mctoasterson

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Eventually people come to the surprising realization that their best product was actually the Zune.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Not a lawyer but I believe in the US this would be legal as you are granting the use of the original license and not duplicating any content for simultaneous use by others.

What I would like to see is a gentlemans agreement of sorts where companies agree not to come after people for playing pirate, emulated or archival copies of games that are decades old and not for sale in any format anymore. I guess this is somewhat encompassed in the framework of "Abandonware".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

While you should do this to block your TVs telemetry and other undesirable behavior, realize that YouTube native TV app ads can't be blocked at DNS level alone without also blocking the core functionality of YouTube, due to the way it serves the ads.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 month ago (2 children)

This is and has been a big deal for a while. Do we really want easily trackable movements on every major road? What happens when they start feeding that data into federal fusion centers for cataloging and storage "just in case" they need it later?

What happens when a regime that criminalizes dissent has access to realtime vehicular and individual (via mobile phone) tracking data?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (4 children)

If you really need it to be secure and private, and are communicating mostly with known acquaintances within a reasonable radius, with low bandwidth requirements, LoRA with encryption is the best bet.

It is a higher bar of entry but at least you can be confident your messages won't be intercepted in any useful form.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 94 points 1 month ago (25 children)

Yeah... fuck this shit. This is part of the reason I still drive a nearly 20 year old vehicle. It has features I want, and can't be stolen via fucking API calls. Absolute insanity.

I think Hyundai/Kia group has done unfathomable damage to their brands. Kia, despite being a budget brand, wants to be seen as a legit competitor to Toyota or at least Nissan. Their corner cutting with the immobilizers and the resulting "USB" theft shit was bad enough. Now this exploit.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago

The most secure endpoint is one that is completely inaccessible because the underlying service isn't running.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

To answer your question, it could be legal grey area because not all pictures depicting nudity are automatically considered pornographic, if you are speaking in terms of legal precedent regarding obscenity in the US.

To further muddy the issue, photographing other peoples kids is considered creepy by nearly everyone but it isn't expressly illegal unless certain localities have specific statutes against it. There is no reasonable expectation of privacy in public places, so you have the potential situation where people are doing a presumptively legal activity in a public area where photographing that activity could be illegal depending on... intent?

Further, the courts have ruled that getting naked in public in the act of protesting something is part of protected speech. Presumably that applies to people of all ages and sexes as well but I doubt it has ever been tested.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

Imagine thinking that platform only "went bad" recently.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This sounds awesome. It uses the native YouTube app? Or YouTube in the TV web browser?

[–] [email protected] 76 points 1 month ago (6 children)

This is where "piracy" is actually the industry's saving grace. Decades or centuries later, will record labels exist and be well-managed (and flush with cash) enough to preserve archival copies of their artists catalogs? Probably not.

Will obscure weirdos exist all around the world on Usenet, IRC, or seeding torrents? Possibly.

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