Those two sites, that are nows for nerds oriented also belong to Conde-nast, and their content will be gorked by AI.

and so, we get Conde -Nest.

Good find.

Is an absolute beauty, with the power of a beast (pun intended).

I will not even dare google the price, lest I cry.

Did you read the article? Smart TVs nowadays are fingerprinting the content you watch in the OtA and HDMI connectors. Even if you never see an ad from the smartTV maker, your info WILL be exfiltrated, even if you do not connect the TV to the internet yourself.

The the kind of porn videos you watched on pornhub using a laptop connected via HDMI? Check
The series you watched on your AppleTV? Check.
The movie you casted from the high seas? Check
That talk show wich leans to some politial aile (or the other)? Check.

GenX'er here:

Any of my TVs has decent speakers on it's own, and the Sony soundsystem in the Livingroom is outstanding. I have Technics SB-F5s for my desktop evironment, and the living roon soundsystem beats the living crap out of them. Advantage: TV

My TVs get digital OtA signals (and analog too, in my country, we haven't finished the transition). If I wanted OtA in the monitor, I'll need extra boxes and cables and wallwarts and crap. Advantage, TV.

The TV in my bedroom has an useful "sleep" function, so I can fall asleep while watching the news or somesuch, usefull either for Tinnitus (which I do not have) or as ASMR (my case). If I fall asleep at my desktop, I'll get Qwertytis ( https://community.spiceworks.c... ) . advantage: TV.

I can cast stuff from my 11" Tablet or my 27" 1440p monitor to eithert my 40"or my 42" TVs, What's not to like?

Do not get me wrong, I love my 1440p monitor and its 576 dimming zones, and my tablet, and my phone, but I also like my TVs, thank you very much

Each one is a tool for a specific job.

Wrong:

1.) You will connect it to the internet from time to time, for firmware updates to correct actual failures, or to gain useful features (like a better upscaling algorithm, or a better dimming-zones algorithm, or a better pixel rotation algorithm to prevent burn-in in OLEDs, to cite just 3 examples).

2.) Technologies to connect your TV to the internet without you noticing "for your own good" do exist. From the use of Open WiFi APs, to using bluetooth from the TV to the Phone/Tablety App of the TV to the Web... Remmeber, is for your own good.

In both cases, as soon as a connection is stablished, all that juicy content recognition consolidated data in the buffers will be sent to the mothership. The TV does not need tons of bandwith to send that, and knowing what you watch in the antenna and the "ton of connected devices to drive the screen" will be invaluable for them Ad People to cross sell you...

Ejnoy our collective dystopia.

In the meantime, let's try to find a decent Dumb-TV, and no, a Computer monitor hardly qualifies as a TV.

DS1515+. 3 drives in RAID5 (if storage grows too much, will switch to a 3 way mirror).

2 64GB SSDs as cache.

2 external 2.5" drives as hyperbackup.

2 1GB eth cables directly from NAS to desktop in a bonded pair.

iSCSI drives for the steam folder and other such stuff, SMB shares for docs and stuff.

will go out of SW support around oct next year, will re-evalualate then and there

WFH 3 or 2 days a week, and office for 2 or 3 days.

I'd personally opt for 3 days at office myself (mostly to set the example) but to each (team member) his/her own.

We all need in person meetings for more efficient communication (compared to video calls) and to generate intra and inter team rapport (and many other things)

but again, to each their own...

Jm2C
YMMV

It was the users the ones who uploaded the illicit stuff.

but, when you publicite your site as "the best place on earth to upload and share copywrighted material, warez, cracked sw and games and other unsavory stuff" you run the risk of being consdered "accesory"-facilitator of those crimes.

IanaL
Jm2C
YMMV

I am seriously thjinking about setting up a Thai/SouthEastAsian/Mediterranean fussion restaurant, and call it Shellfish-Peanuts-Wheat&Milk

If we branch in europe: Do we need to list the alergens in the menu? After all, everything will be cross-contaminated anyway. ;-)

Using an arm of your business to cover up for what an unrelated leg of your business does is unethical at best, illegal at worst.

Split the company in the parks part, the IP part, the movies and TV production part and the TV channels and streaming part and see how that goes...

the 80486 launched in 1989, in FPU (DX) and non-FPU (SX) variants

Originally, even AMD, Cyrix and NextGen dismissed the FPU as "not ussefull for most computing users"

Cue the headlines from late 1990 saying "FPU PCs made 14% of quarterly shipments"

A few years latter .... 100% of PCs every quarter were FPU PCs.

Substitute FPU for AI ans see what the future holds in store

If a company can not be bothered to take agressive meassures to get their stock back over the $1 mark (for example agressive reverse splits), they deserve to be purged ASAP.

IMHO, aside from all the meassures detailed in the article/summary, the 180 days (~6 months) should be reduced to 120 days (~4 months).

Yes, you register with apple as a developer, and sign your own code. Registering as a developer in the lowest tier nowadays is free as in beer.

In my country (venezuela), state run media, and regional private channels, air pirated content galore, sometimes, even with the Piracy Scene group watermarks readily visible.

Here is one, of many examples:

https://www.elnacional.com/ent...

Ditto in Cuba.

It has happened in other places around LatAm as well...

Yes, I am ashamed, but then again "no se tapa el sol con un dedo"