I just connect it to a computer and watch YouTube without ads and movies without anti-piracy warnings (from a store I go to-rrent them).
How do you hook it up and how do you control it remotely?
Readit Newsafarah1 commented on Texas is suing all of the big TV makers for spying on what you watch theverge.com/news/845400/... · Posted by u/tortilla
Just don’t connect your TV to the internet.
Yes I know there is a theoretical capability for it to connect to unsecured WIFI. No one still has unsecured WIFI anymore
That's not a good answer, unless you just want cable. YouTube, Netflix, etc won't work. Buying hardware is paying extra which is already a deterrent, but anyway just shifts the problem to that piece of hardware - is the stick vetted to not do any harm? Other solutions are often impractical or overly complex for non-technical people. I haven't seen any good answers to date. I guess your TV just shouldn't spy on everything you watch? Seems like a reasonable expectation.
afarah1 commented on Mozilla appoints new CEO Anthony Enzor-Demeo blog.mozilla.org/en/mozil... · Posted by u/recvonline
Everyone is reacting negatively to the focus on AI, but does Mozilla really have a choice? This is going to be a rehash of the same dynamic that has happened in all the browser wars: Leading browser introduces new feature, websites and extensions start using that feature, runner-up browsers have no choice but to introduce that feature or further lose marketshare.
Chrome and Edge have already integrated LLM capabilities natively, and webpages and extensions will soon start using them widely:
- https://developer.chrome.com/docs/ai/built-in
- https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2025/05/19/introducing-t...
Soon you will have pages that are "Best viewed in Chrome / Edge" and eventually these APIs will be standardized. Only a small but passionate minority of users will run a non-AI browser. I don't think that's the niche Firefox wants to be in.
I agree that Mozilla should take the charge on being THE privacy-focused browser, but they can also do so in the AI age. As an example, provide a sandbox and security features that prevent your prompts and any conversations with the AI from being exfiltrated for "analytics." Because you know that is coming.
Of course they have a choice. Just don't do it. All you said are predictions of what may or may not happen in the future. The opposite could be true - the audience at large may get sick of AI tools being pushed on them and prefer the browser that doesn't. No one knows. But even if you are right, supporting an hypothetical API that extensions and websites may or may not use and pushing opt-out AI tooling in the browser itself are very different things.
Anonymizing data is incredibly difficult to do: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jun/27/new-york-...
> New York City has released data of 173m individual taxi trips – but inadvertently made it "trivial" to find the personally identifiable information of every driver in the dataset.
Interesting read, thanks. The related article shows that even more robust anonymization techniques may still be insufficient (in the case of the taxi rides, spatial-temporal analysis could still lead to de-anonymization). More reason to reduce data collection. Unfortunately the trend is the opposite for governments all around the world.
afarah1 commented on The disguised return of EU Chat Control reclaimthenet.org/the-dis... · Posted by u/egorfine
We stop allowing the rich to become so rich. Billionares are not compatible with democracy or the greater good.
This seems to be more about political power and government overreach than money. The narrative seems to be focused solely on concentration of the later, lately.
afarah1 commented on Embracing the parallel coding agent lifestyle simonwillison.net/2025/Oc... · Posted by u/jbredeche
Any setups without Claude Code? I use CoPilot agent heavily on VSCode, from time to time I have independent grunt work that could be parallelized to two or three agents, but I haven't seen a decent setup for that with CoPilot or some other VSCode extension that I could use my CoPilot subscription with.
afarah1 commented on What makes Claude Code so damn good minusx.ai/blog/decoding-c... · Posted by u/samuelstros
It's not just the base model
Try using opus with cline in vs code. Then use Claude code.
I don't know the best way to quantify the differences, but I know I get more done in CC.
But is it a game changer vs CoPilot in Agent mode with Claude 4 Sonnet?
Because it's twice the price and doesn't even have a trial.
I feel like if it were a game changer, like Cursor once was vs Ask mode with GPT, it would be worth it, but CoPilot has come a long way and the only up-to-date comparisons I've read point to it being marginally better or the same, but twice the price.
afarah1 commented on Volkswagen locks horsepower behind paid subscription autoexpress.co.uk/volkswa... · Posted by u/t0bia_s
Cars already have a recurring “subscription” in the form of fuel, maintenance, repairs, insurance, and cleaning. Unless more companies are pulling a Volvo and offering a comprehensive maintenance subscription that covers all the above via a monthly fee, then they can collectively FOAD.
EDIT: I am keenly aware how cars work and don’t need eSplaining on them. I articulate my point better in a comment deeper in the thread. Apologies for my snark and vitriol over unnecessary and exploitative subscriptions coming off as somehow condoning VW-formulated petrol or Tesla-approved electricity.
Poor comparison, none of these are attached to the manufacturer, you can and usually do get these services from other companies of your choice. You don't need VW-Gas(TM) from VW-Station(TM) in your tank for the car to run.
afarah1 commented on Is Germany on the brink of banning ad blockers? blog.mozilla.org/netpolic... · Posted by u/Vinnl
... how would it be enforced?