You can put a web server on an inexpensive ESP32 these days. That server can be a lot simpler than the one in the cloud since instead of having to maintain many accounts, it only needs to handle 1.

Yeah, nobody is buying this "sustain the development" nonsense.

Somebody needs to keep the servers patched. Somebody needs to keep the app targeting an API that the app stores will host. Bose can afford maybe 1.5 FTE's with redundancy on a rolling basis.

Did they ignore due diligence for a decade and just get nabbed running RHEL 5 and unlicensed Oracle Java on an old VMWare or something?

If Bose is a public corporation perhaps the FTC should have a look at their deliberations.

See Seyonic's Youtube video.

The 512-SIM racks can only addreses 64 at a time. This comports with what people noticed about the antenna count.

8x is nearly an order of magnitude difference and chaged my mind about the likely purpose.

Presumably the spammers expect the SIM's to get blacklisted and move on?

But WHO is provisioning a quarter million cards at a time without tripping flags?

> secret server-side backdoors that will store less secure copies of messages

How do you do that with end-to-end cryptosystems?

This is a dumb take.

Bobby has massive MAGA support and is very much in favor of healing uses of psychedelics.

You'd looking for enemies among your allies. That's a sure sign of media brainwashing.

Pharma is your enemy, not your neighbor.

> heart issues such as long QT syndrome

Wikipedia is wrong as usual.

Ibogaine is contraindicated for people with long QT-interval because it temporarily extends it.

This is fine for normal people but not if you already have long QT. It's not hard to see on EKG but some underground clinics don't do the EKG and there have been a few deaths.

There have been no deaths when medically supervised, which is why the Drug Control Act kills people.

> but that is as far as you can go in a 'free' society.

Right. That's why taxpayer-funded medical care is incompatible with a free society.

When I can't afford a healthier diet and a gym membership because I'm forced to subsidize others' rock climbing, dirtbike racing, rugby, and junk-food diets, we've totally gone over the cliff.

The whole thing becomes a positive-feedback loop until it detonates.

Spending 20% of GDP on sick-care with ever-worsening results should terrify any thinking person.

Everybody should be able to choose those things but their insurance premiums should reflect it.

Colleges used to be run by faculty, with administrators as their functionaries.

Now faculty are employees with little say in governance.

Obama's nationalization of student loans has increased the ratio of administrators by 10x by guaranteeing tuition without regard for value.

The faculty are outnumbered and outgunned.

The same thing happened to doctors and hospitals for the same reason and with the same enshittification.

It doesn't have to be this way.

The numbers weren't much better three years ago.

On fire, fire sale, what's the difference?

At Radio Shack, you've got Questions, We've got cellphones.

Agreed. They did a lot better with retired engineers and college kids majoring in EE.

> That being said, I wonder if paying for no ads includes no tracking across the internet, and no selling of the user's data. After all, the "if it's free you're the product" mantra doesn't (heh...shouldn't) apply any more.

Of course. Just trust the Zuckbot.

> Should anyone really care?

Their opinion pieces are purchased by the MIC, so maybe.

They must be afraid somebody is sniffing around in "their" physics.

We've had government physicists say plainly that MIC R&D has fundamental breakthroughs in topological physics that the public is not privy to.

JWST is discarding "established" cosmological physics theories by the week. This should be celebrated by scientists!

I recently listened to a retired Lockheed guy talking about light propagation theory and in that talk he noted that academic physicists strong resist learning that their "expertise" is in fact in error.

The implication was that non-academic physicists don't have that hangup and move faster.

The trick is the Chinese academic physicists don't have that problem either. The MIC should be terrified about what they have done with their anti-progress psyop. Maybe in 1970 when Chinese were eating salamanders and crickets this was a viable strategy but they failed to adapt to the times.

Cats will do that:-)

I can see why consumers might generally prefer an all-in-one solution *IF* it won't be enshitified. Alas, since it WILL be, I prefer a device that can't phone home at all in order to make enshittification impossible. It's unfortunate that the otherwise cleaner solution is screwed up by bad manufacturers.