Disagree. The fact that these devices are both capable of, and would actively, emphatically, attempt to do any level of data harvesting, is a problem. Can they be defeated? Yes. They should not have to be. We deserve better.

Yes

So of course Congress will fast-track and double that, with bipartisan support.

And this is why your workplace has no business knowing your personal health issues. If you’re going to miss work, so be it, but they didn’t need to know Dunn has a terminal diagnosis with less than 6 months to live.

I have no idea. I didn’t even trust it on my main home network. Connected it to my guest network so it couldn’t scan my home network. Which it tried to do, if course.

Yeah, it was always about giving companies cover for doing layoffs.

The newest practitioner evidence should give leaders confidence. In the institute’s Remote-First Organizations report, most leaders in remote-first firms say productivity remains high. A sizable share report that it is very high, even though the majority of these companies avoid invasive monitoring of employees. The research frames remote-first as a deliberate operating model anchored in trust, clarity and well-designed touchpoints, not a stopgap.

I’d love to find one of these unicorn companies. I feel like they no longer exist.

I figure it was because he had issues holding it up/mobility issues.

I mean, what would they actually do if thousands of people just show up anyways?

Why is it always “kill” when Israel does it, but “murder” when it’s against Israel?

Infrared sensors would be defeat-able. Integrated telemetry stuff (speed, driving habits, aggressiveness) no so much.

Clamshell mode. External monitor, lid closed. My issue was that I could not tell it to sleep when not in use, because their IT disabled sleep to ensure their corporate spyware was always running.

I’ve been using Waterfox for a year or so, after I got tired of the broken update process for Librewolf on MacOS. No regrets.

I also use uBlock Origin, but yes, absolutely worth it.

I recently quit a company that does. They hid that until after I accepted and started. I quit out of frustration after a couple weeks of having to listen the the fan all day due to their surveillance and telemetry running. They even disabled sleep mode, so you either had to leave that thing phoning home 24/7, or forcibly shut down every day. 10 minute boot time on a brand new laptop.

On the topic of load time, it didn’t even mention the compulsory “prove you are human” Cloudflare gate on practically every website these days. Add 10 seconds to every visit.

They are equal. I used pihole before, but wanted something with less management overhead and something easier to manage for devices family members use.

This is insulting, both in how little it is to them, but also how little it is in proportion to the revenue made just by the fee scam in the first place. It; not even a slap on the wrist, it wreaks of them bribing the DOJ. If it doesn’t hurt, it’s just a fee (to them), not a crime.

Also, they’ll just pass these costs on to their customers, of course.

NextDNS. $20/year for basically no ads on any device.

I don’t even remotely believe that. Cost is nothing since it would likely be funded by tax dollars, and the implementation is already mostly done.

I wonder if Iran is doing a “Weekend at Bernie’s” with this dude while he’s in a coma.

Like the MAGA’s would totally do for Trump if/when he kicks it.