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Rough year for the cranky geeks cast.

Major US ISPs (Comcast, AT&T) should detect clearly suspicious activity coming from customer IPs and warn them to scan their computers, check their TV apps, and find whatever is turning their internet into a proxy. It's very bad for the customers too (slows things down, gets their IP banned, etc)

Does having TLS everywhere make this much harder?

Its time to abolish ICE.

OR ALREADY HAD AN OLDER LG MONITOR PLUGGED IN, BECAUSE LG APPARENTLY ROLLED THIS OUT FOR MANY OLDER MODELS TOO!!

Just think about how many times hardware manufactures told customers to buy new equipment because they can't be bothered to patch the older models.

Why is a goverments debt only brought up when it comes to feeding starving children but not when subsiding oil companies, football stadiums, data centers, or spacex? We always seem to have enough money to do those things.

Edit: Not to mention billions sent to ICE.

Because feeding starving children is the right thing to do.

I would like to personally thank Elon, "big balls" and the rest of DOGE for causing hundreds of thousands of deaths [1] by shutting down USAID!

Also an honorable for bringing the screwworm to the US. Good job everyone, you guys did it!

[1] https://hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-shutdown-has-led-to-hund...

by checking which follow robots.txt?

If you sleep with dogs you're gonna get fleas. These AI companies have made billions by stealing other peoples content, what makes you think they would be above stealing from Apple?

which is bullshit because the drip pricing that most people complain about is the X% "service charges" and "lifestyle fees" that restaurants have at the bottom of their menu in small print.

I don't think I go to the same restaurants as everyone else.

What's the goal of the US/Iran war?

To make certain people money by shorting the oil market. There is a reason why these "peace" deals are always announced on Fridays.

Good thing we have those cookie banners warning us about websites tracking us.

It lets you treat your employees as a replaceable commodity

This has been the objective of the tech industry for years

The meritocracy strikes again.

I don't understand the push back and all of the excuses about this. Europe's heat waves are deadlier than American gun violence [1]

[1] https://www.yahoo.com/news/science/articles/europe-heat-wave...

what kind of temperature difference can you get inside vs outside?

Enough to prevent death. When I was growing up we used duct tape and cardboard boxes.

To prevent the cold air from escaping.

Those type of windows exist in America and for $20 you can buy a kit for them on Amazon.

There is something very wrong in the EU if installing a life saving window air conditioner requires a permit or signed approval from every person in the building.

Something is very wrong with the EU if ordinary Europeans can't afford a $150 window unit.

Did you really skip the article AND the comment I initially replied to?

Please stop defending Nazis.

Can you fit a decent LLM on a thumbdrive?

(remember him? of course not!)

I long for those days.

Malik was also a frequent guest on the former CrankyGeeks podcast with John C. Dvorak.

That takes me back, he was always great on that show.

Whatever happened to that Facebook cryptocurrency?

The saying "money can't buy happiness" is in fact true no matter how much people want to rationalize the opposite.

I'm willing to test this theory out, send me some money.

Good thing Brexit happened to prevent government overreach.

Who uses service providers like this?

People who don't want their headless browser to get blocked?

Its not right to steal what I worked so hard to steal from someone else. [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zhvd6bIRPK4