Blockchain? Get with the times grandpa!

Accurate

An unanswered question?

What’s the actual relevant info in this massive wall of legalese?

That’s what I meant by “never connect it to the internet and plug in a more trusted device”, whether that’s a Chromecast or your PC you can always plug in something else you trust more than the TV. Obviously finding something you can trust that does everything you want is another story.

My (very basic) understanding of a pihole is that it calls out to an upstream DNS provider (such as the one you’d be using without a pihole) and caches everything it gets back, meaning that it’s only making new requests when you’re querying a domain it hasn’t queried before. I can’t think of any reason a game would need to constantly be accessing different domains (except maybe for some kind of server browser?)

What games are you playing that regularly send out lots of DNS requests to different domains?

The worrying part:

Most TVs on the market today come with a technology called automatic content recognition (ACR) built in. This is basically Shazam for TV — Shazam itself helped popularize the tech — and gives smart TV platforms the ability to monitor what you’re watching by either taking screenshots or capturing audio snippets while you’re watching.

The author then just gives up and says “maybe targeted adverts aren’t so bad”, concluding that the only way to avoid them is to buy an older TV. Fuck that! Either never connect it to the internet and plug in a more trusted devices, or go for a deep dive down the pihole.

Same in Summit. I guess there needs to be a standard that everyone follows, because currently I have a client which automatically handles normal other-instance links, and these link helpers actively break it!

Also I wonder how it handles reposts, i.e. the same link multiple times in one community

Good to know, thanks!

Behold, the master hacker

automatically lock the phone a few minutes after the screen turns off

Isn’t the default behaviour of phones to lock as soon as the screen turns off?

Requirements - Device admin permission for locking screen.

Does this mean it requires root access (which brings additional security concerns) or just that a non-restricted user needs to set it up?

It does? How do you set it up?

There are so many bad defaults to deal with. For instance I can remove Google Photos and try to communicate with Signal, but when I need to use a group chat which is still in WhatsApp then any photos posted there are probably being auto-uploaded on the recipient’s phone.

Exactly. As I posted on a different thread I’m no fan of Apple but they’re probably one of the few companies with the balls and the sway to tell governments to fuck off, but I’m already worried how many other companies have already rolled over and how many more will if more governments start demanding this shit.

Today me, tomorrow you. Other countries are itching to enforce the same shit, don’t let it happen to you!

If you’d only ever interacted with Lemmy and not read up on how ActivityPub works then that’s a reasonable assumption, it’s not like anything (that I’ve noticed!) actually tells you that your votes are public, and they don’t look to be public in the places you’re likely to see!

I think the issue is that many Lemmy users will think more carefully about what they comment than what they up/downvote, as a comment appears connected to your username but a vote doesn’t. You might decide against commenting on something you disagree with because you don’t want to get in a fight, instead just downvoting it, but if people then know if was you who downvoted can still pick the fight.

Basically the issue is you’re revealing a lot more information than you might initially have realised if you’d have known votes were public all along. Maybe a disgruntled person uses that to dox you, or maybe a corpo feeds all that information into their fancy computer system to work out who you might be, who knows.