Stale ads are easy enough to solve, just engineer the monitor to fail a few months past the warranty period, then the customer buys a new one with new ads. Simple!
And in a world where it's considered acceptable for a $3000 refrigerator to fail after 5 years, after replacing one that ran for 30 years, they might even get away with it.
Shady car lots install something similar that disables your car if you stop paying.
Yeah, about that...
GrapheneOS, at least, does this on recent Pixel hardware (confirmed as of Pixel 9 Pro, unknown on lower models.)
It's doing a couple different things, controllable by toggles in settings:
1) Disable 2G network connections globally, which may break a few weird old international roaming connections, but also blocks some old shitty IMSI catchers. Mainly this is done because 2G has little to no protections, blindly offering up globally-trackable identifiers to anyone who asks.
2) "Network notifications" gives the user a notification if their device responds to a request for globally-trackable IDs outside of an established security context. It does not block these requests, just notifies the user.
Pre-5G standards allow the carrier -- or someone impersonating it -- to request the IMEI/IMSI data before establishing an encrypted context. Without going too nerdy, the normal procedure is to negotiate the session using an ephemeral ID and keys known to the carrier and SIM, then exchange the true data within an encrypted envelope. The "Stingrays" do not (supposedly) know the shared key, so they cannot negotiate the encrypted session and have to request the data in the clear, and the OS can tell you this happened, given hardware and firmware support.
5G is stronger, in that it defaults to authenticating using a token derived from the true subscriber ID using a public key, the private component of which is (supposedly) only known to the customer's home carrier, so neither roaming networks nor interception devices can know the true ID. Of course, there are backdoor ways to do this using a null key for "legacy support," and this is one of the things that Android will notify of.
It remains to be determined how strong those "supposedly" elements are.
You can opt out of Cloudflare by clicking the 'x' to close tab.
I find myself doing this frequently and not always voluntarily. Haven't even bothered to check whether it's Clownflare, but most likely.
... and fittingly, gotta turn off Javascript to view the link. Best sort of paywall, though -- the variety you can opt out of with one click.
Or, for only $5k, get your own private guillotine with no waiting at all! And a padded neckrest, and a 8K video monitor. $20k for a lifetime* subscription.
2) But this approach only works as an effective deterrent if the other side - the one doing the jamming - knows that that will be the result.
I guess they could have it, after an appropriate time without comms, key up on the ICAO emergency frequency and start broadcasting its intentions. "Thank you for jamming the satellite communications! This satellite will self-destruct in two minutes and 45 seconds." Wouldn't be the first time Russia did something like this. Remains open to dispute whether the other major nuclear power(s) have done so as well.
I don't know if anyone really complains about AI finding the case law faster than paralegals do. But judges have been known to complain about AIs making up citations that don't exist and then lawyers signing off on them without checking the work.
If the gun nuts and "don't tread on me" crowd actually cared they would be out protesting against the armed secret police who kidnap people into unmarked vehicles.
... and the nationwide public/private surveillance panopticon, and the internet "age-verification" laws, and the slurping up of data-broker output by law enforcement, and the very existence of data brokers, and the proposed requirement to show ID to activate a cell phone, and all the other things that limit the ability of law-abiding citizens to be unknown and mind their business.
I sometimes find myself working in northern Wisconsin. There's a huge population of folks up there who will chase the census taker off their land, occasionally with a gun, because they don't like The Guv'mint being in their business. And then they'll put up a dozen Ring cameras around their property, so if that census taker shows up again, they'll know immediately and can give him what for.
Some combination of profound cluelessness and a love for the taste of boot.
While I like to come here and rant about stupidity and enshittification, this story gives me a moment to reflect on the amazing achievements we've made as a species. We long ago blew through the wavelengths of visible light, and are now encroaching on X-rays and approaching the sizes of some of the larger atoms with manufactured, active structures. Impressive.
... though there was probably a significant boost from all the "Release the Files! Lock up the Pedos!" campaigning, and time HAS told how that works out, with significantly more Reflecting Pool Paint Touching arrests than Epstein-class Child Touching arrests.
Probably the same reason a lot of moderate, fiscal-conservative style Republicans held their noses and voted Trump. Because they're tired of the status quo and they want someone who will break shit. Time will tell how well that works out.
I've been to jail. I assume as a cop accused of this level of misconduct, one day probably means he spent from 11.59pm to 12.01am in a holding cell at the police station.
But, then we get all the complaints about all the cops say it's not worthwhile to track down felony shoplifters because the searches cost too much.
Won't you think of the cats and dogs?!They're eating the cats and dogs over there and there's nothing we can do to stop them because we don't have the budget to search their license plates.
Fix the small things that just don't seem to work.
One example is when I want to switch from Bluetooth to speaker that it just accept my choice and not switch back...
And also, if I connect to a WiFi network that has no internet, like a config network for a router or IOT device, fucking STAY connected to it until it goes away or I say otherwise. Don't make me go through and explicitly disconnect from every saved wifi network within range, turn off mobile data, etc. There is the "This network has no internet, stay connected?" popup, which works sometimes, but not always.
I get it, Google wants Internet access at all times for full telemetry tracking, but it does make some things rather inconvenient.
ASCII a stupid question, you get an EBCDIC answer.
