• hirihit640@sh.itjust.works
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    4 days ago

    FYI: this video has zero actual substance. It’s just advertising upcoming videos and asking for support. Which is fine, but for a 30 min video I expected more.

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    A bit click baity. They won’t get sued.

    I have some very specific examples where I can prove MS teams is scraping conversations and selling data. Twice I’ve had meeting about very unusual specific chemical compounds where I was then solicited by synthesis companies within 48hrs.

    Don’t discuss novel IP on Teams.

    But the TV market is highly competitive and they are all basically the same thing (sorry nerds). You would think a truly disconnected TV would be a sales feature at this point. Unless the TV business is not actually about selling you a TV.

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      Don’t discuss novel IP on Teams.

      Because my company forces us to use it, and because I know they’re both watching every conversation and believe it’s kept only within the company, I feel no compunction to keep company secrets off of there.

      They had Mattermost set up and working well, but somebody in the C-suite got FOMO.

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    Smart TV’s are terrifying. I’m still rocking an old 2008 flat screen that can’t handle 1080p…

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      2011 TV here, it thankfully is 1080p capable, and I’m clinging onto it for dear life. If anything in it fails, I’ll definitely be attempting a repair.

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      I have a “smart” TV. It wouldn’t let me get past setup until I put it on wifi, so I spun up a hotspot, then immediately killed it and just plugged in a micro PC running Linux to the HDMI port.

      Occasionally, I’ll sit on the remote and a pop up happens saying I’ll need to connect to the Internet for <feature> to work, but that’s about it.

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        If you watch the video, (oh boy was it long but informative) it likely is still spying on you rampantly and using neighbors as hotspot points to send the data.

        Unlike smartphones, they are plugged in so they can just run speech to text (and the TVs that the op had could hear 20m away in other rooms with the mic array) forever. If you sell the TV or something and it ever connects to the internet again, it will likely dump all of that plaintext data corresponding to your physical location.

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    I have a newish TCL that runs android’s TV OS and I’ve never connected it to a network and it never has bothered me again about connecting. I am sure it’s recording our convos but it isn’t uploading them at least.

    I did scramble a few settings like a BS static IP, a BS DNS, gateway, etc.

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        To be fair the actual video is just a 30 minute ad for their upcoming videos, I would have preferred a summary over wasting those 30 min

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      Using gemini summary as a source? Really?

      I think we’ve all used AI enough to see how much it hallucinates with its main purpose being generating content, and not accuracy to not fully trust it to use it as a source.

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    This is almost as exciting as them just coming right out and saying “New Merch Drop”, which is to say very.