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Comment You can do this now, with no restrictions. (Score 2) 51

I have three gmail addresses that I use for different purposes. All the "smart" devices in my homes have the address [street number][street name]@gmail.com for three different houses, so that makes six gmail accounts. If you want a new address, go ahead and register one, then set forwarding and sharing on the old account. I don't see how they can call this a new feature.

Comment let's watch (Score 1) 272

I was going to post "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." but this is microsoft we're talking about. Their codebase is pretty broken already, so, let them have at it. I'll watch the chaos with firefox on linux. I just hope my bank and the financial markets don't crash too hard if it gets that bad.There's a lot of dependence on MS products.

Comment Re:Wrong. No soup or money for you, Mozilla. (Score 1) 79

[And what's with the graying out on Slashdot? When I first saw the story it had only three comments but was unclickable. I'd think I should know after so many years, but...]

You have to click the title first to reveal the summary, then you can click the number of comments to see what people said. Caveat: any comment posted while the story is grey disappears when it is greenlit, tho an editor may reference some of them in the summary that gets the green.

Comment old cellphones FTW (Score 1) 2

Try using old cellphones. Cheap and local, discrete when you want it. Not for outdoors, but security when you aren't home is important. Plus spaces like basement and garage could use a camera. I use an app named "Alfred" that gives full camera, mic, and speaker control. I'm sure you can find other apps as well.

Comment I fully agree (Score 2) 145

Guess I'm prescient. I posted the below 10 days ago:

There's a lot more to college than just the academics. College is where you meet the friends you'll keep for life, and often your future spouse. Going from dormland to a shared house with friends as roommates is a gentle transition from living at home to being on your own. The social interaction isn't the bullshit of high school; this is where people start to develop the social skills of adults. At college you choose who you spend most of your time with. When working you spend time with the people your boss hired, like them or not. I think the experience of going to college is important for growth and wellness. And it's hell of a lot of fun too.

Comment An important aspect (Score 1, Insightful) 198

There's a lot more to college than just the academics. College is where you meet the friends you'll keep for life, and often your future spouse. Going from dormland to a shared house with friends as roommates is a gentle transition from living at home to being on your own. The social interaction isn't the bullshit of high school; this is where people start to develop the social skills of adults. At college you choose who you spend most of your time with. When working you spend time with the people your boss hired, like them or not. I think the experience of going to college is important for growth and wellness. And it's hell of a lot of fun too.

Comment Re: AI is biased against anything not Big Pharma (Score 1) 27

a belief rooted in conspirtal thinking and selective bias.

I repeat: Do you actually know and have experience with even one chiropractor? Vague handwaving about a stereotype does not make a valid point. You are just regurgitating the hot air others have farted in your direction. Despite the dogpile or derision it receives, chiropractic practice is based on the scientific method. I've never met a licensed chiropractor who follows aromatherapy, homeopathy, "Life Coach" or other "I can't get a degree so I'll fake it" kind of theories.They really are medical professionals. Unless you have a direct experience to bolster your attitude, stop spreading prejudiced bullshit.

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Google Is Collecting Troves of Data From Downgraded Nest Thermostats 11

Even after disabling remote control and officially ending support for early Nest Learning Thermostats, Google is still receiving detailed sensor and activity data from these devices, including temperature changes, motion, and ambient light. The Verge reports: After digging into the backend, security researcher Cody Kociemba found that the first- and second-generation Nest Learning Thermostats are still sending Google information about manual temperature changes, whether a person is present in the room, if sunlight is hitting the device, and more. Kociemba made the discovery while participating in a bounty program created by FULU, a right-to-repair advocacy organization cofounded by electronics repair technician and YouTuber Louis Rossmann.

FULU challenged developers to come up with a solution to restore smart functionality to Nest devices no longer supported by Google, and that's exactly what Kociemba did with his open-source No Longer Evil project. But after cloning Google's API to create this custom software, he started receiving a trove of logs from customer devices, which he turned off. "On these devices, while they [Google] turned off access to remotely control them, they did leave in the ability for the devices to upload logs. And the logs are pretty extensive," Kociemba tells The Verge. [...] "I was under the impression that the Google connection would be severed along with the remote functionality, however that connection is not severed, and instead is a one-way street," Kociemba says.

Comment Re:People have right to be mentally-ill! (Score 3, Insightful) 85

People have right to be mentally-ill! Just look at gays, they are not reproducing and ill but almost nobody tries to cure them anymore. Psychiatrists have no right to try to "convert" mentally-ill people into "healthy". (Thomas Szasz)

Your casual homophobic bigotry shows that you are out of touch with reality. Surveys of people between 18 and 29 were asked the question "Are you straight?". 30% said no. That's more than people with blue eyes. At what point do you go from "I don't like them and there's too few of them to fight back" to "That's just normal human behavior for some people."

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