I doubt that Amazon is slow rolling it. Demand for EV trucks is insane. I was working on procuring some in a different industry a couple years ago, and we just could not get them in any meaningful quantity. Lead times were years out. I think we actually got one during the time I was on the project.

I bought a minipc and put OPNsense on it. Its been just over a year now. Very flexible, very easy, and rock solid.

She’s not a him, just FYI.

Even so, she won’t.

I used wireguard, then switched to Pangolin. Wireguard was simpler and worked better with mobile apps though. I’ll prob switch back for most apps.

Oil & gas is the economic driver of the province, right? Shitty but predictable I suppose.

To clarify, i reread, and the article does say they are buying the data from Fog Data. I’ve read elsewhere that Fog Data logs location data from installed apps using location services. I don’t know if that’s the only method Fog Data uses. If it is, turning off location services should significantly impair this approach. Airplane mode would not, though it would probably prevent radio triangulation like you describe.

My comment was that there are a lot of ways that phones record location data, and no single countermeasure stops all of them. In addition to apps using location services, the phones themselves track you in a lot of different ways. For example iPhones continuously monitor and log location data even when the phone is off. They use BTLE mesh when other methods are unavailable.

The article doesn’t say what methods the police in NV are using, so it might be effective against that particular approach, but in general, airplane mode doesn’t prevent phone tracking.

Quite a journey.

Unfortunately for us, they’ve been even nicer to the pedophiles in their ranks.

Isn’t this what every major social media site does? It’s certainly what security and privacy experts have been warning us about for years.

Once can hope LinkedIn pays a heavy price for this, but they’ve probably done it intentionally knowing the value 100x exceeds the likely penalty. This will probably end up with all of us being offered to join a class action where our settlement is a free month of LinkedIn premium.

Is this just more money for Palantir?

It was live streamed on YouTube. Many YouTube channels have the trial in it’s entirety. It’s not very long as trials go. Maybe 10 hours over a few days (or something like that). I’ve only watched part of it so far.

As well as the permitting policies, tarriffs, and fees for grid-connected solar systems. At least where I am (California), governments and utilities have made solar much more expensive than it needs to be.

Got it.

Ah, I see the unclear part. I read this line…

I imagine sitting on coach, searching for show. Then you want to watch some, and then you have to wait half an hour for full episode (or even season?) to download.

As if OP already had a media library, and was outside of their home, sitting on a coach (bus?) and wanting to watch something from their existing library on their phone/laptop/tablet, thinking they’d have to wait for the entire thing to download. This would not be the case. If OP had no content library, and wanted to browse for something new, then yes, you’d need to download the entire thing and add it to your media library first.

1. Getting stuff into your media library require downloading the thing.
2. Watching stuff (even remotely) that already exists in your library does not require downloading the whole thing.

attempts to query 8.8.8.8, regardless of your DNS settings.

Streaming box / stream app makers have been working around local DNS for a long time. Sometimes of course they’re assholes that want to do shitty things and do this to make interdiction harder. But sometimes there are legitimate reasons. Ones I remember… users who don’t really understand what they’re doing can be overly aggressive with blocking and block things that are necessary for a particular service (causing support problems). Sometimes the ISPs DNS servers have shit performance, and using a well known commercial provider like cloudflare or google can improve performance at scale. It’s not always evil.

You can’t watch media before it’s completely downloaded.

This is not true for just about any use case.

If you use *arr, you’ll likely use Plex or Jellyfin for a media server. That server will do progressive streaming. Netflix by contrast does dynamic adaptive progressive streaming.

Progressive streaming means that playback will start once your client has downloaded and buffered enough of the selected content from the server. The amount is typically a fairly small portion of the stream, like 10 seconds or so, though the specifics are left to the server and client configs.

Dynamic adaptive progressive streaming has a multiplicty of streams optimized for different devices, formats, and quality levels. This might be a few hundred copies of the same video asset, but in a few different codecs, a few different color encodings (ie HDR, SDR), and a quality ladder of maybe 10 steps ranging from low quality SD to moderate quality UHD (like maybe 300kbps at the low end, and 40Mbps at the high end. And these will be cached around the world for delivery efficiency. On playback, the client (player) will constantly test your network throughput in the background, and “seamlessly” adjust stream quality during playback to give you the best stream your network and client can support without stopping to rebuffer.

For example, if you’re on a 4K/HDR TV with Atmos sound, and great network throughput, you’ll get the highest quality HDR streams and Atmos audio. Conversely, if you’re on mobile that doesn’t support HDR and only stereo audio, you’ll get much more efficiently coded HD video (or maybe SD) and stereo audio streams that are more suited to playback on that device. It would be impractical (huge cost and minor benefit) to try to replicate dynamic adaptive streaming just for yourself.

In any case, even if you’re just pulling off a NAS, you shouldn’t need to wait for the entire file to download before you can start playback. If your files are properly coded, you should be able to do progressive streaming in just about any use case.

If you haven’t read about the Milgram Experiment, it’s a fascinating, and disheartening journey into notions of authority and compliance. In short… Milgram’s finding was that most people do what they’re told–even when they known it’s wrong–simply because they’re told to do it.

It pairs nicely with the artificial exhaust rumble that comes through the speakers.

There is no verification that is true.

But there is a nearly continuous stream of occurrences where Meta is caught lying.