If he thinks privacy is bad, then he can publish every email, text and message he’s ever sent/received. Then wear a camera around his neck all the time, never taking it off.

I won’t hold my breath on this.

What a dickhole.

What the fuck do I need to connect my oven to my smarthome for?

Been running Home Assistant for years. never once have I ever considered adding shit like my oven or fridge. The hell would I learn? Ovens get hot, fridges get cold? I could put a temp sensor in the fridge I guess and it would read the same temp all the time. Unless it is a total POS, it’s not going to stop doing the ONE thing it does.

I heard that certain laser pointers of a specific wavelength can cook most cameras.

I used to run forensic network capture and analysis tools.

First thing, traffic is encrypted. All you will see is a blob of traffic passing through. You used to see hostnames with TLS, but now with quic, you see nothing. This makes it hard.

You could root the phone and install a root ca certificate for a decrypting proxy, you might see more, but the data itself (not just the transport protocol) could be encoded or even encrypted within the network encapsulation.

Next, you’d have to reverse engineer the protocol if they’re using something nonstandard. Also, malware can often be set up to “behave” when it can detect analysis. I’m all but certain Google would do this.

Maybe you could do statistical analysis of the traffic and attempt to baseline normal vs when it’s transmitting audio. It would be a bit of a blind guess at best.

If I had more time, I’d love to try it. I have an old pixel7 pro. Maybe I can sort something out.

I will happily send them all the farts they want.

I mean, you could just switch to porn exclusively.

Hey, maybe that was the plan all along! I just wanted to understand how to fix my car or watch cat videos and now I’m watching a video where some lady is stuffing herself full of, well, everything.

Big porn wins again dammit!

I also work in security.

My company (which can damn well afford the costs) 100% REFUSES to leverage AI in any meaningful fashion. The CISO himself wrote the most braindead email to the CIO saying basically that AI isn’t a threat and then showed it to the rest of us like he’s proud of it.

I tried to push some adoption of AI based tools to help detect our own weaknesses and do some basic cleanup work. Nope. Stonewalled. I argued that every attacker is stealing accounts and burning tokens to tear us to shreds using every possible tools they can steal or even buy. We use Copilot.

Blank stares and crickets. We just keep managing our shit in spreadsheets that some dumbass emails as attachments and wonders why everyone has a different version of some useless thing.

At least they’re paying me well. When they collapse in a little while, I suppose I won’t be too surprised.

Throw a tablespoon of vinegar into the soak. Making the water a little acidy will take out the fart factor some and soften the beans a little more.

Also, add fat when you cook and let them cook a good long while on low.

I like to pull out a cup or so and mush them with a spoon or something, add them back to the rest.

There is a big push for pro China propaganda I keep noticing.

Be smart people, it hasn’t changed from the china you knew five years ago. Same dude still running it.

I don’t recall what I was using, but after an update (on Mint) my drivers broke for an nvidia 3060. Worked fine one day, then dead the next. There was a mix of various driver versions, not sure what happened, maybe some aborted update, not sure.

I just ripped out all the drivers and reinstalled. On version 595.58 without issue. I can see 580.142 is also an option.