Lou Katz @lou@entropyservice.com

This is why I never connect my TV to the Internet. Ever.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2449198-smart-tvs-take-snapshots-of-what-you-watch-multiple-times-per-second/

Talk about a grotesque invasion of privacy:

"Smart TVs from Samsung and LG take screenshots of what you are watching even when you are using them to display images from a connected laptop or video game console"

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2449198-smart-tvs-take-snapshots-of-what-you-watch-multiple-times-per-second/

How can this possibly be legal?

Here's why: Congress isn't just indifferent to your privacy. It is actively complicit with big corporations -- and law enforcement -- in embedding surveillance into everything we do.

As International Community Continues to Enable Israel, People Must Heed BDS Call https://truthout.org/video/as-international-community-continues-to-enable-israel-people-must-heed-bds-call/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

When we're talking about mobility aids and prosthetics a right to repair and a right to freedom of movement are the same thing.

https://www.404media.co/paralyzed-jockey-loses-ability-to-walk-after-manufacturer-refuses-to-fix-battery-for-his-100-000-exoskeleton/

#sysadmin pro tip!

If you generate a lot of fresh Let's Encrypt certificates today, and don't enable auto-renewal, they will expire on December 25th, giving you a good excuse to leave your family dinner early.

The difference between C and C++ is that C has really basic memory unsafety, whereas C++ has very advanced memory unsafety

@haroonmeer @ThinkstCanary

Thank you so much Haroon & Thinks for your Canary Tokens. I created this token a couple of months ago for our Entra Login without an expectation of if or when it might trigger or how it would look if it did trigger.

Well it triggered this morning an email to our service desk, the result of this alert was within 30 minutes we'd completed our investigation revoked all the sessions MFA tokens etc disabled the account identified the source email and removed it from mailboxes.

Without this token we'd have been blissfully unaware. Once again thank you!

Biden Can Halt Wider War: Stop Sending Arms https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/09/26/biden-can-halt-wider-war-stop-sending-arms/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

An interesting wrinkle is that this particular defendant was homeless and so he could only get on the internet by going to, say, the nearby grocery store (where he was arrested). And understandably he didn't leave his laptop unattended at his outdoor campsite; he took it with him. What does Stanley v. Georgia, the right to private possession of obscenity inside one's home, mean for those who don't have one?

The quality of corruption in NYC today is just a sad, hollow shell of the proud heritage that brought us Tammany Hall and Jimmy Walker.

GAI == Generative AI == Greed AI

"Donald Trump is Unfit to hold ANY political office. He is a danger to society"
- Aure

US Presidential candidate Donald Trump promised to blow Iran and its big cities "to dust" in response to Iran's threats to Israel.
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #GOP #Politics #uspolitics #uspol #Trump

By me:

Chief among them: mandatory resets, required or restricted use of certain characters, and the use of security questions

https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/09/nist-proposes-barring-some-of-the-most-nonsensical-password-rules/

Trump says that Ukraine "is dead" and again boasts of his great relationship with his Russian master Putin

https://www.newspressnow.com/news/national_news/politics/trump-says-ukraine-is-dead-and-dismisses-its-defense-against-russias-invasion/article_b0cbc1f7-e068-5d39-95cf-fb435363a017.html

I propose "TV;DW" = Too Video, Didn't Watch

Microsoft reportedly is lobbying the federal government for help building vast numbers of power plants that COULD power millions of homes, instead to power their mediocre AI crap.

And they said long copyright terms don't encourage new work from long-dead artists!

https://boingboing.net/2024/09/25/first-new-music-from-mozart-in-250-years.html

It's Time for Patients to Own Their Health Care Data | Opinion https://www.newsweek.com/its-time-patients-own-their-health-care-data-opinion-1958649?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

"Let me be perfectly clear; if Trump is elected, he will immediately block the US from supporting Ukraine and will personally hand the keys to Kyiv to his puppet master Vladimir Putin.

Russia is only still fighting this war in the hopes their agents in the US can get Trump elected by hook or by crook.

Russia is embedded in MAGA like a woven rope."
- Aure
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #GOP #Politics #uspolitics #uspol #Trump #BreakingNews #Breaking #HarrisWalz

Samuel Alito and German rightwing aristocrat linked to US anti-abortion activist https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/17/samuel-alito-leonard-leo-gloria-von-thurn-und-taxis-napa-institute?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon