This is the big LG television surveillance documentary story GN have been working on for a couple of months, and that they previewed a few days ago.

The complete pervasiveness of spying upon not just you and what you watch but _every person and every device around every set_ is genuinely staggering. And it gets worse if you use their apps, particularly the LG TV "network":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IFVTcM28KA

Having an old set DOES NOT HELP YOU; they've been adding these spying functions in firmware updates.

So DO NOT BUY ANYTHING LG. Certainly not anything "smart."

#LG #surveillance #spying #evesdropping #CorporateSurveillance #SmartTV #DoNotBuy #television #electronics #HomeElectronics #journalism #news #GamersNexus

i recently wrote that I become anti-AI, having previously been neutral towards it - critical in some aspects, positive in others.

when you use AI, you stop thinking. you don't reason about anything. google search really annoys me, because it's so seductive when the bot tells you what you want, regardless of whether it's true... and you're enticed to *not* click links anymore

anyway, i don't want to further articulate or intellectualise, but OpenBSD pretty much predicted this 17 years ago:

https://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html#46

OpenBSD predicted chatgpt.

This is really insidious. Even really smart people get sucked into it. My friend is one such person, but lots of really smart people I know seem to be taken by it.

None of us are immune. When you have a sycophant whispering in your ear and tell you all the answers (whether they're right or not, more often they are wrong), you stop thinking.

It's called: deskilling

I say think for yourself. It's OK even to be wrong, or slow. Think for yourself!

Il post che stavate tutti aspettando. Come fare backup dei vostri dati per i vari servizi di A/I https://cavallette.noblogs.org/2026/09/10099 #AutisticiInventati #KeepITFree

Here comes the post you've all been waiting for: how to make backups of your A/I services data https://cavallette.noblogs.org/2026/09/10099 #AutisticiInventati #KeepITFree

RE: https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/117241250895962141

Meanwhile DigitalOcean couldn’t afford $50 a month for GNOME and Flathub VMs and cancelled their sponsorship last month.

happy 9/9

I got 9/9 problems but a bun ain't one

#unix_surrealism #cirno #glenda #9front #plan9 #art #fediart #comic

I keep seeing big amounts of criticism in my own little #Linux bubble, so I decided to talk about the projects that seem to receive most of it, and why this criticism is valid in some cases, and way overblown in others:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6dLIKBeuNo

Plasma 6.8 #Beta 1 is here! Testers, ready your machines!
https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/6/6.7.90/
Help us find all the #bugs and squash them before the final release on October 14th, KDE's 30th #birthday.
Report bugs to: https://bugs.kde.org
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Keep KDE funded💲! Become a Supporter! Adopt an App! All at once!:
https://kde.org/anniversaries/30/?mtm_campaign

#LG TVs caught spying even when offline or on standby

https://www.theverge.com/tech/991190/lg-tv-spying-standby-recording-wi-fi-scanning-gamers-nexus

#privacy #IoT #SmartTV

Kdenlive just got a new timeline for keyframes, and it comes with a bonus performance boost!

https://kdenlive.org/news/2026/dopesheet-status-9-26/

#kdenlive #videoediting #floss #kde

Despite major outrage from users when they initially rolled out age verification systems, Discord plans to make all accounts teen by default GLOBALLY & you have to scan your face or upload an ID to prove you aren't one.

https://www.gadgetreview.com/discord-is-bringing-back-age-verification-for-millions-of-users

Test animation made with #Friction2D.

#DoctorDoom Thanked #Seattle for All the #Surveillance Cameras

https://www.404media.co/doctor-doom-thanked-seattle-for-all-the-surveillance-cameras/

#privacy #Flock #police #Marvel

I still lurk on the r/London subreddit and came across this hilarious piece of activist art which turns a bin into a "smart glasses amnesty bin" that apparently is just across the Ray Ban store. 💅

https://www.reddit.com/r/london/comments/1wdqum6/outside_ray_ban_covent_garden/

#pervertglasses

LG responds to TV spying allegations https://www.theverge.com/tech/994333/lg-responds-to-tv-spying-allegations

Support for the xx-cutouts-v1 #Wayland protocol landed in #Qt yesterday, which means Qt's SafeArea API will then also work with Wayland compositors supporting this protocol.

So far only phosh@social.phosh.mobi implements this on the compositor side, now #KDE apps will have the means to stay away from display cutouts/notches there automatically, reusing all the work we have done for this on the app and framework level for Android already.

#LinuxMobile

I noticed today that an update to the #Linux #Zoom client has made it start proactively reading _everything_ written to the X11 clipboard.

If you keep interesting secrets in your clipboard – particularly, if a password manager uses it as a means of getting the password to where it needs to be – this might be a thing you need to know about!

Some details:

This is Linux Zoom 7.1.5. Previously I had 6.6 installed, which didn't do this.

It appears to only care about the CLIPBOARD selection – the one with Windows-ish UX, which you typically copy to explicitly with a keystroke such as ^C, and paste from with ^V (or similar). It doesn't look at PRIMARY, the selection used for trad X11 "just select in this window then middle-click in the other" copy-paste.

It looks as if it's detecting changes of clipboard via the XFIXES extension, and whenever the clipboard is claimed by a new owner, it immediately sends that client a paste request.

I noticed it because I make heavy use of a "one-shot paste" tool which fulfills a single paste request and then terminates. Handy for filling in lots of fields of a web form – queue up pastes of several different things, then go to each form field in turn and just hit paste, bam bam bam. But today, after an apt update, it doesn't work: my one-shot paste tool terminates as soon as it starts, because (I found out after some debugging) Zoom always requests a paste immediately.

(Regular readers might recall that around this time _last_ year I caught Slack doing something similar, but only when focus entered the Slack window, and also, they had a configuration option to turn it off. A one-shot paste tool seems to be a good way to notice weird things going on in the X server!)

Gonna tell my kids this was Jensen Huang