Sadly while your logic sounds spot on, the reality is, that TV still does ACR (basically hashing each screen sometimes multiple times a second) and builds one hell of an accurate profile of everything you watch. Even if the source is HDMI. And it's still sold.

Food for thought, that HDMI cable to your dedicated device, it likely supports networking, so the TV has a path to the internet even if you don't connect an ethernet cable directly to it, or add in your wifi creds.

> specifically because connecting to the internet blocked OTA antenna access and replaced it with a WatchFree+ streaming app

I threw up a little.

I've heard of traffic 'accidents' where a diabetic went hypoglycemic, passed out, and drove into other cars, pedestrians, etc. For some reason the news always reports it as a 'medical event', but the point is, people are killed by diabetics due to their diabetes way too often. It is an apt analogy. An idiot decides to drink and drive an puts people at risk. An idiot with diabetes fails to control their blood sugar and decides to drive, putting people at risk.

Yeah, it's easy to add more code to fix stuff that should be deleted. Just have the launcher code call your new code which bypasses all the old code. The old code can happily remain, it'll just never be called. No special skills required. If you look at the windows codebase, you'll see this technique everywhere.

Thanks for your questions, Freenet caches data but it isn’t meant to be a long-term storage network. It’s better to think of it as a communication system. Data persists as long as at least one node remains subscribed to it. If nobody subscribes (including the author), it will eventually disappear from the network. So yes, if only your node subscribes then the data will only exist there and won’t be available when your machine is offline. But if other nodes subscribe it will be replicated automatically and remain available even if your node goes offline.

Not from 2023, the linked video is from last month. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Actually, I'm pretty sure it does.

You keep using that word. I don't think it means what you think it means.

And she's probably still a threat to national security!

> They can only survive by arbitrarily choosing when not to pay. It's the only possible way for the house to always win.

Not true, parimutuel betting

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

That someone would be so rude as to a) leave their speaker on and b) not turn it off when told to by the cabin crew. Fuck this world.

Agreed, I had a 486DX2-50 from Dell. At best, I got it to boot into windows 3.1 on Dos 6.22 in about 25 seconds. That was with the HDD in DMA mode, and a heavily optimized config.sys and autoexec.bat. Unfortunately just the POST ate up 10 seconds.

The OP's claim of 3 seconds is ludicrous. Maybe on a modern VM emulating a 486?

I rent out a house in England and the tenant had a (reasonable) complaint. She emailed 3000 words to the managing agent. The agent sent her a 2000 word reply. This bounced back and forth a bit with each sending long emails with bullet points and the like. My guess is that both of them were using ChatGPT both to compose their own emails and to summarise the replies they got.

In frustration, she phoned me to complain and got what she wanted in less than 60 seconds. In my opinion, we will see much more examples like this where AI is reducing efficiency and lowering productivity.

Air pollution control is incredibly expensive and I'm pretty sure nobody will pay for it given the cheapness of life in India.