People regret buying Amazon smart displays after being bombarded with ads
“This is getting ridiculous and I'm about to just toss the whole thing and move back to Google,” one Redditor said of the “full-volume” ads for Alexa+ on their Echo Show.
Oh sweet summer child, Google is NOT going to be any better at this. That will just be changing one corporate evil for another.
People regret buying Amazon smart displays after being bombarded with ads
“I’m about to just toss the whole thing…”…Scharon Harding (Ars Technica)
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Nuova Scena 3 su Netflix: Guè entra in giuria con Fabri Fibra, Geolier e Rose Villain. Uscita nel 2026, premio da 100.000 euro
Nuova Scena, il rap show Netflix prodotto da Fremantle, è stato ufficialmente rinnovato: la terza stagione arriverà nel 2026 e avrà una giuria ancora più stellare. Al trio composto da Fabri Fibra, Geolier e Rose Villain si aggiunge Guè, leggenda della scena italiana. In palio per il vincitore resta il premio da 100.000 euro e la possibilità di imporsi come nuovo nome di riferimento del rap made in Italy.
TUTTI I DETTAGLI: Nuova Scena 3 su Netflix: Guè entra in giuria con Fabri Fibra, Geolier e Rose Villain. Uscita nel 2026, premio da 100.000 euro
Nuova Scena 3 su Netflix: nel 2026 arriva Guè in giuria
Confermata Nuova Scena 3 su Netflix: nel 2026 in giuria anche Guè con Fabri Fibra, Geolier e Rose Villain. Scopri tutte le novità sul format.Redazione (Atom Heart Magazine)
Former Republican election official buys Dominion Voting — a target of 2020 conspiracy theories
DENVER (AP) — Voting equipment company Dominion Voting Systems, a target of false conspiracy theories from President Donald Trump and his supporters since the 2020 election, has been bought by a firm run by a former Republican elections official, the new company announced Thursday.
The newly formed company, Liberty Vote, also vowed to follow the executive order Trump signed last spring seeking sweeping changes to election policies that multiple judges have put on hold for violating the Constitution.
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Putin blasts Nobel Peace Prize decision, wins thanks from Trump
Putin blasts Nobel Peace Prize decision, wins thanks from Trump
Putin praised Trump's peacekeeping efforts and said the Nobel committee's decisions to award the honor to "people who have done nothing for peace" damaged the prize's reputation.Abbey Fenbert (The Kyiv Independent)
How to get older version of Acrobat DC when installing Adobe Zii
Adobe Zii 6 can only patch Adobe Acrobat DC v20.012.20048 – 21.005.20048
But when I follow the install instructions and run the commands in Terminal, it only gives me the option to install "Acrobat Platform: macuniversal - 22.003.20310.7" through 25.001.20756.7.
Adobe Zii then gives me the Warning that it doesnt support the matched version 21.007.20091.
I'm guessing that if I get a copy of the right version it will work, but, how?
Im using a M1 Mac.
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People regret buying Amazon smart displays after being bombarded with ads
People regret buying Amazon smart displays after being bombarded with ads
“I’m about to just toss the whole thing…”…Scharon Harding (Ars Technica)
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Trump news at a glance: layoffs for federal workers begin and president threatens China with tariffs
Mass firings of US federal workers have begun, as Republicans work to exert pressure on Democrat lawmakers to end a government shutdown. The White House budget office said the layoffs were “substantial”, with unions for federal workers taking the matter to court. President Donald Trump said of the job losses “it’ll be a lot” and suggested those losing their jobs would be in areas that were “Democrat oriented”.
The government shutdown comes as the US president has revived the trade war with China, this time promising to increase tariffs on Chinese imports by 100%. His administration is also considering using visa restrictions and sanctions against countries that support the International Maritime Organization’s “net zero framework” proposal.
Trump news at a glance: layoffs for federal workers begin and president threatens China with tariffs
President suggests layoffs will be ‘a lot’ and in Democrat areas as unions for federal workers take the matter to court – key US politics stories from 10 October at a glanceGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
Trump news at a glance: layoffs for federal workers begin and president threatens China with tariffs
Mass firings of US federal workers have begun, as Republicans work to exert pressure on Democrat lawmakers to end a government shutdown. The White House budget office said the layoffs were “substantial”, with unions for federal workers taking the matter to court. President Donald Trump said of the job losses “it’ll be a lot” and suggested those losing their jobs would be in areas that were “Democrat oriented”.
The government shutdown comes as the US president has revived the trade war with China, this time promising to increase tariffs on Chinese imports by 100%. His administration is also considering using visa restrictions and sanctions against countries that support the International Maritime Organization’s “net zero framework” proposal.
Trump news at a glance: layoffs for federal workers begin and president threatens China with tariffs
President suggests layoffs will be ‘a lot’ and in Democrat areas as unions for federal workers take the matter to court – key US politics stories from 10 October at a glanceGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
OpenAI allegedly sent police to an AI regulation advocate’s door
OpenAI allegedly sent police to an AI regulation advocate’s door
OpenAI allegedly sent the police to the door of Nathan Calvin, an advocate for AI regulation, to serve him a subpoena asking for a trove of personal messages.Emma Roth (The Verge)
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This Week in Plasma: a massive amount of stability work for Plasma 6.5
Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma!
This week more work was poured into making Plasma 6.5 the best and most stable release ever. I know I write that a lot, but I feel like we get better at it every time, and this time it feels like that’s the case here too as well.
Our bug triaging team has basically finished getting through Plasma’s bug report backlog, allowing them and developers to focus on the known and fixable issues. And fix they did! This week there were just tons and tons of bug fixes. Among them were the #2 and #3 most common Plasma crashes, and we also identified the #1 most common crash as being caused by 3rd-party code.
This kind of concerted bug-fixing may not be the most glamorous work, but it makes a big difference to the overall quality of the product!
