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• Sadly, security on the Jolla is laughable. Comparable to a standard Linux installation years ago, from what I have heard…

  It is so dumb that pretty much we only have to make these giant compromises because of greed.

  on GrapheneOS Isn't Happy With Google Over Pixel's Widening Head Start in c/opensource@lemmy.ml · 4d ago

• Also the controlling party in Italy is practically neo-fascist and Austria is also sliding there again with their Nazi party like AfD in Germany and VB in Belgium getting a huge portion of votes.

  I don’t see how it is that much better than a US non- profit.

  I think the core thing is that you have to know of a bunch of different CA options and switch when necessary or on a compromised CA.

  on Letsencrypt is under US jurisdiction. Is there a free-er alternative? in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 4d ago

• You can safely assume that turning anything off in “settings” does little to nothing as far as data collection. Gamers Nexus already proved that with TVs and EFF has done some reports on how terrible cars are.

  Physically removing the LTE and WiFi modules is pretty much the only way to actually turn off spying data harvesting…

  on What do you do for a modern car? in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 6d ago

• What it means though is that nobody in the community can sell upgrades to the printer, sell spare parts, or, and by far most importantly, nobody can develop a fully open source printhead for this printer to sell.

  Right now they are using a proprietary print head from a normal printer (understandably because it is by far the most complex engineering piece and is very complicated). However, an external team that wants to make an open hardware project taking on that engineering challenge with more expertise than this team will not be able to be compensated for their work if they make it specifically for this open source printer. According to my understanding of the license.

  on Open Source Printer coming before 2027 in c/opensource@lemmy.ml · 6d ago

• Ah, the deregulation mindset.

  “If the user is unaware of it, does it really matter if they are harmed by it?”

  One of the main points of society as a whole is protecting the people living in it, even if they don’t know they are being harmed/exploited/poisoned/etc…

  on The Smart Home Wi-Fi Trap: Are We All Being Conned by Convenience? in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 16 Sep 2026

• Because an app on the phone sucks to use, has no tactile feedback, is difficult for older relatives who may baby/pet sit, is more difficult to set up, etc…

  There is a reason autocorrect wasn’t really needed on physical micro keyboards but is 100% necessary on touch screen keyboards.

  But hey, if people would rather have another service to maintain, tap on a slab of glass with no/shit feedback, have 30 minute explanations with their relatives and have to act as tech support on a holiday just to turn the TV on, more power to them.

  on should i worry about a microphone in a third-party usb tv remote for a mini pc that im planning on using? in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 13 Sep 2026

• Capability

  Well this is something that every cheap WiFi chip can do in the last decade. Share WiFi through a hotspot. Hell, ESPHome does it by default just for ease of use and fallback debugging. Here is a very old project , dirt cheap chip that does it

  Ease of Implementation

  They already broadcast hidden SSIDs for direct connection for features like screen mirroring, etc… Researchers have exploited this exact thing for attack vector testing (though they weren’t testing the TV itself data ex filtration)

  There is no way, with all of the privacy intrusions + their blatant disregard for network security (See GN video) and LG’s own advertiser marketing claims, that they don’t do that.

  Other “sounds paranoid” things companies are doing

  It isn’t like “they are tracking you in your own house from WiFi through your walls” (which now ALSO has been proven correct and is now an advertised “feature” for american ISPs) yet here we are. www.sciencedaily.com/releases/…/260522023127.htm, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WiFi_Sensing, theverge.com/…/comcast-xfinity-shield-wifi-motion…

  Automatic content recognition is also done by every manufacturer and also a “very paranoid” thing 5 years ago.

  Not to mention literally this whole wiretap scandal that OP report is from.

  From the original report itself, they also constantly scan all devices on the network, Bluetooth, and in the free bands their radios can pick up and log them so they know every device that has passed in their range, characteristics, and WiFi + Bluetooth geolocating is quite a standard practice for years for “increasing location accuracy”

  LG themselves bought a company that links your real identification from retailers to a unique product number so LG will be able to actually be certain that a specific person is associated with the spied data instead of a guess based on accounts. (Also in GN investigation video 1)

  Profitability

  From their own financial reports as highlighted in the original investigation, LG’s profits from TV-based selling to advertisers and data brokers is literally more than their profits from selling the TVs themselves.

  What else would stop them?

  So we have established that it is dead simple, cheap, functionality already built into other features and profitable. The only other motive left would be ethics, but from the research by GN (reported on in the OP), they simply spy on you anyway, and when caught because that is illegal, they got a slap on the wrist (see US Texas lawsuit settlement), and changed their terms of service to say “you give your and everyone in your household’s express consent to comply to your local wiretapping laws” (using exactly the language “wiretapping”. So we can also establish that they have absolutely no ethics around data ex filtration, and no regard for legality and willingness to pay the small fines.

