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- Comment on Is it possible to install my own OS on a "smart" TV? Is that a thing? 1 day ago:
I could be wrong (I haven’t really paid attention lately), but I think the state of Linux on “smart” TVs is considerably more dire than the state of Android phones. At least with the latter, projects like LineageOS and GrapheneOS are a thing, whereas I know of zero third-party community firmware projects for TVs.
- Comment on Is it possible to install my own OS on a "smart" TV? Is that a thing? 1 day ago:
Yes, it’s a damn shame that Linus is weak on property rights.
Because that’s what this actually is, by the way: violating the device owner’s property rights in order to prioritize the manufacturer’s temporary monopoly privilege over the software – which was only created for the sole and express purpose “to promote the progress of science and the useful arts” in the first place – above them.
- Comment on Is it possible to install my own OS on a "smart" TV? Is that a thing? 1 day ago:
It should be a thing because most (all?) “smart TVs” run some variety of Linux, which, as Free Software, is supposed to guarantee the device owner’s right to modify the software running on the thing. However, in most (all?) cases, the practical ability to do that has been destroyed by subverting encryption functions against the owner in a process called Tivoization.
In other words:
- No, it isn’t really a thing,
- It’s wrong for it not to be a thing, and
- You should be pissed off about it.
- Comment on YSK: US Senate offices pay attention to how many constituents are calling them on a topic. Democracy doesn't end at the ballot box 2 days ago:
These tactics are not always a guarantee to have things go your way
See also: Atlanta city council voting for Cop City despite over two hundred people showing up at the meeting, in person, to speak against it. (Not to mention a petition for a referendum that got hundreds of thousands of signatures but was illegally withheld from the ballot anyway.)
You’re right that actually talking to your representatives works surprisingly often, but sometimes it really blatantly doesn’t.
- Comment on Academic papers yanked after authors found to have used unlicensed software 2 days ago:
Anticopyright diatribes are the important part!
- Comment on The Onion buys rightwing conspiracy theory site Infowars with plans to make it ‘very funny, very stupid’ 2 days ago:
Does this mean they’re Alex Jones’s boss now?
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- Comment on Don’t Panic! How to Fight Fascism as an Archaeologist 3 days ago:
Saving the best advice for the end.
- Comment on Steam drops Windows 7 and 8 support with the latest client — users told to ‘update to a more recent version of Windows’ to continue gaming 4 days ago:
Yes, we’re talking about Valve, which has a vested interest in pushing gamers towards Linux in order to protect itself from anti-competitive behavior by Microsoft.
- Comment on Steam drops Windows 7 and 8 support with the latest client — users told to ‘update to a more recent version of Windows’ to continue gaming 4 days ago:
It ought to tell them to upgrade to a more recent OS instead of being Windows-centric.
- Comment on Making A Unique Type Of Wind Gauge For Home Assistant Use 5 days ago:
I think I’m gonna make this. (Bold words – we’ll see if I ever get around to it.)
- Comment on D-Link refuses to patch a security flaw on over 60,000 NAS devices — the company instead recommends replacing legacy NAS with newer models 6 days ago:
Go read what he actually wrote, not what the character assassins pretended he meant.
- Comment on Need for Speed: what is the best title of the series? 6 days ago:
Same here, although that’s probably because it’s the only one I played extensively as a kid. I always thought the Atlantica/Aquatica course was incredibly cool.
- Comment on The country is done for 1 week ago:
*USians
Your version has too many vowels.
- Comment on Tony Todd Dies: ‘Candyman’ Star Whose Hundreds Of Credits Include ‘Final Destination’ Films & ‘Platoon’ Was 69 1 week ago:
Aw man, no more new Rodek/Kurn content in Star Trek Online. 😢 (For those who don’t know, he’s been a voice actor in that game from 2017 to at least 2023 – I can’t remember if he’s been in the latest episode arc or not.)
- Comment on Oil giant BP is killing 18 hydrogen projects, chilling the nascent industry 1 week ago:
Good, hydrogen (especially oil-company-backed hydrogen) was a greenwashing scam anyway.
- Comment on topical 1 week ago:
Frankly, that wouldn’t have been a mistake if it had been Bernie.
- Comment on AI Elections 1 week ago:
No, you don’t deserve that privilege!
- Comment on AI Elections 1 week ago:
It really went downhill since the resonance cascade.
- Comment on 🍃 🐑 1 week ago:
kleptoplasty
I like how it’s appropriate to call it “-plasty” twice (first in the referring to chloroplasts sense, and then again in the plastic surgery sense).
- Comment on When Does Instagram Decide a Nipple Becomes Female? 2 weeks ago:
Technically correct, because they weren’t “American” before they landed.
They abandoned the Bible as a real guide long before that, though.
- Comment on M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location 2 weeks ago:
As an IT guy, if I worked with Macs this would be terrible to work with
You know, now that you say it, I’d bet that’s exactly why they did it. They probably want to fuck over companies that would otherwise have racks of Mac Minis (for clusters, colocated servers, etc.) and force them into Mac Studios or Mac Pros instead.
- Comment on Apple’s first Mac mini redesign in 14 years looks like a big aluminum Apple TV 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on The Starfleet Gazette Will Not Be Endorsing a Candidate for President of the United Federation of Planets 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Gandalf failed to consider incest, half my ancestors are related baby 2 weeks ago:
Who said anything about “childless?” Even if femboy sluts prefer catching, that doesn’t mean it’s impossible for them to have pitched occasionally.
- Comment on Facebook Is Auto-Generating Militia Group Pages as Extremists Continue to Organize in Plain Sight. 2 weeks ago:
Assuming that there are any non-fascists left to react…
- Comment on 'They Know Who You Are': Harvard Students Use Meta's Ray-Ban Glasses To Pull Up Your Identity In Real-time 2 weeks ago:
As someone who gets greeted alarmingly often by people whose names I ought to remember but don’t (I’m a minor community leader but am bad with names), I’ve wanted a device like this for 20+ years. I’m a little sad about the concept being vilified.
On the other hand, as an advocate for both privacy and Free Software, I always imagined it as being completely self-hosted and only adding people’s names/faces to its database when I’m introduced to them in person. I’m not at all sad about the particular implementation being vilified.
- Comment on The EchoChamberinator 9000! 2 weeks ago:
Believe it or not, “digital” rabbit ears (which are exactly the same as regular old-school ones, but with stupider marketing) on each TV.
- Comment on The EchoChamberinator 9000! 2 weeks ago:
My Boomer parents never used social media to begin with (unless forwarded chain emails count?). I did manage to get them to ditch cable TV and mindlessly vegetating on Fox News all day, but they still (unfathomably) prefer OTA TV to streaming so they’re still in Sinclair’s thrall…
- Comment on What I learned from 3 years of running Windows 11 on “unsupported” PCs 2 weeks ago:
Sure, you can work around Microsoft’s intentional sabotage, in the same way that you can make excuses about “falling down stairs” when friends ask about the black eyes your abusive spouse gave you. But you shouldn’t have to.
Oh and…
It takes the same fucking time when configuring your Linux distro of choice, unattended or not.
…no it fucking doesn’t, BTW. (At least not unless you intentionally choose to use a ‘difficult’ distro like Arch or Gentoo.)
