Sideing with the church on this one

Though the cynic in me believes (at this moment) the church might actually think “AI” is some omnipotent all powerful artificial intelligence, and not just some LLM “word spaghetti generator”.

Probably afraid that people might start treating it as some kind of all knowing “higher power”. (Who needs God if you have AI kind of mentally?).

I figured they must be doing something along those lines, thanks for sharing!

Oddly enough, once you make that three fiddy payment signal will now potentially have a payment method linked to your account.

If this is true that payment method can essentially be tied to a identity.

I suppose the reason they are choosing to do this is to prevent a influx of bot accounts and spammers/scammers.

https://keepandroidopen.org/

Google says “power users” can “still install” unverified apps. Here’s what that actually looks like:

Delve into System Settings, find About Phone

Tap the build number seven times to enable Developer Mode

Dismiss scare screens about coercion

Enter your PIN

Restart the device

Wait 24 hours

Come back, dismiss more scare screens

Pick “allow temporarily” (7 days) or “allow indefinitely”

Confirm, again, that you understand “the risks”

Nine steps. A mandatory 24-hour cooling-off period. For installing software on a device you own.

Worse: this flow runs entirely through Google Play Services, not the Android OS. Google can change it, tighten it, or kill it at any time, with no OS update required and no consent needed.

Back in my day!

Cable TV subscriptions never increased this quickly…

So the head unit has to be running “full android” independently, with the app installed somehow either sideloaded or through the play store?

I guess a wireless or wired android auto connection would not propagate this to your head unit, if for example it was your phone that was infected.

What happened to the Metaverse?

And here my ISP keeps jacking up prices 15-20% every six to twelve months, with no increase in speed or reliability what so ever.

YSK: This feature was disabled with a pushed firmware update.

Its true it was “not supported”, but the CPU was/is capable of it.

The big issue here is did AMD disable it accidentally, or did they do it intentionally. If it was intentional why did they not announce it anywhere in the update notes, or anywhere else?

Almost every other week I get a email for “xyz company” saying the same thing.

“Your data has been compromised because our network was accessed by a outside third party.”

I wonder how all this information stored by companies for over a year will now be protected, it will only benefit nefarious actors, scammers, and more then likely the company selling the data to third parties like ad agencies to regain costs of storage.

If you can, send a email to voice your opinion regarding bill C-22.

If you oppose this bill you can. Use the follow template as a start.

Email: gary.anand@parl.gc.ca

Subject: Say NO to Bill C-22!

Hello Gary Anandasangaree

I’m writing to ask you to oppose Bill C-22, the Lawful Access Act, and call on the government to withdraw it entirely.

Bill C-22 would require internet providers, messaging platforms, and cloud services to build and maintain surveillance capabilities inside their own systems — capabilities that create serious security risks for every Canadian. We already know what happens when governments mandate these backdoors: state-backed Chinese hackers exploited similar loopholes in the United States in 2024’s Salt Typhoon attack, compromising millions of people’s private communications.

C-22 doesn’t just replicate those vulnerabilities: it greatly expands them. It would compromise a much wider range of digital services. And it does something that compromises everyone’s safety and protection privacy both online and in-person further: companies would be forced to store a full year of metadata about every Canadian — records of where we go, who we contact, and when we did it — without us ever having been under investigation. Everything from which family members you talked to, conversations with your therapist, if you talked with your lawyer potentially exposing what you discussed.

The limited safeguards C-22 contains are both overly narrow, and are compromised by a clause that lets future governments reinterpret basic terms like “encryption” and “systemic vulnerability” by future regulations, with no parliamentary debate required. That means the very limited protections in this bill are only as strong as the government decides they are, on any given day.

Bill C-22 cannot pass in its current form. Please join me in calling on the government to withdraw it in full.

Sincerely, Your name here Your address here with postal code

Yay!!! /s

Well fuck

This just in, Canada post and other mail providers will now be opening all envelopes and packages sent. All contents will be scanned or photographed and held on file for 2 years time, and released to relevant authorities upon request of investigation. To make things easier please do not seal packages or envelopes for easier and more convenient access.

All photos and scanned documents will be held in a highly secured database with easy backdoors access!

Pretty much the equivalent in terms of what Canada wants to implement with access to signal chats, VPN logs, and asking ISPs to keep logs for 1-2 years minimum.

Somehow our politicians don’t seem to see the similarities between sending a message online vs sending a physical envelope in the mail. Also, in both cases a person could encrypt their messages/letters if they choose leaving regular folks with less security.

So this means all those corporations and companies trying to get off the hook legally by blaming AI are actually liable! Yay!

Looks interesting, but I am cautious of uploading any photos to a cloud platform.

The question is do they have a Copilot?

This is not a “age check”, it’s a identity verification.

I guess I am on the “watch list” as my company uses multiple different VPN solutions so I can access work files cross offices and remotely when in the field.

Also, what about personal home VPNs where I want to route all my device traffic back to my home when I am out of the house like at a cafe/mall/airport?

Don’t plug in a Ethernet cord, and don’t connect it to Wifi.

Now you have a fully functional TV screen that wont be artificially bricked with OS updates.

Get a dedicated “streaming device” like a Nvidia Sheild, Android TV, Apple TV, or Roku and you are good to go.