BloodyIron

I'm actually probably going to start asking new friends if, when they invite me over, if they have a ring doorbell. I'm getting fed up with being recorded without consent just because I want to go visit someone. Fuck that.

Discord is so cooked. It's Reddit all over again. And that place is utter trash now. Mods and Admins not even following their own rules, zero accountability.

welp glad I set up my own replacement for my own business/events https://hub.lanified.com

It's as if all the other problems Facebook has done in the past never mattered. Nobody stops to think about how Facebook's _repeated and exhaustive history of abuse_ might actually impact them. If only there was some evidence of what might happen...

Ahh, okay!

Missed opportunity in title to make it "..Even After Heated Heated Seat Debacle.." and it would have grammatically been correct. Oh well!

You can switch away from ribbon styles btw, if it's not your jam. IMO it's grown on me. As for my experience, collabora thus-far has been plenty responsive.

The problem with biometrics, as in biologically unique biometrics (fingerprints, blood, retina, etc) is that once it's in a database, you're fucked *for life*. It's unrealistic to destroy said records with absolute certainty in the entirety of the universe. Data is pervasive, and biometric databases are likely the most lucrative data to sell and share.

Biometrics are abusable in so many different ways, I probably don't know them all. But here's some thoughts around that.

It's proven that police have for decades planted evidence to falsely incriminate individuals. Placing a gun at the scene of an occurrence is one example. The difference is if biometrics are "planted" they are biologically unique to you, and you have no reasonable way of disproving that "you did it".

And then there's silently denying you. Whether it's a nation's border entity, or perhaps an insurance provider, biometric data can be used to uniquely identify you and connect you to things that *are* legal, but the Administration de jour doesn't "like" (read: LITERALLY RIGHT NOW). Say something to upset the babbis in the white house? Did you give your blood to 23andme? Your fingerprint to a government agency? Yeah, good luck getting in/out of the USA freely.

Biometrics needs to be a *global and universal right to refuse*. In that, IMO you must be always able to say "no" and have it be legally binding to *any* entity saying "give me your XYZ biometrics", except _maybe_ if you're a *convicted* criminal.

This goes far beyond the whole "I never thought about it that way" problems, this is a you're fucked for life if you give away any of it. It's time we make the time to get ahead of this problem that already exists.

Join me.

Consider the information can be used for more than just identifying you... if you have sufficient quality biometrics they can be used to _impersonate_ you, including "fingering" you for things you didn't do. Police forces have "planted" evidence for decades now, biometrics can be just another thing that can be planted. The problem is, you can't fight it, because it's absolutely unique to you (with some extreme exceptions).

This is one of _many_ reasons why biometrics need to be a personal civil liberty. The individual must have the right to say "no" to _any_ "requirement" for giving up biometric data, unless they are convicted as a criminal (IMO). Because once you deliver that information, you _cannot_ trust any other party _to actually do what they say will do and destroy said data_, and that's not even considering just poor storage of said data.

Once your biometrics are in a database, you're fucked *for life* because it's completely unrealistic to have it destroyed with absolute certainty. This needs to be a *global human right*, as hard as those are to come by still.

Airplane mode doesn't actually turn everything off, and it's not a guarantee like a faraday cage is. There are instances of devices still actually transmitting "stuff" in airplane mode, or having airplane mode silently disabled. A faraday cage is absolute, assuming correctly constructed, in that it guarantees zero signal can get in AND out. There's no ambiguity (again, assuming correct construction).

No because your finger could operate as an antenna. You're conductive.

The signals would be able to escape out the front of the screen, so a proper faraday cage effect would require full enclosure... since that's one of the core principles behind faraday cages.

lol you must be fresh to the internet

I'm not trying to say you're wrong. I'm trying to say that it did not kill the "vibe" for me, so to say. For all I know they _wanted_ the second one to move, but it wasn't ready in time, and situations like that are completely legitimate. I still am very impressed by what they _did_ demonstrate. Can't win them all!

Neat!

Disagree, it was a good transition to a second example. It didn't kill it for me at all.

