cross-posted from: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/69831108
Hacker reverse engineers his Samsung TV and finds on-device AI listening for your dog and baby, watching what you watch, and borrowing your soundbar’s mic if the TV doesn’t have one. Then OpenAI banned him for reverse-engineering it.
Source:
You’re right. No quip. You’re correct. But I, too am a coward. I’m not a soldier and my hands shake in intense situations - I have many excuses to give but no action to add.
We are most often cowards as individuals unless we have a mental break and snap like Luigi where self preservation takes a back seat, we’d handle it better as an organised group but clearly none of us know how to begin and/or there’s not enough appetite for it to happen yet. I’ve heard it said nobody is willing until things get bad enough like if food becomes scarce. Idk. I’ve only known peace times with my needs met as they’re slowly eroded in a declining society, so I’m completely out of my element. How do I theoretically convince my union to drag the boss out of their house and cave their head in without being ineffectual and jailed/killed as another single day news cycle headline labeled a crazed solo mad man who is promptly forgotten.
One thing for sure is it ain’t gonna happen on censored social media owned by our enemies enforcing status quo or Fediverse instances that ban talk like this out of legal trouble fears like LW who also enforce status quo. Everyone likes to fantasize and maybe that cathartic release is part of the problem because the internet allows us to vent that frustration instead of harnessing it, but you actually get serious? You build a guillotine instead of posting guillotine.webp? Banned for inciting violence.
Well said and fully agreed. When the means to have discussion are taken away that too is a tool used against the people. That’s why they’re turning to surveillance as much as they have. It has been a wonderful weapon to cull this exact type of talk.
I think it’ll just have to get a whole lot worse before we’ll be worrying about this stage of things. It’s just odd, watching it and seeing news like this become just background noise for so many people.
Almost like it doesn’t even matter that rights are being stripped away, right in front of people and seemingly so few care… but maybe that’s not fully right either. So few people don’t have the time to care whether by design or not. And like you say, it feels like you’re stuck, watching. A prison, oddly enough. I mean I’m not starving to death or something like that, but it feels awful with seemingly no light at the end of the long narrow tunnel. Waiting for a cave-in to breathe gasps of different air into the stale damp hole we call home.
I don’t know, maybe I’m just complaining too much.
You are not alone thus you have your answer.
Most people value their own life so it first must become so bad that dying while trying to change stuff is preferable to keep living in those conditions.
So relax, have fun while you can, this will sort itself out.