Notable UI Improvements
Plasma 6.5.0
You can now activate the Sleep, Shut Down, and Restart (etc.) buttons in Kickoff using the Enter key in addition to the spacebar. (Julius Zint, link)
Plasma 6.6.0
The Breeze icon theme now has reversed versions of the “Send” icon (which normally looks like a little paper plane flying to the right), and uses them in notifications when using a right-to-left language, like Arabic or Hebrew. (Farid Abdelnour and Nate Graham, link)
Improved the randomness of randomly-ordered wallpaper slideshows. (Sebastian Meyer, link)
Notable Bug Fixes
Plasma 6.4.6
Fixed an issue that could make KWin crash when trying to look at a device’s orientation sensor. (Xaver Hugl, link)
Fixed the current second most common Plasma crash, which could happen when using a Weather Report widget displaying information from the Environment Canada source. (Ismael Asensio, link)
Fixed a very annoying issue that made graphical vector content copied in apps like Inkscape and LibreOffice Draw get unnecessarily and destructively rasterized when pasting them. (Fushan Wen, link)
Fixed an issue that made screen colors not look quite right (or at least not as intended) when playing HDR videos. (Xaver Hugl, link)
Plasma 6.5.0
Fixed a case where KWin could crash when dragging files or folders from Dolphin. (Vlad Zahorodnii, link)
Fixed another case where KWin could crash. (Vlad Zahorodnii, link)
Fixed a case where Plasma could crash when you tried to create a new folder inside a sub-folder popup from a Folder View widget or a folder on the desktop. (Akseli Lahtinen, link)
Fixed a case where KDE’s XDG portal implementation could crash. (David Redondo, link)
Fixed an issue that made text copied to the clipboard in an XWayland-using app get lost when the window focus changed immediately afterwards. (Vlad Zahorodnii, link)
Fixed an issue that could make automatic screen rotation not work properly. (David Edmundson, link)
Fixed an issue that could make XWayland-using apps flicker a bit on some screens with some GPUs. (Xaver Hugl, link)
Fixed a weird issue in that could make the CPU and memory usage skyrocket after you used KRunner to search for certain specific things and then pressed the Page Up key. (Harald Sitter, link)
When you turn on automatic login and a message appears telling you to change your wallet to have en empty password so that it will automatically unlock, the button you can click to do so once again works. (David Edmundson, link)
Fixed a couple of labels that didn’t display localized text properly. (Nicolas Fella and Nate Graham, link 1 and link 2)
Fixed an issue that made desktop icons jump around when you moved a panel to an adjacent screen edge. (Akseli Lahtinen, [link](invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-d… Requests /)
Fixed a funny issue that made newly-created panels inherit some of their initial sizing settings from the most-recently-created panel, rather than using the default settings. (Fabian Vogt, link)
Fixed an issue in System Monitor that made it impossible to re-select table columns after clearing the selection by clicking in the empty area below the table. (Arjen Hiemstra, link)
Frameworks 6.20
Fixed the current third most common Plasma crash, which could happen when changing themes. (Arjen Hiemstra, link)
Fixed an issue that made the external link icon look weird in GTK apps when using the Breeze icon theme (David Redondo, link)
Other bug information of note:
- 1 very high priority Plasma bug (same as last week). Current list of bugs
- 29 15-minute Plasma bugs (up from 28 last week). Current list of bugs
Notable in Performance & Technical
Plasma 6.4.5
Substantially reduced KWin’s CPU usage while playing full-screen video. (Someone amazing in KWin, link)
Plasma 6.5.0
Improved the speed with which Discover fetches Flatpak information while starting up, improving launch speed and responsiveness in many cases. (Aleix Pol Gonzalez, link)
Information about the size of the folder selection dialog is now stored in the state config file, not the settings config file. This helps keep the settings file from changing when transient states change, making it easier to version-control your config files. (Nicolas Fella, link)
How You Can Help
KDE has become important in the world, and your time and contributions have helped us get there. As we grow, we need your support to keep KDE sustainable.
You can help KDE by becoming an active community member and getting involved somehow. Each contributor makes a huge difference in KDE — you are not a number or a cog in a machine! You don’t have to be a programmer, either; many other opportunities exist, too.
You can also help us by making a donation! A monetary contribution of any size will help us cover operational costs, salaries, travel expenses for contributors, and in general just keep KDE bringing Free Software to the world.
Plasma crashes in wallpaper::SpriteAnimation::GetCurFrame
Hello! In triaging Plasma bugs, I've discovered that our number one crash is in WallpaperEngineKDE, with over 5000 crashes in the past 90 days. The issue specifically is an out-of-range error in wa...Pointedstick (GitHub)
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EU Chat Control didnt pass - proving the media got to alot of you
Chat Control didnt pass - they didnt even vote because they were afraid the result would be embarassing.
And we got told so many times, that EU now wants Chat Control. But it was a big fat lie.
EU is a democracy with different opinions, and when a small group of facists tries to read your chats, it does not represent the EU opinion.
But the whole media got you thinking so. Proving even on Lemmy, you and me are extremly prone to propaganda.
I quoted the article here with the news:
In a major breakthrough for the digital rights movement, the German government has refused to back the EU’s controversial Chat Control regulation yesterday after facing massive public pressure.
The government did not take a position on the proposal.
This blocks the required majority in the EU Council, derailing the plan to pass the surveillance law next week.
Citizen Protest Halts Chat Control; Breyer Celebrates Major Victory for Digital Privacy
In a major breakthrough for the digital rights movement, the German government has refused to back the EU's controversial Chat Control regulation today after facing massive public pressure.Patrick Breyer
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I'm talking about all the opinions already made up, that EU wanted to take away encryption and give us chat control.
They didnt want that.
It's like saying Denmark wants to throw out all immigrants, just because a small minority is proposing it. They dont.
Democracy is just great for media outlets, because they can bandwagon stupid proposals.
Moving docker image data between VMs
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I imagine you could copy the docker volumes over, but that's more work than of they're "mounts", in which case you can just copy the corresponding on the host.
Use scp or rclone or whatever to copy the files over
Judge Rules Feds Can't Pepper-Spray, Tear-Gas Journalists After Block Club Chicago And Others Sue
Against that backdrop, the order from U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis confirms journalists’ right to report and the public’s right to protest under the First Amendment.
“Whatever lawlessness is occurring is not occurring by peaceful protesters” and journalists, Ellis said after reading her decision aloud. Some actions by federal agents “clearly violate the constitution,” the judge said. “Individuals are allowed to protest. They are allowed to speak. That is guaranteed by the First Amendment to our Constitution, and it is a bedrock right that upholds our democracy.”
The order also requires federal agents to wear badges or other “visible identification” so the public can know who they are, with exceptions for those officers who work undercover.
