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Re: Samsung TVs May Upload Screenshots for Automatic Content Recognition

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Post by iamnothere »

ssss11 wrote: post #509

To those in this thread denouncing these dystopian times my question to you is, how do we as technologists create a meaningful and successful career changing this? I’ve been against this for a very long time and can’t see any easy way to contribute (and also provide $ for my family) short of being in government policy making or law making which would require substantial career changes and further education and then s…

Bruce Schneier has been advocating for "public interest technologists" in order to address this very question: https://public-interest-tech.com/

He even recently had a job posting (on his blog) for someone to work in this area.

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Post by Phillipharryt »

Phillipharryt wrote: post #406
Scoundreller wrote: post #308

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Automatics are still too dumb to keep the clutch engaged while braking. Officially automatics and manuals are a wash for mileage, but I think driving style can make manuals the winner. All that kinetic energy getting dissipated by brakes instead of turning the engine and all of its accessories in autos. I’m quite surprised auto manufacturers haven’t implemented engine braking for émissions, reducing brake wear, and q…

Automatics disengage the driveshaft to save wear on engine parts. It's an active decision, not being "too dumb". Wearing out brakes is cheaper to fix than wearing out your brakes, and people like longer lasting, cheaper to fix, cars.

Replying to myself here because I can't edit it after someone has responded?

I meant wearing our brakes is cheaper to fix that engine parts.

Re: Samsung TVs May Upload Screenshots for Automatic Content Recognition

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Post by Phillipharryt »

Scoundreller wrote: post #443
Phillipharryt wrote: post #406

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Automatics disengage the driveshaft to save wear on engine parts. It's an active decision, not being "too dumb". Wearing out brakes is cheaper to fix than wearing out your brakes, and people like longer lasting, cheaper to fix, cars.

I figured they disengaged because they can’t know if you’re wanting to coast or wanting to brake when you step off the accelerator. If they always assumed you wanted to brake, that would really hurt mileage. And it would have to disengage anyway at some point to avoid stalling. Engine braking is more RPMs in aggregate, but nothing particularly bad for an engine.

Automatics don't use a traditional clutch for transmissions, so it wouldn't actually stall, but your other points could be true.

Re: Samsung TVs May Upload Screenshots for Automatic Content Recognition

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Post by setpatchaddress »

maksimum wrote: post #478
echelon wrote: post #218

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The average consumer won't be able (or even know) to disable built-in telemetry. As you can see from Facebook, invasive ads, DNA kits, and Alexa, most won't even care. We've lost this battle. Our warnings weren't strong enough to win over those interested in convenience.

> We've lost this battle. I think you could look at the battle/war from a different perspectives, and come up with different conclusions. In the mainstream (whatever that is?) it appears that convenience wins. And hardware/software vendors seem to make the assumption that customers won't complain if their data is harvested. I think that's where you're coming from? On the (privacy) enthusiast things, the horizon looks…

Dumb TVs are not available anymore. I would gladly buy one with decent image quality if such existed.

Re: Samsung TVs May Upload Screenshots for Automatic Content Recognition

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Post by mikeiz404 »

Relevant sections:

> Viewing Information Services

> ...

> Your TV viewing history includes information about the networks, channels, websites visited and programs viewed on your Smart TV and the amount of time spent viewing them. We may use automatic content recognition (ACR) and other technologies to capture this information. Your Smart TV transfers video snippets or TV tuner information in order to determine the programs watched.

> You may change your privacy choice at any time by going to the settings menu to disable the particular feature or service at your sole discretion, in which case your TV viewing history will cease to be collected for that particular feature or service.

> Bear in mind that your privacy choice may affect the availability or quality of the specific viewing information based service.

> Interest-Based Advertisement Services

> ...

> In order to make the advertising on your devices more relevant to you, the IBA service will rely on your TV viewing history (including information about the networks, channels, websites visited, and programs viewed on your Samsung Smart TV and the amount of time spent viewing them), Samsung Smart TV usage information, and other statistical data obtained from trusted third party data sources. We may use automatic content recognition (ACR) and other technologies to capture your TV viewing history.

> Based on the information above we create groups of Samsung Smart TV owners who share similar interests and use these groups for the IBA Service. The information above is used to determine the groups to which your Samsung Smart TV is assigned and thus, which advertisements your devices receive.

> You may disable the IBA Service at any time by visiting the Settings menu on your Samsung Smart TV.

> PSID

> Your Smart TV viewing history and usage information collected for the purposes of providing interest based advertisements will be linked to a randomized, non-persistent, and resettable device identifier called the Personalized Service ID or “PSID”.

> You may reset your PSID at any time by visiting the Settings menu on your Smart TV and, once reset, your Smart TV viewing history and Smart TV usage information with respect to interest based advertisements will be de-linked from its previous PSID. Bear in mind that if you reset your PSID, the quality of customized and interest based advertisements may not be fine-tuned.

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Post by [deleted] »

dodobirdlord wrote: post #518
dyukqu wrote: post #510

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've watched the show (only once, for now ) and I love it but didn't understand the reference :|

It refers to the human's cybersecurity technique of banning inter-computer communication. The ship Galactica survives the initial cylon attack because it's too old to have networked devices onboard.

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Post by smolder »

dodobirdlord wrote: post #518
dyukqu wrote: post #510

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've watched the show (only once, for now ) and I love it but didn't understand the reference :|

It refers to the human's cybersecurity technique of banning inter-computer communication. The ship Galactica survives the initial cylon attack because it's too old to have networked devices onboard.

More than that, the captain specifically insisted that it NOT be upgraded with networking, despite the benefits, because of the security risks.

Re: Samsung TVs May Upload Screenshots for Automatic Content Recognition

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Post by joezydeco »

lonelappde wrote: post #533
jp555 wrote: post #386

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But is individual data worth that much? I mean isn’t “my” Facebook data is worth less than $0.20US/year?

Advertisers pay Facebook a total of $100/yr/user in USA.

So that wifi chipset is worth $-275, given a three year lifespan.

And that’s why you have 50” LCDs selling for $300 in the USA.

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Post by smolder »

welly wrote: post #33
naner wrote: post #14

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Ads, baby. Everything you do online is for sale.

The Internet needs to be better than being almost entirely propped up by the advertising industry. Surely even they know their day will come. It will, won't it?

It depends on whether they are able to cement their "right to exist" as a business model through regulatory capture and other sorts of bullying as is the case with for-profit medical insurers and car dealerships and likely many other things I'm not thinking of.

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Post by djsumdog »

developerdylan wrote: post #505
djsumdog wrote: post #503

There are a number of gaming TVs coming out that are essentially big monitors with high refresh rates. They're expensive, but they don't have Ethernet ports, or built in apps or any of that bullshit. I've never connected a TV to Ethernet/Wifi and I don't understand people who have those fucking Amazon/Google/Apple spy devices (aka digital assistants) in their homes. I disable all that shit on my phone too.

Any good recommendations?

Linus Tech Tips did a review of this one:

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/products/big-format-gam...

..but in a recent review he actually recommend a high refresh rate LG over it due to price. There might be others too.

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