WarOnPrivacy

How does this compere with energy calc software (that factors building volume, glass types, etc)? That's work I did a lifetime ago and I imagine things have progressed.

> Don't smart TVs (of LG or others?) connect to open networks of neighbors, like Vodafone hotspots?

I can find no verified reports of this behavior. People are looking for it.

> all the spyware modules connect to open Wifi of neighbors, and soon, LTE.

I can find no verified reports of this behavior. People are looking for it. Cellular connections have been theorized since the beginning but have not been discovered.

Given the number of qualified people seeking out these behaviors, if they appear we will know it - with certainty.

> I'm still not convinced it isn't sneaking out data somehow - piggybacking off a connection somewhere to the neighbors TV

I think we've overshot the mark a bit about TVs' connection abilities. A built-in SIM was one early conjecture. And while it hasn't been seen in the wild, it is often assumed to exist.

More to your point, we've not seen connections (assumedly ad-hoc wifi) to a neighboring device and uploading data to manufacturer, partner, etc.

We have recently seen a case of data collection, that included wifi scans. What we have not seen is a device that connects to other APs on it's own.

I saw 1 redditor claim that this occurred but it was not substantiated. Lots of folks are looking for this behavior but it hasn't been found.

This tells me that our existing methods of self-protection are effective.

    With release 26.10, everyone runs the same pfSense software. 

Nice.

    The air-gapped installer is back

Nice++. The online-only install felt like encrapification and it caused some inconvenience for me; I had to keep a wireless bridge client handy to get bare-metal installs done.

I've been with pfSense since 1.2 - before I was with monowall and IPFire. Although I'm always happy with pfSense, I might have strayed if it weren't for pfBlocker (Tom) then pfBlockerNG (BBCan).

I suspect the increase in never/rarely-changing home IP addresses is tied to the uptake in DDNS. It feels like ISP acknowledged their loss and changed practices.

I appreciate that.

I keep all my logins at the house so no posting until after work. I'll fudge that a bit to explain my browser is a virtual app and I can access it away from home when needed. Not often tho.

We got redlined 3 years ago. All at once, >90% of the families moved their trick+treating to the wealthy side of the neighborhood. We originally had >100 kids, year after year.

Starting in 2023, we had 10-15 & none after 8pm.

I now buy 15 $1 bags of quality candy and that handles it.

I also have small water bottles - which the kids enthusiastically appreciate.

In this context, is HN Replies something other than the reply button?

I review my post history to see replies.

>> You could have manufactured enough ARC video cards to meet demand.

> Intel was at best breaking even and likely making a loss on each ARC card.

How do we know that?

It is true that Intel's AXG segment sustained a loss in 2022. But AXG included the ARC line, the HPC lines (CPU, GPU) and other AI support components.

Further complicating the 2022 numbers, most of the AXG revenue that year was intersegmental; Intel was selling to itself. In 2023, Intel reorganized and moved ARC into CCG. ARC P&L was buried and outside analysts were unable to even guess whether ARC was turning a profit or a loss.

ref: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/50863/00000508632300...

https://morethanmoore.substack.com/p/intc-doubling-down-agai...

>> You could have manufactured enough ARC video cards to meet demand.

> I don't know if anyone told you, but GDDR is included in the current RAM shortage

    My understanding is that the 2025 RAM shortage
    did not cause the 2022/2023 ARC shortages.

    Intel's finance chief David Zinsner said the firm did not expect to
    bring in more cash than it spent this year, and forecast 
    lower-than-expected revenue for its fourth quarter.

You could have manufactured enough ARC video cards to meet demand. Going forward, you could manufacture solutions to bring local LLM options closer to affordability.

If you're into manufacturing stuff people really want, that is.

Do we have any history yet for polymarket + us elections?

> Self-employed individuals who've set up an umbrella business entity aren't particularly common.

I've serviced a lot of small businesses over 35yr of IT (typically deep into operations) and I've never come across it.

> Iran took the whole country offline, because their country barely functions

Iran took their whole country offline because they locked the country behind CGNAT - which is an ideal tech for offlining an entire nation.

> Good. Europe does not need Islam.

Equally true would be that Europe does not need religion.

But speaking to that point: Although I am no longer theist, I spent many days doing religion-funded community service (disaster rebuilding, food distribution, community service) that was nothing but filling in a bit of the holes that are continually left by society.

