tomkarho

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by tomkarho 3d ago
I wonder if the following scenario ever occurred inside LG when they were designing this spyware. 1. Teenagers exist 2. Teenagers hook up with other teenagers 3. Sometimes that might happen on the couch in front of the TV If that TV records
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by tomkarho 3d ago
1. We do NOT record or log anything 2. We might log something but it is local only and these specific features 3. Okay maybe we'll log a little but the TOS gives us permission 4. Yes we log and record everything and this is why it&#x27
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by tomkarho 8d ago
I'm sure the comments will be full of detractors scoffing at this claiming that all one needs is not to wash their hands. Or just go outside to handle that mud. With luck you might come across the king of Briton.
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by tomkarho 13d ago
Sony decided to go with "You will own nothing and be happy"
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by tomkarho 13d ago
They must have abandoned such plans (if they had any) when they got some backlash after they added telemetry features and half a dozen forks popped up overnight.
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by tomkarho 14d ago
How about Asahi? Or is your hardware too new for it to apply.
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by tomkarho 16d ago
Call it cynicism or paranoia but whenever something gets passed unanimously especially when it's tech related (lawmakers are notoriously aloof when it comes to tech in general let alone knowing anything about Linux or licenses) there&#
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by tomkarho 21d ago
I recall reading that Curry went to the same gym as the actor of Penelope in Criminal Minds and asked her (repeatedly as I recall) if he could get a role. Eventually he got one and delivered as Flynn perhaps the most terrifying unsub in the
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by tomkarho 28d ago
> an ironic thing about Flock and it's audit trail is that it serves as a honeypot to root out bad police. That's like saying the SS served as a honeypot for genocidal maniacs.
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by tomkarho 1mo ago
I'd like to think this conspiracy at least contributed: https://blog.chriszacharias.com/a-conspiracy-to-kill-ie6 Unless it's all fud in which case I shall archive this under headcanon.
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by tomkarho 1mo ago
> start putting up banners that say "our website does not work with your browser, please switch to Chrome" That's how IE 6 was killed.
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by tomkarho 1mo ago
Hunter Biden is still around so, no.
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by tomkarho 1mo ago
> "Valid HTML" used to be a big deal To a point that there was an actual badge for it.
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by tomkarho 1mo ago
Worms is such a masterpiece it is used to predict elections.
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by tomkarho 1mo ago
IANAL but there have been some attempts to argue that forcing operating systems to add any age attestation etc. is compelled speech. Guess the question is which Distro will foot the bill to test this in actual court.
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by tomkarho 1mo ago
> The ability to register for Signal without a phone number is a frequently requested feature. I wonder if Signal missed the forest for the trees with a paid registration. I imagine privacy is the primary reason for registering without p
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by tomkarho 1mo ago
For the tiniest of moment websites were made using Flash. Granted the technology was mostly games and video but on occasion a site popped up where everything was an interactive flash instead of plain old html. And before that there was java
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by tomkarho 1mo ago
End of an era. Who do we vote as the worst company ever now?
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by tomkarho 2mo ago
Sony and other digital vendors have proven more than once that if it's digital, you are not in control regardless of legislation. Discs matter because they are the only even remotely trustworthy way of actually owning what you buy in p
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by tomkarho 2mo ago
Vorlons authenticate, Shadows authorize
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by tomkarho 2mo ago
These single click "informed" consent is akin to a bartender mixing you a drink with 30 different ingredients and hoping you don't notice they include cyanide and rohypnol.
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by tomkarho 2mo ago
> Will there be any traditional user-serving browsers left a few years from now? One can hope that by then Ladybird has landed. There was some rumblings about an alpha release come 2027 so "few years" might actually be achievab
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by tomkarho 2mo ago
> Maybe the next generation of MacBooks will also actually have exactly 90° non-rounded corners? Depends who owns the patent for that.
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by tomkarho 2mo ago
The most ludicrous case of trademark issues I've seen to date has been Apple suing Prepear because they had a pear as their logo but Monster suing someone because of the term monster is not far from falling equally as far from the tree
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by tomkarho 2mo ago
The way this trend is going we might need "rewritten in Rust" catalog similar to Google's graveyard.
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by tomkarho 2mo ago
Richard they did it. You can rest now.
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by tomkarho 3mo ago
Take the vax or lose your job. Two weeks to flatten the curve. You are killing grandma. "Lab leak" was a dirty word. The science has settled. A bloody live death count on the news. It seemed that every conceivable way to pressure,
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by tomkarho 3mo ago
Good thing Attenborough got there first so Mel can still play with lego's. I hope there is a reference in the new Space Balls for that. Such a funny little quirk.
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by tomkarho 3mo ago
Better call Web Dude
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by tomkarho 3mo ago
Nothing Phone comes probably the closest to bare bones at least what I have come across.

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