Given how these cyberattacks are usually conducted by exploiting a publicly known and yet un-remediated bug in the smart device’s code, this lacuna is unreasonable. This paper scrutinises recent judgments from both the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom and the Supreme Court of the Republic of Ireland to ascertain whether these rulings pave the way for third-party victims to pursue negligence claims against the manufacturers of smart devices.
Now that could get interesting. IMO a device should be automatically warranted to do what the docs say it does, and only that (with reasonably well written source code also accepted as a description ).
I so hate those extra buttons! I don’t use any of the services they’re programmed for, and I fat-thumb them far too often.
Well, I used to. I’ve taken to opening up the remote and adding a bit of tape over the circuitry that senses the button presses. Apologies for the potato graphics… I still don’t know how to make arrows do anything but left/right/up/down.
I’ve done the same for both my parental units’ (non-Roku) remotes; just the buttons that cause the most distress. And phone calls to tech support (aka “me”).
Also… how the hell did you do that foldy text thing? I’ve seen it a few times here on the BBS, but I’ve never been able to figure out how it’s done.
ETA: further enshittification… none of the 4 Roku remotes examples in the following pic (yellow= @KathyPartdeux, red= @anon61221983, green=my ~1 yo Roku box, blue=my Roku TV’s remote purchased ~2 weeks ago) have the same special button layout:
Well, he has a point. Sort of. I can only speak for myself, but I have gotten quite comfortable over the last couple of years with not giving Ubisoft any money.
Haier is a multinational home appliances and consumer electronics corporation selling a wide range of products under the brands General Electric Appliances, Hotpoint, Hoover, Fisher & Paykel, and Candy.
I have to wonder if take-overs like that can be reversed. Haier is so, as a matter of local law, it must disclose all collected customer information with the government agencies who might care.
How is this in any way not blatantly anti-competitive in favour of a foreign economy? Now that has shown their hand, and given their fondness for sowing chaos, why would you want any control or monitoring of your appliances done there? Would you accept that from or ?
The writing has been on the wall for “owning” games for a while. The customers who drive and will drive the sales have primarily experienced a world in which their earliest games existed as apps on tablets and phones, usually deleted over time or forgotten when the OS updates and the developers abandon the app. They can’t export or hold onto anything. And they experience this with TV, movies, and music as well. Those of us who grew up with collections of games are going to kick and scream, but we lost a long time ago. Tremblay is sharing that it’s inevitable. Had this been said out loud several years ago, maybe we would be in a better position to stop it.
Where this particular enshittification gets interesting is when everything actually does shift to subscriptions. Without actual physical media to manage, what’s the point of having different hardware to access it? Netflix, Max, and Disney all have different libraries available, but you don’t need different hardware to access them. Meanwhile consoles these days (especially between Sony and Microsoft) have remarkably similar software libraries with few exclusive must-have titles. At what point does this become the difference between owning a Roku or a Fire Stick?
(For the record, I’ve always been in favor of making media more accessible. I like games being easier to get ahold of and play. But there’s a cost that needs to be examined. The companies might have pushback as their platforms further converge, so I’m curious about that. On the gamer end, of course we have to worry about completely losing games and their place in history during an age when that shouldn’t be so easy to do.)
I don’t know about the others, but there’s no General Electric left to reverse it to. A giant wealth-creating engine, that employed an army of people, was destroyed to make the number go up for a small group. Now, it’s a military contractor, some financial institutions, and an old timey brand name.
Hey, how about we lock consumers into the least convenient option for passwords on our platform? And make them do more work if they previously used a different method?
A rewrite of Fahrenheit 451, where instead of books (everyone gave those up voluntarily), they find out if you’re using an old-school Nintendo or any form of entertainment not leashed to the Internet, they come into your house and light it up. Or smash it with hammers or something.
knock knock “Sir, we noticed there’s not a microwave oven subscription associated with this address. Mind if we come in to look around? Everybody knows those old machines cause cancer we just want to make sure you’re safe here…”
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buttons do? None of my 4 Roku remotes have these.
so, as a matter of local law, it must disclose all collected customer information with the government agencies who might care.
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