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Smart TVs Are Watching You | Feisty Duck (www.feistyduck.com)

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The researchers have discovered that automatic content recognition (ACR) tracking is active most of the time, even when TVs are used as “dumb” HDMI devices. In other words, the TV manufacturers are monitoring your private moments as well. There’s apparently no monitoring of streaming content in the UK, but there is in the US.

The only good news is that these TVs can seemingly be configured to disable ACR, provided the owners know this activity is taking place and are able to find the right settings. (I recently looked at the configuration of our TVs again, and understanding the various settings was far from easy.)

Google removed Organic Maps from the Play Store in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's back! https://fosstodon.org/@organicmaps/112982935184446753

Ex-Colorado clerk Tina Peters found guilty in election machine breach case in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

She probably gained an endless supply of pillows.

Labour MPs begin quitting X over ‘hate and disinformation’ in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

BBC already have a Mastodon instance but it doesn't seem to get much use.

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Pictures and Video: 55 bikers on Harleys deliver Lemmy’s ashes to Rock City (westbridgfordwire.com)

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Following this year’s edition of the heavy metal festival Bloodstock (8-11 August) at Catton Park, 55 bikers on Harley Davidsons transported the ashes of the

basic UI programming in linux in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

I class myself as having similar experience to your friend having used Power Basic and Turbo Pascal mainly under DOS. I was able to use tkinter to produce some simple gui front-ends to produce dialogue boxes, process data and feed it to GnuPlot.

The Best way to switch to Linux is to NOT in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Is it people that want to switch away from Windows or switch to Linux?

In my case it was the former, having spent a lot of time on FreeBSD so in 2007 I bought a Macbook Pro running OSX 10.3. This gave me most of what I wanted and when I needed something Windows (XP) specific I installed a VM running under Parallels, then Virtual Box. I was able to run most of the open source software at that time such as Open Office, Firefox, Thunderbird in preference to the Apple supplied apps.

The Best way to switch to Linux is to NOT in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

I hate it when someone sends me a PDF form and tells me I can complete it using Acrobat (or whatever it's called this week). Last one I successfully completed with the Firefox PDF ed.

Jess Phillips calls X a ‘place of misery’ as she vows to scale back use in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I fail to understand how they ever ended up there in the first place. Maybe it makes sense for businesses but why put government stuff there when ultimately they may be subject to moderation at someone else's whim.

Add the past government's use of WhatsApp to this too so they can't conveniently lose data when a device is replaced.

Any other regional UK-centric groups in the Lemmyverse I may have missed? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

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[email protected] Had to go to feddit.uk to fund/sub these on my instance.

Any other regional UK-centric groups in the Lemmyverse I may have missed? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

@[email protected] Subbed, thanks.

The surveilled society: Who is watching you and how in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I watched the movie "Enemy of the State" the other day. It was released in 1998, but it was a true prediction of the future.

What vm software you use on linux in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

They run a full distro rather than the minimalist that Docker containers use. You can also use them to run gui apps but that needs a bit more work to configure. I run Google Chrome sandboxed this way.