  What would be the motive for them to look at this feature and say “nah, we aren’t going to do that extremely easy thing”? Laziness would be the only one that I could see, in which case, it will appear in future models at some point.

  It is not as though they have to stream video through it, raw text data is incredibly small. A whole 300 page e-book can be around 1MB. It is uploaded in under 1 second and it is encrypted, so it blends in with other traffic.

  on LG TV shown scanning LAN for third-party phones and other devices in c/technology@lemmy.world · 10 Sep 2026

• They literally run speech to text, store it and exfiltrate it to their servers…

  Even if you deny internet access, it can hop to other smart devices of the same brand using hidden SSIDs and exfiltratr data that way, or if the TV gets sold and connected to a network, all of the stored conversations will get sent to their servers. This was from the original GN investigation and associated security researchers

  There isn’t really something one can network-admin a way out of it seems, sadly…

  on LG TV shown scanning LAN for third-party phones and other devices in c/technology@lemmy.world · 9 Sep 2026

• If I don’t get executive say in what happens at the company, I am not included in liability. I am not allowed to sit on the damn board with my pension fund.

  Executives and controlling board members get held personally liable. It really is as simple as that. If you are in the meetings, and you get a vote, you are liable. There is absolutely no slippery slope fallacy here.

  Any bullshit “uhm actually you technically are a shareholder” is just trying to ward off people having to take responsibility for their decisions. (also, in many pension schemas you aren’t actually the shareholders, the investment fund technically is and you are just given the license to decide how they invest those funds and get a portion of the payout, but it is different than manually retail investing for example)

  on LG smart TVs caught logging audio with screen off and snooping on local devices in c/technology@lemmy.world · 8 Sep 2026

• Also, looking towards the future or for people that can find one at a decent price:

  Not a raspberry pi but an Orange Pi Plus or Pro. They have a rockchip that has AV1 decoding (along with standard others) which is probably going to be the future (it is for corpo streaming already).

  Put plasma big screen on it and get a Bluetooth wechip remote or something

  on Self-hosted TV interface solutions in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 7 Sep 2026

• There is no way this isn’t just an AI bot

  on Rasputin moving out of pre-alpha [AIP] in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 4 Sep 2026

• I guess there is no rule about having the AI writing the AI disclosure because I guess 4 sentences has to be extended into 8 paragraphs.

  But what if the AI disclosure lies? 😂 for example, PRs are reviewed by Claude code and merged. That doesn’t sound like “every commit is reviewed by the maintainer”

  on Rasputin moving out of pre-alpha [AIP] in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 4 Sep 2026

• So they know

  on Blur your house in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 30 Aug 2026

• This is also why open source wearables can’t have the best PPG heart rate/SPO2 tracking.

  There are only about 4 PPG analog front ends still in production that don’t require an NDA and the Max86141 is the only one worth anything it seems.

  You can’t do analog front ends with any small FPGAs that I know of and it is simply to large to do it (well, at least) on a small wearable with discrete components.

  on Motorola's 2027 flagships will officially support GrapheneOS in c/technology@lemmy.world · 26 Aug 2026

• This seems like the perfect scam for Lemmy for setting up a fresh IP for launching a cyber attack/scam with a real residential IP. Helping a community member while circumventing shitty corporations. (Not saying OP is, just that it would be a decent scam)

  This requires either an insane amount of trust in a random person or gullibility. Plugging a random mailed device into your network, even behind a VLAN.

  I definitely would never do this if I didn’t have absolute full and complete access to every part of the pi’s software, or preferably set it up myself (optionally in collaboration with the requester) and the requester only had read-only access to it.

  on UK/EU homelabbers: would you host a hardened Pi so I can watch baseball I already pay for? in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 26 Aug 2026

• Eh, I am not pro AI, but these sorts of non- critical projects are maybe not a horrible use for them. Keep AI out of my kernel, core programs, basis functionality, camera, and personal/health information etc… But for a sorting/catagorization tool maybe not so bad. (Ignoring the environmental and ethical concerns of course)

  on [AIP] IRI: backlog / game library manager with Steam, GOG, EGS, PSN and XBOX integrations in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 19 Aug 2026

• I am already trying to understand all of it first myself. In the middle of a full-strip renovation; I don’t think I will have time to spend on it 😂

  on How can i teach myself to contribute to these projects? in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 14 Aug 2026

• Please dear god let STM or Nordic someone hire some technical writers for Zephyr, not just Nordic documentation.

  The data structures, macro basics, and core concepts are OK, but for example ADCs have literally 0 documentation at all, documentation about DMAs is barebones at absolute best, non-led PWMs is not good, etc…

  Pretty much every single peripheral needs 5x-100x the documentation it currently has lol.

  on How can i teach myself to contribute to these projects? in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 14 Aug 2026