gigel82

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by gigel82 8d ago
This is confusing; what happens to you if you refuse a warantless search of your property? I'm a US citizen returning home. Do they just... send me back out of the country? :) I don't suppose they'd have the grounds to arrest
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by gigel82 8d ago
That's eerily similar to the argument used by mass surveillance systems like Flock around expectations of privacy in public. Yes, it's fine if the little old lady around the corner writes down the color or plates of cars driving t
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by gigel82 29d ago
What search terms did you use? I'm in the US, can't find anything with an oled panel that's not a smart tv or a computer monitor.
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by gigel82 29d ago
Let me know when they (or anyone else) comes out with an oled model.
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by gigel82 1mo ago
For the same ~ $55 as their lite model you get some other options: slightly larger screen, plus a microphone and speaker: https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/08/05/zectrix-note-4-a-4-2... same screen size with
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by gigel82 1mo ago
"As a rule, regulation is acquired by the industry and is designed and operated for its primary benefit." - George Stigler
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by gigel82 1mo ago
<s>Get the Flock out of here with those ideas, that's conspiracy thinking; those poor CEOs only want what's best for us</s>
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by gigel82 1mo ago
Nothing says "social change" like building a Flock of predictive-surveillance cameras capable of spotting the revolt before the flock even knows it’s a flock.
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by gigel82 1mo ago
Damn, we pay $110 for 5Gbps in Seattle only because the 2Gbps would be $100. Cellular plans are also a lot cheaper in Europe :(
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by gigel82 1mo ago
Without access to the code, I imagine it'd be extremely difficult even with unlimited API calls to the watermarker.
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by gigel82 1mo ago
I'm honestly surprised they don't upload the entire image to apply the watermark server-side, to the point that I'd like someone else to repeat this investigation and confirm it's not happening. Shipping the watermark ge
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by gigel82 2mo ago
So Apple is publishing an audit of Apple private closed source components and declared them totally private... trust us bro. I have absolutely 0 reasons to believe Apple Private Cloud is not a data extraction mechanism for the gullible. Unl
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by gigel82 2mo ago
Because... they want to corner that market opportunity themselves at the system level? I doubt it'd be anything less given LG (and other smart TV manufacturers)'s track record.
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by gigel82 3mo ago
Good, do Apple next.
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by gigel82 3mo ago
This website doesn't load on Firefox, it just refreshes continuously. I even tried turning off my adblocker and it still does the same thing.
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by gigel82 3mo ago
Tangentially related to Device ID: Apple is significantly worse when it comes to machine identifiers; even with Autopilot enabled you can still install Linux on a Microsoft Surface device (or even Windows if you don't use a Microsoft A
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by gigel82 3mo ago
> The court record itself says a reinstall produces a new GDID That's a half truth if I ever saw one. Telemetry also includes the hardware hash (which does use SMBIOS serial number, CPUID, TPM identifiers, etc.) and that one survive
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by gigel82 3mo ago
Yet layoffs excused by AI (expenses or claimed productivity gains) are continuing by the thousands each day, so... not sure what this is based on.
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by gigel82 3mo ago
Sure, but it's basically a very thin wrapper on the built-in RichEdit control, with some added menus and niceties. Don't get me wrong, it's hundreds of times better than whatever UWP abomination they call Notepad in Windows 1
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by gigel82 3mo ago
That's an ever-dwindling section of the population. Middle class and upper middle class is going away, we're very clearly heading towards ultra-polarization.
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by gigel82 3mo ago
We're doomed if regular people have fully absorbed the propaganda to the extent that they'd think asking invalid hospital-bed-ridden people to work remotely for the uber-rich rather than fixing the tax situation so that those uber
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by gigel82 3mo ago
Holy dystopian shit, you might be right. This might just be their new favorite answer when people ask what are all the jobless humans to do after the AI takeover? This... live in squalor, hooked up to VR headsets and doing menial work remot
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by gigel82 3mo ago
You do realize the next step is ISP-level tagging of traffic? And VPNs are already being outlawed in much of the western world. Unless you expect the teenagers to run underground mesh radio networks and risk FCC's hammer (real jailtime
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by gigel82 3mo ago
This was posted about a year ago and it was complete vaporware, all pictures and videos were digital art. And looking at their website now, I see the same thing unfortunately. Why would someone "preorder" a car that only exists as
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by gigel82 3mo ago
Since forever, that's literally their business model. My (and your) private information was leaked (unconsensually), including timestamped location, travel companions, photographs from inside your vehicle, what you're wearing, etc
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by gigel82 3mo ago
Can I set up my own camera on the side of the road (in a public place) to scan people's faces and license plates, link them up to one of the many data brokers (or leaks) and use a big display to show the drivers' pictures and some
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by gigel82 3mo ago
No quibble, but you'll have to pry classic Outlook from my cold, dead hands... :)
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by gigel82 3mo ago
Until you look at memory consumption in Task Manager or Process Explorer. WebView2 spawns ~400Mb worth of various browser processes. Your main app process by itself might look nice and slim, but all that (somewhat hidden) cost is atrocious.
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by gigel82 4mo ago
But if "they" stay on the current trajectory we'll never own hardware capable enough to run the open source AI. They want us to rent everything from the cloud and never own it. If a government-supported cartel forms around th
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by gigel82 4mo ago
Good. I wish the US had some privacy regulations as well. I can't believe how much credit folks are still giving Apple after all the BS they pulled (I mean direct Ad revenue is a $9 billion (and growing) business for Apple, and that&#x

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