Posts like these make me feel like I could live with the loss of the pattern recognition part of my brain.

I disabled my DNS block-list for 5 minutes to test something, and my Samsung TV used its newfound freedom to immediately go and automatically install the TikTok app from its app store. It no longer gets the privilege of an internet connection.

Can they still claim their security deposit back or does this fall under cover for emotional damages?

Your credit card details (and renal failure)

I’ll note that it’s extremely hard to vet for that sort of behaviour in doctors and preempt the cases you’ve described from happening - they could have just as easily happened under private healthcare.

Is the view that this wouldn’t have happened under private healthcare predicated on something in particular? It’s not like private healthcare is somehow fundamentally immune to malpractice.

Isn’t it amazing how detached people can be from the real-world effects of their thoughts and beliefs, so long as they don’t get to personally experience their impact?

Or removed OtherOS because people were poking around the hypervisor (omitting the fact that the whole Linux-on-Playstation thing was an elaborate way to dodge tax as the console could be classified as a “personal computer”). Or suing Geohot for exposing that the ECDSA signing scheme that they based pretty much all of the PS3’s security on was basically broken. The list is fairly long, really

Unfortunately there’s so many OEM variants of these things that it borderlines on impossible to tell for certain which ones are and which ones aren’t, short of taking the firmware apart. Given the proximity in the naming convention, I suspect it might be.

Much as I dislike Google, the Chromecast with Google TV (4K) variant is probably the closest in price and is reputable.

Saw your edit, just a reminder for people to be careful with cheap Android TV boxes off Amazon/AliExpress etc. Lots of them are malware-ladden: https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/18/popular-android-tv-boxes-sold-on-amazon-are-laced-with-malware/

Don’t worry, Sony has a patent that will ultimately take care of this problem: https://www.creativebloq.com/sony-tv-patent

Yeah his take on that matter was spectacularly off base, even for comedy purposes

Evergreen George Carlin quote: “Boy, these conservatives are really something, aren’t they? They’re all in favor of the unborn. They will do anything for the unborn. But once you’re born, you’re on your own. Pro-life conservatives are obsessed with the fetus from conception to nine months. After that, they don’t want to know about you. They don’t want to hear from you. No nothing. No neonatal care, no day care, no head start, no school lunch, no food stamps, no welfare, no nothing. If you’re preborn, you’re fine; if you’re preschool, you’re fucked.”

The only child on earth to need hair plugs.

I was waiting for someone to notice the juxtaposition

Although the original paper in question appears to have just been English with Greek characters. So “ωε νεεδ το οβσκυρε τηις κνοωλεδγε” would have been more accurate.

Public transport probably isn’t a viable option in some cases, so I’m hoping EVs do catch on for this reason. Reducing or eliminating meat consumption, or at least finding more sustainable ways to provide it (i.e. lab-grown meat) also would definitely play a significant role. I am not advocating for eliminating all responsibility from the consumer side

The average person isn’t wrecking the environment for no reason either, and yet they always appear to be the target for “environmental sustainability” snipes presented by mainstream media as fact. There are an innumerable number of practices that large industries can practice to limit their carbon footprint, but it is never a priority.

Same reason I am highly critical of Jack Dorsey’s BlueSky and its attempt at rolling out a separate protocol. The last thing we need is for the Fediverse to be fragmented into a dozen protocols that do things ever-so-slightly differently and prevent network convergence.

This strange metal rod is making my blood feel funny