I assumed they would log everything and create a profile in you from day one. I signed up with a fresh email account.

Even Aurora store vets all the apps for trackers. Google just take the money and serve up malware.

At least these days it’s farily obvious when an app is looking at your location or listening in with the mic.

It’s a link to a podcast page that returns a 404.

Literally unplayable.

Every company I worked for is like this. I sneak small improvements into daily work. If I call an old function, I’ll often fix it while I’m there. Don’t raise tickets. Don’t ask. Just fix it.

I also have a shelf of a hundred fixes that I never merged. I’ve done the work, but the real hurdle is PR and and testing. It takes days of effort to push code that took an hour to write.

Australia did this once. We called it “robodebt”. An algorithm that falsely cut people off social security and ultimately killed some of them.

I have a Hisense and there isn’t actually a button to view TV off the antenna. It takes about 5 button presses to get there. Absolutely cooked.

This Google Free TV thing is not TV by definition.

I’ve got 3 subnets on an L2 switch. You will have clashes over DHCP if you have both broadcasting on the same L2 switch without VLANs.

My guest wifi is on a vlan, but the switch is L2 and it’s fine. The router has separate physical ports for each subnet. The “guest” subnet is only accessible over Wifi, and the access points are configured so that the guest VLAN is mapped to a separate SSID.

My third subnet has no VLAN. It’s IPv6-only and all devices have a static IP address. It’s only used for security cameras. I did this so they don’t transmit on the same physical cables as my primary subnet. It is otherwise insecure, as I can join the subnet by simply assigning myself a static address in the same range.

Note: There is a bug in Windows where it will join an IPv6 subnet on a different VLAN. I had to tweak my DHCPv6 / radvd so that Windows would ignore it. Yes, Windows is this dumb.

It’s not a standard until there’s an ISO, RFC, IEEE or IEC number to go with it.

It’s becoming quite rare to change the CR2032 on a PC motherboard these days. Even those tend to outlive the hardware.

Someone’s gotta charge the eels.

It took me a few seconds to realise that graph is y=x*86-64.

I wonder if an Android calendar would be considered. Google’s calendar seems to dominate since the AOSP was dropped (it’s kinda maintained under the “Etar” brand now). Thunderbird desktop has a calendar.

I think the August 2001 backup is a good restore point.

TBH this is why I’ve never used Telegram.

Yep. It’s not Inkscape.

Do PhotoShop and Illustrator both do full vector editing? I never paid to find out.

Photoshop can’t draw capsicums so GIMP is still better.

I’ve set my phone so it will erase if someone enters the PIN backwards (GrapheneOS duress code). It would be fun to watch the authorities wipe the phone.

I’d probably get deported over it, but whatever.

2024 Suzuki Swift.

You even need to dial in the date and time manually because there’s no GPS either.

https://www.manualslib.com/manual/3476295/Suzuki-Swift-2024.html?page=548#manual

I didn’t tell ChatGPT who I am. I have a separate email address for it and everything.

Just keep in back of mind how everything is being linked and profiled behind the scenes. Without anything else, all they have to link you to other things is an IP address and an email. IP addresses aren’t terribly reliable these days. There may be supercookie/fingerprinting mischief going on though.

Even if a relative has shared their DNA, it can be used to make some fairly safe assumptions about yours.

My car’s computer doesn’t transmit. It doesn’t log anything more than engine fault codes. That’s how I like it.

Update KB5053598 is a very simple update that includes “miscellaneous security improvements to internal OS functionality”

Removing Copilot wasn’t unintentional at all. They said so right there in the release notes.