Conservatarian atheist. Paid professional nerd. Occasional gamer. I drink & I know things. Always inappropriate. I'm your huckleberry. #2A *Trigger Warning*
California, USA
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I'm kinda surprised this isn't already the case, TBH.
Why the fuck are there so many savages living in our midst now?
It's all soulless twaddle.
The lightsaber battles are no about rehearsed choreography. They're about the emotion and subtext going on behind the fight.
The closest the prequels came was the Anakin/Obi-Wan fight in Episode III, but even that one dragged on into an overindulgent mess. And the sequels were too inept to go even that far.
Jack retweeted
If you've ever wondered why smart TVs are so cheap, this is why.
@log4j rooted his Samsung and found an always-on hot mic, automatic content recognition, geolocation, network mapping, ad targeting and user profiling, shared with Samsung's "400 partners".
A lot of it can be blocked in <15 min, wrote a basic guide below.
What your TV is doing
The main culprit is ACR (automatic content recognition). Your TV screenshots what's on screen, fingerprints it, and sends it home to build your ad profile. Samsung does it every 500ms, LG every 10ms [1].
What is insane: it happens on connected devices too.
Plug in your laptop, your console, your work machine, and your TV can fingerprint that via HDMI [1].
He also found that if your Samsung doesn't have a mic, it'll look for one from a connected soundbar or bluetooth device.
xitter.cf/log4j/status/211376224…
It's on by default, and you likely agreed to it on the setup screen you clicked through in 10 seconds.
Step 1: Turn off ACR
Samsung: Terms & Privacy → Viewing Information Services
LG: Live Plus
Vizio: Viewing Data
Roku: "Use info from TV inputs"
Sony/Google TV: Samba Interactive TV
Menus vary by model, but those are the names to look for. While you're in there, opt out of interest-based ads, reset your advertising ID, decline every optional privacy agreement, turn off voice recognition, and delete apps you never open.
Step 2: Give smart devices their own network
Put the TV, cameras, speakers and vacuum on your router's guest/IoT network. The logic is simple: these devices rarely get patched. If one gets compromised (getting drastically more frequent with AI), it shouldn't be able to see your other devices or home network.
Step 3: Block trackers for the whole house with DNS-level filtering
NextDNS (cloud-based) is easy and has a solid free plan. Pi-hole is a little bit more work if you prefer self hosting. For simplicity we'll focus on the former.
1. Sign up at nextdns.io (free tier is plenty)
2. Privacy tab: add a blocklist (OISD is a good bet) and turn on Native Tracking Protection for Samsung, LG, Roku, Amazon (see attached image)
3. Setup tab: copy your endpoint
4. Paste it into your router's DNS settings as DNS-over-HTTPS/TLS (or use the IPs + "Link IP" if your router only does plain DNS)
5. Bonus: block outbound port 53 except to your router. Some devices hardcode their own DNS to get around you
Then open the NextDNS logs and watch how often your TV phones home. It's eye-opening. If an app or update breaks, find the domain in the logs and allowlist it.
Why they do this
TV prices are down 97% since 2000 [2]. Most of that is better manufacturing and brutal competition. But once margins on the hardware hit zero, the cost moved to you.
In Q3 2024, Vizio lost $6.7M selling TVs and made $115.8M in gross profit from ads and viewing data [3]. They've said on earnings calls that they keep TV prices low to grow the audience they sell to advertisers. Walmart bought them in 2024.
This isn't a conspiracy theory either. Vizio paid $2.2M to the FTC in 2017 for tracking 11 million TVs without consent. Last December, Texas sued Samsung, LG, Sony, Hisense and TCL over ACR. Samsung and LG have since agreed to stop collecting that data without explicit consent [4].
TL;DR
1. ACR off
2. Ads + voice off
3. Smart devices on their own network
4. NextDNS filtering on the router
Sources:
[1] ACR study: arxiv.org/abs/2409.06203
[2] Cost of US consumer goods: aei.org/economics/chart-of-t…
[3] Vizio Q3 2024: sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/…
[4] Texas v. Samsung: texasattorneygeneral.gov/new…
Jack retweeted
Welp. Finally went down the Malfoid rabbit hole.
I have come to the conclusion that we need 600,000 more data centers.
Gosh, what a shame.
A convicted child sex offender who went missing after cutting off his GPS monitoring device was found dead in a Southern California riverbed.