Judge Rules Feds Can’t Pepper-Spray, Tear-Gas Journalists After Block Club Chicago And Others Sue
Block Club and news organizations sued the federal government for its actions against journalists outside the Broadview ICE detention facility. Four of our journalists have been shot with pepper-spray bullets and tear-gassed.Block Club Chicago Staff (Block Club Chicago)
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The Making of María Corina Machado
The Making of María Corina Machado | Caracas Chronicles
She moderated her tone in the lead-up to July 28, but Machado is now engaging with the MAGA camp. How did she get here after 25 years?Caracas Chronicles
Salesforce CEO says National Guard should patrol San Francisco, stunning his own PR team
Salesforce CEO says National Guard should patrol San Francisco -- stunning his own PR team | TechCrunch
Though Benioff's shift mirrors Silicon Valley's broader accommodation of Trump, the exchange offered a rare glimpse of just how far that repositioning can go.Connie Loizos (TechCrunch)
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Il sistema di barriere sulla foce che conduce le speranze di Dublino verso il mare - Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri
Il sistema di barriere sulla foce che conduce le speranze di Dublino verso il mare - Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri
Città costiera che si affaccia sul Mare d’Irlanda, la capitale dell’Isola Verde avrebbe potuto costituire da molti punti di vista l’esempio di un porto perfetto.Jacopo (Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri)
Warpping Discord around a VPN
i usually run wireproxy with cloudflare warp (wgcf) for this purpose
zapret might also work
ip route to route discord's IP addresses through a different interface like a VPN, alternatively you could launch discord with proxychains, there's many ways to do it
Server recommendations
Howdy folks,
I’ve come upon a solid amount of 4tb drives, 8 SAS drives for dirt cheap from a local biz. Never used. I saw a HP ProLiant DL385p Gen8 Server on eBay for $80 and thought it was a score since it had been the best deal. I’d been wanting to upgrade off my think center m710. Curious any recommendations for this? My current setup is as follows:
Main server:
Lenovo think center m710
16gb, gt 1030, 2 4tb HDD sata, one 500gb ssd sata
Ubuntu lts
Docker compose
- Arr stack
-Gluetun with open on proton in Germany
-qbittorrent
-sonarr
-radarr
-Overseer
-cleanuparr
-prowlarr
-plex
-navidrome
-audiobookshelf
-Minecraft server (modded: neoforge itzg)
-immich
-bunch of others that aren’t fully working like tatuli or plex wrapped
Secondary
Thinkpad x220 (loved this shit through college)
16gbRAM, 250ssd sata
Arch
Docker compose
-searxng
-pihole dns
I’m still looking in to some security system ideas as I’d like to use some storage and maybe do that with some of it. Or some cybersecurity projects or a banned book library or something. I’m open to any suggestions to help this go as smooth as I can make it and as fun as it can be.
Frigate is great, but it needs a lot of cpu/gpu or a corel TPU. OP has old hardware, so I'm guessing a slow CPU.
Zoneminder is a non-AI cctv system. Also free. Not as fun to play with as Frigate but solid.
Brendan Carr wants to let internet providers charge hidden fees again
Brendan Carr wants to let internet providers charge hidden fees again
Broadband customers may find themselves blighted by unexpected charges again, thanks to Federal Communications Commission chairman Brendan Carr.Jess Weatherbed (The Verge)
Video: Watch the good people of Chicago prevent a kidnapping by ICE Gestapo @ 63rd & Cicero last week!
CHICAGO REPORTBACK!Watch the good people of Chicago prevent a kidnapping by ICE Gestapo @ 63rd & Cicero last week!
#fuckice, #chingalamigra, #gestapo, #chicago, #nooneisillegal, #refugeeswelcome, #YourBordersKill, #weprotectus
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DeSantis calls on patriotic Floridians to fight back against ICE
Freshly after passing permitless open carry, Florida governor Ron DeSantis now calls upon patriotic Floridians to defend the state against invasion by Immigration and Customs Inforcement (ICE). "It's communism" he says, "we don't do communism here."
Create your own fake news
Fake News Generator - use it to create your own joke news articles. Add your pictures, write headlines and text, share with friends.www.worldgreynews.com
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O mito do Sul do Brasil conservador e sua função ideológica
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NEPAL - A história que não te contaram
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ClamAV 1.5 Open-Source Antivirus Engine Released with Major New Features
ClamAV 1.5 Open-Source Antivirus Engine Released with Major New Features - 9to5Linux
ClamAV 1.5 open-source antivirus engine is now available for download with major new features, improvements, and bug fixes.Marius Nestor (9to5Linux)
Frieren - Capitolo 9
Con quest'ennesimo breve capitolo, per qualche attimo si finisce a confrontarsi con un altro grande dilemma della vita di tutti i giorni di...
Did western media ‘enable genocide’ in Gaza?
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Modern messaging: Running your own XMPP server
Modern messaging: Running your own XMPP server
Since a years we know, or might suspect, our chats are listend on, our uploaded files are sold for advertising or what purpose ever and the chance our social messengers leak our private data is incredibly high. It is about time to work against this.code and society | codedge
Stephen Miller Accidentally Says “I” When Discussing Trump’s Powers
Stephen Miller may have just accidentally confirmed that he, not President Donald Trump, is the one calling the shots in regard to deportation raids and National Guard deployments.“Illinois governor says we’re provoking actions that are unlawful,” Miller said on CNN on Monday. “Why would the mere presence—just think about this for a second. If I put federal law enforcement and National Guard into a nice sleepy Southern town, is anyone gonna riot?”
Stephen Miller Accidentally Says “I” When Discussing Trump’s Powers
Miller’s slip of the tongue reveals who’s really in charge.The New Republic
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Taliban accuses Pakistan of bombing border town, Islamabad cites cross-border terrorist attacks
"Pakistan violated Afghanistan's airspace, bombing a civilian market in the Marghi area of Paktika near the Durand Line and also violating Kabul's sovereign territory," the defence ministry said in a post on social media."This is an unprecedented, violent, and heinous act in the history of Afghanistan and Pakistan," it added.
Taliban accuses Pakistan of bombing border town, Islamabad cites cross-border terrorist attacks
Pakistan says Afghan soil is being used to launch cross-border terrorist attacks.TRT World
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Federal Employees Have Been Asked to Tell Their Bosses if They Get Fired
Multiple people at multiple agencies said their bosses have told them to email up the chain if they hear about RIFs, because, per one source, "they probably won't be told if people are fired."
The current claims of mas firing dont seem to be substantiated yet
Edit: looks like they're firing the computer security folks
New Mass Layoffs?
You’ve probably seen that Russ Vought went on Twitter today and said “the RIFS [government speak for permanent layoffs] have begun.” Obviously I can’t know…Josh Marshall (TPM - Talking Points Memo)
Trump, given an excuse to do what he's wanted to do ever since he got mad and fired my brother from another mother. Per the NY Post:WASHINGTON — The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is among the offices being permanently downsized as a result of the ongoing partial government shutdown, The Post has learned.
The RIFs (reductions in force), which started Friday, will fire some of CISA’s 2,540 employees as well as thousands more within the federal bureaucracy — after President Trump repeatedly threatened to target offices cherished by Democrats if the party’s senators refused to reopen the government.
