I have no doubt people will be able to hack it. What I’m saying is there is no way it could be hacked without the company finding out and forcing you to return it or pay up. When you sign up you have to give them your personal information and credit card. If you disconnect it from the Internet, filter its Internet traffic, or modify it in any way they will tell you to return it and if you don’t return it they will charge the credit card.

From their terms of service:

In order to use the Product and Services, You will:

(a) Use the Product as the primary television in Your household;

(b) Keep the Product connected to WiFi and internet; and

© Not use any software on Your WiFi network that with advertising blocking capability.

(d) Not make physical modifications to the Product or attach peripheral devices to the Product not expressly approved by Telly. Any attempt to open the Product’s enclosure will be deemed an unauthorized modification.

If we discover that You are not abiding by the requirements above or have disconnected the Product from an internet connection or WiFi for more than short periods each month, You will no longer be able to use the Service and You must return any Products in your possession to Telly. Failure to return Products to Telly will result in Telly charging the credit card on file.

No, the maker has stated they have measures in place to detect any tampering, and that if you tamper with the device, fail to connect it to the Internet, or do not use it frequently they will make you return it or pay for it.

They have said that they can’t stop people from doing that, but that the settings menus, such as the input switcher, will be on the bottom screen.

The settings menus (input switcher, etc) will be on it. Also it will collect data on anything you view using the main screen (HDMI input, etc) regardless.

They have stated they have measures in place to detect anyone trying to do that and will require them to return the TV or pay for it.

“All-one or none”

After reading the article it is clear to me that Meucci made precursors to the electromagnetic telephone but did not actually invent the modern version as popularized by Bell.

There is no solid evidence for him having created the device or even described how it was created before Bell. He experimented with a bunch of similar things, and filled a patent caveat that described the general concept (i.e. sending voices over a wire using electrical current), but it contained no details as to the actual mechanism. All his descriptions of how he created the device were made years after he claimed to have built it, and after Bell’s version was widely known.

Indeed, topograpgically it is not a hole.

I wasn’t aware of that. I took a quick look and as far as I can tell the feature set is the same. They’re also endorsed by Mozilla which at least for me proves they’re very legit. I’ve edited my comment to recommend that instead.

My usage is a little higher than the query limit for the free tier but I will probably switch to their paid tier once my current subscription period is up.

Thanks for the recommendation.

ControlD It’s a paid service and not as good from a privacy standpoint as something self-hosted, but it’s effective, easy to set up, reasonably priced ($20/year), and I can use it anywhere.

NextDNS appears to have all the same features BUT it has a full featured free tier with monthly request limit high enough the average person probably won’t hit it, and it’s probably better from a privacy standpoint.

There’s a web dashboard you use to set it up so no apps to install. There’s a bunch of preset blocklists you can pick from and customize. You can also set different white/black lists for different devices.

I’ve only had a few sites break, and when they do I can just open the dashboard and whitelist them. There’s a feature that temporarily shows you all the attempted requests so if something is breaking you can figure out which domain to whitelist.

I love walking and I do it every day, but I don’t want to have to do it.

I’ve never noticed this.

Requirements for officers to wear body cameras are meaningless without significant penalties for turning them off when on duty

I’d say carrying him. If he can be tossed he can be carried.

“average person changes sheets 4 times a year” factoid actualy just statistical error. average person changes sheets 25 times per year. Sheets Georg, who lives in cave & changes sheets never, is an outlier adn should not have been counted.

Per Newsweek

“In the week ending June 3, Bud Light’s sales revenue—the brand’s dollar income—was down 24.4 percent compared to the same week a year ago.”

"The company’s global CEO, Michel Doukeris, said on May 4 that the declining Bud Light sales represented about 1 percent of Anheuser-Busch’s global volume.

The dog is at least cute

There’s also a guy cryogenically frozen in a tuff shed in Nederland, CO. They have an annual festival called Frozen Dead Guy Days.

A Norwegian woman and her son brought the woman’s father’s dead body there from Norway and planned to start a cryonics (cryogenics refers to freezing things in general, cryonics refers specifically to freezing dead bodies in hopes of future revival) facility. The son got deported, the woman got evicted for living in the partly-finished facility which wasn’t up to building code and didn’t have plumbing or electricity, and the town passed a law specifically preventing storage of dead bodies on public property. For some reason there was a lot of public support for her and they ended up making an exception for the one body that was already there.

Also cryonics doesn’t work. The idea is that if in the future people find a way to bring physically intact dead bodies back to life they can be revived, but because water expands when it freezes it destroys the bodies at a cellular level. There are reports of bodies literally cracking apart even at the most “state of the art” cryonics facilities.

There were some experiments on rodents with limited success in the 50s but it just doesn’t scale up to larger organisms.