?
If this all sounds too technical, I would find a local PC shop or roving Windows techie who does home visits, it shouldn't take more than an hour for someone who knows what they're doing to fix your PC problems, and they should also be able to at least have a look at your internet connection and tell at a glance what's wrong. Trying to sort you out here on the help desk is unlikely to lead to positive results. MinorProphet (talk) 11:25, 13 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Again, I'm going to number the questions.

1. Yes, because I get "High memory usage" messages in the upper right corner of the screen. I think this answers my question but I wanted to make sure.

2. I did ask how to get this information so I could tell you.

3. It usually does. Several weeks ago there were a lot of brief outages, and it happened again a week ago. There have been brief outages at times for weeks, though they stopped for about a week after the first big fix (which to my knowledge was nothing more than unplugging the modem). Someone was supposed to come to my house but to my knowledge they didn't. Unplugging the modem and plugging it back in was all that I did. I don't recall anything being fixed. I do know when there was a problem months ago they checked and said my Fiber box needed to be turned off and turned on, or something like that. I asked them to correct their information because I was told they couldn't give me fiber service.

4. McAfee had a problem with scans as I said above and their software was reinstalled. I don't recall if that was before the first Internet problem.

5. Listening to music, and it stops, or if it hasn't stopped whatever else I am doing is going really slow and finally I get a message about not being able to find the DNS. If the problem lasts long enough I get "You're not connected" on the screen.

6. It may be nonsense but I'm explaining it as best I know how. I think my computer goes faster after this sound is heard.

7 and 8. I needed virus protection and I got it. It was probably installed with the PC but it has been reinstalled as I said.

9. I'll see what that tells me.

10. Cable.

11. Done. It said I gained 61.2 MB. I did it with a few more categories after I made sure I wanted to and it gave me more space but I didn't see how much. It wasn't much.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 16:31, 13 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

12. I get messages about risky connections (I think these are ads but blocking ads causes its own problems) and there's someone who can fix problems.

13. Don't think any of this is necessary. The brief outages don't usually happen that often.

14. Trying to avoid this. The man from the phone compny should have finished all that.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 16:31, 13 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Overhead light dimmed briefly and the music stopped. Something on my screen got blurry and it took a while to get a clear imnage. But that didn't last long enough to really cause a problem.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 19:50, 13 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

1. It would seem that the memory problem is separate from the internet difficulties. To find the amount of RAM etc., click Start/press Windows key, type System Information and select it. In the r.h. pane it should tell you the Windows version, System Model, Processor, and towards the end, Installed Physical Memory. Click and copy each of these in turn using Ctrl-C.

2. Where are the "low memory" messages coming from? What happens if you click on one? Write down as much info as you can.

3. It appears that you have a standard cable modem (typically useless article), with a physical wired connection from the modem to the computer. If you are getting messages about not being to find the DNS (Domain Name Service, which turns IP addresses into URLs), this means that the modem is losing the connection to your internet supplier. This is almost certainly their problem. On the other hand, this is a relatively technical message which a user shouldn't be getting: normally a browser will just say something like "We're having a problem finding that site, please try again." What process or app is giving this message?

4. What sort of broadband speeds are you getting? Try fast.com for example. MinorProphet (talk) 01:10, 14 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

So brief power outages are causing the modem to restart, cutting your streaming connection, maybe? Card Zero (talk) 06:13, 14 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

October 14