Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid!
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If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cutānāpaste it into its own post, thereās no quota for posting and the bar really isnāt that high
The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
you know what really fucking gets me about this thing? even ābeforeā all of the security and DV etc arguments (and, really, they are all valid)
consider the average consumer-human (present version of) windows desktop/laptop/workstation that has survived for more than a year or so without having been re-imaged. those are already often an unusable nightmare of built-up cruft in sticky corners
and now thereās going to be something thatāll do constant capture and analysis every fucking moment itās running?
how the fuck is this not going to go wrong? imagine the first time that sqlite table shits the bed. a dodgy character format goes into it, or a bit of disk corruption hits, or a file locking (lololol) issue hits, or ā¦
I just ā¦ I just really canāt imagine any of this is going to go very well at all in the real world
Iām calling it, when this bullshit gets deployed widely a bunch of absolute shitheads are going to dismiss Kevinās post with āthat was the prototype, they changed everything for the real versionā and the only thing thatāll change is theyāll superficially encrypt the SQLite file
Bit of an update with more from Kevin: https://doublepulsar.com/recall-stealing-everything-youve-ever-typed-or-viewed-on-your-own-windows-pc-is-now-possible-da3e12e9465e
pbccyhf_erpnyy_cevi.dbholy shit this is terrifying. is there any reason the tv is even doing this?
Iād bet on just buggy implementation. my bet is based on the fact that Iāve seen (multiple) hisense TVs do another thing: a MDNS query + publish, with the record having a newline in the fucking record. like,
tvname-{macstring}\n.local.to be clear: they both ask for and answers to that record. to their own request.
there are some extremely hilariously terrible things in a lot of these yoloboxed android solutions