I think it was Defcon 2016; I went to the free "B-sides" mini-security conference that was between Blackhat and Defcon. I was in the toilet and heard some guy saying, "Hey, you can't do that here!" I was thinking, "what the fuck?" As I was washing my hands I head two guys saying, "That dude was in here taking pictures of people pooping!" "He was taking pictures of people pooping?!" "Yea that's what I said, he was taking pictures of people pooping!"

So .. guess perverts were a thing at Defcon? I mean .. that was the only incident the whole weekend, and Defcon hadn't technically started. It is Vegas though.

The weird part is that main value of youtube premium is ad free everywhere with no real hassle.

And instead of just offering people "cheap ad free tier", they instead bundle more and more crap with it and keep increasing the price, while waging long term war on ad blockers.

The obvious question is: "If these claims are true, what was his legal defense doing?"

It's literally the job of defense lawyer to bring up all those problems in court. That's why you get one appointed to you in anglo nations if you can't afford one. And if case was really as bad as this claim is, even a shit tier public defender should've been able to get it tossed, since his client has obvious defense of "this is not me".

I agree. AI derangement syndrome runs both directions. At the same time, even though I use it, I know it's hurting my cognitive software engineering abilities. I think that's going to become a bigger issue than anyone realizes.

Could have had a really bad or incompetent lawyer, or a completely brain dead jury. Tragic either way.

I mean, Adrien's Digital Basement works off of it full-time (via fan subscriptions) and he looks to be in his late 40s/50s. He doesn't have millions of followers, just a few hundred thousand. Although his partner may also provide a sizable amount of their income too.

This sounds like some marketing bullshit. It's not remotely verifiable.I have a lot of doubts about everything reported on this story.

> But honestly, why do we have accounts at all? 99% of the crap we do on our phone doesn't actually need it.

I don't. I haven't signed into a Google account on my phone in years. I run Lineage without Gapps or even microG stubs and just use F-droid.

https://battlepenguin.com/tech...

..but I realize I'm an outlier. It use to not be that way. In the 90s/2000s every tech enthusiast would wipe a machine and reinstall Windows when they got it to get rid of the bloatware. Replacing a phone OS would not only be commonplace in that era, but be demanded by consumers. In the early days, I even knew non-technical people who jailbroke their eyePhones all the time. Hell even people with kids an "zero time" would still do this stuff for fun.

Consumer exploration and curiosity has been atrophied. People want stuff that "just works," ... even though none of it actually works and the Cloud Gods can wipe your entire account with thousands of dollars in purchases overnight if they want. It's all DRM and no physical floppy disks.

Both of my vehicles are still stick shifts, a 5spd WRX and a 6spd Tacoma. You'll take them from my cold dead hands!

You will own nothing AND be perpetually in debt while not owning it.

> I suppose TV manufacturers could make it impossible to use the smart TV if you never connect it to the Internet, but they'd probably see mass returns to the store if they tried that.

They're getting close. Wal-Mart's TV brands (Onn and they recently bought Vizio too) will not work without a Wal-mart account ... and people are still buying them. I thought it was required just to use them as TVs, but doing some more research, it seems you can still use HDMI without a Wal-mart account. But I bet in a year or two, they won't even let you do that.

Huh ... so your reply makes you sound like you have limited reading comprehension and critical analysis skills. Very interesting. I'm sorry you're retarded. I really am. Maybe you can work on that?

I've seen a lot of these residential proxy services. They are expensive! Now we know how they work! This is probably just going to make the cost of those services skyrocket.

> Now answer that same one for your orange hero trump

Ummm... why do you think my "hero" is the Orange Pedophile. Just because I think communists deserve free helicopter rides doesn't mean I support the man who's sucking Israel's dick.

TDS runs both directions: https://battlepenguin.com/poli...

If I lived in California, I'd be tempted to get a physical, copper landline to be one of those remaining 200,000, just to piss AT&T off.