Elvith Ma'for

Exactly what I meant with

LAN != internet

Most routers allow you to set child safety settings for devices to block them from accessing the internet in specific timeframes or completely. You can still access the local network from the affected device or access that device from your local network

Why? Does the printer need to be connected to the internet at all, if not for firmware upgrades? (Note: LAN != internet)

When they want us to call it Gulf of America, why can’t we just also name it Flu of America?

I own a small USB stick that acts as a camera. But in reality it’s just a HDMI input on the other end. Now beat that with software

The king is dead, long live the king!

Plausible deniability

Roll verification coal to continue

FTFY

Here you go

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/sony-patent-mcdonalds/

Edit: I didn’t see the other comment, oops

Hey, you might want to team up with Sony…

Line go up

Instructions unclear, D stuck in printer

WELL, I’m not running

kill -9 $PPID

Pretty pretty sudo with —no-preserve-root on top?

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Help me, I’m stuck in the drawer!

Meta/Facebook made a Twitter/X clone called Threads. They enabled activity pub, so that Fediverse users can be followed from Threads and vice versa.

At 38C3, there was a talk about Volkswagen - a German car manufacturer - that didn’t correctly secure the data it collected from its vehicles and what you can „learn“ from this data. The talk can be found here, it’s in German but there’s also an English translation in another audio layer

https://media.ccc.de/v/38c3-wir-wissen-wo-dein-auto-steht-volksdaten-von-volkswagen

Also, depending on which device you use to watch: if you download the movie/episode and play it, you won’t see ads. Not every of their apps lets you download, but depending on which app (on which device) you can use, that’s also a neat workaround for non-children-titles

That’s exactly why I set a custom, selfrecorded ringtone as my on call ringtone. I had used a default one prior, but after a few small heart attacks, it was a no brainer.

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