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  • Your LG TV Might Be Spying on Your Entire Network While You Think It's Turned Off

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  • The TV should just act as a TV with input ports. Why update the firmware?

  • Your LG TV Might Be Spying on Your Entire Network While You Think It's Turned Off

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  • jack it into a PC for media

    Even a proprietary streaming stick like FireTV would be an improvement because it only collects telemetry from the stick itself and not devices connected to other HDMI ports.

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  • Projectors have become amazing.

    Yeah and consumer oriented ones have their own apps and Google TV integration and the like, so no idea how a different image displaying tech would be a solution to privacy invasive TVs.

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  • They can connect to open (and hidden) networks without your consent.

    That's a wild claim and either I accidentally skipped a paragraph in the article or you should cite a source. Quick googling doesn't show up anything of that sort for me.

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  • Why would you connect a dishwasher to the internet? Setting a timer can tell you just as well if the dishes are clean.

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  • It’s honestly better to just have a bare wall and a projector.

    Consumer projectors come with the same "smart" shit as TVs these days. Just don't connect either to WiFi. Problem solved.

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  • This would’ve worked just a few years back but due to shitty “age verification” laws, even TV manufacturers willl force users to create an account the very least for the TV to even start up.

    Surely only for "smart" features but without enabling any of that shit, you shouldn't get any age verification prompt.

  • Your LG TV Might Be Spying on Your Entire Network While You Think It's Turned Off

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  • Don't connect TVs to your network.

  • Introducing Audacity 4: New tools & a new look (download in post body)

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  • Audacity was bought by Muse Group and almost immediately implemented a "don't you rather want to save on our cloud service instead?" pop-up and IIRC telemetry. Tenacity emerged as the most active fork without that shit and they since diverged a lot from Audacity.

    OTOH the resources of Muse Group made this huge rewrite possible. The level of pain between using wxWidgets or dismissing pop-ups is higher for wxWidgets for me.

    Maybe Tenacity is willing to throw away their homegrown developments to start fresh with the new code base. No idea.

  • Linux @programming.dev
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    Introducing Audacity 4: New tools & a new look (download in post body)

  • Paint.NET now supports WINE/Linux

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  • Only partially. Apparently Direct2D (which to be clear is different from Direct3D) is very weird and progress is slow.

  • Paint.NET now supports WINE/Linux

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  • slopifying his codebase.

    He didn't. That's the point. The slop code is a self contained dependency only used for the Linux build and not part of the actual paint.net codebase. His core user group (on Windows) will never get in touch with it.

    I think everybody, including him, would prefer if there was a working implementation of Direct2D for Wine.

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  • I think the point is that the developers doesn't want to actually review the code which they can do with a self contained dependency which they then ship on a "take it or leave it" basis.

    I kind of get it and I think it's a more responsible approach than to vibe code the core engine of their application.

  • Cubans living in Florida are being deported to Africa

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  • Aren't Florida Cubans pro Trump because they think he'll overthrow the Cuban government?

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    Windows 95's Start menu was invented by a chimpanzee-lab psychologist: 'Even a rocket scientist couldn't figure out Windows'

    www.windowslatest.com /2026/09/02/windows-95s-start-menu-was-invented-by-a-chimpanzee-lab-psychologist-even-a-rocket-scientist-couldnt-figure-out-windows/
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    Benjamin Netanyahu condemns West Bank settler violence after renewed attacks

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    Moscow Is Touting North Korea as a New Tourism Hotspot. Few Russians Are Making the Trip.

    www.themoscowtimes.com /2026/08/21/moscow-is-touting-north-korea-as-a-new-tourism-hotspot-few-russians-are-making-the-trip-a93388

  • Android Central: Fairphone (Gen. 6+) with /e/OS

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  • That hardware requirement is something they could work on for upcoming phones.

  • Linus Torvalds used AI to fix a Linux bug, and now LLM critics on Linux face an uncomfortable choice

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  • That’s gonna require a substantial amount more proof than a philosophical position taken by Linus Torvalds

    "Linus Torvalds used AI to fix a Linux bug" <-- literally spelled out in the headline.

    1600 commits contain the word "claude" alone: https://github.com/search?q=repo%3Atorvalds%2Flinux+claude&type=commits

    It's so easy to find out, yet you insist that you are right. Hilarious.

  • Linus Torvalds used AI to fix a Linux bug, and now LLM critics on Linux face an uncomfortable choice

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  • Linus Torvalds used AI to fix a Linux bug, and now LLM critics on Linux face an uncomfortable choice

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  • Maybe get an M2-series Mac and go all-in on Asahi Linux?

    That's still Linux with Torvalds-approved LLM generated code. If you care about avoiding LLM code, all Linux is now poisoned.

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  • We

    Patches welcome

  • Linux @programming.dev
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    workstation sibling of Bazzite

    Aurora Spring 2026 Update - Latest Stream now based on Fedora 44

    docs.getaurora.dev /blog/aurora-spring26-update/
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    cool-retro-term 2.0.0-beta1 released

    github.com /Swordfish90/cool-retro-term/releases/tag/2.0.0-beta1
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    Announcing the Alpha release of KDE Linux

    pointieststick.com /2025/09/06/announcing-the-alpha-release-of-kde-linux/
  • Yuki Tsunoda sympathy corner – Giving Yuki a hug since 1837 @lemmy.world
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    Support is important

  • Yuki Tsunoda sympathy corner – Giving Yuki a hug since 1837 @lemmy.world
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    Jos Verstappen is always silent

  • Yuki Tsunoda sympathy corner – Giving Yuki a hug since 1837 @lemmy.world
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    Dude, don't rub it in. sad Yuki noises

  • Yuki Tsunoda sympathy corner – Giving Yuki a hug since 1837 @lemmy.world
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    Looks like Yuki scored

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    Yuki set for podium in Spa GP

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    Feeling generous? You can Venmo the US government to help pay down the debt

    www.businessinsider.com /venmo-national-debt-payment-treasury-2025-7
  • Yuki Tsunoda sympathy corner – Giving Yuki a hug since 1837 @lemmy.world
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    Toto had the greatest idea: Horner for FIA president

    dubz.co /c/771d4e
  • Yuki Tsunoda sympathy corner – Giving Yuki a hug since 1837 @lemmy.world
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    Yuki outqualifying two F1 world champions

  • Yuki Tsunoda sympathy corner – Giving Yuki a hug since 1837 @lemmy.world
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    Ready to give it all up for one thing

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    When Nico Hulkenberg HUMBLED The Entire F1

  • Yuki Tsunoda sympathy corner – Giving Yuki a hug since 1837 @lemmy.world
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    There Will Never Be Another Nico Hulkenberg

  • Yuki Tsunoda sympathy corner – Giving Yuki a hug since 1837 @lemmy.world
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    **** yes.

  • Yuki Tsunoda sympathy corner – Giving Yuki a hug since 1837 @lemmy.world
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    Nico Hulkenberg's 15 Year Journey To A First F1 Podium

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    NFTs are totally the future and not at all a scam