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What are you really trying to do?

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davemark, to streaming
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Samsung TV Plus is free and has a TON of content, both live and on demand.

You will have to sign up for an account, but Apple's "Hide My Email" works just fine. The signup process is VERY buggy, but press on, you'll get there.

Currently watching "Jobs" on my Mac. Thought that was apropos.

https://www.samsungtvplus.com

aardvark,
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@davemark it may hide your email, but it won’t hide your IP address. Curious how else they intend to invade privacy.

aardvark,
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@davemark um…
https://www.google.com/search?q=privacy+violation+vpn

aardvark,
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@davemark VPN operators see all your DNS queries, every web site you visit, ever connection you make. They know when you’re using Signal, Telegram, WhatsApp, iMessage, whatever. Without the VPN your ISP sees all this. Choose your monetizing snoop wisely.
To my original point, free from Samsung makes the user the product. What data about you will they pilfer? Just your watching habits? That’s never enough for the other snoops. Device fingerprints, apps installed, mouse tracking? Touch tracking? Keystroke tracking? Will they poke through your file system? Stick you with more cookies to track elsewhere? Do they turn on microphones or cameras? Listen via your accelerometers? And so forth.

rebeccawatson, to random
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well I wasn’t lucky enough to see much of the aurora borealis here in Oakland but the storm did knock our power out in the middle of the night & when it came back on all our smart lights turned on & our smart doorbell rang so that was a spooky way to wake up. which is something.

aardvark,
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@rebeccawatson storm?

GottaLaff, to random
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Huh. Imagine that.

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IRS Audit of Could Cost Former President More Than $100 Million

The tax agency concluded in its long-running investigation that Trump effectively claimed the same massive write-off twice on his failed Chicago tower. https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-irs-audit-chicago-hotel-taxes

aardvark,
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@GottaLaff so he WAS under an audit!

drahardja, to apple
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I reflexively cringed when I saw this ad. Not only is it wasteful, the message sent across appears to be that Apple literally crushes all the things you like to make the new iPad.

Tone-deaf.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntjkwIXWtrc

aardvark,
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@drahardja it’s not rendered?

chiefgyk3d, to politics
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I think Biden really screwed himself with this aid bill for Ukraine, Israel, and banning Tiktok at the same time.

Regardless your opinions of Tiktok, that's overwhelmingly Gen Z and Millenial users, the voters Biden needs.

Trump has magically pivoted himself as someone who will save Tiktok, despite trying to ban it earlier.

You have millions of business operators (myself included) who may be suing the US government for harming our businesses as well.

aardvark,
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@chiefgyk3d https://youtu.be/men-vp5jvzI?si=jrw8dbMnMQzLf4QO

aardvark,
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@chiefgyk3d I wonder whether it was a complicated situation involving more than one concern…

aardvark,
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@chiefgyk3d you think that was achievable in a reasonable amount of time? The dynamics of Congress are sufficiently manageable?

aardvark,
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@chiefgyk3d if you think it’s that easy, I dunno, maybe you should be in charge of

aardvark,
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@chiefgyk3d is rather Ukraine not fall to Putin with the ensuing escalating European war. A simplistic “just don’t make bad compromises” doctrine does not achieve peace.

aardvark,
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@chiefgyk3d this kind of assertion is why I posted the video first. Separate bills weren’t viable in Congress. They tried. Saying “try harder” doesn’t make it any more feasible. Run for Congress. Prove me wrong.

aardvark,
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@chiefgyk3d you’det Ukraine fall with thousands dead because you can’t have your way?

aardvark,
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@chiefgyk3d what part of that is not throwing Ukraine to the wolves?

aardvark,
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@chiefgyk3d pretending that the President can just insist on changing the way government works is fantasy. Preaching fantasy leads people down a misleading and dangerous path. Governing is HARD. Try it some time. I have. Have you? Or are you just throwing rocks from some ivory tower?

aardvark,
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@chiefgyk3d vetoing would leave the Putin-Republicans with what they wanted—no funding for Ukraine.

All of your fantasizing about separate bills is because you care so much about TikTok? Or because you think that what a bipartisan group did to require its sale is going to swing the election in only one direction? No, you can’t really believe that. So what are you really after?

aardvark,
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@chiefgyk3d Trump has made it clear that he’ll happily give Ukraine to Russia.

The complaints aren’t the same. https://fortune.com/2024/04/15/tiktok-china-data-sharing-bytedance-project-texas/

aardvark,
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@chiefgyk3d I didn’t ignore it. I affirmed it. TikTok and Meta do not represent the same risk to national security.

The bill was bipartisan. Did that escape your notice?

And they’re not shutting it down. They’re trying to force it to change hands to get it out of Chinese government control/access.

Hyping it as “Dems bad. Boo Biden.” is actual disinformation, and looks like political propaganda and campaigning.

aardvark,
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@chiefgyk3d like I thought, the practicalities of governance in a divided Republic hold no sway with your ideals. This inevitably leads to nihilism. In fact, fighting through the complications are how anything good gets done.

Ignoring the clear violation of national security interests and representations to regulators in secretly sending user information to Chinese bosses is not the same as Meta’s practices. To be sure, we’d be better off without Meta. But the CCP having such detailed PII is a direct threat.

aardvark,
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@chiefgyk3d did you it read about US employees secretly sending user data to managers in China? I provided the link.

aardvark,
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@chiefgyk3d see the article with employees testifying about secretly passing US PII to China

aardvark,
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@chiefgyk3d you didn’t read it, did you?

drahardja, to random
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TFW the threat to your reelection from letting Ukraine lose the war has outweighed the threat to your reelection from Trump bad-mouthing you for getting in Putin’s way. https://c.im/@makkhorn/112310882050160881

aardvark,
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@drahardja it’s a calculated risk, but anyone who watched the selection of jurors this week has reasons to newly assess the downside of going against the MAGA leader.

verge, to random
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This is Tesla’s riveting fix for recalled Cybertruck accelerator pedals https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/20/24135876/tesla-cybertruck-accelerator-pedal-recall-fix

aardvark,
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@verge “unapproved change” discovered well after manufacturing ramp translates directly to “we have no validation process or criteria applied to the parts we receive from vendors and incorporate into our vehicle”.

drahardja, to random
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Unless Biden said “Hey, Benjamin, cut that shit out!” I’m really not interested. https://journa.host/@w7voa/112266963575427694

aardvark,
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@drahardja https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/04/04/readout-of-president-joe-bidens-call-with-prime-minister-netanyahu-of-israel-3/

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