If you want true, verifiable privacy and control, it's not an Apple TV that you need. Any old laptop or desktop computer can be used to stream content from the Internet using a Web browser or other "apps."
> I think it depends on the device. If I buy an iPhone, I have the expectation of installing apps on it after purchase, and that necessarily involves a relationship with the app store provider (ie. Apple) I bought my…
> But what scares me is when every device comes with their own esim and cellular radio. Cars already do, and the solution is well-known: find the bug, and squash it. Yes, your car will still work, and you cannot be…
Linux generally presumes that you run trusted software, not some proprietary program that is approximately malware. If you want a "sandbox" run that program as a separate unprivileged user or use bubblewrap.
If you have one of those TVs, disassemble it and unplug or remove the internal microphone and wireless adapter. Use it as a (rather nice) 4K monitor for a Linux box with Plasma in Bigscreen mode. Pair that with an…
I know this isn't the solution you are looking for, but there is a fairly simple workaround and IMO it is superior: set up a Samba server or a Nextcloud instance, either at home or in the cloud, place it with behind a…
To be honest the specs of the Fairphone are middling and the device is rather expensive for what you get. The Pixels are a much better value, especially with a series. If you want something truly high end, wait for the…
> The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade. I think he is being over dramatic. In the space of about four years, LLMs progressed from mediocre high school student to…
This is the right solution. I would be tempted to go one step further: disassemble the TV and remove the WiFi card and antennas.
> So I unplugged the ethernet cable and bought an Apple TV. What makes you think the Apple TV is any better? I'd wager that Apple collects just as much telemetry.
I would caution against this approach. It's fine to have Claude write a setup script, or whatever you need, but don't run coding agents as your main user on your production machine with full access to your files or…
I don't watch Netflix or AppleTV. I believe you can simply use a Web browser, at the expensive of capped resolutions on some streaming services. VacuumTube is a drop-in replacement and improvement for the…
What makes you think the Apple TV isn't also spying on you? It almost certainly is collecting telemetry too. Whether that's more or less than LG I don't know, but my preference is a Linux box with Plasma Bigscreen.
> Folks, never update a TV firmware unless it's necessary. Why would a TV ever need a firmware update? Either it works out of the box or it doesn't and I return it. I never updated the firmware of my PC monitor either.
Certainly, with Sonnet 5 and GPT-6, modernizing or even completely rewriting self-contained, non-critical tools seems like a Friday afternoon job now. I wonder however how important this is, in the grand scheme of…
The idea here is that uBlock filters the domains that may serve the malware in the first place. It basically works the same as a DNS filter.
This is a scaling problem, not an intrinsic difficulty. Mullvad already had the infrastructure in place. I suspect the real reason is cost-cutting.
> Running a privacy-focused public DNS service is a highly specialized undertaking This seems like an overstatement: I have been running my own recursive DNS with Unbound for years and never though it was a "highly…
This precisely points to my overregulation point. The E.U. shouldn't be telling private companies how to design their products.
One thing that I find extremely annoying when I occasionally read Julia code is the pervasive usage of Unicode. I explicitly forbid agents to use any anything other than ASCII for that reason.
Why do you expect models to do "genuinely new" things? 99.9% of real world tasks are extremely repetitive.
This is basically impossible to do on a global scale. And even within a jurisdiction, there is a great risk of overregulation, see e.g. Europe. Disclaimer: I am a Linux and GrapheneOS user, running my own DNS with…
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"Internet" in this context usually means IP, and in any case it should be restricted to a LAN. If you actually own the device changing the domain or IP should be trivial, I don't think this is what the article refers to.
> Second, my email address also disappears. Third, all the IoT devices that use services on this domain become bricks. Basically, I disappear from the Internet. While changing email is inconvenient, I don't understand…
If you want true, verifiable privacy and control, it's not an Apple TV that you need. Any old laptop or desktop computer can be used to stream content from the Internet using a Web browser or other "apps."
> I think it depends on the device. If I buy an iPhone, I have the expectation of installing apps on it after purchase, and that necessarily involves a relationship with the app store provider (ie. Apple) I bought my…
> But what scares me is when every device comes with their own esim and cellular radio. Cars already do, and the solution is well-known: find the bug, and squash it. Yes, your car will still work, and you cannot be…
Linux generally presumes that you run trusted software, not some proprietary program that is approximately malware. If you want a "sandbox" run that program as a separate unprivileged user or use bubblewrap.
If you have one of those TVs, disassemble it and unplug or remove the internal microphone and wireless adapter. Use it as a (rather nice) 4K monitor for a Linux box with Plasma in Bigscreen mode. Pair that with an…
I know this isn't the solution you are looking for, but there is a fairly simple workaround and IMO it is superior: set up a Samba server or a Nextcloud instance, either at home or in the cloud, place it with behind a…
To be honest the specs of the Fairphone are middling and the device is rather expensive for what you get. The Pixels are a much better value, especially with a series. If you want something truly high end, wait for the…
> The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade. I think he is being over dramatic. In the space of about four years, LLMs progressed from mediocre high school student to…
This is the right solution. I would be tempted to go one step further: disassemble the TV and remove the WiFi card and antennas.
> So I unplugged the ethernet cable and bought an Apple TV. What makes you think the Apple TV is any better? I'd wager that Apple collects just as much telemetry.
I would caution against this approach. It's fine to have Claude write a setup script, or whatever you need, but don't run coding agents as your main user on your production machine with full access to your files or…
I don't watch Netflix or AppleTV. I believe you can simply use a Web browser, at the expensive of capped resolutions on some streaming services. VacuumTube is a drop-in replacement and improvement for the…
What makes you think the Apple TV isn't also spying on you? It almost certainly is collecting telemetry too. Whether that's more or less than LG I don't know, but my preference is a Linux box with Plasma Bigscreen.
> Folks, never update a TV firmware unless it's necessary. Why would a TV ever need a firmware update? Either it works out of the box or it doesn't and I return it. I never updated the firmware of my PC monitor either.
Certainly, with Sonnet 5 and GPT-6, modernizing or even completely rewriting self-contained, non-critical tools seems like a Friday afternoon job now. I wonder however how important this is, in the grand scheme of…
The idea here is that uBlock filters the domains that may serve the malware in the first place. It basically works the same as a DNS filter.
This is a scaling problem, not an intrinsic difficulty. Mullvad already had the infrastructure in place. I suspect the real reason is cost-cutting.
> Running a privacy-focused public DNS service is a highly specialized undertaking This seems like an overstatement: I have been running my own recursive DNS with Unbound for years and never though it was a "highly…
This precisely points to my overregulation point. The E.U. shouldn't be telling private companies how to design their products.
One thing that I find extremely annoying when I occasionally read Julia code is the pervasive usage of Unicode. I explicitly forbid agents to use any anything other than ASCII for that reason.
Why do you expect models to do "genuinely new" things? 99.9% of real world tasks are extremely repetitive.
This is basically impossible to do on a global scale. And even within a jurisdiction, there is a great risk of overregulation, see e.g. Europe. Disclaimer: I am a Linux and GrapheneOS user, running my own DNS with…
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"Internet" in this context usually means IP, and in any case it should be restricted to a LAN. If you actually own the device changing the domain or IP should be trivial, I don't think this is what the article refers to.
> Second, my email address also disappears. Third, all the IoT devices that use services on this domain become bricks. Basically, I disappear from the Internet. While changing email is inconvenient, I don't understand…