Details: ktla.com/news/california/mis…
Jack retweeted
Correct.
Using Starlink, a civilian commercial service, for offensive drone strikes to kill people has never been allowed, nor should it be.
Starshield, a different system, is controlled by the US government. What they decide to do is up to them.
Ukraine military violated Starlink terms of service and used it for offensive drone strikes to kill people. That loophole was closed last week.
Starlink remains critical to the defense of Ukraine, as it is the only system that cannot be jammed or blown up, at least for now. Were Starlink to be turned off, the Ukrainian front line would collapse immediately. This is NOT a threat, it is simply a statement of fact.
Starlink was also crucial to preventing Russia from overrunning Ukraine in the early days of the war, as all other means of communication were destroyed or jammed by Russia.
SpaceX has done more to defend Ukraine than any private company on Earth BY FAR.
That said, I have nothing but UTTER CONTEMPT for the virtue-signaling evil warmongers who push for endless slaughter and offer no realistic solution to the conflict. May you burn in hell.
End of story.
Jack retweeted
Letting Leftist aggressors know that if they start a civil war that we'll be ready to finish it is not "calling for a civil war."
It's warning bad people not to start one.
I wish everyone could understand the difference.
Watching this gormless twit getting positively bodied in the comments has been the highlight of my day on X.
Weird how all the gun bros going mental about this photo are such firearms experts but they don’t know what a safety inhibitor is.
This weapon was physically incapable of firing.
But again, they know this.
What they’re really angry about is a woman in a hijab holding a gun.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
A safety device does not negate other firearm safety rules. Each rule and safety device is merely one failsafe in the safe use of a firearm.
gunsafetyrules.nra.org
This is masterful.
Everyone was arguing about Shane Gillis' SNL gym joke. I sent Mystery Inc. to investigate. 🔎👣📱
SCOOBY-DOO! Shane Gillis and the Case of the Missing Clothes
One sasquatch. Too many cameras. Zero gym etiquette.
#ShaneGillis #Scoobydoo #SNL #AIParody
Jack retweeted
If this is the state of your civilization, then there is absolutely no point in talking about crimes at all.
Because if you lack the moral courage even to correctly describe the typical perpetrator, then you certainly lack the moral courage to actually hold perpetrators responsible.
Society, ultimately, is implemented by humans. Every law ever written is just so much wasted paper if the humans charged with giving meaning to those laws refuse to do so.
And for the last 75 years, that is what has happened. We have developed a political class that refuses to follow the intent of the law, or even its literal text, because if democrats started imprisoning thieves and murderers, we might have to notice that they're all African, and if republicans started deporting visa fraudsters, we might have to notice that they are all Indian.
There is an unwelcome truth behind all of this. Almost no one is particularly happy about it, but it divides the world into two groups... those who are willing to confront it, and those with their fingers in their ears screaming lalalalalalalalaIcantHEARyou.
Classical liberalism alone did not create or sustain Western Civilization. We know this because we have plenty of it, and it's not.
Christianity alone did not create or sustain Western Civilization. We know this because we have plenty of it, and it's not.
Western Civilization was created and sustained by the balance of three philosophies, not two, and it is the third philosophy that is missing.
This third philosophy does not come with a name, and it was never given a name until someone wanted to eradicate it.
Why does it not have a name? Because, unlike the other two philosophies, it has no point of origin. It did not have to be invented.
It predates both classical liberalism and Christianity. It predates the human race. Bees practice it, wolves practice it, dolphins practice it and so do lions.
It is the default state of all life.
Without it, the liberal notion of human rights, and the Christian notions of the good Samaritan and the imago d.e.i. become nothing more than suicide pacts.
Both classical liberalism and Christianity are leftist, socialist, and universalist in nature, and they only ever worked as modifiers on the basic right wing philosophy of all life.
It can be best described by one word.
Empiricism.
That isn't the word you thought I'd use, is it? But it's the word that fits, because it's the word that means believing what you see right in front of you.
Regardless of whether it hurts anyone's feelings, or contradicts your abstract principles about Jesus or the rights of humans.
It is the philosophy of preferring the welfare of your family to the welfare of infinity shrimp. It is the philosophy of not ignoring the blindingly fucking obvious.
