deltoidmaximus

40 years and death aren't the only two options. You can't see the future, he could be exonerated after 2 years of the 40 year sentence but if he'd been murdered by the state there would be no coming back.

The seems to be recent proof that smart TVs actually do this caching. If a shitty TV from walmart does it you can safely bet it is implemented in your 50K car.

That's a pretty big stretch to me, especially since key fobs can usually unlock a door from across the parking lot without even leaving the building.

I live in a cold climate. Remote start isn't even necessary much less very necessary. I start the car, then clean off all the snow and leave. Running the engine isn't going to remove a foot of snow off the windshield and it definitely won't off the roof or hood.

Regardless remote starters do not need the web or a phone, they existed in the 1990s.

Some one mentioned something similar about their Ford Lightning in a previous thread. If a whole truck with batteries cost less than the same bare batteries then people buying powerwalls are getting absolutely screwed.

Slapping some localized spyware and nationalist marketing onto a generic device built overseas while charging more for it seems like a pretty accurate display of American values to me.

Or worse.

But most likely these residential proxy services are more valuable for scraping, DDoS and manipulation plays on social media so they might not actually be used for things that draw direct attention. Using them to download illegal materials would be a waste of resources when a VPN does the job just as well.

There was a recent DND episode about Android boxes sold on Amazon that came with access to pirates streaming services out of the box. Not surprisingly they were loaded with aggressive local network scanners for exfiltration among other things like being a botnet node. Despite this being proven and shown to people a lot of them just didn't care, many of the reviews just suggested turning it off when you wanted to do online banking or something!

This didn't particularly surprise me (unfortunately). Your average phone is loaded with spyware from "legit" American companies but plenty of them come with carrier spyware, adware or shady apps that auto install. Most people seem to be apathetic about this or have given up so the Chinese botnet device (that reliably delivers lots of illegal media) is just making the same kind of trade they're already making. Look at all the shit about smart TVs in the news recently that people have hardly stopped buying, those don't even come with free pirate NFL games. They've been told they were being spied on for years already and their response was that you're a tin foil hatter for bringing it up, they have nothing to hide or they don't care.

You almost can't blame them though. Even you put a lot of effort into protecting yourself from this stuff you're exposed anyway. Why should they do without their free streaming services when government agencies and companies that they don't even have a direct relationship with lose all their PII a dozen times a year and the DMV legally sells a dossier on them for 1.5cents?

> Boycotts can only work when there are viable alternatives.

This just isn't true. People could stop buying new TVs altogether, we aren't talking about food or blood pressure medication. This is a luxury item. If I had to guess I'd say most people purchased their last TV because it was bigger than their old one which still worked.

This is what I do already but aside from the "neighbors open wifi" problem I'm more concerned about:

-In-laws or other visitors "finishing setup" to use their netflix while I'm at work or something.

-Future TVs including 5G modems.

-TVs demanding internet access to work at all or worse working but with a hidden time out that waits until after the return period to activate and disable the TV until I give in and let it on the internet.

Most TVs seem to have removable wifi modules, or at least they did. But throwing away the warranty removing it on day one doesn't sit great with me. And that doesn't protect me from point 3b.

This is already partially the case with POTS where I'm at. My wife was attached to this reliability aspect of the overpriced POTS service we had. But when they installed fiber to the node some years back they placed batteries at the nodes which seem to die after a day in a power outage. When everything came out of a CO they could just run a diesel generator for about forever in comparison.

The bright side was this helped me convince her to get rid of the POTS as the benefit she wanted was larger already gone anyway.

I think it is more about avoiding being boxed in by the rest of the world. The US would of course ban the use of Chinese hosted models and have already taken steps to ban the use of open Chinese models. There's nothing that could have been done about that. But the rest of the world would likely have adopted American hosted models eventually, the same way they adopted American mobile phones OSes, computer OSes, Office, etc. If the choice was between American hosted AI and Chinese hosted AI they'd choose American if they couldn't develop their own.

But if there's an open model available then they might choose that instead of either of them. Even if the Chinese models aren't used they will bring down profit margin just by existing. They wouldn't have the control the hosted American models give but that wasn't even on the table. But denying America control is a worthwhile strategic goal in and of itself. And they don't even need to expend extra resources to do it, they needed to develop their own models for security reasons anyway.

I've long suspected Amazon's search is so crappy because it makes their ads necessary to actually surface a product. I guess Google got the idea as well.

The worst part is I've seen search other video sites that used to surface exact titles stop working around the same time. I'm not sure how to reliably find things I know are there anymore.

This is pretty horrible news that I hadn't really heard about, especially since American cars are so expensive now.

Why was this not a problem in the past? I know covid and tariffs have changed the supply picture a lot but I was vaguely under the impression there was some kind of parts availability requirement for manufacturers.

