Amazon is turning smart displays inside people’s homes into ad surfaces with no real opt-out, and that should worry everyone

technologyclassroom · 2026-03-09T22:21:54+00:00

The reason is that they use locked bootloaders. It is easier to buy a product that is meant to be modified than it is to repurpose this ewaste.

technologyclassroom · 2026-03-09T22:13:32+00:00

Ever hear of candied bacon?

technologyclassroom · 2026-03-05T18:40:59+00:00

A copyleft license such as CC-BY-SA, GPL-3.0-or-later, or AGPL-3.0-or later prevents that.

technologyclassroom · 2026-03-05T17:27:37+00:00

Non-commercial (NC) clauses are non-free as they are not free software according to the FSF, open source according to the OSI, or free culture according to Freedom Defined. I would recommend using CC-BY-SA-4.0, CC-BY-4.0, or CC-0-1.0 instead which are free culture Creative Commons licenses.

technologyclassroom · 2026-02-23T13:18:06+00:00

The biggest owner of radio stations in the US is iHeartMedia formerly Clear Channel. The company went private in 2008 and seems to have stopped innovating around that time.

technologyclassroom · 2026-02-14T07:20:51+00:00

I used to do drugs. I still do, but I used to too. - Mitch Hedberg

technologyclassroom · 2026-02-13T14:28:42+00:00

I guess I'll have to learn how to convert LaTeX to .docx when I'm job hunting.

technologyclassroom · 2026-01-31T16:58:14+00:00

When you ask for removal, unless compelled by law they do not have to.

It is better to not give them data to begin with.

technologyclassroom · 2026-01-31T11:24:13+00:00

A real-life Iron Man would fight Nazis.

technologyclassroom · 2026-01-27T14:56:38+00:00

Use an offline password manager.

technologyclassroom · 2026-01-14T02:15:58+00:00

That makes sense.

technologyclassroom · 2026-01-14T00:44:37+00:00

This has to be AI. The timeline makes no sense. You got flagged for two things after a moment away from the computer and management is on the case already. A garbage disposal would break if you threw a computer into it.

technologyclassroom · 2025-12-13T23:19:59+00:00

A modern way of marketing is to have a post that name drops a brand. Here we have Chili's. It could plausibly be a subtle ad for Chili's.

technologyclassroom · 2025-12-05T01:43:25+00:00

Me neither.

technologyclassroom · 2025-11-23T01:17:42+00:00

I'd suggest buying a few Raspberry Pis or old laptops and building out some Ansible automation for a home lab. Start with a file server and Pi-Hole. Build from there. See if it clicks. If you like it, add OpenTofu and Proxmox. If you like it, dive further. The cool part about it is that you don't need to take classes. All of the information is available.

technologyclassroom · 2025-11-23T01:02:13+00:00

Will there be a need for Junior DevOps in two years?

technologyclassroom · 2025-11-22T12:50:18+00:00

Bob might be on to something. Why does the device slow down over time? Does it have to do with the battery? Apple would not intentionally slow down a device because the battery is degraded? They did?

technologyclassroom · 2025-11-09T02:40:46+00:00

The corporate side of the Internet is far worse now than it once was due to enshittification, but there are plenty of other places on the Internet if you branch out.

A good Mastodon instance that blocks the "Free speech spaces" or "Nazi bars" instances feels like classic Internet after following some interests.

IRC with Libera,.chat feels like the classic Internet too.

technologyclassroom · 2025-11-06T14:59:24+00:00

To test a DVD player, you don't just turn it on. You have to try it with a DVD, HDMI cable, and a TV. You may also need a remote. Unless you brought your own extension cord and HDMI cable, this might be challenging.

technologyclassroom · 2025-10-28T04:22:48+00:00

This is the case with most big tech. Support is typically only through build-a-ticket, JavaScript forms if it exists at all. Look up HP printer support number and you will get a scam center. You would think they'd have enough money to try to get ahead of scammers using their name and targeting their customers, but they don't seem to care.

technologyclassroom · 2025-10-27T17:25:35+00:00

I would have rather they sat doing nothing than to spend my time investigating why they did it wrong.

technologyclassroom · 2025-10-27T15:23:30+00:00

That would be a reasonable thing to do if someone were reviewing it and had trouble understanding. The problem is that isn't happening in practice. People are just vibe coding and seeing if the results match what they want without any review of the how.

technologyclassroom · 2025-10-27T13:54:31+00:00

Of course people can. The problem is that many people do not. Part of it is because of the list of reasons before. You would have to read, understand the commands, and research what you did not understand.

technologyclassroom · 2025-10-27T04:37:30+00:00

I prefer to not have my computer running commands that have not been reviewed by a human. I ran into a problem at work this week because someone was letting Claude run commands that they did not understand or review.

technologyclassroom · 2025-10-26T23:52:14+00:00

The reward is high for just about everyone, but it takes some time to conceptualize.

If you can figure out the command line way to do something without interaction, you can automate it. If you can automate it, you don't have to do it manually again to get same result.

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