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type0on Grammarly will send unhinged messages to all your users if you try to cancel

I tried to report Linkedin for their practices and it was like spitting at the sky trying to hit God

type0on WordPress: Unauthenticated path traversal leading to conditional RCE

> And that is insecure Wordpress: people lego-mounting sites without touching code, only with plugins.

Works as intended, that's why WP has been so popular

type0on Ask HN: Is it impossible to disable Siri on macOS 27?

It's not a bicycle for your mind, it's a railbike draisine that only goes on the rails that Apple allows you to use.

type0on Ask HN: Is it impossible to disable Siri on macOS 27?

Goobledygook laptops would be as much of an abomination as those Windows S laptops

type0on Pentagon weighs pulling nearly a third of U.S. forces from Europe

> So, why does Europe need/want the US in NATO?

There's is no NATO without the US, it would need to be something else and function differently. That takes years because there's too many countries involved. We would likely get two military unions in EU - North and South, North on helping Ukraine and South trying to distance itself. Furthermore the time is running out until this grows into a bigger conflict, this is just from couple of days ago: "Alarm in Denmark after Russian ship fires at military helicopter"

https://www.politico.eu/article/russian-frigate-fires/

type0on With regulatory capture we will speedrun to a new feudalist time

It's not about right to violence, it's about all kinds of rights in a pyramid form. Feudalism is about fiefdom, in that context even LG TV spyware is a form of digital feudalism.

type0on LG TVs caught spying even when offline or on standby

Enjoy watching a spinning wheel for the whole time then "Your TV is trying to connect..."

type0on LG TVs caught spying even when offline or on standby

Just because you can call doesn't mean you can install an app, plenty of people use dumb phones

type0on 216M Spy TVs – The LG Smart TV Problem [video]

> a trail of liability you can use to sue LG.

The average user would not realize LG was the reason, if they do they will loose more money and effort; LG's reputation and public image won't be even damaged enough for them to take a notice. You are an ant for them and ants are only powerful if they work together.

type0on 216M Spy TVs – The LG Smart TV Problem [video]

“Citizens will be on their best behavior because we are constantly recording and reporting everything that’s going on”

- Larry Ellison (Oracle Corporation)

type0on California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption from age-verification law

> the original definition of “user,” which read, “a child that is the primary user of a device,” and technically classified every device owner in California as a child.

which technically makes California a "Nanny state"

type0on Get your Windows license refund

Allowed or not, if you bought your phone before the regulations were in place you'd still have no connection on some models, even 4G phones

> https://www.whistleout.com.au/MobilePhones/Guides/Check-if-p... "But it's not just 3G phones that won't work on Australian mobile networks; certain 4G phones won't work either if they don't support Voice over Long-Term Evolution (VoLTE) Emergency Calling."

type0on Get your Windows license refund

Many so called dumb phones are just Android phones with buttons, real dumb low powered devices are being phased out because you don't get support for VoLTE Emergency

type0on Get your Windows license refund

And how would I make calls with it?

type0on New Mac mini, featuring M6 and M5 Pro

Probably faulty nvme commectors, but Gigabyte Brix are notorious for their ability to brick themselves

type0on New Mac mini, featuring M6 and M5 Pro

What do you think chromebooks are?

type0on New Mac mini, featuring M6 and M5 Pro

> What will happen once people are priced out of buying computers? I find this worrying.

What happens is that people start buying Chinese mini PCs, some of those even have spyware preinstalled along with another malware that is Windows 11

type0on I'm becoming AI-blind

LLM is a probabilistic moron machine, it's virtually undistinguishable from a non-probabilistic human moron

type0on Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border

> Paying for something is not really a hack

Although bribery is a felony in itself

> it’s the system working as intended.

Maybe it is

type0on Binance gave Russia crypto donation records for Ukraine fundraisers

> Binance was under no obligation to provide the data, having quit Russia

They're Chinese company and it doesn't even matter that they "operate from Cayman and Seychelle Islands. What matters is that China is the biggest ally of Russia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_police_overseas_servic...

type0on Ask HN: Why was my Show HN flagged?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

"Please don't use HN primarily for promotion"

type0on London Underground begins scanning passengers' faces

The hubris for surveillance in UK is staggering, what will they do next - roll out the social score system so you'll be banned from taking the tube if you express too much non sanctioned thoughts online?

type0on Hyper-Markdown – Markdown for knowledge graphs

I was hoping for hypertext inspired markdown, instead it's a regular one with hyperinflated promises

type0on Why Estonians invite strangers into their back gardens each summer

You're not invited, so maybe you should go back to Russia

type0on On non-rooted Android 17, ADB uninstall of system apps fails

You, too, will love Big Brother

type0on I'm switching my phone from Android to Linux

Not just out of the box, some phones receive junk apps and ads after you run updates

type0on Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery

So that's why they are lobbying for age verification, i.e ID verification?

type0on AI productivity gains are closer to 10% than 10x

> if you don’t care about the results too much.

if you like slop

type0on GrapheneOS duress PIN could land a man in prison

> ... if you interfere or destroy potential evidence,

So everything is potential evidence, even any memory in your brain, were're soon be at Johnny Mnemonic situation here.