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> Regardless, the Arduino Due is 4x the CPU at about the same price. Kinda neat.

And the Due is 14 years old and kind of overpriced - there are much better options available nowadays. (For instance, there are a ton of boards based on the Raspberry Pi RP2040 and RP2350, both of which will run circles around the Due.)

> BYOD = bring your own device? And yet your isp pushes updates to it?

Perhaps better characterized as "buy your own device". Cable ISPs will only support a limited set of modems on their network, and they're fully managed by the ISP, both in terms of software and configuration.

> Additionally the OS may have additional protection measures, such as signing each binary, signing the booting image and limiting which syscalls can be done by any binary.

I'd love for that to be true. Unfortunately, a lot of consumer routers are fairly straightforward Linux systems with no particular attempts at hardening.

For what it's worth, I've also contacted them multiple times with no followup.

There are also a couple of syscalls which are truly architecture-specific - like iopl(), which is x86-only. (It controls access to the IN/OUT instructions, so it's not applicable anywhere else.)

Apple rarely updates prices on existing products, outside of price drops on previous-generation iPhones. It was a big deal when they raised prices on everything a few months ago in response to RAM costs.

Connecting to open wireless networks is exactly the sort of behavior that would be trivial to confirm the presence of, if it were actually present. You wouldn't even need any unusual tools - just set up an open access point and see if the TV connects to it.

And that isn't even the same thing either! (This seems to be a recurring theme.) If it were true that LG TVs "spy" on ambient audio, that would certainly be bad, but it wouldn't also establish that the TVs were connecting to open wireless networks to exfiltrate that data.

Having OpenSSL present at all on macOS is a compatibility measure. It's been considered "deprecated" since macOS 10.7 (2011); developers have been urged to use native alternatives for macOS software, e.g.

https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Se...

While I've certainly heard plenty of theorizing about the possibility of this happening, I have yet to see any conclusive evidence that it has ever been done.

EDIT: What I am referring to here is the specific allegation that smart TVs will connect to open wireless networks without being commanded to do so. It's not a catch-all for any nefarious thing involving TVs or wireless networks.

None of those links involve smart TVs at all, let alone smart TVs which connect to open wireless networks.

Do you have any specific examples of devices where this has been implemented? Because I've heard this idea thrown around a lot as a hypothetical, but never any concrete evidence that it's been done.

And to explore hypotheticals. What would happen / what would it be like / what would have happened, IF ...

There's a similar project under Wikimedia - Wikisource (https://wikisource.org/).

> ... and the audience will ooo and aah because a human figured out how to do that stuff under constraint.

Or because the audience appreciates the artists' emotion and creative effort embodied in what they're watching. The Razor1911 demo, released at Revision 2026, is a great example there - there's some neat effects but nothing groundbreaking, but that isn't the point. It's a retrospective on the group that produced it, and the surrounding scene, and that's what won it the competition.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWs3N8eaPMY

https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=105954

It's getting much more difficult to run. YouTube often requires PO tokens [1] to download videos now.

[1]: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/wiki/PO-Token-Guide

Another candidate would be the DOJ ending attempts at school desegregation:

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/us/politics/justice-depar...

Perl also has "until" as the inverse of "while".

(It'll also let you use "unless ... else ..." - but please don't.)

Most of those models were not sold concurrently. The Apple II, II+, and IIe each replaced the previous model; the same was true of the IIc and IIc Plus. "//e" was an alternate textual rendering of IIe, not a separate model.

The most Apple II models that were sold concurrently were the IIe Platinum, IIc Plus, and IIgs. (And this was around 1990, at which point there were far more models of Macintosh computers on the market.)

The chatbot sidebar seems to also be the only way of accessing certain Amazon features, like the price history. And it seems to be implemented in a particularly silly way - clicking the "price history" button prompts the chatbot to show you the price history, rather than just showing it.

Thank you. Yes - that's where I was going with this. It was certainly possible to use computers for long-form writing in the early 1980s, but it wasn't a particularly economical or practical way of going about it. Some people did, but they were in it more for the novelty than practicality.

Not even "most" of Europe - almost all European languages use diacritics to some extent or another. In the context of domain names, some words are comprehensible with the diacritics stripped, but there's some loss of precision. (For instance, an "ñ" is critical if you're trying to say "happy new year" in Spanish...)

... might sound like a reasonable solution until you start trying to write about languages. It is unreasonable for a sentence like "In Japanese, the word for 'hello' is こんにちは; in Korean, it's 안녕하세요." to be unrepresentable.

Neuromancer was written between 1981 and 1984. The personal computers that existed at that time were poorly suited to writing; using one to write a novel would have been a deliberate and rather unusual choice.

(Consider, for example, that the first chapter of Neuromancer alone would have exceeded the stock memory capacity of many personal computers at the time, at ~46 kB.)

Internally, sure. But the application that was (probably) compromised was an FTP client, so it would have received the plain text of those passwords from users as they logged in.

Reading the tea leaves: given that the outage started with "connectivity issues affecting the File Manager", which was an install of Monsta FTP [1] - a commercial PHP application - I suspect the file manager got popped by one of the recently published PHP vulnerabilities, and users' FTP credentials may have been exfiltrated.

[1]: https://www.monstaftp.com/

I don't think the DVI-A connector was ever widely used for analog video input. Devices which supported analog video input almost universally did so using a VGA connector.

The analog pins on the DVI connector were used on many video cards for output, but they were mostly there so that you could use a DVI-to-VGA adapter, not because there were many devices which could use it directly from that pinout.

And? Having boatloads of money doesn't make you any smarter or better at making business decisions.

And even when a fire truck responds to a house fire (for example), they may still potentially need to treat and/or evacuate people who have been injured in the fire. Cross-training firefighters so that they can do both makes sense.

Is it possible that these are real people who are unwell? I can imagine a situation where users who spend a lot of time (like, to an obsessive degree) viewing and commenting on regional content start getting recommendations for more similar posts, regardless of whether it's local to them not. If there's enough users like this - and I'm sure there are - Facebook might even start treating them as a demographic, effectively creating a sort of self-organizing trolling group.