thothless

"I've been working on..."

Vs

"...system they're working on"

"I know there's a security issue... [Nobody] will tell me what it is"

"I don't have any information..."

This might sound crazy, but have you tried looking at "your" code base?

It's just genuinely baffling to read stuff like this.

I can't imagine feeling so helpless on something I was supposedly "working on".

psuedo-random number generators are deterministic.

a human can predict that the number that is generated will be suitably random.

a human can predict the result from a pseudo-random generator with enough knowledge of seed/program state/etc.

now I can't say this holds for a TRUE random number generator. nor do I know where we were going with this.

When did they stop calling them "spy glasses"?

The marketers must be doing a great job.

this is not only LG. many of your favorite devices do this.

examine your network when you plug a roku in. then read their privacy policy if you want to see someone give LG a run for their money.

then there's our pocket PCs...

and don't forget about the biggest customers of this "advertising" data.

https://www.npr.org/2026/03/25/nx-s1-5752369/ice-surveillanc...

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/03/targeted-advertising-g...

this is the same behavior as the secret police in 2026 USA, the biggest customers of the ad tech companies.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/03/targeted-advertising-g...

https://www.npr.org/2026/03/25/nx-s1-5752369/ice-surveillanc...

in addition to what others said...

2004 runescape, now "old school runescape", which is actually successor 2001 Runescape "Classic", were both playable in a browser.

and my (parent's) PC couldn't even install, let alone run WoW. despite me trying with all my might.

so I'm sure I wasn't alone.

it was absolutely magical to me.

well obviously YOU couldn't. you seem to lack the willpower to sacrifice a single convenience in favor of the rest of us, per your confession below.

that's the difference between you and the public servants that you roll your eyes at.

You're living in a corporate bubble, drowning in the kool-aid, along with half this forum.

roku is sniffing your farts. and reading your texts/emails.

https://docs.roku.com/published/userprivacypolicy

see: "olfactory", "content of"

or at least they're CYA while they're sniffing.

they definitely scan the entire local network.

the gall of these companies to regulate your usage of stolen knowledge is absolutely hilarious.

and they want me to pay $100+ a month to be their training?

i hope we can find morality again.

your first question was better.

"how does creating wealth hurt others?"

most of this "wealth" is not "created" out of thin air. nor created at all.

more like, transferred.

I'm still confused on how so many people are happy paying so much money, just to BE the product.

Widespread FOMO and the irrationality that comes with it might be at an all time high.

as a new graphene adopter, still figuring stuff out myself, but it's been surprisingly easy and satisfying to do a hard cut-over to graphene.

cool_cherry explained exactly how I've been using it, with my main 'owner' account not having play services installed at all, only instead installed on another user, which only takes a few seconds to switch to.

you can easily install owner apps onto other user profiles. or grant/forbid the other user profiles to install apps themselves.

users are not tied to google accounts, only your google play installations.

I was able to install google play apps on 'owner' user and then uninstalled google play services and play store. if they don't require play services to function, they work fine, otherwise they just might not function or may function/look surprisingly differently when they don't have their network connections.

location, network, other permission have defaults and can set them on per-app basis like on normal android.

a unique device MAC address is generated for each wifi connection.

The "upscaling" significantly changes the content of the picture, altering half of the faces, their expressions, whether eyes are closed, mouths open, etc, on top of making it actually HARDER to see details. The "upscaling" on android smartphone cameras has always been similarly trash. There is always some odd fractal-looking noise filter added. Who is actually asking for this stuff?