We live in a capitalist dystopia
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IIRC, budget monitor maker Sceptre has gotten into the TV business and supports a range of basic TVs without any integrated smart features
I'll look into them. I'm still using a Gateway monitor and I should probably invest in an upgrade before this thing dies on me.
Pomax (@[email protected])
Attached: 2 images @[email protected] Did I mention our oven had an RF chip in it that was broadcasting an open wifi network with the password in the SSID, 24/7, and the only way to turn it off is to either sign up for an LG account and use "the app", or just... take your wall mounted oven...
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All these stupid things use apps for notifications and custom settings these days: it's probably how it connects to your home network to push those functions. Cause the control panel and an egg timer aren't good enough for some people...
My home network has a desktop and a printer.
We have a fairly large wireless network. A bunch of computers, a couple of "smart" tvs, a printer and at least 1 cellphone at any given time. More depending on whose in the house.
Still not an excuse: ovens, washers, dryers, dishwashers; none of these things need to access the internet and anyone who tells you different needs to be beaten with a tree.
Still not an excuse: ovens, washers, dryers, dishwashers; none of these things need to access the internet and anyone who tells you different needs to be beaten with a tree.
In the case of the oven, it's also providing its own network, like some printers do for ad-hoc printing. If you don't hook it to your networ and disable it then potentially someone could join said network(given the password is in the SSID) and presumably access and control your oven from outside your house. Another new application for wardriving. Also better hope your neighbors aren't technically proficient or like you.
Alternatively, it could have meshing capability if there are other devices from that Wifi manufacturer nearby with meshing capability, and mesh its way to someone else's device that IS on the internet. So a 5G chip being included isn't necessarily required for it to get online on its own.
And speaking of LG spying:
www.theverge.com
(the original video from the security researchers and GN is 2 hours, and linked in the article)
In other news:
www.theguardian.com
Alternatively, it could have meshing capability if there are other devices from that Wifi manufacturer nearby with meshing capability, and mesh its way to someone else's device that IS on the internet. So a 5G chip being included isn't necessarily required for it to get online on its own.
And speaking of LG spying:
LG TVs caught spying even when offline or on standby
Gamers Nexus comes for LG again.
www.theverge.com
In other news:
Electronic shelf labels likely to cost jobs and drive up grocery prices, US report warns
AFL-CIO calls for ban on such labels to protect consumers and workers from surveillance pricing and job cuts
www.theguardian.com
My phone isn't even on my home network, and it reports its location in random places. This week it's somewhere in South Carolina.
Phones got a better travel mandate than you do!
And windows just updated so here comes the fuckery!
My rog ally no longer has a virtual keyboard on the login screen. This follows windows telling me the password I used to login isn't valid to change my login options. I really do hugging hate windows.
My rog ally no longer has a virtual keyboard on the login screen. This follows windows telling me the password I used to login isn't valid to change my login options. I really do hugging hate windows.
This is why I paused Windows updates for 20 years.
Ransomware recovery CEO charged over secret ransom payments
The owner of ransomware remediation company MonsterCloud has been charged with allegedly defrauding ransomware victims by secretly paying their attackers for decryptors while claiming to use proprietary technology to recover encrypted data.
www.bleepingcomputer.com
So some "Ransomware Recovery Services" don't actually do any decryption; they just turn around and pay the Ransomware org and "miraculously" quickly decrypt everything. So not only is their business based on bad things being done to people, but also when you try to avoid paying the bad guys to not encourage and finance more of it, you end up doing so anyways unknowingly so these guys can make a quick buck as a middleman.
Reminds me of debt consolidation kinda. You have one entity demanding an obscene amount of money, you appeal to a middleman who pays considerably less on the grounds that "You're never going to see that much money from these poor-asses and you know it", still sticks you with a bill, and takes a cut.
Is anything in our economy real?
Just gonna drop this here...
Prof. Sam Lawler (@[email protected])
Sitting in on a meeting of radio astronomers and learning that the FCC is gradually auctioning off the radio frequency bands we need for weather forecasts. Fantastic.
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juliette (@[email protected])
One of the worst consequences of the 2008 financial crisis was the introduction of the concept of “too big to fail.” This has incentivized companies to make themselves appear oversized, increase market valuation even when they turn zero profit, and get themselves listed in enough pension funds...
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