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It most likely is

Instead of guessing, you people need to learn to use Wireshark and find out for yourself.

No, they don't just listen all the time with an open mic and just send all audio to the cloud. Anyone in cybersecurity would definitely notice that and sound the alarm. There's probably tens of thousands of people watching what these companies and their tech do all day long.

They can get all the data they need through other means, like trackers. Most of us aren't consciously aware of the metric shitton of bread crumbs we all leave behind on the net.

Excuse me? Crimea IS (or was) part of Ukraine. The fuck are you on about "second" country? This invasion has been already happening for a decade more or less.

🛢 = 🏴✊?

That was between them and Ukraine though. Not NATO. Very different power dynamic there. They don't feel threatened by Ukraine.

Everybody says that...but I'd like to see Russia try. And if they resort to nukes, they'll be erased in a day. They may be Russian, but they're not stupid or suicidal.

What's up, I'm 42 years old. USSR collapsed over 30 years ago, it's irrelevant. Like the person said, modern Russia doesn't have 900+ bases around the world. The US was an unchallenged hyperpower for a long time and definitely took advantage of that fact.

We went through all this shit with Afghanistan and Iraq and now we're supposed to believe the US is helping out simply because they feel sorry for Ukraine? Countries don't just do things without a good motivation.

Article said they they actually have a service that reproduces news articles without paywalls. People are deliberately choosing to get their news filtered through ChatGPT when everyone should know by now that these things are not to be trusted with any important information.

If you're getting your news from an AI model....I don't know what to say about you...other than don't breed, please. (Not you, OP)

Shit. Password expired due to company policies. Oh well, hunter3 it is now.

A botnet on wheels. Now you can't say that's never been tried before I guess. What's next, crypto miners?

I use a combo of Pihole + OpenDNS with filters. And my kid's user account does not have privileges to change network settings. Yet. Things will be enabled one by one in due time until he's in 100% control of his own computer.

And if he actually knows what a DNS server is and is digging around for the setting, and trying to hack my shit, then I'd say he's ready for the "adult" computing world.

ring ring

picks up receiver

"Wacka wacka wacka wacka"

"It's for you."

Yeah to this day I don't understand this "genius" business move. My redneck conservative dad sure as hell isn't buying an electric vehicle anytime soon, even if you put a giant MAGA hat on it.

Who said I'd never talk to them about it? I'd just like to do it in a controlled manner at an appropriate age and prepare them without them seeing the most depraved shit right off the bat. Is that unreasonable?

Don't assume the intentions of other people.

If your kids are motivated enough, they will find a way around it.

Reminds me of my local public library in 1997. They had these public computers for people that didn't yet have Internet access, and the browsers were locked down and stripped with just "back", "forward", "refresh" buttons and a URL address bar.

However, there was a tiny question mark icon in the corner that when clicked, brought up the Windows help system (that browser thing that can navigate help topics). There was a link in there to open IE and go to a support page, and when clicked would launch the full Internet Explorer with a complete menu over top of the kiosk interface, and this browser instance was not restricted in what it could access like the kiosk browser was (I believe it may have been a custom version of Mosaic).

dont use parental controls

That's how you get your kid to encounter MLP porn. Or worse, discover Gab and 4chan.

You know what's nice? Being able to sit down at any Linux distro and being able to set up and configure services without Googling how to use that particular distro's init system.