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> If no wake word is detected, the audio is processed locally, promptly deleted, and is not transmitted to LG servers.

This statement could still be true when:

* The audio transmission is to non-LG servers (e.g., Alphonso).

* The audio isn't transmitted, but the text transcription is.

Reasoning:

* Original report behind the article: "State Threats Legislation in 2024" [0], i.e., UK national security law

* Article focuses on an example from section 6.17 where developing an encrypted messenger app is given to show how broad the definition of "hostile act" is

* Snippets from the article:

> In his independent review of the Counter-Terrorism and Border Security Act and the newly implemented National Security Act, Hall KC highlights the incredibly broad scope of powers granted to authorities. > > He warns that developers of apps like Signal and WhatsApp could technically fall within the legal definition of "hostile activity" simply because their technology "make[s] it more difficult for UK security and intelligence agencies to monitor communications."

[0] Original report: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/69411a3eadb57...

https://old.reddit.com/r/casio/comments/15n9anq/did_we_all_f...

I am wearing one right now - it has been my daily driver for literally decades

(While it has VCR controls built-in, it can "learn" infrared frequencies for "new" inventions like DVD players - copying from an existing IR remote control. Surprisingly, still compatible with modern TVs - at least for basic functions like volume control.)

It was once "futuristic"; collectors now sell them as "retro" and "vintage"

Designed to run in a container, but should equally well work on a single host. However, no option for "high availability" running, where multiple hosts coordinate.

> I would love to know what processes MS is considering to prevent this in the future as well as what kind of auditing might be done to look at other projects that started as forks.

In response to:

> ... going to make sure we improve our processes to help us be better stewards in the open-source community.

This, of course, is incorrect, and a cursory read of the very short licence text would show it to be incorrect.

But I, too, am strongly favouring Hanlon's razor.

Can't Unsee - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27188989 - May 2021 (126 comments)

Related:

Find the Odd Disk - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43745868 - April 2025 (101 comments)

> Swear on me mum I saw a game about kerning and alignment years ago on HN

Can't Unsee - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27188989 - May 2021 (126 comments)

- https://whois.ax/en/for-registrars/

"Apply as ax-registrar" - seems like .ax makes it especially easy. (This is news to me!)

Velocity Raptor (2012): https://www.testtubegames.com/velocityraptor.html

Previously discussed:

- "Velocity Raptor – an adventure in 2+1 dimensions" (Mar 2015, 39 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9247460

I am pleasantly surprised to see this still online (ported from Flash to HTML5).

[0] https://voussoir.net/writing/css_for_printing/#media_print

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AACS_encryption_key_controvers...

- Today - "Alaska Airlines grounds Boeing 737 Max 9 planes after mid-air window blowout" (47 comments, so far): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38889774

- Yesterday (Friday 2024-01-05): "Boeing wants FAA to exempt MAX 7 from safety rules to get it in the air" (417 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38882358

You can run pip in an isolated virtual environment, in user mode (not as root) - see https://gist.github.com/saurabhshri/46e4069164b87a708b39d947...

I would call that portable.

[0] https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan

Discussed at: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35905876 "Gandalf – Game to make an LLM reveal a secret password" (May 2023, 351 comments)

Nitter mirror: https://nitter.net/ChrisJBakke/status/1736533308849443121

Related - "New kind of resource consumption attack just dropped": https://twitter.com/loganb/status/1736449964006654329 | https://nitter.net/loganb/status/1736449964006654329

However, it is definitely not the most privacy-focused OS, due to deep Google integration. This is the main reason that I haven't moved myself over to ChromeOS.

"click-web" in turn turns the click CLI app into a web app with one line of code.

A few years back (when I last looked in depth), it was very easy at every boot (not only first boot) to accidentally wipe everything - e.g., https://www.reddit.com/r/Crouton/comments/3be2su/reducing_ri...

I also remember that it made a loud beep on every boot!

(1) Is there a de-googled version of Chromium OS?

(2) Is there a non-hacky way to install it to a Chromebook?

App sandboxing on standard (non-ChromeOS) Linux distributions is painful and finicky, while it "just works" on ChromeOS.

I wish there was a non-hacky way to use Chromebooks without a Google account.

The hacky options are:

- "Switch to dev mode". But I don't want to be prompted to factory reset each boot.

- "Create a dummy Google account and use that". But I don't want file syncing and tracking to reach Google at all, not even on a dummy account.

- "Create a dummy Google account and use guest mode". But I want persistent storage.

    $ echo -n $'It\'s not too difficult. All you need is to generate many variations of potential words and check whether the sha256 hash matches the wanted leading characters. For example, check this text.' | sha256sum
    182a7c9d2e99162688aaaf3f97638edd7d06f8d295e456c7bb1f16abf3a8f70c  -