In an indication of the possible scale of the RIF, CISA had planned to keep just 889 employees on duty during a shutdown while furloughing 65% of its workforce.
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Cybersecurity agency that clashed with Trump one of the first hit with federal firings due to government shutdown
CISA plans to keep just 889 employees on duty during a shutdown while furloughing 65% of its workforce.Steven Nelson (New York Post)
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The World’s Most Powerful Zionist – Inside the Secret War to Control the Narrative
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I found a YouTube link in your post. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
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Anche quest'anno il GL-Como partecipa al Linux Day!
L'appuntamento annuale organizzato da ILS è nato nel 2001 per promuovere le idee del software libero e dell'open source, con un occhio di riguardo verso Linux. L'evento è costituito da una rete di eventi decentralizzati in tutta Italia organizzati autonomamente da gruppi volontari e appassionati.
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RPG devs stopped making games like Baldur's Gate 'because retailers told us no one wanted to buy them', says New Vegas and Pillars of Eternity director Josh Sawyer
RPG devs stopped making games like Baldur's Gate 'because retailers told us no one wanted to buy them', says New Vegas and Pillars of Eternity director Josh Sawyer
The Infinity Engine wasn't quite so infinite, in the end.Hope Corrigan (PC Gamer)
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LinkHay là địa điểm chia sẻ những nội dung đặc sắc khắp Internet Việt Nam.Voten
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Interfaith leaders visit Tallahassee seeking access to Alligator Alcatraz detainees
Clergy representing six different faiths — from the First United Methodist Church to Judaism — delivered a letter to the Florida Department of Emergency Management seeking permission from the state to provide one-on-one chaplaincy services to the detainees at the detention center, a practice that’s common in most other correctional facilities in Florida.
This time, the group received a hopeful response — though there was some confusion about the type of religious services that are already taking place at the facility.
Keith Pruett, the deputy executive director of FDEM, told clergy that he thought the facility already provided religious services, according to Rev. David Williamson, who attended the letter drop-off on Thursday. Williamson said that Pruett agreed to bring up the issue with Kevin Guthrie, the executive director of FDEM, when he returns to Tallahassee.
How a Texas group is positioning itself as a Republican alternative to teachers unions
After years of working to dismantle diversity programs, ban books and rewrite classroom curriculum, conservatives are converging on a new battlefront in their push to overhaul public education: teachers’ unions.
This spring, a right-leaning think tank called the Freedom Foundation launched the Teacher Freedom Alliance as a free, national membership program meant to incentivize public educators to jump ship from traditional teachers unions.
The group, which is headquartered in Grapevine, Texas, encourages teachers to instead take advantage of its $2 million liability insurance, professional development training and curriculum resources, including recommended learning from PragerU, a conservative group that produces free video content “upholding Judeo-Christian values.” The group is structured as a nonprofit, so it doesn't have to disclose its donors.
This Texas group aims to be a Republican option to teachers unions
The Teacher Freedom Alliance launched this spring as a free, national membership program meant to incentivize educators to jump ship from traditional unions.Taylor Goldenstein (Houston Chronicle)
Korean Anti-Imperialist Organization Nodutdol Releases Korean History Toolkit
launch of our new Korea Education Toolkit!
We've curated a variety of educational resources-from articles and books to videos and podcasts— for anyone to learn about Korea from revolutionary and anti-imperialist perspectives.
The toolkit has been organized into six sections: Japanese colonialism, Korean War, Republic of Korea (ROK: South Korea), Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK: North Korea, Contemporary US Imperialism, and Films.
Just as surely as we must struggle for liberation, we also have to study. Taking time to understand the politics, economy, and history of Korea and the anti-imperialist struggle of our people is essential to building an informed and powerful movement.
Visit usoutofkorea.org/toolkit to learn more!"
Korea Education Toolkit | US Out of Korea!
Nodutdol’s US out of Korea campaign seeks to educate the public about US military aggression in Korea, which is pushing the peninsula towards a renewed state of war.usoutofkorea.org
Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist
The venture capitalist has hosted and attended events and lectured on the topic for decades, going back to the 1990s, according to a report by Wired. In recent months, he has spoken to theologians and podcasters about the antichrist both publicly and in private. His beliefs are diffuse, meandering and often confusing, but one tenet he’s steadfastly maintained over the years is that the unification of the world under one global state is essentially identical to the antichrist. In his talks, he uses the term “antichrist” almost interchangeably with “one-world state”.
He believes the Armageddon will be ushered in by an antichrist-type figure who cultivates a fear of existential threats such as climate change, AI, and nuclear war to amass inordinate power. The idea is this figure will convince people to do everything they can to avoid something like a third world war, including accepting a one-world order charged with protecting everyone from the apocalypse that implements a complete restriction of technological progress. In his mind, this is already happening. Thiel said that international financial bodies, which make it more difficult for people to shelter their wealth in tax havens, are one sign the antichrist may be amassing power and hastening Armageddon, saying: “It’s become quite difficult to hide one’s money.”
Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist
The political svengali and investor has been giving lectures on ‘an evil king or tyrant … who appears in the end times’Johana Bhuiyan (The Guardian)
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in reply to punkibas • • •My pet pony keeps shitting on the floor.
I am very frustrated and did not expect it.
I should sell it off and buy a horse instead.
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in reply to athairmor • • •No. It's more as if you had to pay for the pony to get it, and then:
If you want to ride the pony, that's $2. The saddle has a coin slot to pay. It also has spikes poking both you and the pony if you don't pay. Any time you get off, the spikes relock, requiring another payment to unlock.
This is the exact same situation minus the animal cruelty part and with money being swapped with time.
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in reply to punkibas • • •Personally, I disagree with the first and agree with the latter. I have a Nest Hub, and there are no ads on that. But I would still urge the redditor and myself to get acquainted with Home Assistant instead of bothering with the offerings from Google and Amazon.
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in reply to riot • • •It's not even personal opinion, it's objective fact...
Amazon shoves ads on everyone of their products far and above any competitors.
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in reply to riot • • •Just get Chinese, they won't be able to do anything to you even if info is collected
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in reply to Fair Fairy • • •Fair Fairy
in reply to Whostosay • • •socialsecurity
in reply to Fair Fairy • • •Or just don't buy products from companies that don't respect you...
Buying chinese is like going to the guy who beats you less because he spending half the time at his other girlfriend's house.
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in reply to socialsecurity • • •I don't. Never used it In my life.
I even switched my android TV to alternative launcher because I don't want Google peddling shit
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in reply to ghosthacked • • •I use projectivity
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Projectivy Launcher - Apps on Google Play
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in reply to A_norny_mousse • • •CatZoomies
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in reply to lightnegative • • •BeeegScaaawyCripple
in reply to U7826391786239 • • •U7826391786239
in reply to BeeegScaaawyCripple • • •experian.com/blogs/ask-experia…
edit: it's incredible to me, that people put as much trust as they do in the entire world
What Can Someone Do With Your Bank Account and Routing Numbers?
Tim Maxwell (Experian)BeeegScaaawyCripple
in reply to U7826391786239 • • •Dyskolos
in reply to lightnegative • • •BarbedDentalFloss
in reply to lightnegative • • •That's from the ancient banking system designed in the 1940s that is still lurching around. The protection on a check isn't cryptographic - it relies on the issuing bank to confirm the authenticity by examining heuristics on the paper check like paper type, ink and font used, check number, issuing address and the person's signature. It used to be that you would deposit a check at your bank and then it would be mailed to the issuing bank to be cleared for transfer. You wouldn't just deposit it and get your money instantly, it would take up to 10 days.
Honestly it is bewildering to me that they haven't changed the system to issue cryptographically secure deposit-only numbers and unique withdrawal numbers that at least verify the authenticity of the check itself.
Pika
in reply to U7826391786239 • • •In the case of smart tv's it's obvious why it works. It's way cheaper to buy a smart tv vs a dumb tv now, and It's all companies make for consumer side, which only leaves business grade TV's/advertisement boards which cost more. Even if this isn't the case though, with how streaming oriented most people are, the general public won't buy a dumb tv because they would still need to buy some sort of device to allow them to access their stuff. It's just convenient to have it in the same device rather than buy a tv then spend another $25+ on a device that can allow access to streaming, when one device can do it all.
I upgraded to a "decent" Smart TV for my den (my previous one was an early stage Phillips smart TV that the store was basically deprecated on), and it converted 3 devices I had for my dumb tv, into that one device. It's just convenient.
I personally think that people should be focusing more on not buying slop-ware, and working on implementing legislation of what companies are allowed to do to consumer purchased products before trying to revert back to dumb tv's and spending 3x as much. The future is going to happen regardless, and people are going to take the easy way out, the easier way is going to be preventing the annoyances from being allowed in the first place.
GreyEyedGhost
in reply to Pika • • •U7826391786239
in reply to Pika • • •you do you. enjoy your convenience. for my part, i will continue to spend $0.00 for the privilege of being the product.
all of these brands can take their smart devices and go fuck themselves with it. "convenient" GTFO
whyNotSquirrel
in reply to CatZoomies • • •melroy
in reply to punkibas • • •Haha. Are people even supprised? I mean come on.
The best thing you can do, is just DIY your own display with a microcontroller and have some fun in building it. Maybe run Linux on it and voila.
alphabethunter
in reply to melroy • • •Whostosay
in reply to alphabethunter • • •pinball_wizard
in reply to alphabethunter • • •They have a strong foundation in the DRM built into HDMI. I suspect this is exactly the real reason it is there.
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in reply to pinball_wizard • • •downvote_hunter
in reply to alphabethunter • • •melroy
in reply to punkibas • • •"Advertising is a small part of the experience".
Well great Amazon. Nobody is asking for this 'experience'.
Master167
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in reply to Master167 • • •BarbedDentalFloss
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RedGreenBlue
in reply to punkibas • • •ByteOnBikes
in reply to RedGreenBlue • • •I run Pi-hole, and ublock.
I went to my pal's house and turn on his TV, ad. He turned on his Xbox, ad. Was looking for a specific game on his Xbox, another fucking ad.
"Too complicated" he says when I suggested setting him up with a raspberry pi.
deranger
in reply to ByteOnBikes • • •AtariDump
in reply to ByteOnBikes • • •givesomefucks
in reply to punkibas • • •The track record for people using that condescending phrase while not understanding what's happening continues...
The smart TVs operate on Android TV, made by Google.
Amazon uses their own version of Android, and that's where all the shitty stuff comes from.
I've got a nice name brand android TV, the only ads are "this movie is on streaming" or "this show premieres in a week".
I got a cheap Amazon TV in another room, in the same place for ads on the home screen, it has ads for random products
There is a marked difference. They are "better" at this. Obviously no one in 2025 thinks google is "good"
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in reply to givesomefucks • • •givesomefucks
in reply to selokichtli • • •selokichtli
in reply to givesomefucks • • •givesomefucks
in reply to selokichtli • • •I agree ...
Everyone else was talking about one thing, and you acted like I was talking about a bunch of other things.
That's why you're confused, we were talking about ads, and you got upset we weren't having another discussion.
Now why are antelopes the super ungulates?
See how little sense that makes?
NotKyloRen
in reply to selokichtli • • •No. As a user of both Amazon and Google devices (with screens/sticks), Amazon is far more aggressive in their advertising practices. As the other guy said, neither is ad-free out of the box, but Amazon devices will literally make your screensaver/lock screen a full screen ad (even on your TV). Google just has a home screen ad about something that's going to play on streaming, usually.
If you want NO ads, set up DNS ad blocking or get an Apple TV and use that for streaming. But again, Amazon's devices are FAR more aggressive about advertising as much as possible. My father has one of those Echo Show things that's a speaker with a rotating screen attached to it. It's playing ads almost all the time.
selokichtli
in reply to NotKyloRen • • •stealth_cookies
in reply to givesomefucks • • •I've been self hosting as much as I can for awhile. The one thing I don't have a good replacement solution for is Google TV. At least with alternate launchers and being able to install APKs (for now) it mostly works as a decent experience.
givesomefucks
in reply to stealth_cookies • • •Back in the day wed hook up old desktops straight to living room PCs. There was no apps so we'd just go to websites.
I'd be surprised if there isn't some kind of raspberry pi mini PC with a good guinerap around Linux.
Some people will use a PlayStation/Xbox as well.
stealth_cookies
in reply to givesomefucks • • •ripcord
in reply to stealth_cookies • • •stealth_cookies
in reply to ripcord • • •That isn't an option either.
ripcord
in reply to stealth_cookies • • •Darleys_Brew
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in reply to punkibas • • •Fair Fairy
in reply to punkibas • • •nosuchanon
in reply to Fair Fairy • • •Why anyone would want a corporate government surveillance wire tap that’s connected to the Internet and constantly listening for voice command is beyond me.
My friend used an Alexa and smart plugs to rewire all the lights in his house because it was cheaper to get the Wi-Fi connected lights and sockets rather than rewiring the whole house.
In order to keep the thing running, no one was allowed to touch any of the lights switches on the walls because it would break the system. It was fucking hilarious listening to him yell at his Alexa to turn on the lights in the living room and have it turn on the dining room instead.
