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by rickdeckard 20d ago
Of course, because by the new definition, the leader is "peak American", so everything in collision with his view is naturally "anti-American". The usage of the term "anti-American" by anyone in a public role s
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by rickdeckard 21d ago
1. Fairphone actually demonstrates that it's not a matter of "want" for sustainable/repairable/longevity, the market still doesn't reward sufficiently for it. --> If the total potential is an increase in sal
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by rickdeckard 21d ago
The fact that you put "Google themselves" in this list makes the conversation moot, because Google is de-facto the service-revenue recipient of the entire Android device-ecosystem and the culprit of the problem.
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by rickdeckard 21d ago
> The first time "something" happens (at least if you buy the argument) would be bad enough for legal punishment not to matter. One could argue that the "HuggingFace incident" is already "something" which sh
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by rickdeckard 22d ago
Only if you find a way to create revenue beyond the time-of-purchase, to offset the cost of development and maintenance, aka service revenue. So far only Apple achieved this by ensuring a walled garden around their ecosystem, securing addit
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by rickdeckard 22d ago
> On top of that the USB port is damaged and doesnt accept data but still accepts power. Data is broken on both sides of the port? (if you rotate the plug 180° it should use the other pins on the USB-C)
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by rickdeckard 22d ago
> What's stopping you from rooting it (probably the broken USB port)
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by rickdeckard 26d ago
From what I understand, the feature renders a signed reference image from raw sensor-data "alongside the final image". Still no solution if the image posted online is not that reference image or that reference image is actually
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by rickdeckard 26d ago
It's their in-house cellular modem for 2G/3G/4G/5G. No details on satellite comms, but the predecessor C1X also handles satellite communication and competitor Qualcomm also does satellite comms on the same silicon, so I&
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by rickdeckard 26d ago
The fantastic grey area that was engineered over the past decade is "profiling", so my guess is the answer will be "we didn't use your customer data for training, but we cannot rule out that it has been used to create p
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by rickdeckard 27d ago
It's quite incredible to consider that all these concerns already existed years ago, but now that a handful of companies working in AI managed to enslave the entire financial system over the past year, their continued work is protected
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by rickdeckard 27d ago
phrases along the lines of "I don't want you to take harm while trying to accuse us" is quite an "impressive feat". Maybe shows how fast these companies have grown without maturing. I can imagine old-world Intel and
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by rickdeckard 27d ago
Agree, I think the practice is also very clear from the overall strategy of AI-companies and their ToS: Scale with subsidized pricing as fast as possible to gain more user-data for training --> Own the better model --> scale pricing.
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by rickdeckard 27d ago
just to clarify: ACR is actually not taking a screenshot, it calculates a fingerprint of the picture and sends it to a server. The fingerprint is then checked against a database of some common content, to understand whether you're watc
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by rickdeckard 27d ago
What LG (and Samsung and all the other electronics companies) are doing is profiling the user to sell targeted advertising. This is technically not personal information, and that's a grey area for those companies when communicating t
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by rickdeckard 27d ago
Funny enough, in that one region where this regulation exists, no such incidents of user data being sold was discovered so far...
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by rickdeckard 27d ago
The terms of service in Europe [0] are actually very different to those in US [1], I wouldn't be surprised if the behavior within the EU is within EU GDPR regulation. GDPR "only" covers your personal information (and personal
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by rickdeckard 27d ago
> How is this not a gigantic fine from the EU for some kind of GDPR reason The underlying "research" is unfortunately not that clean, but I'd say for two reasons: 1. Because looking at the LG ToS alone, it seems that the d
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by rickdeckard 27d ago
Also applies to GM: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/08/general-moto... You know who DOESN'T sell the data to outside companies? Car-vendors which have large competing in-house financial
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by rickdeckard 27d ago
Also applies to GM: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/08/general-moto... You know who DOESN'T sell the data to outside companies? Car-vendors which have large competing in-house financial
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by rickdeckard 27d ago
You mean THIS TCL? https://ads.tcl.com/ Or THIS Hisense? https://nexxen.com/acr-data/ They all use Automatic Content Recognition (ACR) and collect profiling data to feed into an Ad service offering. Sa
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by rickdeckard 27d ago
I'm thinking very hard, yet still don't know what you're trying to say. You want a consumer TV to be like a Microsoft laptop, is that the benchmark? Did you read and comprehend the rest of my statement? I'm trying one mo
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by rickdeckard 28d ago
The attack-surface doesn't get lower, it just doesn't continue to increase UNLESS the same vulnerability is not carried over to other products. The attack-surface only gets lower when the TV is no longer in use and is disposed. Th
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by rickdeckard 28d ago
To me as a user, responsible disclosure is most-valuable for every vulnerability that could be exploited remotely without me being in control. The video draws exactly that picture, a nefarious actor, remotely taking control over my TV and r
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by rickdeckard 28d ago
Yeah, and here's the part that's interesting to me as a EU-consumer: This wording doesn't exist in the European ToS: https://gb.lgappstv.com/main/terms#tabContentTerms6 So there's the angle that US
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by rickdeckard 28d ago
Yeah, I wouldn't vouch for a US court, but lucky me I'm in the EU, where the answer "the maximum amount of data collection and monetization of that data they can get away with" is not compliant to the requirements of G
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by rickdeckard 28d ago
Sorry, I phrased it incorrectly. - Regulations are binding acts for all member-countries. - Directives are goals the union should achieve, but actual execution including laws is up to the local countries. The handicap comes when important a
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by rickdeckard 28d ago
You stated that you're "sitting on one that doesn't even require an internet connection [..] I'm waiting for my model to go EOL before I release it" I read this as "Wait until the model is EOL, hoping it won&
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by rickdeckard 28d ago
True, but rooting the device de-facto means breaking the trust-chain of the OS. The inevitable outcome of this video is that TV vendors are pushed to harden the security and preserve the trust-chain, because part of the (valid) claim is tha
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by rickdeckard 28d ago
And how they asked the device for voice-input for a websearch via the UI, and the device proceeded to perform voice transcription, filling the searchbox with everything that was said...

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