And to be clear, much of that religious sourced aid is done by Islamic outreach entities.

Once society's holes are reliably filled, we can responsibly discuss depreciating religion.

If the desire is to eradicate one religion (or all but one), the Crusades taught a lot about how that goes.

> You obviously don't care much about your children's lives

This obviously isn't true. But to be fair, given the

    massively incomplete dataset and the
    ignorance based fallacies (meathead level repairs)

upon which this (~worst possible) conclusion is based - it never really stood a chance.

Our 6 person FL household has 8 vehicles. 2012, 2011, 1996, 1992, 1989, 1969 (needs to go away), 1963, 1961. We all strongly prefer tactile controls and no screens. We're a bit divided on window cranks and more divided on A/C.

For a daily driver, son #3 wanted a car w/o seatbelts. He pulled a 1963 Dodge Dart out of the weeds upstate. Floors are whatever sheet metal we have lying around (ex tags) and he covered the seats & doors with denim that used to be my pants (doors have pockets). He can pull, rework and replace the engine in under 2 days.

Besides commuting, he drives it to RI every year.

> I wrote a small caffeine-like macOS command-line utility to keep your MacBook awake when you close the lid.

Small purposeful utilities like this are Glob's own gift to us. Your counterpart in my Windows world might be the guy who wrote AlwaysActiveHours - a util that prevents update-related reboots.

Windows has been surprisingly good about this (lid closed, laptop awake). I have a number of always-closed laptops deployed for customers (+ mother in law). Some are desktops that can be easily moved; others are on-prem devices that are left alone to handle certain tasks.

This isn't my first reading about the struggles MacBook users have here. It is bizarre to me that Apple doesn't natively and reliably support closed+awake devices; it feels like they've dug in their heels and I can't imagine why.

This article got my attention. A medical professional friend developed a life-long immune system disorder that is linked to her dental implants. She lives in chronic pain getting only a few hours sleep a night - while owning/running a local medical retail store (and it's mountains of paperwork, etc).

DHH's fondness for AfD arose

    following AfD's adoption of more hardline Islamophobic, 
    anti-immigration positions, and historical revisionist remarks 
    by leading AfD figures.
    The party resembled other populist radical right parties in Europe
    but was somewhat unusual in its choice to maintain visible ties to
    even more extreme groups. 
    The party has been described as more ideologically radical than
    many other European far-right and right-wing populist parties

which really seems to work for him.

ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_for_Germany#Ideolo...

Whatever we think about the entry-level job market, it's far worse and has been for decades.

I have 5 sons who become adults and tried to enter the job market. All of them were gatekept by portals that (by every indication) silently auto-discard applicants with no job history (100% of new job seekers).

My sons got zero replies, for countless jobs that they absolutely could have done well.

    I was unable to rent apartments in San Francisco. 
    I was unable to get a job directly after being released from prison. 
    It's funny because when you owe the state $17,000 in restitution and
    you can't get a job, people become extremely desperate. 
    And that desperation can easily put you right back into prison.

It is my experience that anti-human outcomes follow a perversion of focus - when intent shifts from actually safeguarding society (thru meaningful redemption), toward destructive (zero tolerance) or exploitive ends (credit, crim reports).

I suggest that serially denying paid-for redemption (fines, incarceration) forever (never ending punishment delivered via criminal records) is deeply evil.

In 1979, Ixtoc I released 3.3M barrels into the Bay of Campeche (DwH released 4.9M).

By the time DwH happened we had already learned that

    exposed, high-energy habitats bounce back; 
    sheltered and deep-sea habitats do not.

ref: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/marine-science/articles...

ref: https://beneaththehorizon.org/ixtoc.html

This isn't alcohol with it's obvious deleterious effects. This is gambling, where the activity is hidden like cancer, until it grows into devastation to entire families.

> its much better to regulate vices then prohibition

And applied to gambling, this seems like an conjured argument, so oft repeated it has morphed into a platitude. I'm not aware of research that indicate that having the state safeguard gambling improves society in a quantifiable way - the lowest possible bar of "much better".

The gross proliferation of gambling ads certainly feels far removed from any notion of watching out for society's well being.

A FL county just north of Tampa has been dealing with GALS for a few years https://www.cityofnewportrichey.org/Departments/Public-Works...