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Why is this more far fetched than LG smart TVs recording audio while pretending to be off and caching the results waiting for an opportunity to exfiltrate the precious data? We're in a "if they can they will" world with this stuff.

Comcast sets up a secondary wifi network on their routers in your home that they use as the backhaul for smartphones. Why wouldn't they make a deal with LG or whoever to use that data? We've already established they'll do about a half-a-Stuxnet to get at this data, you're telling me they won't do a couple bulk deals with common ISPs?

Why would they directly use a proxy service? I'd just launder the data scraping through some third party company that I could slough off if it ever turned into a news story. Not that anything would happen to them if they directly used these services anyway.

People who pay subscriptions are exactly the sort of people you want to advertise to the most since they've signaled they have money. It's like flashing a big wad of cash in a seedy bar.

It's bizarre to me there are people cheering on the potential death of x86. Sure it has warts, but it is an accidentally created mostly-open platform we'll likely never see created again. And ARM's vaulted power efficiency advantages are really overblown, having more to do with different design goals and not needing to care about a diverse platform than inherent advantages of the underlying cpu architecture. I suspect if x86 ecosystem does die we won't end up with much to show for it compared to what will be lost.

In sounds like you have Firefox's fingerprint resist feature enabled. This confusion occurs every time this topic comes up because there are two different strategies used to attack the problem and people end up measuring them both the same way.

You can try to be so generic that the attributes are meaningless, the meatspace version of this would be everyone wearing a Guy Fawkes mask so they all have the same face and you can't tell the difference between individuals. Or, you can wear a new generic face every single day so that nothing you did yesterday connects to you, an bland ephemeral identity.

Tor uses the former method (or tries to), everyone is up to something but you can't tell them apart because they all have the same face/browser attributes. Firefox's fingerprint resist is the second method, normally identifying values are fuzzed repeatedly so that while each signature is identifiable you won't be using it for long enough to connect them to eachother. Both strategies have their merits.

After my wife stole (back) her high school alarm clock I wasn't satisfied with the replacements. But I picked up an old one for $0.25 at a market festival recently and am pretty happy with it.

This seems like the most difficult era as far as emulation of PC games goes. There was a ton of change and different 3D accelerators during this time and hardware advanced away from things like 16-bit color and dropped support. And it is old news, look up "thief crappy colors" so see all the work that had to be done to get Thief: The Dark Project (and games using the same engine) to look normal on modern hardware. And that was 10-15 years ago. And many games didn't have the fan base to update game like Thief did.

Microsoft should just double down again on the doubling down. That would be twice as good and really start to make some headway I figure. Maybe as good squared, I'm not an C-level exec so I confess I don't fully understand the math on this.

I'm not sure this is appealing to wallstreet at all but this just describes the appeal of open source as a customer to me. VMware is a just perfect case example, they're literally firing paying customers and destroying a product lots of people are using to make a quick buck. The company and the product will ultimately be destroyed regardless of their underlying value but not before they make bank.

But if Vmware was open source they never would have bought it. The leverage being closed provides is the whole point.

My experience with Meta is it is just a PII fishing expedition masquerading as a security check.

I abandoned my facebook account when they asked for my driver's license scan, a few weeks later suddenly they didn't need it after all. My BIL recently wanted me to check sout omething he had setup on facebook and I found I could "login" by clicking one of the "what are people doing" spam emails they send. I've never used it on this PC before and have no idea what the password even is anymore. Super secure.

Use the tech to speak and hide your real voice.

If another poster's story is true, you could have done that before with 23andMe by just paying cash.

Even if no one charges you it still creates a mess for the accused. We already saw how google handled a verified false positive scan that the police determined was innocuous.

> We mandated legacy telecos to maintain switching offices with a weeks worth of battery power so landlines could work in a natural disaster.

Not disagreeing with the topic at hand but this isn't even consistent anymore. When they switched to FttN for DSL in my area I noticed the batteries for the nodes only last a day before they die and I lose landline service.