Creating jobs and helping people onto them is the solution, but actually doing that is very difficult. It’s a complicated and multi-faceted issue that needs a real strategy to solve, and I haven’t seen much signalling that is really being worked on.

What we have seen too many times in the past though is a few ineffective token programs being put out as an excuse to gut welfare provisions, leaving people high and dry.

At this point I’m quite heavily invested in smart home tech, but smart locks are one of the few things I haven’t touched.

Any exploit found in these devices could be packaged into a smartphone app and easily accessed by anyone. Someone hacking the lock that way would look no different to a legitimate user. Firmware updates for these devices seem sporadic at best.

It’s a security concern I don’t want to have to worry about, even if there are convenience benefits.

In this alternate universe, is Ant Man an ant who is the size of a man?

Some of the Reform supporters I’ve come across see it as a sign of success. They see more donations to “their team” as positive regardless of where the money comes from or what strings are attached to it.

They aren’t thinking any more deeply about it.

If you have nay knowledge of networking (or want to learn), start setting up restricted VLANs to isolate your smart devices. Only allow them access to specific services/devices like your media server.

For dedicated hardware, there are plenarily of options. A Raspberry Pi will work to start with, there are Linux images with Kodi such as LibreELEC and osmc (I have used both in the past and they worked fine), and Android TV images also that can run apps. I suppose you could also set up a generic Linux install and run the Jellyfin client or similar - not sure if there any turnkey options for that.

We have a couple of Apple TV boxes and they perform well, the Jellyfin apps for them have really improved in the last year or so too.

LG have been caught using the Internet connection of connected devices (like windows computers) to snoop on your network.

Do you have any sources for that? Not doubting it just curious about how that works.

Unfortunately that will probably also void any warranty. Better to restrict access at the network level.

It shouldn’t be necessary or expected to perform surgical interventions on devices to make them respect privacy.

I didn’t know LG webOS rooting was a thing, that’s interesting to know.

There is an open source version of webOS, although I don’t know how it compares to the stock LG version. Maybe there will eventually be something like a LineageOS equivalent.

Same here, smart devices go on a very restricted VLAN. Most only get access to Home Assistant for control.

Even without deliberate spying from these devices letting these things loose on the network at large has always seemed a bad idea to me.

Which handheld is that? Looks nice.

They only brought in a ban on disposal BBQs today after dithering about it for ages.

A reluctance to do anything practical but they are very trigger happy in abusing an emergency alert system.

YouTube has an effective monopoly on small scale video like this. Creators try to use other platforms be the audience just isn’t there.

Distributing video is also considerably harder compared with text or images, so it’s harder to for grassroots platforms to start up.

The best solution would be to turn away from detectors, which will always be a losing game, and return to crowdsourced curation through users likes and ratings.

But that would end up with too many of the corporate propaganda videos getting tanked with dislikes so YouTube will never go for that.

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Quite a few of the people I know and consider “normal” openly dislike AI.

I’m not sure it’s a majority opinion buts it’s not an obscure one.

There’s been some Halloween bits appearing round here but nothing Christmas…yet.

One of the supermarkets did have a big “back to school” display before August had even started.

I remember IrDA, I also remember it being frustratingly slow and unreliable.

Visible light data transfer isn’t new either. The Timex Datalink watches were using flashing coloured patterns on a PC monitor to send data to them in the 90s.

The off brand one I had didn’t even have the same colours, let alone on the right sides.

50k could be life changing for a lot of people. That could pay for a decent chunk of education/training, be used to start a business, or cover a deposit for a home. All major steps up for those currently struggling.

I fell off a step ladder as a teenager and physically was only badly bruised.

It has left me with a lifelong minor fear of ladders though.