I don’t really believe anyone is “apolitical”. You can choose to distance a yourself from politics, but sometimes it comes to you. Sheeran is in that second situation.

It shouldn’t be hard for him to take a milquetoast “all loss of life is tragic” position at the very least.

You turned it off from their menu option? You’re a trusting soul aren’t you.

Orders of magnitude. The LG TVs are full PCs, not single chip system. They arerunning image recognition on anything displayed on screen (not just from its own apps), transcribing anything they hear on microphones. Your fire stick will just phone home about what it is doing only. It’s not a central hub of information.

You haven’t connected it to the internet, but:

1. It’s still recording, waiting for the day it gets a connection.
2. It’s looking for it’s own way to make a connection.

The TVos is the malware.

Does it have WiFi? It doesn’t need cables to look for other devices to communicate through.

…and then don’t live near anyone that doesn’t take the same precautions.

There’s all the people that allow them shell access as well. That’s all the OpenAI “hack” of Hugging face was. A bash shell with a model attached. Now think of all the people running that inside of security perimeters.

If only the US had integrated the Universal Declaration of Human Rights into law. It’s only 78 years old. Guess they haven’t had time yet.

Article 25

Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services,

I wouldn’t count “behind a VPN” as “open to the internet”.

It’s still listening and recording. The recent Gamers Nexus video shows that the just store everything locally until they find a way to send it. They’re always scanning the radio for other access points too.

Damn seagulls.

Code is probably one of the easiest things to verify

LOL!!!

Local opposition to data centre builds seems to be most effective at the moment. People oppose it from across the political spectrum, and it’s becoming a hot topic. Add your voice to the crowd.

AI use for Open Source projects is arguably the one use case that benefits everyone,

It doesn’t benefit everyone if it pushes the quality down because the impetus to go fast wins over the dedication to reviewing the code properly. Nor does it benefit everyone if the world becomes uninhabitable because of the energy used by data centers. Nor does it benefit everyone if economies collapse due to the hype being wrong and the speculative bubble bursts. Nor does it benefit everyone if the hype is right and it renders most jobs redundant.

These are the very rational things “haters” are concerned about. AI is for the rich to get richer. It does nothing for the rest of us.

I put on my robe and wizard hat.

Like many leaders before him, he’s going into a critical election weak. He thinks he needs a win to look strong. Iran is a big pile of shit for him, so he’s looking to other “easier” targets.

He doesn’t understand Canadians at all.

So we’re taking that code out of systemd, right?

What about King Kong? That was pretty big at the time. Sure, it’s more of a supporting role, but still significant.