Airpods, Magic Trackpads, and other Apple kit do. And my car lets me set its name for bluetooth/CarPlay. I've not seen that functionality elsewhere though; certianly not on any el-cheapo portable bluetooth speaker; nor on any pair of emergency headphones I've bought when I've forgotten to bring or charge my airpods. And a quick google turns up several speakers with some variation of "bomb" or "boom" in their names. So if the bluetooth name is similar to the product name, and it can't be changed, it is not at all unlikely for this to have been entirely unintentional. How many of us even look at our list of bluetooth devices after we pair them? Most of us just turn them on, and if the music plays, that's that. A little common sense would have gone a long way here.

Of course, the REAL question/problem here is what TF whas that little asswipe doing using a goddamned speaker on an airplane instead of headphones like a civilized human being.

They need to block the AI slop entirely and ban the frauds posting it.

Well, here's an idea: If you do want to be a parent; go out, find someone willing, have a kid, and parent it. Stop trying to conscript those of us who don't want the job into parenting your hypothetical kid for and instead of you.

Most of the big names in tech showed their true colors, bent the knee, and converted to mega last year or the year before. They were never going to support or work with Newsom th the first place... that was just an act So it would actually and oddly favorable for him to support this sort of authoritarianism.

I genuinely wish your comment was more satire than plain truth.

Given the explosion of sports betting, how long will it be before there's a lottery to pick the first athlete to die of a stroke or heart failure that can be linked clearly to performance enhancing drugs?

Put me down for a hundred bucks, a weight lifter and October 31, 2028.

Yeah... in your analogy it's not the comfortable people in the midwest with its boring weather and where nothing interesting happens using using or wanting to keep those window air conditioners. To be analogous, the window A/C draws significantly less electricity and has a backup power source that almost never goes down, even when the main power is out. And it's the people in hurricane country where it's 95 degrees and 95% humidity right after the storm passes and takes out the power to the central A/C who want to keep their window units and whose governments are resisting the utility's desire to take them away.

Now, add California (earthquakes) and New England (nor'easters) and Texas (cold days and no grid interconnects) and Hawaii (low grid redundancy) and maybe you'll see the picture.

Because false positives are a thing and cops who stop, attack, kill, arrest, detain, lay hands on, attempt to interrogate, approach, or otherwise darken the days of the innocent are not, themselves, terminated, charged with assault and kidnapping, and locked away never again to breathe free air or to look upon the sun or sky without bars interposed. Nor are DAs who charge (lie) the innocent or judges who go along and allow these shenanigans.

See to it that the police, DAs, and judges are all properly punished when they play their "close enough for government work" game; them we'll talk about giving them more power. Until such time as they are held accountable when they abuse the public, fuck 'em.

Seriously? They're calling this thing a Cyberdeck??? Yeah... no.

Sorry not sorry; but unless I can wire this thing into my brain and then flatline a room full of gonks with burnt out synapses by looking at them funny; this ain't no cyberdeck.

Oh... really?

So all those .mbox, .eml, and .emlx files I have both on my Time Machine drive and in my Backblaze account are what... exactly? Figments of my imagination? Well, I must have that Twilight Zone superpower where my imagination becomes real. Because I can most definitely retrieve and view those files and the access mail that is in them. Or... perhaps the air in the room I'm in is filled with atomized LSD and ketamine vapor and even the ability to retrieve and view my backups is also a figment of my imagination?

Do tell... oh great guru of what is and is not possible to back up on Apple kit.

Well... more than that.

Everyone... Every, Single, Person... who played any part in ordering, planning, setting, implementing, or collecting them needs to be prosecuted and imprisoned. Theft, fraud, official misconduct, services fraud, the Hobbs Act, wire fraud, malfeasance in office... whatever it takes to make those fuckers BURN!

It's easier to look at the videos, especially the frame they use to try to draw you in. For example... there are a lot of ragebait videos wrt/ entitled airline passengers trying to bully people out of their seats, or generally behaving like asses... in "airliner cabins" whose sides have no curvature, or the windows are so large it could only be a private jet, or with missing overhead bins, or seating in a configuration that no airliner uses or even supports. Another fun one that's stubbornly in my "For you" list is a "How the navy feeds the crew of a submarine from this tiny kitchen... but key frame shows the kitchen is HUGE, shares the same room/space with both enlisted and officer berthing, AND has (rather large) windows down the wall looking out into the underwater of the ocean. And no matter how good the AI voice is... real humans say "World War Two". We don't say double-you double-you eye eye, or even double-you double-you.

They'll probably get better so the above will no longer work. But I'm reporting and blocking every single example of AI slop that I see now; in the hopes that google will figure out that I don't want to watch any of that shite.

'Depends on which cops you're talking about. If you're talking about our local municipal PD then, yes, I would be very concerned. If you're taking about the so-called "cops" who are *actually* feds... any and all agencies that fall under the executive branch... I consider see those businessmen to be very moral and absolutely worthy of my respect. Anyone who refuses to be a bootlicking simp or stooge for maga automatically earns a higher-than-average baseline of respect in my book.

Within a hundred yard radius of my home are several high rise apartment buildings, two pubs, the entrance to three parks (one of which winds between significant transportation routes, a Canadian Legion, a drug store, and a bunch of other stuff. Barely outside that radius is a school, and several more high rises.

So in my case, that little bit of "fuzzing" spells anonymity. My point, though, is that even the smallest steps can help. If you're really serious, there's a lot more you can do without a lot of drama. I personally like the idea of "muddying the data pool" because it's something that can be done by average people without a lot of technological expertise. The larger the number of people involved, the more unreliable that pool becomes. That's all we want, really...to mess up the efforts of government and corporations to thrust themselves into every area of our lives.

Steps can be taken to make casual surveillance by police and other bad actors a little more difficult, such as turning off location services unless you really need them enabled. As far as I can see, though, the only way to keep the long, flexible nose of our government and corporate rulers out of our business is to poison the data pool. In this particular case, I'd just start with the consideration that there's no requirement for your phone and you to always be in the same place.