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rusk commented on Microsoft Copilot AI Comes to LG TVs, and Can't Be Deleted techpowerup.com/344075/mi... · Posted by u/akyuu

kburman · 7 hours ago

My rule for modern TVs:

1. Never connect the TV panel itself to the internet. Keep it air-gapped. Treat it solely as a dumb monitor.

2. Use an Apple TV for the "smart" features.

3. Avoid Fire TV, Chromecast, or Roku.

The logic is simple, Google (Chromecast) and Amazon (Fire TV) operate on the same business model as the TV manufacturers subsidized hardware in exchange for user data and ad inventory. Apple is the only mainstream option where the hardware cost covers the experience, rather than your viewing habits subsidizing the device.

rusk · 6 hours ago

> 1. Never connect the TV panel itself to the internet. Keep it air-gapped. Treat it solely as a dumb monitor.

I gave up on this. I turned off a lot of the smart features but couldn’t justify not being able to use the apps.

It’s pretty dystopian my TV spying on me for sure but they’ve already got my phone, my internet history and presumably some pretty good spy satellites

If a drone has my name on it I’m done for either way

rusk commented on In the Beginning was the Command Line (1999) web.stanford.edu/class/cs... · Posted by u/wseqyrku

advael · 16 hours ago

From my experience riding in them and news reports I've read, any tesla fits the bill

Sadly, the most reliable signal american tech companies send is that they are primarily concerned with building a surveillance state. Whether this is for the US government or just their own fiefdoms (franchulates?) seems to vary a lot both within and between them, but neither prospect is particularly appealing to me as a prospective customer and/or target

rusk · 8 hours ago

> the most reliable signal american tech companies send is that they are primarily concerned with building a surveillance state

Sagacious point. With emphasising. This is how non-European web business look to everyone.

rusk commented on In the Beginning was the Command Line (1999) web.stanford.edu/class/cs... · Posted by u/wseqyrku

kragen · 19 hours ago

Is Microsoft Windows more like a Ford Pinto with an exploding gas tank, a Lada, or what? I can't think of any car that's ever been sold whose design was optimized to spy on its users and trick them into buying to things and agreeing to contracts they didn't want.

The Takata airbags that inflated at random, killing 26 people, seem similarly harmful (if to a far smaller number of people), but that's an unintentional defect. Unlike the recent Windows 11 screw-tightening, Takata responded by recalling the product, not making it explode more frequently.

rusk · 8 hours ago

Windows Vista had suicide doors

rusk commented on Therapeutic use of cannabis and cannabinoids: A review jamanetwork.com/journals/... · Posted by u/bookofjoe

lucketone · a day ago

> there must have been perceived downsides at the time.

I also don’t know, but I seriously doubt there was cost benefit analysis.

My two bets would be:

- church/priests had power and they condemned most things, except for preying.

- it became widely known that opium is really obviously bad for you, after a bit of mental juggling that became “drugs are bad”, and then wholesale bans followed.

rusk · a day ago

World War 1 and 2 were drug fueled. Americans saw the carnage after WW1 and instituted prohibition and then entered WW2 as the only sober participants.

The Chinese 100 years of humiliation at the hands of the Brits, was down to Opium

The fall of the medieval European dynasties was all down to Luandanum

Time and again, the unhealthy, and unregulated use of drugs has toppled empires and led to social upheaval.

Makes perfect sense if you ran a country you would be scared of it.

rusk commented on Therapeutic use of cannabis and cannabinoids: A review jamanetwork.com/journals/... · Posted by u/bookofjoe

mh- · a day ago

I fully accept there is pain relief value. What I wish were better studied is: what are the short, medium, long-term effects of using it at various dosages?

For example, it's pretty widely agreed that it (anecdotally) causes anxiety at higher doses - how high of a dose?

rusk · a day ago

> short, medium, long-term effects of using it

That would require a grown up conversation and what if the results aren’t the one you want? Pretty hard for Bud, Pfizer etc to put that genie back in the bottle

rusk commented on Therapeutic use of cannabis and cannabinoids: A review jamanetwork.com/journals/... · Posted by u/bookofjoe

nurettin · a day ago

It is all fun and games "defending" legalization of weed online until you get a substance abuser in your family.

rusk · a day ago

Wait til their substance abuser gets locked up that’s where the fun really begins

rusk commented on Therapeutic use of cannabis and cannabinoids: A review jamanetwork.com/journals/... · Posted by u/bookofjoe

ursAxZA · a day ago

Different countries still treat cannabis very differently, and that alone shows how unsettled the whole topic is. I don’t know the full historical reasoning behind the bans, but there must have been perceived downsides at the time. It feels like society just keeps swinging back and forth on this.

rusk · a day ago

The UK actually did a report into drug use a number of years ago. Professor David Nutt identified the root causes of the phenomenon you identified and was sacked for it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Nutt

rusk commented on Therapeutic use of cannabis and cannabinoids: A review jamanetwork.com/journals/... · Posted by u/bookofjoe

epolanski · a day ago

The abstract of the review is interesting and honestly reflects my (negative) experience with cannabis.

I admit, I really like cannabis, and when I was a 20 year old occasionally smoking with friends at parties it was a "healthier" alternative to getting wasted on alcohol. Share few joins with friends, have fun, laugh a lot.

Then as I got financially independent and I started solo consumption (mostly to get rid of stress) I really started appreciating the cons: lack of energy, disruption of sleep, negative impact of my cognitive abilities, increase in anxiety. I'm glad the study confirms those to be statistically common.

I was very lucky to have a SO who really disliked me smoking and made me realize that I was just doing it to "not think", and it had really 0 positive effects on me. I'm sure I would've quitted eventually anyway, but support and criticism sped up the reality check.

Eventually this is all anecdotal experience, and I'm sure there might be occasional users who can have a mostly positive experience, but the fact that a review points out how statistically common are the negatives and how uncommon are the positives honestly reflects what I've seen on myself and friends.

rusk · a day ago

Anecdata

rusk commented on Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban reuters.com/legal/litigat... · Posted by u/chirau

re-thc · 4 days ago

> I believe that the line in the sand over which platforms this applies to is the ones that

You know a law is broken when its definition is defined by random people "knowing" where and how it applies.

> This sort of ban is the same as existing laws banning the sale and consumption of alcohol or driving

No it's not. Is every social media platform banned? How is it defined? This is the equivalent of going into a supermarket with a "kids" alcohol section and 1 for everyone else hand-picked by whoever in charge.

rusk · 4 days ago

Like the worlds richest man claiming to be a free speech absolutist. Because you just know the sappy fuck has your best interests at heart.

> You know a law is broken when its definition is defined by random people "knowing" where and how it applies.

rusk commented on Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban reuters.com/legal/litigat... · Posted by u/chirau

chistev · 5 days ago

Break up the federal government?

rusk · 5 days ago

It was a clever riff on the current situation where business tells government