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- Godel_unicode parentIt’s an uncommon take that a diverse market with no single sector even close to a majority is a problem.
- Clips work by observing transmission of light through the finger being absorbed by oxygen-carrying blood as opposed to the single chip wearable which depends on measuring reflected light. Different techniques, different patents.
- I don’t understand why people use sha256 when sha512 is often significantly faster:
https://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/26336/sha-512-fas...
- > there's no way to make your data anonymous and usable by the third party at the same time. The
This is absurd hyperbole, here’s a trivial proof. The US population is 51.1% female. If you live in the US your gender information is included in this data point, but it cannot be de-anonymized. It is however useful for determining TAM for many products.
Anonymity is a spectrum, and there are many points along that spectrum which are solutions to usable data which also respects privacy.
- Plenty of those people are present in this thread.
- We were talking about open Wi-Fi networks.
This paranoid alternate reality where tv companies are paying every ISP for backdoor access is very, very far away from flipping the “opportunistically join open networks” bit. It’s also not borne out by either research or logic.
> at all costs
Nothing works like that. They don’t care about you, beyond the pennies they can make. If it costs (and it would) they won’t do it.
- > wouldn't be that hard.
What are you basing that on? They’ve spent a lot of time talking about how optimized the hardware and software are for each other, why are you so sure that getting equivalent performance and efficiency would be easy? Consider how trash MoltenVK is compared to Metal. About the best you can say is that it technically works.
> not giving up anything they currently earn
That’s not how Apple thinks. If they cut someone else in, especially a behemoth like Steam, they’re signing away their ability to do Apple Arcade for MacOS in the future. Look at the whole Kindle vs Apple Books fiasco, they’re never going to let someone else in the pool again. They won’t even let the XCloud game streaming app on.
- The irony of demonstrating a lack of critical thinking ability by claiming to be the great teachers of it has always been extremely amusing to me.
Don’t correct them, it’s honestly better this way.
- > It would not require a lot of changes.
It would require Apple to stop being Apple. Give up their App Store revenue (Steam) and give up their proprietary 3D API in favor of a standard? Might as well ask for a Start button.
- That’s moving the goalpost pretty far, don’t you think?
- > The average user doesn't know about drive enryption.
Nor should they. Good news though, it’s on by default in any recent Windows which supports it. So a great many millions of users are using it without needing to know or care.
- I don’t understand the point you’re making. Someone might eventually start doing something they’re not currently doing?
- You might want to read the Wilson et al paper on mindfulness significantly increasing susceptibility to false memories, that’s quite the downside.
- There’s also nothing stopping any of them from including an Iridium modem in their sets. Or using aircrack to try and break into a nearby network. Or any other tinfoil hat thing we can come up with.
There are literally thousands of paranoid security researchers who would love to post about something like this (hi), and none of them have. That’s hardly conclusive, but if it’s not good enough for you then maybe you should reconsider whether society is the place for you.
- Ask 4 people and you’ll get at least 5 answers, I recommend reading rtings reviews and buying whatever they recommend for whatever kind of viewer you are. If you’re asking this kind of question here then that’ll be good enough.
Edit: https://www.rtings.com/tv/reviews/best/tvs-on-the-market
- Go into your router and block the MAC address. Even most ISP routers have an option for this, sometimes in the Parental Controls section. Much easier than changing the password or resetting the TV.
- Tl;dr, as anyone’s who has researched this extensively knows, buy a projector or something that’s over 15 years old.
- Can you connect to it and get internet without hitting a captive portal that requires your ISP creds? That’s usually how it happens in the US.
- Which ISPs are giving out APs with no key needed and no captive portal? Every one that I’m aware of requires some manner of secret to login to the shared AP.
- There are some videos around on the internet that show how to find the Wi-Fi module on an LG tv, for example the below. If you break your tv by trying this it’s on you.
- I have tried pretty hard (I came up with 100 common Wi-Fi names by googling around) and have never been able to get it to happen. With enterprise grade Wi-Fi gear it’s pretty trivial to create a ton of AP names and route them all to a test VLAN.
If it sounds like the idea comes with a tinfoil hat, best to investigate with a skeptical eye.
- Great advice for breaking a $1000 piece of kit.
A convenient rule of thumb for this advice is that anyone who should follow it doesn’t need it. Everyone else should be redirected to a teardown video.
- Calling the version with no smarts “idiot” seems pretty clever to me.
- > That doesn't make any sense
They know. That’s the point.