Hmmm… my gamer brother-on-law loves his Steam deck. I run Batocera on a standalone cheapo NUC. It would be a great holiday gift for him to get my classics ROMs collection on a card he can just boot

Fun nano-side-story: I discovered Batocera Linux while searching for distros that have a dedicated spin for USB.

It let my kids experience the glory of my youth including the crappy Atari 2600 games

TBF, he could feel the stock is worth more and will go up, while the cash is (a) not needed to bankroll Jr any more, and (b) losing value quickly

I would hope Artifactory is pulling some Project Glasswing level security blitz RN because it was their pw0nage that let the OpenAI swarm form The Collective

Seems to me if the government leaked people’s financial data, each person should sue for $10 billion in damages and a $1.776 billion slush fund

Maybe the popcorn needs to be delivered to the White House, Real Genius style

Kalaka?

Q: What do they call the person who graduated bottom of their class in medical school?

A: Doctor

cheat like hell like they do

Sociologists find that universally, in countries with persistent corruption, the populace believes “everyone is doing it” – and that therefore, they are being taken advantage of unless they do the same.

It’s this pervasive sentiment that makes it so hard to break. It is a memetic social disease.

One of my great regrets is abandoning my 4-digit slashdot ID (I decided I was wasting too much time there when I should be working LOL)

So now I’m user 27,537

You forgot to wish everyone a Blessed Kirkmas, you insensitive clod

And the breakdown of international cooperation as USA implodes

remember: the terrorists cannot win even once

Not impossible, just nontrivial and expensive.

Next gen cams will have live update if this apparel is prevalent enough – which means Solarwinds style are a concern and a lot more people who could inject something.

blocking roku with a wildcard

yeah that won’t work

Hence the value in Perflyst’s repo

Example:

# LG
ad.lgappstv.com
ibis.lgappstv.com
jp.rdx2.lgtvsdp.com
jp.lgtvsdp.com
jp.info.lgsmartad.com
lgad.cjpowercast.com.edgesuite.net
#ngfts.lge.com # blocks thumbnails from loading in the LG Content Store
smartclip.com
smartclip.net
smartshare.lgtvsdp.com
us.ad.lgsmartad.com
us.ibs.lgappstv.com
us.info.lgsmartad.com
#us.lgtvsdp.com # #117
us.rdx2.lgtvsdp.com
yumenetworks.com
aic-ngfts.lge.com
us.cdpbeacon.lgtvcommon.com
us.cdpsvc.lgtvcommon.com
us.homeprv.lgtvcommon.com
us.nudge.lgtvcommon.com
us.rdl.lgtvcommon.com
us.recommend.lgtvcommon.com
us.lgsmartad.com
us.service.lgtvcommon.com
# Gamers Nexus - LG Smart TV spying
aic.cdpsvc.lgtvcommon.com
aic.cdpbeacon.lgtvcommon.com
us.nextlgsdp.com # other regions also needend? de.nextlgsdp.com? i cant see that a lot of different servers are existing .de, .it, .br. see: https://github.com/Perflyst/PiHoleBlocklist/issues/167
ngfts.nextlgsdp.com
aic.rdl.lgtvcommon.com
aic-gfts.nextlgsdp.com

Best option that I found for my LG C2 — is to just turn internet off.

See my post above, you can use pihole to just block your internet’s connection to LG’s ad telemetry.

According to the researcher in the above project, model weights on flocks at least are local and not remotely updateable

Note: most LG ad and telemetry domains are not blocked by the default Pi-hole blocklist!

You can add smart TV blocklists easily enough

I use Perflyst SmartTV List: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Perflyst/PiHoleBlocklist/master/SmartTV.txt