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In addition, Narayanan says he uncovered a suspicious line of code broadcasted from the company to the vacuum, timestamped to the exact moment it stopped working. “Someone — or something — had remotely issued a kill command,” he wrote.

“I reversed the script change and rebooted the device,” he wrote. “It came back to life instantly. They hadn’t merely incorporated a remote control feature. They had used it to permanently disable my device.”

In short, he said, the company that made the device had “the power to remotely disable devices, and used it against me for blocking their data collection… Whether it was intentional punishment or automated enforcement of ‘compliance,’ the result was the same: a consumer device had turned on its owner.”

They kill switched it remotely. Yikes.

Controversial take:

If Autodesk products is how you make your money - Just use the OS your work provides you. Unless you're a freelancer, of which that's your work computer, and lock everything else down.

Work computer is not my problem. Nor am I putting anything personal on there. Microsoft wants to mine my company's info, let those two deal with that shit.

This was my mistake when I started self hosting a few years ago!

I went all-in on FOSS. And my God, it was constantly a maintenance nightmare for some apps. Some would break with updates. Some times I felt I was playing wackamole replacing one set of problems with new ones.

Then I met a swlf-hoster who has been doing self hosting for two decades and he helped he unfuck my stuff by recommending commercial and paid services. And honestly, it was awesome because I'm too old for this shit. I just want working services.

I don't think it's access. I grew up without supervision. And kids are smart.

But I had some good parents who would slap the fascist out of me.

You know, when I posted this, I honestly didnt I think this was about this post that I shared https://discuss.online/post/28897489

And was mostly thinking about shitty ass kids and teenagers leaning far right and being full blown racists.

Which only highlights how adaptable this comic is.

Anyone who travels quickly discovers how backwards America is for so many things compared to other modernized cities.

Today, the average teenager in this country has 50% of the sperm count, 50% of the testosterone as a 65-year-old man. Our girls are hitting puberty six years early, and that’s bad, but also our parents aren’t having children. Parents who want to have children do not have access. I have seven children. I feel that God has blessed me with that and I can’t imagine how different my life would be if I did not have that blessing.

RFK jr counting teenager sperm?

Bless you OP. I saw this in my feed and immediately had to see if it was here.

I wouldn't say they're worse. I'd say they're confusing as hell.

For example: fan manga are absolutely okay.

You mean that fake Jan 6 Antifa woke FBI mob that were unarmed and just peaceful tourists?

Unlike that nothing burger, where five people died...

This VIOLENT bike ride had DICKS out.

I run Pi-hole, and ublock.

I went to my pal's house and turn on his TV, ad. He turned on his Xbox, ad. Was looking for a specific game on his Xbox, another fucking ad.

"Too complicated" he says when I suggested setting him up with a raspberry pi.

I made the mistake buying a Kindle Fire in 2015. A few months in, it was literal garbage. Everything lagged. Very few apps would work. Not much variety in the Amazon app store. Learned my lesson about Amazon products.

At my company, most of the IT team are hardcore Trump supporters who do not see a problem with working with LGBTQIA people and being polite to their face, while also wanting them to have less rights.

Yes, they are all white men. And yes, all of them will tell you how hard they worked to get there, completely oblivious of how much an advantage they got to get there.

I remember having to write so much bullshit code to make it look right on IE. I think by 2018, I got fed up with it and put it in my contract that I don't code for IE. And to my surprise, most companies were like, "Yeah we don't give a fuck about those users either." Either their metrics showed that IE users weren't buying, or they were a small segment not worth supporting.

And I never looked back.

Ah, the COVID method of counting!

"That will go well with my crackers and cheese because here's a block!"

Who would have thought?

I read the code like half a dozen times and my brain hurts.

Lack of education and training really.

I only knew of Linux because I saw some dude use Linux in 2012. And then a few years later, I finally decided to try it out as it was easier for work. After a lot of false starts, I finally started switching around 2021.

Going to imagine most people are the same - get experience from it and then have a reason to use it daily.