100% agree, but it’s fine if people enjoy it.

Gentoo but free from despair

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9921530/

I wouldn’t be as sure about that as you are

https://www.neurology.columbia.edu/news/mind-reading-technology-can-turn-brain-scans-language

We already live in a world with existing, functional mind-reading devices. There is even a device designed to help people that are suffering from ALS communicate by reading their thoughts, and has a privacy feature where the user can activate and deactivate the device by thinking a password in their mind, in order to allow them to still have private thoughts.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-brain-device-is-first-to-read-out-inner-speech/

Phones are not fMRIs though.

It sounds like they’re specifically talking about a phone, making reference to app permissions and TikTok.

WiFi can also do pretty precise location. Bluetooth/BLE even more precise (inches or less)

That’s already the original use case. Cardiac signature biometrics, can install in a doorway and do identity verification and track/monitor every individual that passes through the threshold

3 letter agencies have already been using this for cardiac signature identity verification and tracking for a long while

Get a carbon monoxide detector

laughs in GNU Linux

I doubt lm-sensors will interact with your GPU fans. It should work for case fan, though.

You should be able to read your GPU temperature by reading from files and control fans by writing to files that are locates in /sys/class/hwmon/. There should be scripts/programs that exist to do this already, but it isn’t a very complex task, so could be scripted trivially. lm-sensors should help you identify the correct files, as well.

Can’t control my case fans

https://github.com/lm-sensors/lm-sensors

Can’t bind my case fans to ramp up with GPU load

https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/hwmon/sysfs-interface

I cross a bridge over a river

Epstein files.

I do have an antenna and get some decent channels with it

You’re not wrong, although I think I’d still have to wait for the smart-TV OS to load and navigate the menu to select the Cable input.

TV.

I hate the smart-TV workflow, its a terrible user experience: Turn the TV on… wait for the smart-TV OS to load… land on an app menu… navigate around and choose an app… wait for the app to load… select a profile… wait for the list of shows to load… scroll almost endlessly through shows… choose a show, finally… wait for the video to load…

I miss when you turned the TV on and it was just instantly playing whatever channel you last had on, with one single interaction. I miss not having to make the conscious choice of what to watch and feel overwhelmed by so many options. I miss TV programs being a common experience, like an event, that everyone would be talking about together the next day, instead of everyone watching their own thing on their own schedule.

A while ago this was the case, but lately it just works perfectly for me without any issues.

If you want to see the source code of Photoshop, you actually need to work for Adobe. Otherwise, you need to be some kind of freaking retro-engineering expert.

What you’re describing is known as “security through obscurity”, the practice of attempting to increase security of a system by hiding the way the system works. This practice is highly discouraged, as it is known to not actually be effective at increasing the security of a system.

Security by obscurity alone is discouraged and not recommended by standards bodies. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in the United States recommends against this practice: “System security should not depend on the secrecy of the implementation or its components.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_through_obscurity#Criticism

Isn’t that actually also helping hackers?

No, by sharing the implementation details of the system, it helps those trying to keep it secure by allowing anyone to inspect, discover, and contribute fixes to security flaws.

Open-source software is not perfect and is suceptible to security flaws and vulnerabilities, but it is better and more secure than closed-source software in every way. Every risk that applies to open-source software also applies to closed-source software, but worse.