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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 and transmits anything, who is on the hook for production and distribution of illicit materials? The parents? The kids? Or LG?

PR/legal wise this might be the worst case scenario and might even get some of those legislators and law enforcement people interested.


4. Wait for anyone to come knocking regarding illegal spying.

5. Discover there is absolutely zero enforcement if you are govt. intertwined oligarchy owned conglomerate.

6. Sell collected data (akshully it will be synthetic data "of course", wink-wink) to a legal front to a Nexus darknet laundromat. Also known as "identity verification provider or other somesuch.

7. Insurance companies legally partner with a different legal Nexus front corpo, which will ingest stolen data and make it "sythetic data" again, wink-wink; then provide it to the insurance corpos.

8. Insurance is opaquely "adjusted" to those same teenagers.

9. Profit :)


> Insurance companies legally partner with a different legal Nexus front corpo, which will ingest stolen data and make it "sythetic data" again, wink-wink; then provide it to the insurance corpos.

And, of course, sell it to the Epstein class behind closed doors for undisclosed kickbacks and favouritism.


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's a good thing; you ought to pay us actually


OMG, yeah, that made me laugh. Then cry.

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.

Sony decided to go with "You will own nothing and be happy"

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.

They haven't

Just go the main homepage and there is a banner which leads you to buy the latest plugin

https://www.audacityteam.org/

But hontestly nothing wrong with that imo

> half a dozen forks popped up overnight

There is only one actively maintained fork https://tenacityaudio.org/


How about Asahi? Or is your hardware too new for it to apply.

Too new, but my old M1 MacBook Pro runs Asahi and, while I love it and everything the team has done, it's not really daily drivable for work (due to a lack of external display support and other issues).

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's bound to be a shoe about to drop. Either somewhere else this exemption is rendered moot (which is why it passed so easily) or something else is going on.


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 history of the show to date.

As someone who's exposure to him had been in the vein of Home Alone 2, C & C, Muppets and Ferngully where his portrayal had always had considerable amount of whimsy sillyness to it, seeing him take a seriously terrifying role like that was a wonderful experience.

Finale of season 5 and start of season 6 for those wishing to see for themselves (highly recommend).


> 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.


> 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.


The final death of IE6 was because corporates finally stopped using it⁰ and the reason for that had nothing to do with sites/apps refusing to work. If we'd said "we don't support IE6" they'd either say "the contract we signed years ago somehow says otherwise" or "fair enough, we'll use someone else's solution then".

What killed it was IE6 not supporting TLS1.0 out of the box or TLS1.1+ at all, and that started to make them fail external audits. After years of telling them IE6 was holding us back implementing best-practise security on their instances of our apps¹ and being ignored because doing anything about it their side was too much hassle, external auditors started refusing to give them relevant certificates & such because of their systems not being up to best practise (or even good practise by that point!) and suddenly they made the effort to no longer have anyone in their orgs using IE6.

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[0] source: I was working on software serving the banking industry (customer facing & investment sides, not trading) around that time and years either side

[1] Even having annual conversations like:

    ! The pen test results say you should disable anything below TLS1.0 (and later 1.1), and you haven't. Please do. 
    ? Are you sure? We'd *really* like to, as we've repeatedly mentioned, but that will block your IE6 users.
    ! Yes! You must follow the recommendations!
    ? Excellent. Done.
    [a short time passes]
    ! Your application is broken for some of our users!
    ? Yep. They are using IE6 without TLS enabled. 
    ? Either you need to upgrade their configurations or tell us, in writing please, to break from best practise and reenable the older protocols.
    [another short time later]
    ! Please reenable the older protocols.


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.


Oh that certainly did the trick for home users, but I was having to deal with IE6 for our clients (at least one of them was IE6 only), as were people I knew working in or otherwise supporting other corporate environments, for several years after that.

Some management types might have even seen YouTube potentially blocking IE6 users as an advantage for keeping with IE6 to save bandwidth on their creaking external network links!


It was killed by a lawsuit, mostly.

Also FE devs using all new Chrome shinny APIs, and their Electron junk are also to blame, and they aren't going to throw their toys away.


If nothing else, I really do hope that the greater AI usage leads to more adoption (and hopefully interest) of native frameworks.


If only, everyone brags about Claude and Fable, yet they can't do anything better than Electron and React for TUIs.


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