He even had the screen on the base that would follow you around as you were walking in the house and this creepy screen would constantly be monitoring you while waiting for commands.
If anyone walked in it just looked like he was screaming at the top of his refrigerator about the lights in the house.
tal
in reply to nosuchanon • • •I assume that there's a segment of the population that:
I will say that I'm still more than a little fuzzy on what substantial practical benefits people are actually getting from their deployed systems, though.
For at least some of this, like having a voice command to check the weather, a smartphone has to be pretty widely-deployed competition.
nosuchanon
in reply to tal • • •The convenience is being able to sit your fat ass on the couch and yell vaguely in the direction of a smart assistant to turn off the lights without having to get off the couch.
The idea that a smart refrigerator could tell you when you’re about out of milk or coming up on the expiration date instead of having to open your fridge and take a look is cool but the privacy and other implications outweigh the benefits.
It’s a mild convenience that supposedly frees up extra time to do something else. The sad part is that something else is usually staying glued to your phone, social media, or TV.
okmko
in reply to nosuchanon • • •Goun
in reply to punkibas • • •Dadifer
in reply to punkibas • • •CerebralHawks
in reply to punkibas • • •Isn't there a saying about this? "Leopards ate my face" or something like that?
It's like TVs... Google TV, Android TV, Chromecast, Fire TV... it's all ads, all the way down. Apple TV though? Just a grid of apps. Certain apps on the dock (the top shelf as it's called) could display ads because they're allowed to display content in the top half, but I haven't seen it done. Video apps typically just show what's up next in your queue and maybe something suggested. But you can control what goes on the dock.
Can't block ads on it and YouTube is fundamentally broken for it (despite there being no ad blocker between the app and the service). I'm looking into getting a gently used M1 Mac Mini for my TV, and wiring one of those Bluetooth keyboard/mouse things up to it. That way I can just run Firefox with uBlock Origin and call it a day.
Fuck all these "smart" devices. Can't win with any of them. Meanwhile you can get a Raspberry Pi and be running Linux on your TV. That might introduce some challenges, but hey, you got Plex (/Jellyfin/whatever) anyway.
x00z
in reply to CerebralHawks • • •"Leopards at my face" comes from claiming that your face would not get eaten while advocating for leopards eating faces.
If you would use it in the context of ads, it would be more along the lines of claiming you will not get ads because you are "special" while the thing just straight up says it will serve you ads.
I don't think the thing is advertised as something to serve you ads, so it's not the same.
circuscritic
in reply to CerebralHawks • • •Not entirely true, but necessarily false either.
Projectivy launcher for Android TV is great and will remove home screen ads, and provide a much more streamlined interface overall.
Apple TV is really nice though, clean, smooth, and stable. I honestly would recommend that to most people, especially if they already have Apple products.
CerebralHawks
in reply to circuscritic • • •Even without having other Apple products. The only real benefit I see with the Apple TV — I do have other Apple products — is I can AirPlay to it. But, it isn't very stable for whatever reason. The connection will just drop. So I AirPlay to the TV itself instead, and that works, though sometimes the audio doesn't, so I just route it back to the MacBook, which has very good speakers, and it's fine. Or I grab my Thunderbolt to HDMI and plug in directly, turn the TV into a monitor — but, this bypasses the Apple TV (but, so does AirPlaying to the TV itself). Oh, and I can use my phone or watch as a remote. All in all it's perfectly fine if you don't have any other Apple stuff.
The one thing it's really lacking is some Dolby codec that people need to play Blu-ray rips. People in communities like Plex and Jellyfin complain about that. But those are like 50GB+ per movie, I don't have that kind of storage to even come close to caring about that issue. It can still play 4K content, just not with that one codec.
In fact, it's probably one of the best Apple devices out there, just because the competition is so much worse. I'd also say the same thing about the iPad, and the MacBook. You can make a case for a gaming PC, but for a laptop that isn't gonna game because battery is an issue, you're going for efficiency, it's really hard to beat the MacBook. As for the iPad, it's hard to tell which Android tablets are good and which ones aren't — or which ones will never get updated. And iPad got a lot of love this year, it's basically a desktop OS now (it's like macOS lite at this point). No, you still can't install whatever you want — need an actual computer for that.
deranger
in reply to CerebralHawks • • •Appoxo
in reply to CerebralHawks • • •Boo Amazon
Boo Google
Certain Lemmy users using Apple devices adn advocating for it:
Hypocrisy at it's finest.
BeeegScaaawyCripple
in reply to Appoxo • • •excuse me i'm on an hp they've never ever ever done anything wrong
why yes i buy brother printers why do you ask
chuymatt
in reply to Appoxo • • •BarbedDentalFloss
in reply to Appoxo • • •Look at it this way - how does a business make its money?
That's the difference. They're all shit companies from multiple angles. But at least Apple doesn't actively disrespect you with unwanted advertising targetted to you by spying on you. They disrespect you by removing headphone jacks and making silicon valley executives behave like steve jobs who was notoriously a horrible person.
Appoxo
in reply to BarbedDentalFloss • • •Welp...
I don't like my wallet being drained 30% faster ;)
But nowadays it's Google inching closer to Apple (sadly)
auraithx
in reply to CerebralHawks • • •the_riviera_kid
in reply to punkibas • • •fullsquare
in reply to punkibas • • •FauxFax
in reply to punkibas • • •... Ah yes. Here we see that, while frustrated, the consumer remains largely undeterred from fitting into the boxes outlined by our fearless corpo overlords.
other_cat
in reply to FauxFax • • •firepenny
in reply to punkibas • • •ByteOnBikes
in reply to firepenny • • •Tuxman
in reply to punkibas • • •I had a Kindle Fire in 2012 and had to root it just to stop ads from showing up on the locked screen
Romkslrqusz
in reply to Tuxman • • •Ad-subsidized or pay more for an ad-free model
Appoxo
in reply to Romkslrqusz • • •Did that and they removed the ads for me.
Tuxman
in reply to Romkslrqusz • • •Encrypt-Keeper
in reply to Tuxman • • •BarbedDentalFloss
in reply to Romkslrqusz • • •merdaverse
in reply to Tuxman • • •AA5B
in reply to Tuxman • • •But they have gotten significantly worse over time. I did buy a Fire Stick knowing i was getting ads, but it was so much better the Apps on my smart tv and cheap that it was well worth it. Now it’s gotten bad enough that I no longer use it but suffer through the TV’s apps
I do plan on trying Apple TV in case it stays useable but at this point I’m not buying consumer tech from three years ago
Similarly with the Fire tablet. I knew I was getting ads when I bought them way back when, but tablets were expensive. Fire tablets were much cheaper and quite usable so the tradeoff was worth it. That long since stopped being true, and this experience is e partly why I don’t have an echo show.
