Specifically: We should anticipate legal fuckery that is is a problematic legal grey area that no one has dealt with before.

Vance has the charisma of a fire hydrant, just like Pence, he’s expendable and has fulfilled his purpose. I expect the only “acceptable” heir will be newly religious Theil.

You’re making my point for me - media and everyone else will, like usual, get mired in the details of precedent that he’ll steamroll the process, do whatever he wants, and everyone will stand around saying “totally unprecedented! Irregular!” No, y’all, that’s a coup. It’s treason. It a dictatorship.

This is the same person that took literally 2 days off, had people spin up on twitter that he “mIgHt bE dEaD!” and then trotted out a nothingburger announcement to overshadow Epstein victims testifying in Congress. And y’all watched and hoped and fell for it.

That figure is assumed from people who connect a start TV to the internet. Once the TV is online, it’s collecting data non-stop, even when it’s “off” and regardless of what services used. Samsung doesn’t offer streaming services, so their value is derived easily from tracking what you’re watching even when it’s not streaming services, like live TV, cable, etc. to sell it themselves, regardless of what other apps are installed. Since they’re all typically Android-based apps, the typical other permissions apply, like Amazon Prime being able to see what you have installed as well. But as the TV maker can take screenshots or see info about what you watch over an HDMI port, that’s of huge value to them over years of time.

NO! Oh my god no! WTF, man? The title refers to oligarchs having invested in skipping the elections for their own “stability.”

The central point is that if the election isn’t just outright “delayed” for a month, then a year or so, it will be jerked around to intentionally cause a constitutional crisis. There’s another comment about his use of an EO to get on the ballot in some states that don’t fight the EO, which would be just enough to cause the kind of chaos in which he thrives. So maybe you’ll get to vote, but it’s not going to be allowed to count for much even if you do.

My leading theory is that the lessons learned from an EO trying to undo the 13th Amendment are what will be used. Some new EO saying that due to some made up circumstance he’s needed to continue being a shitbag maga saint, we’re at war with anyone of the 30 wars we’ve been trying to provoke this week, etc. The reason is immaterial and so of course the minutia of that reason is what everyone will talk about, not the obvious nature of the this happening. All it will take is a dozen red states not challenging an EO undoing the 22nd Amendment to invalidate the whole election and drive just enough chaos to let them do whatever they want.

A modern version of this where “it’s all on the chain!” and everything is a crypto micro-transaction would go a long way.

lol, as if he’ll leave on someone else’s schedule. The constitution to him is “really, more like guidelines.”

What phenomenal bullshit - There’s no way they’ve collected that much, or even will by the end of the year. That’s 20% of the Federal budget, or 3% of GDP, collected in the last 5 months of the year after whiplash, back and forth “we’re doing it today, no, now we’re waiting 2 weeks”?

They’re setting this all up for the largest theft ever committed on Earth.

Came here to say “Wait, aren’t we on like Dance Dance Revolution 20?” DDR4 had some bangers, but shouldn’t affect the solar industry.

I know, the point is that you’re broadcasting over the radio that you’re encrypting the data over the one medium were it’s illegal to encrypt the data because the FCC thinks it’s still 1989 or whatever when it comes to amateur radio. So it’s not just that you’re doing something illegal, you’re using a registered call sign and a really loud, easily triangulatable signal to do it. It’s like putting a movie poster-sized sign on your fence that says “Rattlesnake venom for sale, inquire within.” It’s not a sustainable practice.

Ultimately, the amateur radio crowd needs to get this law 47 CFR 97.113 changed to allow an exception for encrypted internet over radio and allow for modern communications standards. Personally, I expect that it would only take one House Rep willing to score any sort of win with rural voters for this to work right now.

Encryption using IP over HAM is still illegal - you can’t access Lemmy because it’s an HTTPS site, because we live in the 21st century.

It’s hit or miss for me with my VPN, but between using an Invidious instance, Freetube, DDG video search, and cycling VPN locations, I’m never, ever logged in to YT.

And yes, Google/YT wants to track everything. Third party doctrine means that governments will pay them for this data rather than run their own surveillance systems. Anything that you’ve watched that can be used against you will be if it suits someone else.

AAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh, ok, say no more. Samsung used to be much easier to work around and they’re really joining the “lock it down!” club lately.

I used to run trainings on personal cybersecurity and explaining to people how much their data is worth. I’ve been paid to study this.

So, specific data about what you’re worth to a company is proprietary. I can’t find a link to a PWC or McKinsey report, but IoT device data typically sells for a range that’s an estimate of cost per user per year. On the upper end, I’ve seen estimates of up to $50 per user per year. Low end is $1. So if the assumed lifetime of the TV is 4 years and a “household” is 2 adults and 2 kids, you end up at ($50x2 and $25 x 2)= $150 x 4 years = $600. So if Samsung sudsidizes the cost of a smart TV by $400, they’re coming out ahead $200 on average, just on the subsidy. That’s the kind of math going on for TV sales. Again, that’s proprietary data, so short of trying to track down reports I saw years ago, all I can explain is that data monetization is a well-known cornerstone of business. Here’s a quote for you about companies needing to know the value:

The exact same dataset, when sold to a financial services company, was being used to make multimillion-dollar decisions, so the data aggregator could charge $100,000. https://mitsloan.mit.edu/ideas-made-to-matter/what-data-wrapping-and-how-does-it-make-products-better

That’s for companies operating legally and in the clear. What’s crazy is that our data is treated sort of like student loan debt with them, because it’s seen by them as debt we owe to the company and paid back over the life of the device. For criminals, it’s pennies-on-the-dollar fire sales because nothing is guaranteed to work. So the data needed to steal your identity as a single line on a spreadsheet might only be $20 a person because the list of 10,000 records might only contain 200 winners. So you buy a $200,000 spreadsheet and hope to commit at least $1,000 per successful hit to come out ahead. which is a fairly low bar for fraud. Then the whole list is burned and you start over.

You may want to re-evaluate how you’re installing non-Play apps. I use F-droid all the time and never had anything even approach “inconvenient.”

lol, ok.

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2024/nov/smart-tv-tracking-raises-privacy-concerns

https://www.reddit.com/r/samsung/comments/1kpulqw/samsung_smart_tvs_privacy_nightmare_massive/

https://www.consumerreports.org/electronics/privacy/how-to-turn-off-smart-tv-snooping-features-a4840102036/

https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/1fsri2c/my_wakeup_call_how_i_discovered_my_smart_tv_was/

https://www.securityweek.com/smart-tv-surveillance-how-samsung-and-lgs-acr-technology-tracks-what-you-watch/

Oh my sweet summer child. The privacy community is all over this and any economics course will explain how we got here.

Anyone making equipment needs to come in just below competitors in terms of price. How? By using telemetry and data collection to sell for advertising. This is seen as a subsidy to make the equipment more competitive to get it in more homes for long-term rent-seeking for income lasting years from every user. Same as with any smart appliance. The TV, connected to the internet, monitors what you watch even when you’ve connected by HDMI.

Can you just not connect the TV? Absolutely, yes. That’s how low the bar is, that simply not giving the TV a connection and using 1 extra device in between is all it takes to come out ahead. That’s a gamble worth it to Samsung. I have a Samsung TV, and that’s all I need to do to come out ahead. But many, many people think the TV needs to do it all and just give it a data connection.

The cost of that TV is heavily subsidized on the expectation that you connect it to the internet and it feeds Samsung data on you.

This is the key point - these have to be clear signals in the same room.