It is the philosophy of all of us admitting that women who look like Diane Yap do not need to be followed around by security inside the store.
They need to be followed around by the Highway Patrol once they leave.
Give him to the Marines there at Quantico. They should be able to sort him out right quick.
An iconic Iwo Jima flag-raising monument was left decapitated after an alleged sledgehammer attack by an illegal immigrant.
Police arrest 27-year-old Miguel Alonso Maldonado Soriano after allegedly catching him damaging the statue near Marine Corps Base Quantico in Virginia Wednesday night.
Authorities estimate the damage at hundreds of thousands of dollars.
The statue, located near the National Museum of the Marine Corps, is a smaller replica of the famous World War II memorial.
Maldonado Soriano is being held without bond and faces multiple felony charges, including destruction of property and injury to a monument.
See more about the destruction and the charges: foxnews.com/us/illegal-alien…
Truer words have never been written.
This is a public service announcement for all women everywhere ever.
A fight does not happen by mutual consent. A fight happens because one person decides to start it.
That's ONE. Uno. Un. Eins. Ichi. Yī. Unus. Ett. Hana. Wāḥid.
One is not two.
Your man is not in a fight because he looked at the other guy, and they both said, hey, let's totally throw down, bro, as if fighting were a pickup game of basketball.
Your man is in a fight because one person decided to attack. That person is not necessarily your man even if, and I cannot stress this enough, even if your man is the one who throws hands first.
Yes, you read that right. If you don't understand, if it makes no sense to you, that's because you know nothing about fighting.
If you grab your man and try to restrain him, you are not preventing the fight. You are restraining him while the fight occurs.
Just because you would like your man to exit the situation does not necessarily mean he can. Even if he can, that does not necessarily mean he should.
He knows about fighting. Some men know less about it, and some men know more, but unless you are Ronda Rousey or Lena Miculek, your man always knows more about fighting than you.
If you have something you want him to do, like exit the situation if he can, use your words like a big girl.
Do not touch him.
He will ignore you, of course, because you have no idea what you are talking about, but you can talk if it makes you happy.
Do not touch him.
Step back from the area of conflict and get out of the way. Keep him between you and the threat if possible.
Do not get between him and the threat. That is retarded.
Also do not touch him.
If you do touch him, do not be surprised if you shoves you hard enough to land you on your butt ten feet away. This is the appropriate response. He is trying to protect himself and you from your willful ignorance.
Do not touch him.
If you do touch him, and he survives, do not be surprised if he ends the relationship afterwards. You grossly disrespected his judgement, and put him in serious danger with your selfish desire to be right all the time.
Do not touch him.
The time to have a conversation about whether the fight should have happened is after the fight, not while people are in danger.
Do not touch him.
Okay, quick reading comprehension test.
What should you not do?
Jack retweeted
they’re calling it “Black October” and i don’t think people realize how serious this is
in the last 48 hours there have been over 27 major cybersecurity incidents. not in a month. not in a week. in 48 hours
any ONE of these would normally be the biggest story of the year
PHP: critical vulnerability in the software running 80% of the web. severity 9.2 out of 10
Node.js: high-severity flaw letting attackers take over servers remotely. affects versions 22, 24, and 26
Java: also compromised. three of the most used programming languages on earth hit at the same time
GitLab: a perfect 10 out of 10 severity hole in every version since 2014
Railway: hosting platform compromised. API keys for OpenAI, Claude, Stripe potentially exposed
Signal: a bug that could leave your mic and camera on after you hang up
WordPress: hackers stole a plugin maker’s keys and planted backdoors on websites
LiteLLM: an AI tool downloaded 3.4 million times a day was poisoned with a password stealer
and that’s not even half the list
thousands of AI agent swarms are reportedly scanning and attacking vulnerable servers right now. automated. around the clock
security researchers are saying this might be the early stages of a global cyber incident that nobody fully understands yet
if you run a website, use cloud services, store API keys on hosting platforms, or use any software built on PHP, Node.js, or Java you are potentially affected
update everything. rotate your API keys. change your passwords on critical services. enable 2FA everywhere you haven’t already
this is not a normal week on the internet. this is something different
Jack retweeted
One thing that is sure about droogs. They are complete pussies. One man with determination and they scatter like the scum they are. They can only be violent in the anonymity of a swarm. Five men with moral certitude can make thirty run home crying for mama.
