The onus is on Sony to engage in legal battle with the website hosting the infringing content. Nobody else should be coerced to help them. This is ridiculous.
I mean the alternative was installing the propietary app so I would say this is still a big win. But also yes, any wifi capable device in your home with no authorization is clearly a disaster waiting to happen.
I don't disagree that it's a huge improvement over some proprietary app but I still don't think "using the light's API as designed" counts as pwning it.
It's the same API that openHAB or Home Assistant would consume to control it.
While this made me feel creeped out at first, that “metadata” all seems like the public information that we intend to share when we signup for a service like Twitter.
Systematic collection and archiving of "metadata" is not the same as data being available at some point in time. (It's really the same as the arguments against other automated surveillance: it's "public metadata" where your car is on public roads, but a country-wide database based on automated scans is still different than the fact that someone can follow you around manually)
Interesting point about the 2nd amendment. With that in mind I’d have to agree then that civilians should be able to employ facial recognition tech against the government.
The real question though is if that is a tenable strategy in the long term. Like that hatebreed song goes, “fight fire with fire and you’ll see everyone is burning”
Coinbase is an exchange for people to access cryptocurrency. The gradual adoption of cryptocurrencies weakens central governments’ currencies. Their entire business is by nature, political.
Yes but it is also subject to the powers of the market. As lonng as they don't use lobbying to give their product an unfair advantage, it's (literally) people paying with their wallets.
VSCode looks great and has a nice debugger but going through plugin management again is too much for me.
I’ve already invested the time and effort to setup neovim with coc as my general go-to editor and have very few complaints. If I ever need a true IDE for something I’ll just open something batteries-included like Jetbrains or Pycharm.
