You can call Putin a lot of things, but stupid isn’t one of them.

Yeah, but then the admin would just need to keep adding new ones. It would be nice if it could be done client side or whatever.

Nah, it’s mostly because gamers Nexus reviewed an LG monitor, which also had that shit (monitors were traditionally ‘dumb’ before this), so he decided to do a broader investigation.

I’ve always wanted to have a way to give users their own options to use open source algorithms or create their own, but I don’t know how doable that is, since part of it is also how content gets tagged, etc.

Don’t worry, they all do it. You basically have to buy a dumb display if you want privacy.

If you can detect and identify the other devices on the LAN, you know exactly which other smart devices the customer has, and at scale that’s very valuable market research. They could probably even start sending ads to customers for an LG replacement if a device drops off the network.

And the open source movement is such a blind spot to the ‘left’ as well, even though technology freedom is critical if you want to be able to organise any type of resistance in the digital space.

Lemmy users largely get it, obviously, but centre left people will happily let themselves get locked into the Apple/Google walled gardens even though you’re just giving that company a ridiculous amount of power over you.

Fucking maddening how so many Latinos voted for Trump because “they got in the right way”, not realising that they’d end up getting randomly stopped and deported “because they fit the profile”.

It never pays to throw in your lot with white supremicists, they’ll always turn on you.

And if the French hadn’t helped the US in the revolutionary war, they’d all be speaking English and be under a despotic monarch now.

Oh wait…

Did they talk about nuking the great lakes again?

Union drives?

I personally haven’t had to touch it in over a decade, but I guess there’s probably some uses for it still, yeah.