>"A reporter at Mother Jones writes about a $169 alarm clock with special lighting and audio effects. But to use the features, "you need to pay an additional $4.99 per month, in perpetuity."

Yeah, and who is stupid enough to buy it?

>"Welcome to the age of subscription captivity, where an increasing share of the things you pay for actually own you."

Not me. I don't buy junk like that. Never. And once consumers eventually wise up and stop buying such junk, it will stop. They will start reading specs and reviews and reject the nonsense. Until then, they are getting exactly what they decided to buy.

I have my Firefox set the exact same way. Separate URL and search, they way it should be.

>"Because that is exactly what you would do if you honored peoples' privacy, sanity, and morals."

That is a bit dramatic.

Should "search" function be disabled (or "killed") as well? If you use it, it will send information to servers like Google, who will profile and track you...

Even with the AI features on, you are assuming it does something without the user telling it to. I don't think that is how this is going to work. Or certainly not the majority of it.

And it was stupid for the marketing people to call it a "Kill Switch", that isn't what it is. It is just going to be an off switch in settings, like all the other various settings.

I voted against Biden in the Primary. But as POTUS he surrounded himself with competent people AND LISTENED TO THEM.

Yes he and they made sime bad choices (Afghanistan withdrawal, tepid Ukraine support) but not strategic damage and coupled with some very good decisions (block China access to GPUs, energy policy)

If Dems sweep the Midterms this has a high chance of happening.

REMEMBER: ELECTIONS HAVE CONSEQUENCES

This guy either socially engineered his way through a line, analyzed a weakness in the line, or time-traveled from the '90's not realizing we've set up an incompetent but totalizing police-state control grid to interpose every tiny aspect of our lives.

To be fair, "pay on board" is less applicable to airplanes than trains because seatbelts are important in turbulence.

That said, the lack of capacity is widely acknowledged to be a feature of wildly incompetent management.

We just heard they've started a new project to rewrite the air traffic control system for the umpteenth time (and billions and billions later) to hopefully allow for more frequent landings and departures. I fear it won't be specified for AI-assist takeoffs and landings and will be obsolete before it's done.

Better make some more 8" floppies.

>"It's more about who's pants can you get into that will help you get the award."

And meeting the quotas for skin color, sex, able-ness, and sexual attraction of the cast, and "creative team".

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.oscars.org%2Fawards%2F...

Oh. The media made it sound like a lot more. But it has the potential to be a LOT more and FAST if they don't slap on high tariffs or limit the numbers.

>"Why is your TV spying on you somehow worse than your Roku, AppleTV, or whatever spying on you?"

Because this spying in the article is done on ANYTHING displayed from ANY device on the TV. That is MUCH worse than the spying performed by any one device, where you can control it better or just replace it. And those devices can only spy on things you do on THOSE devices, not others. I don't know about other people, but my "TV" is connected to a TiVo, a Roku, a Wii-U, a bluray player, my Linux computer, and potentially other devices).

So yeah, this stuff is much, much worse in the TV. So like I tell everyone- never connect your TV to the network, period. Just use it as a display, like a TV really should be in the first place- a monitor (and sometimes speakers; I use a "real" AV system that has real speakers located all over for real/full/rich surround sound).

>"I still bitterly cling to my hot-lamp projector, it is as dumb as a fencepost and doesn't sell me out"

Not necessary. Any TV can be just a monitor. At least for now. Simply do not connect it to the network. Done. Connect whatever devices you want/control to the HDMI port(s). Don't want a "streamer", don't connect it. Connected a streamer and they go bad or anti-consumer, throw it away and get a different box.

The moment the manufacturers try to REQUIRE internet access to use it as a monitor is the day that consumers should punish those manufactures. Don't buy. If you did buy, return it (which costs them a lot). If beyond return window and they didn't clearly disclose such a requirement, sue them.

We need to set the expectation NOW that there is a line that cannot be crossed, and that is: No matter what crap they add to TV's, we can still connect our TV's like a monitors and use them with whatever only-local devices we want and they will operate without internet, forever.

>"This and many other highly negative consequences Germany experiencing due to high energy costs."

And the flood of Chinese vehicles being allowed into Europe and elsewhere (still not the USA, though).

It's good to have a second engine but it sure sounds like Gecko isn't long for this world.

>"This whole story is about CCTV, therefore NVR or cloud keys as these are where CCTV is hosted. Having to use a different device in addition to the NVR defeats the point"

At home, my Unifi gateway *is* the NVR (2TB in M.2 slot). At work it is a larger model with two HDD (40TB), although it is a gateway, we are using it only running Protect and Access (plus NVR). Lots of them are like that (several models).

Not that what you are saying isn't important or valuable. I don't have anything running IPV6, so I can't address the specific points you are making. I was just saying they updated IPV6 in the gateways a LOT over the last year.

>"Back to the issue here - there is nothing to stop a young person to be able to learn technology. I did the greatest part of my computer tech learning before eever using UseNet. Seems like nice graduated process. Learn about the basics on a standalone computer"

BINGO. +100

Non-smartphone for basic communication/text and done. And if the parent wants to go further, THEN dive into an internet connection with lockdown whitelist for older kids and gradually work them up to the insane world.

Do you live in a city?