I do want some dory of home dashboard, but echo show had never been under consideration. If the Apple rumors are real I might try that but otherwise I guess I’ll see when I have the motivation to build my own
Edit: rereading the post, this is even on devices where people paid extra to be ad free
vaultdweller013
in reply to AA5B • • •AA5B
in reply to vaultdweller013 • • •Pika
in reply to Tuxman • • •Yes it has, every amazon product is massively subsidized price wise with the expectation they make it up via advertisements.
I think the only one that really didn't fall down that train was the alexa, but, well we already know where they are making it up on that one.
sp3ctr4l
in reply to punkibas • • •BanMe
in reply to sp3ctr4l • • •ayyy
in reply to BanMe • • •cabillaud
in reply to ayyy • • •Holytimes
in reply to ayyy • • •To be fair I put in all my smart lights once 7 years ago haven't touched them a single time in that entire span. Took an hour to set up.
And now my alarm turns on lights which helps me wake up 😁
ayyy
in reply to Holytimes • • •Damage
in reply to ayyy • • •My smart switches have zero downtime. If I attack my server with an hatchet I lose smart functionality but pressing the switch still works, just like yours.
It doesn't take much to avoid the bullshit devices.
donalonzo
in reply to BanMe • • •Exactly. It's not the smart part of a device that is the problem. That's an extreme overreaction.
The problem with most smart devices today is that they are proprietary, non-fully libre and open source, for-profit, cloud-connected, corporate committee designed spyware, adware, and bloatware.
Devices that are fully FLOSS (firmware, hardware, software) and based on open and free standards and protocols are awesome, but they get easily forgotten.
The Internet and your technology can be so much better. Demand it.
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in reply to donalonzo • • •Lucidlethargy
in reply to Alaknár • • •Z-wave or zigbee. They use an alternative to wifi.
User in tandem with a open source system like home assistant.
GreyEyedGhost
in reply to Alaknár • • •sp3ctr4l
in reply to BanMe • • •QuantumSparkles
in reply to BanMe • • •FreedomAdvocate
in reply to sp3ctr4l • • •MIXEDUNIVERS
in reply to FreedomAdvocate • • •SaharaMaleikuhm
in reply to sp3ctr4l • • •merdaverse
in reply to punkibas • • •FreedomAdvocate
in reply to punkibas • • •What are you talking about? Google Home devices have been out for like a decade at this point, they don’t play ads on them.
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NιƙƙιDιɱҽʂ
in reply to FreedomAdvocate • • •h54
in reply to FreedomAdvocate • • •tempest
in reply to h54 • • •The Alexa division is struggling so they are well into the extract phase of the product.
Google will get there in time as well.
w3dd1e
in reply to punkibas • • •I get that we should expect shit like this from Amazon but at the same time, they bought something and the maker completely changed how the device worked after they bought it.
I’d be pissed too. We have to hold these companies accountable.
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FlashMobOfOne
in reply to w3dd1e • • •Corhen
in reply to FlashMobOfOne • • •Home assistant is the way to go, all run locally on a homePC, I have ZigBee lights and switches automated
An example is my front deck lights turn on at sundown, at 10% brightness, at 11;00 pm they drop to 1%.
If motion is detected they brighten up for a bit. On holidays they have appropriate RFB effects.
All of this is automated, none of it talks to the internet.
My current project is making a harry potter style "clock", with hands for me, my wife, and kids. Can set up some geofencing. Run off some ESPhome and the HA app, which reports directly to my install, without releasing tracking info.
FlashMobOfOne
in reply to Corhen • • •Corhen
in reply to FlashMobOfOne • • •Oh, for sure, it's just for fun
My entire design goal is making it invisible for my wife, so things just work. As an example, I took our doorbell, and made it smart... Not a smart doorbell, but I have an esphome between the doorbell and the chime, so I can turn the chime off, or I can have our phonea get notified.
w3dd1e
in reply to FlashMobOfOne • • •FlashMobOfOne
in reply to w3dd1e • • •PushButton
in reply to w3dd1e • • •Yeah, they totally deserve to be sued and pay a $5 fee as punishment.
That will teach them!
firepenny
in reply to punkibas • • •GreenKnight23
in reply to firepenny • • •firepenny
in reply to GreenKnight23 • • •spaghettiwestern
in reply to punkibas • • •This week Amazon starting pushing ads to customers paying extra for ad-free Prime Video.
Corporations are now so powerful they don't have to abide by reasonable norms, contracts, or laws any longer. Any fines are just a cost of doing business and are a small fraction of the profits they generate.
What are customers going to do anyway? Go to other businesses that are doing the exact same things on different days?
1984
in reply to spaghettiwestern • • •People should give up streaming subscriptions. How long would it take to learn how to get movies another way, from a friend who is already doing it.
People dont even own their media anymore and it can be removed at any time. And they are paying for that. Lols.
yermaw
in reply to 1984 • • •Its for families mostly. I dont want my small children coming up to me all the time asking for a different show downloaded that they heard about from school, and Erica's parents actually HAVE Disney+ and says anyone who cmdoesnt must be a loser omg etc etc.
I taught my brother how to do it years ago, and he got his shit virused so fast. I'm not sure if hes colossally stupid or just plain unlucky.
auraithx
in reply to yermaw • • •Just get Real Debrid with Stremio/Kodi.
Real Debrid + Kodi + Bingie theme = Everything available on torrents, instantly streamable in a netflix-like interface.
Echolynx
in reply to yermaw • • •LaunchesKayaks
in reply to 1984 • • •1984
in reply to LaunchesKayaks • • •This is clicking buttons on your device. How did people install Instagram and use that without a degree?
I think people are just afraid of it.
freebee
in reply to 1984 • • •spaghettiwestern
in reply to 1984 • • •frog_meister
in reply to spaghettiwestern • • •Convince themselves that it's necessary.
rumba
in reply to spaghettiwestern • • •We'll kick piracy into high gear.
Then they'll make any ISPs suspecting people of piracy to be forcibly shut off.
The real question is what will we do then?
sturger
in reply to rumba • • •youmaynotknow
in reply to punkibas • • •sasquatch7704
in reply to youmaynotknow • • •youmaynotknow
in reply to sasquatch7704 • • •yermaw
in reply to sasquatch7704 • • •I didnt see it coming. I assumed that having a device always available to add shit to your shopping basket and listen to everything you say forever would be enough for them.
