Please correct if inaccurate, but I don’t see in that article where the folks at Espressif refer to it as a backdoor, only the security company. This seems to me as though it is no more vulnerable than any other device which can be compromised by physical access, which is most of devices. The vulnerability really looks to be more in the ability to pivot to other devices remotely after one has been compromised physically, which isn’t ideal, but still doesn’t seem to me to be any less secure than most other devices.

I was recently considering replacing my color laser printer from 2006…sounds like I’m keeping it a little longer. It’s coincidentally made by brother, but I doubt they’re updating that firmware anytime soon.

That’s a fantastic point I hadn’t considered. Thank you!

Pure conjecture here, but I certainly do wonder if the number of lawsuits would decrease if healthcare wasn’t cost-prohibitive to people. I don’t expect they’d go away entirely (legitimate grievances, greed, etc), but I imagine they’d probably go down quite a bit if people didn’t have to wonder how to pay rent and pay to have their broken leg treated.

Thank you for the convenient link to uninstall!

Yep. Worked there for a bit. They’re contractually obligated to show ads on certain content. Doesn’t matter what tier you’re on. As a paying customer (a rather long time ago), my partner became so incensed at the ads that played even though he paid for ad-free that he rage-cancelled his membership.

You’re 100% correct and I wish the article would call that out. I was pretty disappointed when I read that at first, but I think that, not only are the union workers going to see a victory here as well, but I also suspect that we have the union to thank for the non-union pay… idustries with solid union presence tend to see improvements to both pay and work environments merely because the union is there, effectively setting a standard that has to be at least loosely followed in order to be competitive. In this case, the union isn’t strong in this industry per se, but it is strong within Costco, driving the worker satisfaction up right along with it…which is a pretty great phenomenon.

This is what happens when you have good union representation and collective bargaining agreements. Great job, Teamsters!

Stay and risk having to work for a leadership committing atrocities. Leave and risk there only being loyalists working for the them, further enabling the atrocities.

There’s no earthly way of knowing / Which direction we are going

Tennessee: a state in the USA.

For some completely unrelated reason, I suddenly have this song stuck in my head…

https://www.tiktok.com/@originalsinfluencer/video/7443873893430971678

Making a career change from an industry with several active unions (all of which continue to be proven as vital, even after over 100 years), into the tech industry in the mid-2010s, where there was no union and you’d hear horror stories (especially from the video game industry), I can’t help but feel like this was inevitable and I’ve been excited to watch it happen for almost 10 years. I hope it continues.

Google reverse image search has it showing up on ytmnd in 2006. I don’t think it’s AI generated.

https://ytmnd.com/sites/349633/profile/1

Who’s going to get rich making the app that actively trashes this data before it can be read by fingerprinting-ware? Because shut up and take my money.

Well, that’s slightly more encouraging

Last I heard, early numbers were reporting a 100% fatality rate in cats. Doubtful it’s still 100%, but that goes to show that it’s exceptionally dangerous to our friends of the feline persuasion. I’d previously been giving my cat freeze-dried chicken hearts as an iron supplement with the added benefit of dental health…not so much these days.

I will give that cat anything he wants.

Work!

Wow. I just got reverse-onioned.