The costings here are based on API pricing, but my understanding is that no one is paying the API pricing and everyone uses the subscription pricing, or even multiple accounts with a subscription each. I'd be interested to know the actual cost incurred here.

I bought a Xgimi projector and it would not let me do anything until I connected it to the internet and logged in to a Google account.

Or what the recent bitcoin wallet attack did and just put a cellular chip inside the device so it can always communicate outside.

This is why TVs are always so laggy, they have 400 ad and tracking scripts running the whole time.

This is very true, I just used AI to deactivate tracking in my LG, I was amazed of how much faster it became.

All smart TVs are evil and you’d be hard pressed to find a non smart tv these days.

Samsung does seem to be particularly bad. I’ve heard enough stories that I would never buy one of their products.

LG is even worse.

There needs to be a class action against these companies. People should straight up go to jail for how invasive these TVs are.

Except none of it is illegal, so what would you sue them for?

Wiretapping is a felony in most jurisdictions with 5 years prison per instance.

How many years is it for 10 million devices?

Under GDPR a fair amount is illegal

I think there’s a lot of markets which have been very underserved for a long time which will benefit. One example is embroidery machine software. The proprietary options cost hundreds to thousands of dollars and are slow and ugly. The open source option (bless the people who have worked on it for free) is suboptimal.

With AI we could build top quality free open source tools for every niche.

In the retro gaming handheld space, we are seeing brand new highly custom “distros” show up to suit the plethora of hand held consoles in different shapes and sizes coming out. This is all enabled by AI, a human developer could have built this, but it would have taken ages and we wouldn't have so many options being build.

80h ago we had no info other than a vague post from the php page saying a massive security flaw will be announced tomorrow. And a post from a PHP core dev saying shut it all down.

Everyone with inside info was sounding the alarm so the rest of us had to take it incredibly seriously.

The last 50 years of books is still more books in the genre you like than you could read in a lifetime.

If someone was able to gain access to the server and there was no key, they would report it here with proof. If someone had a working PHP exploit and it didn't work on this server, they would be able to post it here with proof.

Shut the server down or deface it and I'll believe you. Should be simple if you've gained shell access.

Joke's on you, I hacked the server first and patched the PHP

Wow i don’t know… maybe modify the web page to have your username on it. No wow that is too hard for you leet haxers. Are you really this dumb you can’t figure out any of the hundreds of way to show proof?

But they just showed you their proof. You simply did not accept it, which they might or might not care about.

I suspect that they in fact do not particularly care about what you think.