On my LG TV, which is pretty old, the wifi module is just a standard m.2 e-key that I can remove. I wonder if that is still the case or if they are integrated now.

Parent doesn't actually need to propose anything, this will happen regardless because the incentive structure demands it and the same technology makes it cheaper than ever before to perform the poisoning.

And inevitable once LLMs were invented. A knowledge lemon market.

It could happen I suppose, but most likely it would be an American company adding unnecessary spyware/rentware to a commodity product that didn't really need software in the first place and then lobbying to make the bare product illegal somehow.

Hard to say if publishers are going to want to pay the (now increased) hardware costs to stream hosted games when before the AI boom they kept failing to get the idea of the ground. Certainly I don't think we'll see it happen unless the AI bubble pops reducing hardware demand for AI.

The cauldron is already warm. I encourage people to read these issue trackers.

https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc/issues/10407#iss...

https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc/issues/10406

"The unfortunate piece is that your product choices can have both positive and negative impacts on the ecosystem as a whole. I've already heard rumblings that KeepassXC is likely to be featured in a few industry presentations that highlight security challenges with passkey providers, the need for functional and security certification, and the lack of identifying passkey provider attestation (which would allow RPs to block you, and something that I have previously rallied against but rethinking as of late because of these situations)."

"This implementation is not spec compliant and has the potential to be blocked by relying parties."

Proponents keep trying to hand wave away the attestation lock-in problem as some vague faraway threat that we may never encounter. It isn't. It's the actual plan.

What are they doing when you give blood?

This is where the attestation feature comes in, there's a reason it was part of the initial spec and key transfer was a "we'll get to it later". They will use it as a weapon to blacklist providers that don't play by their rules.

https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc/issues/10407#iss...

https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc/issues/10406

This is only true until the vise closes all the way, they likely implemented it that way because they will eventually HAVE to:

"Once certification and attestation goes live, there will be a minimum functional and security bar for providers."

https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc/issues/10406

They'll have to do this or they'll be blackballed using attestation and certification weapons the FIDO alliance possesses: https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc/issues/10406

You don't get to decide how to use your passkeys, some on else does.

This is the obvious endgame. Right now you have people who will say that passkeys are unphishable so we should switch to them. When you point out that people will lose their devices and credentials they'll then tell you can just use account recovery emails to get back in. They actually argue you absolutely need an iron clad door with a guard employed by some one else to protect account on some random website (that the website decided was precious, not you) But that's OK because they left a same old shoddy back door open in case you can't get in. So why even bother? Because that isn't the point. The plan is to remove the back door after enough people are trapped, they just need to keep the screaming to minimum while they get everyone in there.

> The thing that sucks a lot is that brokerages seem to also restrict the allowed software/hardware. Don't know the details, but none of my FIDO2 hardware keys were able to be used. I consistently use these hardware keys through WebAuthn, so I was surprised when my brokerage explicitly told me my hardware key is unsupported and I must use either Windows Hello or the iOS Passwords app.

Of course not, you still have some control over those FIDO2 hardware keys and they don't lock you to a limited set of devices. That's what the attestation is for, to allow banning the use of sign-in with anything but a couple megacorp providers. The few small time hangers on will be expelled in time. They're useful idiots for the adoption phase.

Notice that after lots of complaining about there being no way to transfer keys in the spec they developed some planned working group that will in the end only allow transferring from Google/Microsoft/Apple and maybe a few other dumpster companies. They aren't going to give that control up.

The trouble with this is the baseline is getting to high. You've got age verification coming, google rolling out phone verification for websites, etc. Once that is rolled out, accepted and "easy" it will be used for everything important "for security" and then everything not important because hey, you were doing anyway?

The reasonable position will be slow marched into hell same as the rest of them, just a few steps behind.

We're talking about a free to play (no cost to being banned) game without dedicated servers (no intimate community to police the servers). Cheaters always existed but the business model used exacerbated the problem.

We live in a world where McDonald's is using AI to dynamically price hamburgers. Every piece of information about your life is something you might want to hide just to avoid being screwed over harder financially than you otherwise would.

You medical history will be used to avoid hiring you to keep health insurance costs down, even if it's illegal. Your gambling or alcohol addiction will be used to target you with for gambling or alcohol advertisements even if they made that illegal. Your financial status will be used to mark up prices of things you need to buy, like how airlines used to show higher prices when you connected with an iPhone.

Same here. I've tried edibles multiple times as they're legal here. The experience ranged from mildly bad to horrible. I either felt like a zombie (not relaxed) or became paranoid and anxious. I had to come to the conclusion it just doesn't gel with me.

CBD does seem to help with my joint and muscle pains though.

Well, they aren't really for stopping crime. They're for identifying political dissent so it can be crushed early. Stopping crime requires manpower that costs money, and if they were successfuy they'd have a harder time making the case they need even more surveillance beyond the currently monstrous amount no one could have even imagined 40 years ago.