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[–] captcha_incorrect@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago
[–] Blibly@lemmy.world 46 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Here's what you should use: a calendar and a pen.

[–] nibbler@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 3 hours ago

If it's calendar, use https://codeberg.org/svewa/MedicalCalendarLog to log and get alerts on being late....

disclaimer: mine

[–] Crashumbc@lemmy.world 4 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Your car has electronics, you should use a horse instead.

[–] Blibly@lemmy.world 4 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Way ahead of ya, I ride a bike (••) ( ••)>⌐■-■ (⌐■_■)

[–] captcha_incorrect@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

+1 for the glasses

I also ride a bike, but a bike can't beat a car when you buy a new bed.
I really want to see a bike that could.

[–] white_nrdy@programming.dev 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Because you're buying a new bed/dresser/large furniture everyday.

[–] captcha_incorrect@lemmy.world 1 points 17 minutes ago

You should see my mansion, I need another one soon.

[–] mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

Yup, exactly. Nothing digital is truly safe. You want to properly avoid having your data secretly subpoenaed? Use a fucking journal or planner, and just mark your period days with a different colored pen, or put a raindrop in the corner and say it was days you personally predicted it to rain. Turns out, your tarot cards are just really bad at predicting the weather.

You could be open about it, and use it to track symptoms, calculate days between cycles, etc… But the more detailed you make it, the more obvious it will be if someone else gets ahold of it.

[–] Frozengyro@lemmy.world 4 points 20 hours ago

And make sure to lock it in a safe and burn it when you're done with it. Also don't share with your health Care provider without vetting them, and ensuring they aren't recording and disclosing your information. Or using AI. Good luck, essentially impossible to get good health Care for women, same as it ever was.

[–] sp6@lemmy.world 32 points 1 day ago

PrivacyGuides has a section about this on their website: https://www.privacyguides.org/en/health-and-wellness/#menstrual-cycle-tracking

At the time of writing, it seems Drip is the best option on both iOS and Android. The app is free, open-source, and all data is completely local. Honorable mention to Euki as well

[–] Pixel_Jock_17@piefed.ca 2 points 16 hours ago

P Tracker is the one used by my SO

[–] lena@gregtech.eu 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Drip is also on Android, available both as an APK and on the Google Play store.

[–] iturnedintoanewt@lemmy.world 6 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

And on fdroid. It's fully offline AFAIK.

[–] whilefalse@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Yes, completely on device. I happen to personally know one of the maintainers and got to discuss some of the code with her. Also completely open source, so if you don’t trust the packaged apps, you could even build it yourself from source

https://gitlab.com/bloodyhealth/drip

[–] defaultusername@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 21 hours ago

That is a legendary GitLab user name.

[–] Melobol@lemmy.ml 5 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

Euki is also on Android.
It only stores local, so as safe as a phone app can be.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 3 points 22 hours ago

Withholding my upvote because your links are to Play Store instead of F-Droid.

[–] the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Nothing, you should never use an app to track your period. Use a calendar there is no reason you should give that sort of info to anyone besides a doctor.

[–] ChexMax@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

The reason is to get a notification it's coming. The reason is because I'm so fried surviving, I don't have the mental energy to spend on calculating the due date and then changing it by a day due to trends I'd also have to track. I barely remember to log it in an app, there's no way I'm logging it on a calendar, and then keeping track of that paper for multiple months or years to track trends. bleeding through my pants at work is worse to me than the spyware. Being a woman is hard enough. Blame the Spyware, not the women.

[–] Coolkat@slrpnk.net 3 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)

Mensinator is pretty cool too

[–] OldManBOMBIN@lemmy.world 7 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Mensinator is the name of the drummer in my gwar tribute band.

[–] backalleycoyote@lemmy.today 3 points 22 hours ago

I was trying to get frisky with my gf once but she told me “not today, GWAR is in town.”

I told her “So? Getting bloody is half the fun of a GWAR concert.”

[–] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

iOS has a built in feature as well, which Apple claims is private.

[–] mlfh@lm.mlfh.org 16 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Private until apple gets a subpoena from a prosecutor in some medieval christo-fascist red state trying to turn a miscarriage into a murder charge.

I mean, Apple also provides E2EE cloud backups. Assuming it is properly encrypted without backdoors, Apple could only “comply” with a subpoena by turning over the encrypted data blob. The feddy bois would only get the digital equivalent of white noise unless they could decrypt it.

Apple employs on-device storage. Don’t use iCloud backup. I don’t know how the listed apps work, but if there’s a cloud sync, the same thing applies to them - and they’re less able to fight it should they choose to.

[–] antlion@lemmy.dbzer0.com -2 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

I suppose the nefarious use of that data would be targeted ads? Also, I track my wife’s cycles by observing the lunar cycle. Maybe some people are less regular or some people want more data logging but the moon is a pretty good indicator. Would recommend looking at it from time to time.

[–] zebidiah@lemmy.ca 14 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

The nefarious use of the data would be to track and convict women who "may" have had abortions dude.... Combined with telemetry data of when you may have had to travel to a blue state for a day or two and it's not a difficult pattern to spot

[–] antlion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Has this ever happened and led to a conviction? Seems far-fetched to me but I am privileged in many ways. I’m sorry that this is even a possibility in some places.

[–] qaz@lemmy.world 3 points 10 hours ago

The flo app apparently shared data with Facebook. Besides that, there already have been multiple cases where police used Flock cameras for abortion investigations, so this really isn't that far fetched.

[–] wuffah@lemmy.world 0 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

Vood ewe lihkke sauhm oft mein Menstruuudel?