Honestly it should be more than enough.
wellheh
in reply to yermaw • • •TomArrr
in reply to wellheh • • •Regrettable_incident
in reply to yermaw • • •1984
in reply to punkibas • • •pataconpisao
in reply to 1984 • • •Regrettable_incident
in reply to pataconpisao • • •bless
in reply to Regrettable_incident • • •myfunnyaccountname
in reply to punkibas • • •Cosmonauticus
in reply to myfunnyaccountname • • •Jack_Burton
in reply to Cosmonauticus • • •TheGrandNagus
in reply to Cosmonauticus • • •I can see the logic of being able to set certain items that you always want in stock, and your fridge being able to tell you if you're running low or if it's beyond its expiry.
Can smart fridges do that? I don't think so.
Even if they can, it's probably not worth the extra expense, complexity, data mining, security concerns, or the fact that Samsung or whoever can shut down functionality whenever they want.
I just want a basic fridge-freezer.
Flic
in reply to TheGrandNagus • • •Flic
in reply to Flic • • •Benchamoneh
in reply to Flic • • •phx
in reply to myfunnyaccountname • • •panda_abyss
in reply to punkibas • • •This is a real “the scorpion stung the frog” situation.
There was never any other way for this to go. Is in the scorpions nature to cram ads and tracking into your devices. That was always the strategy even with their Fire lines of devices.
Ring will be next. It’s already giving them your address, neighbourhood, routine, device types, etc. That data gates correlate to census income data, network traffic, etc. to build a profile of who you are as a consumer.
Regrettable_incident
in reply to panda_abyss • • •NauticalNoodle
in reply to panda_abyss • • •I believe there was just a post the other day arguing that Ring was beginning to collect biometric data on anyone that passed in front of it.
[Edit]It was A Boring Dystopia post from 6 days ago lemmy.ml/post/37147235
Gary Ghost
in reply to punkibas • • •Treczoks
in reply to punkibas • • •skisnow
in reply to punkibas • • •Someone needs to coin a word to describe this type of infuriating corporate statement. They make astonishingly piss-weak arguments in a patronising tone, as if to insist that reality must be whatever they say it is because they’re a successful company.
It’s the kind of statement that’s not technically a lie, but still seems dishonest for them to present as though it were a sane response, almost like an attempt at gaslighting.
I think the person who wrote that response should be forced to wear it around their neck so that everyone can see what sort of person they are.
spaghettiwestern
in reply to skisnow • • •It's not just companies. Amazon started pushing ads to subscribers who pay for ad-free Prime video content. Some idiot here on Lemmy actually insisted it wasn't an ad at all, but a "promotion."
Companies are getting their customers to make infuriating, ridiculous corporate statements for them.
blockheadjt
in reply to skisnow • • •Robaque
in reply to skisnow • • •skisnow
in reply to Robaque • • •I guess? Someone also said "rhetoric", and although it counts as both of these, I'm specifically thinking about these kinds of statements you get in press releases that obnoxiously try to paint the world the way that the company needs it to be in order to justify what they're doing.
Things like "Customers don't like regulations that stop us giving them the best service", "Our users are clear that they want the freedom to choose what subscription models work for them", you know? Those kind of weaselly shit on my pie and tell me it's a blueberry statements, where they dishonestly attempt to pose as the good guys wanting to do best for the world. They clearly must know that nobody actually falls for it, but they say it anyway because they need it to be out there in order for their paid-off politicians and useful idiots to have something to support deregulation.
ours
in reply to skisnow • • •dermanus
in reply to ours • • •That sounds right to me. Maybe "spin" if I want to be a bit more neutral, but it doesn't look like they deserve the benefit of the doubt.
Theyre putting a happy spin on some bullshit.
ours
in reply to dermanus • • •sturger
in reply to skisnow • • •Captain Aggravated
in reply to skisnow • • •There's a certain amount of advertising I'll accept. If I go to see an action movie, 1 to 3 previews of other action movies that are coming out in the next few months is okay.
Of course, because they tried to force a Mission: Impossible movie down my throat, I might never go see an action movie made after 2014 ever again.
PissingIntoTheWind
in reply to punkibas • • •percent
in reply to punkibas • • •FWIW, I have had some Google (now Nest) Home Hubs for years and I don't think I've ever seen or heard ads on them.
I'm gradually de-googling my life though, so maybe I'll just replace them with some DIY thing
Dr. Moose
in reply to punkibas • • •qaz
in reply to Dr. Moose • • •JackbyDev
in reply to punkibas • • •blady_blah
in reply to JackbyDev • • •I have an echo show in my kitchen. It displays ads, but they're super easy to ignore. They're just basically text pictures on the screen when it's not being used and on topics that I selected.
I'm pretty massively against ads, but the echo show's don't bother me in the least. If Alexa Plus starts giving me verbal ads or injecting them into things then it will quickly find its way into the trash can.
tiramichu
in reply to blady_blah • • •For me, there's no level of advertisement that is permissible, no matter how seemingly inoffensive the ad may be. It's still an ad.
In my own home on a device I paid for, it's simply not happening.
My tolerance is zero, because I am not willing to accept this ad-saturated society that we have somehow been generationally conditioned into thinking is acceptable.
mrmanager
in reply to tiramichu • • •I still dont understand how people think its fine seeing ads everywhere they look. What is in their minds....
It makes the world ugly. Real ugly.
sobchak
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in reply to punkibas • • •EndlessNightmare
in reply to sturger • • •"That giant electronic advertising billboard really tied the room together."
"And he peed on it."
MintyFresh
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in reply to MintyFresh • • •B&O 😊 awesome Picture and awesome Sound.
Smartness is only achieved by placing an Apple TV into it.
And price is way too high.
My dad has one.
I have an old LG and have set on my router to keep it offline
I only use it with ISP TV box, Nintendo Switch and Apple TV
kamen
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in reply to MintyFresh • • •EndlessNightmare
in reply to MintyFresh • • •For a TV, just don't connect it to a network.
This doesn't work for the Amazon Echo Show though, since internet connectivity is required for its core function.
MintyFresh
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in reply to punkibas • • •JFC
No fucks given, we're gonna shove em down your throat.
kamen
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(I'm too lazy to find the meme)
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in reply to kamen • • •Just a clock and a calendar? That's not the limit of what these things do, but that's easier to get that functionality without ads.
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in reply to hansolo • • •Almacca
in reply to punkibas • • •I don't think I'll ever buy any product that advertises itself as 'smart'. They seem to be anything but.
Edit: I do have a 14 year old 'smart' TV, but it's basically only a monitor for my PC.
Blackmist
in reply to punkibas • • •I turned off ads on mine.
By turning it face down.
balsoft
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