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• suddenly (5 days ago) memes are posted daily in 2 communities. All bearing the same watermark to a meme creation site.

• day 5 of posting the meme creation site is now mentioned explictly as the posts text.

The memes are good, but in context of this advertising, this account is either paid for or ai.

The actual fuck? I didn’t know this, how is that even legal…

You don’t need to run macos on that older machine.

I distinctly remember how at some point the “best all around laptop for running windows” was a MacBook pro,

Ofc by now more people are catching on they are much bettered served with linux…

Resistance is futile.

I mean i gladly take lab grown beef, it would indeed be great for the climate. Any lab grown meat is positive.

But yeah i do selfishly just want to eat more salmon more often because currently sashimi grade salmon is just too expensive for my budget.

Salmon is my number 1 food i want scientists to start growing in labs, cheaply and without animal harm.

We are far off still but i am rooting.

Anyone remember how scientists discovered whales can communicate using words and may have peronal names?

Well the spermwales called, and they have questions.

I hope not.

I think i can still trust my devices to not be actively listening trough every hole. I can, right?

As far as i could research it is technically feasible though very impractical and low quality, way easier to sell people voice command features instead.

As i understand it also depends on whether its a “active” speaker or not, has an amplifier behind it.

Tvs usually use a speaker array, a bad actor company could design it in a way that one or two of those can be used to record sound in case the microphone is no longer detected.

An ad collector wouldn’t go that far on purpose, a state intelligence operator who is covertly part of the company might.

Can you help me understand why i got downvotes for posting the following comment in this very same community 2 days ago?

I am not saying the following happens, i think there is no proof it happens, but its technically doable.

They are capable of scanning for local networks and bluetooth devices which can be used to identify a location. (This part they definitely do)

If your neighbour has an lg tv, or the presence of the tv is extracted through your phone. Then they know where it is and they also know of any open/public wifi networks around.

The researchers from gamers nexus can connect to 2 (ssid) networks at once for some reason.

In theory a neighbours lg tv could broadcast their wifi credentials to your tv to connect to upload the data.

Remember ye old life-hack that you can use earbuds as a microphone in a pinch?

Speakers and microphones are conceptually the same technology. If your tv can play sound then in theory it can be used by a malicious hacker or company to records sound.

Included under “what the machine elves told me”

Just skipping a meal with meat where you would usually have one is already a big step for the individual.

Gamin nexus mentioned it somewhere in their long video.

These devices do send encrypted information to their corporate masters we cannot know if it happens, but with what we know what these devices do we can conclude they designed to do stuff like that.

I am not saying the following happens, i think there is no proof it happens, but its technically doable.

They are capable of scanning for local networks and bluetooth devices which can be used to identify a location. (This part they definitely do)

If your neighbour has an lg tv, or the presence of the tv is extracted through your phone. Then they know where it is and they also know of any open/public wifi networks around.

The researchers from gamers nexus can connect to 2 (ssid) networks at once for some reason.

In theory a neighbours lg tv could broadcast their wifi credentials to your tv to connect to upload the data.

Don’t let this discourage you.

You can self host on your local network just fine and never portforward which is what exposes it to the outside.

I don’t need to watch tv or upload pictures to my server outside of my home. Its perfectly useable.

When you are ready and feel more confident you can setup your own wireguard vpn and only expose that.

Then Your device can connected to that vpn tunnels inside and can acces everything like home.

Currently without vpn your device is at risk every time it connects to a network you don’t own. A third party vpn is not a guarantee your data is safe either. Your home vpn though means all your outside the home networking is fully encrypted and outsiders cant even detect your home adresses is running a vpn to hack. (No ping unless you have the key)

Did you know that it was originally a band aid for combat situations?

Also that nowadays the industry massively prefers gaffer tape cause it can be removed without leaving a mess.

I feel that is moving the goal post a bit but i am a history nerd so i will happily read about any historical examples of what you speak. (Not sarcasm i really really love learning and being proven wrong)

Here is what Wikipedia had to say about the orgins of copyright law (tldr its censorship by church and state)

There is an earlier story about a dispute of a copied work which ended in a battle its said to have caused 3000 casualties, an unreliable number but enough to assume this wasn’t exactly David vs Goliat either.

You must be joking, the vast majority of patents are owned by large corporations.

Can you give me one example of where copyright is protecting an average wealth citizen?

Enforcing copyright requires you to have the economic resources to create lawsuits when it gets infringed. Sometimes enforcing your rights can costs into millions of dollars. Infringers often have the resources to delay the legal case till you the rightsholder have no more money left to continue.

Places like china don’t care about it either and they will just copy and sell on the western market anyway.

Some sources for the later

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYHIJtQxbzw

https://qz.com/771727/chinas-factories-in-shenzhen-can-copy-products-at-breakneck-speed-and-its-time-for-the-rest-of-the-world-to-get-over-it

It would be way less of a problem for sure, but not moot. An individual inventor can still stop other people from using an identical solution simply for being first to file the paperwork.