grishka

It's very unfortunate that there now isn't a single desktop operating system not ruined by touchscreen support.

This reminded me about phones from the TV show Upload. They are wristbands that project a holographic screen. Feels like a cool concept, and just as impossible to build with current tech, heh

Another case of a smart home device that unnecessarily needs someone else's servers. They could've made it controllable over the local network and that would've solved, like, 80% of this issue.

I have a z-wave hub I bought about 8 years ago. Admittedly, it's shit, but it does one thing right — you only need the manufacturer's cloud services if you want to control it from outside of your LAN, or if you want integrations with other services.

CAs themselves already trust DNS to verify your domain.

Or the ages-old VK spammer tactic of putting a space in the domain and asking people to remove it

Audio problems aren't new. I remember that the last 10.9 build I was still using in 2016 had this bug where sound would just stop working every now and then. `sudo pkill coreaudiod` fixed it every time.

Except if a device has a microphone and a network interface, it has the technical capability of sharing those recordings. The only realistic way to guarantee this sort of thing is to reverse engineer the entire chain between the two and then never install any software updates.

Apple themselves keep assuming that they themselves can be unquestionably trusted. The same company that keeps inventing ever more elaborate ways to forcibly insert itself between users and developers to collect rent even when explicitly required by regulators to open up its devices to allow anyone to freely install anything.

I had a similar idea to bypass DRM for a while. Some kind of board that goes between the display panel driver and whatever sends it the signal, and outputs something you can capture, e.g. DVI or unencrypted HDMI. Not sure how practical it is.

Look up how any modern smartphone boots.

I'd go even further and say that secure boot and hardware roots of trust are the root of all evil.

> The FSA's official explanation for mandating passkey implementation is that people kept falling for phishing attacks, and the attacks were getting too sophisticated thanks to "AI" or something.

Ah, yet another case of people being forced to use technology instead of being left alone doing things the old way where they understood all the risks.

> British-style outlets can also be coaxed to take a europlug, not that I would advise anyone to do that.

I tried that once and the fit was so tight I thought I'd break both the plug and the outlet.

TIL SCART can carry data. I've seen and used these connectors a lot but had no idea.

Some people just don't want AI, any AI, at all, can you imagine that?