hostiles.

Unless you want to up your probability of being treated as hostile.

This is an apolitical statement, as true about filming and following an employee of $disfavored_business as it is about wearing a yankees cap to a redsox game.

I wasn't there and all that, but if it were me with the camera, I might have taken the extra half a minute to go up to the guy and introduce myself before filming.

OTOH, this sounds like one of the reasons I prefer debs from the standard repository over things hosted on other sites. Yeah, it's not perfect, but it's safer than lots of project specific repositories. (And it's one of the reasons I try to avoid Javascript, Go, and Rust.)

>"No random passerby, tradesperson, delivery driver, ever had their phone's mobile hotspot turned on and unsecured...."

I suppose that is possible, if the TV were really that obsessed- trying all the time, while also ignoring the "off" setting.

Let's reach back to what I hope is a basic level of bullshit detection we might have exercised at some point in the last few decades when a clueless politico said something clueless about the internets.

How does one enforce, or even measure, such a "slowdown" exactly?

The thing he's talking about policing is writing code and running it. Perhaps a little more capital intensive than writing a crypto suite without fully abiding by ITAR or reverse engineering DVD CSS, but not in any way that matters.

You're not talking about keeping a lid on the exact geometry of nuclear bomb design that's the difference between a boom and a fizzle, or the secret sauce of enriching uranium or machining plutonium. You're talking about typing code into a computer.

Presumably he knows this, or should know it. Perhaps he's yet another silicon valley figurehead, but either way: it's a joke and/or a lie whether he believes it himself. So who exactly is the mark who's the intended audience of this PR?

Politicians? Media? Investors? Idunno. None of those make much sense to me.

Maybe it's just a healthy dose of stupid.

One option is to buy a commercial signage display [bhphotovideo.com] which are still more like "dumb" displays. "

That is overkill. Just buy whatever TV you want and never connect to it a network. I bought a high-end Samsung and have been enjoying it for years. It has never been connected to a network. And no, there is no "open"/insecure WiFi network in range of the TV. So if it is collecting anything, it doesn't matter. "Smart" stuff should be separate and replaceable. I have a non-networked blueray player connected, my Linux desktop system, a TiVo, and a Roku Ultra. TiVo has no microphones or cameras. Roku has a mic only on the remote, yet no reports of that being an issue, and no cameras. Linux, well, that is, of course, safe.

I literally use my TV as a display monitor. Even sound is external, like it should be, using a nice audio/video amplifier and many great speakers for actual 5.1 surround. Not the fake crap you get with TV speakers or "sound bars".

You're assuming they can't connect to a nearby open wifi net. Some reports have them doing that, though I don't know how valid those reports were.

Maybe not, but some are considering, e.g., salt water. Of course that's for "cloud brightening". And irrigation is already causing some areas to experience excessive salt in the agricultural land.

Lots of things in medicine and biology were discovered long before there was and plausible reason. And how many people understand, e.g., alcohol. Often even when you do understand part of it, you don't understand all.

What this needs is a large double-blind experiment. Worry about the explanations later. (And EXPECT the first ones to be wrong.)

Reply to self:

>"And I guess I can believe you are using TE3"

Obvious typo, that should read "TE4"

>"Every place I look and ask says all Suggestions and Thumbs Up/Down were shut down in 2023."

It apparently was for TE4.

>"My TiVo hasn't had it since 2023."

Then you are probably using TE4. I am using TE3. Why it would still work with TE3 and not TE4 makes absolutely no sense to me at all. I suppose the functionality is completely local with TE3 and somehow they needlessly "cloudified" that function with TE4. I intentionally never switched to TE4 on my Roamio because I hated that user interface. Bolt cable version (not OTA version) can also use either, as well. But Bolt OTA and Edge was/is TE4 only.

>"I guess I can believe you."

And I guess I can believe you are using TE3

>"And don't call people assholes."

Normally I don't. But re-read what you posted to me and tell me it wasn't needlessly insulting! But (in your words) "I guess I can" apologize for that...

I am sure you know this and are just trying to shit on the editors, as one does on /.; but here, use this in case you didn't know: https://xcancel.com/_lyraaaa_/...

Hey man. Don't knock it. I get paid the big bux for predicting the next token in my line of work. My predictive powers are better than yours, I'll wager.

How else does one explain a bot EMOTING to itself this way?

With blackjack, and hookers?

>"Whatever, you might seem to think it works, but it was shut down in 2023."

Don't be an asshole. I have used TiVo for decades. I know exactly how suggestions work and use them all the time on my TE3 Roamio. You are accusing me of either being an idiot or lying, and neither is correct. I suspect you don't even know what TE3 or TE4 is. So think before you post.

Suggestions was shut down for TE4. Not for TE3.