There are games that let you opt-out, hell even ones that ask you when you first open the game. There are bad apples, but there are plenty of good ones too.

It already is. It's why I launched this very recently: https://it.lanified.com/Solutions/Managed-AI-Solutions

Collecting analytics like this is effectively the same as play-testing physical board games in-development. People play a game, information is gathered, and the game is tuned in response to that. If zero information were ever gathered, games could not be balanced or tuned for other things like unforeseen problems.

Please, show me a piece of software, or game, that is perfect the first time it is made.

Wow those negative margins are WILD!

Inspirational, in all the wrong ways.

> and help the Democrat Party keep the presidencty

You're writing your own narrative there bud. I'm not even a USA citizen, I have literally zero ability to influence the USA electorate to any degree. So cut the rhetoric, it's tiring and frankly destructive to real discussion.

I'm neither gullible nor a zealot. Trump has a long standing history of ripping people off for many millions of dollars, regardless of the currency. There's an endless supply of receipts, give me a break.

And that's long before we even consider that he's literally operating illegal wars (not approved by congress), which _is_ breaking USA law.

At a price tag of $5/ea the cost of just advertising and distribution exceeds the cost of the product itself. There is zero room for profit. The business model is installing back doors to the "clients" and stealing money, information, and anything else from them. Consider that even the cost of the included remote is a huge part of the actual hardware cost, and nobody is going to buy something like this without a remote.

How is it not obvious to everyone reading HN that janky Android "TV" boxes (like the article references) are a by-default threat?

Like seriously, many of them are sold for stupid cheap prices like $5/ea. Or advertise unlimited movies/shows/etc for similarly unbelievable prices.

Putting aside the copyright infringement aspect of it, to me it's extremely obvious "wait... _why_ am I paying so little here?".

No, it's not because movies and shows are 99.9999% profit (spoiler: they aren't), it's because you're _paying_ to install a backdoor that will rip and tear everything on your network it can.

You like having a credit card? That's precious, it's mine now.

Look at me, I'm the network now.

Well the first thing to check is, do you own and operate any of these janky Android "TV" boxes sold by companies nobody has heard of? If yes? Then there's probably your answer.

Certificates are only as good as the number of companies that recognise them as worthwhile.

A CCNA holds a lot more water than Google certifications, despite there being plenty of alternatives to CCNA such as Network+ etc.

There are loads of certificates out there, IT and otherwise, that are just cash grabs by the issuer. Their relevancy is also industry-specific. Accounting certifications hold a lot more validity than many IT certifications.

As an IT vet I doubt Google certs will really get much traction. And with the specific aspect of AI certifications, I doubt they will stay relevant for long due to how much the AI ecosystem is in flux year to year.

> Washington being now safest and free of crime

I'd make the case it depends on who's defining what is and is not a crime.

Consider that the POTUS is a 34x convicted criminal, and yet he not only has total freedom, he literally has the highest quality personal protection ecosystem on the planet, and so much more.

So, who is the criminal here? Which are the crimes? And what is _actually_ going to happen?

> So... the better option?

Depends on what you care about.

For me, Firefox really lacks in handling of very large amounts of tabs and a lot of features that I specifically use Vivaldi for. Does that mean Vivaldi is the best? Yes and No, it depends on what you care about.

Is Firefox still a good browser? As far as I know, yes. But I don't use it much at all because it doesn't give _me_ what I want and need.

And yes, I do actually need a large amount of tabs open at the same time very regularly due to the depth of references I work against in my line of work. That's on top of saving lots of bookmarks and syncing them via nextCloud.

You like Firefox? Great, keep at it.

You want to see features that aren't necessarily elsewhere? Consider trying Vivaldi and seeing if it's great for you or not.

Let's not act like browser selection is binary, because it isn't, and it really hasn't been since netscape navigator was new. And even then it's up for debate.

Show me a piece of software without flaws and I'll show you either a liar, or perhaps the program "ping".

Kills ONE official way to activate Win11/10 without internet. There's still KMS and other methods... Article title is slightly misleading.

Sure, it sucks about the phone activation thing, but frankly... STOP USING WINDOWS ALREADY.