“YouTube channel Gamers Nexus worked with Level1Techs, a technology-focused YouTube channel, and security researchers to analyze LG TVs' tracking capabilities. They shared packet captures that pointed to the TVs, including LG's pricey G5 OLED TV, scanning the LAN for other devices.

'The [G5] crawled our entire network and found dozens of unrelated devices, including smartwatches and phones of our staff who didn't even know we were working on this’, Steve Burke, Gamers Nexus' editor-in-chief, said.

LG's ad business, LG Ad Solutions, has said in recent marketing materials that it can reach 363 million ‘addressable secondary devices’ in the US.”

I hate that this is the technology timeline in which we find ourselves, where pretty much every device is now ‘optimised’ for ads 😒

It is not new, but it does keep getting worse.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/09/lg-tv-shown-capable-of-tracking-user-activity-even-when-offline/

See also ‘The Decade of Dishonest Technology’;

https://ngmx.com/@sindarina/110249658760373159

Af en toe is Lubach gewoon erg sterk 😄

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PttkL2GuLQQ

#NLpol

Abonneer je nu op onze nieuwe members-only podcast, Zeemeer+! 🧜🏻‍♀️

I feel like this is right up their alley for several of my mutuals 😂

https://nebula.tv/videos/bernadettebanner-i-joined-a-convent-of-undead-seamstresses-conquest-of-mythodea-2026/

(It'll also be on YouTube, sooner or later)

So far I have narrowed my most likely 'replace 1Password' options down to the following;

1) Strongbox; native KeePass client for Apple platforms, with what looks a lot of polish that I feel is missing from the Bitwarden client apps;

https://strongboxsafe.com

2) Vaultwarden; self-hosted, under a domain I control, on infrastructure I can manage myself. Might also be an option for any non-profits I support, which so far have always had 1P recommended instead;

https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden

3) Passbolt; European company, entirely open source, also self-hosted. Still missing some features, such as an SSH agent, and perhaps less suited for personal/family usage;

https://www.passbolt.com

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The nice thing about Strongbox is that the format is open, which means the data can also be accessed on a different platform, or be used with another application, such as KeePassium, which I already use for some things;

https://keepassium.com

Some testing will be needed, including 'can someone switch without extensive handholding'.

#Drop1Password #1Password

Meanwhile, in self-hosting news, the Hetzner server drought continues, with most cost-optimised cloud instances still unavailable. Has lasted about ten weeks so far?!

ARM64 is just non-existent, right now, and that used to be the cheaper option.

All part of the AI-distorted market, I bet.

#ItsAboutComputer

The thing that selfishly pisses me off the most about these once-reliable companies turning out to be fascist collaborators and/or 'AI' boosters is that they are turning things I could pay them to not have to think about into something I need to reconsider.

Things I could just use have turned into things I need to manage, review, contain, and research alternatives to, taking time away from the things I actually enjoy.

There is so much money to be made being a brand that you can just use without needing to think about it, being utterly boring in its reliability and predictability, and yet, somehow, these fuckers keep wanting to extract more.

It's just never ENOUGH 😒

"German Interior Minister Dobrindt said 'technical discussions' were underway with non-EU countries to establish controversial 'return hubs'. Rights organizations have questioned the legality and morality of the plans."

"The five EU countries whose ministers attended the Copenhagen meeting are seeking a deal with an undisclosed non-EU country to host the 'return hubs'.

Uganda and Rwanda in particular are seen as possibilities —two autocratically ruled countries."

Germany, Denmark, Greece, Austria, and the Netherlands 😒

https://www.dw.com/en/migrant-return-hubs-germany-denmark-greece-austria-netherlands/a-79004242

Local coverage;

https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/09/04/vijf-eu-landen-zeggen-dat-ze-steeds-dichter-bij-terugkeercentra-voor-afgewezen-asielzoekers-komen-buiten-europa-a4935935

#News #OrganisedAffiliatedFuckers #EUpol

"Faugno then tries to create distance, telling staff that its contribution is 'to the Omacom Foundation, not an individual.' Still, he says 'we recognize that Omarchy is associated with DHH, its founder. Our donation is not in any way an endorsement of his personal views or conduct'."

There are two reasons these assholes create foundations; for tax purposes, and as a PR vehicle. The separation is legal only, everything else is bullshit.

Foundations like this are the rich asshole's equivalent of the 'no girls allowed' clubhouses from their youth 🙄

#1Password #Drop1Password

In case you're new to this week's uproar;

"1Password faced immediate backlash from customers this week over a $300,000 pledge in support of a Linux distro created by David Heinemeier Hansson, who has regularly published overtly racist blog posts that include comments calling for deportation of ethnic minorities in Europe."

Like Proton and Framework before it, 1Password CHOSE to put their money behind right-wing assholes. They are not collateral damage, and this isn't a 'we support a wide variety of Linux projects and this happens to be a bad one'.

This is explicit support, at a company level, a commitment that, AFAIK, they have not made to any other project.

It cannot be viewed as separate 😒

https://www.theverge.com/tech/988536/1password-dhh-linux-controversy

#1Password #Drop1Password

RE: https://ngmx.com/@sindarina/116709031951218795

Since the Proton fanbois are out in force again after 1Password's latest problematic decision, a reminder that they have an even longer documented history of bad decisions.

Find something that isn't Proton, when looking for alternatives, and skip that Medium post the apologists like to link to.

#1Password #Drop1Password

Net even gecheckt, en de VVD is nog steeds een klotepartij.

#NLpol

"However, Google was even quicker to switch over to Lake America than the US government. While the GNIS database acknowledges the name change in a summary report, the base map layer still reflects the internationally recognized name of Lake Ontario. A message across the top of the USGS-operated website notes that the change to official maps is still pending."

For those of you insisting that we shouldn't be blaming Google, as they are just inheriting data from GNIS 😒

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/08/google-maps-renames-lake-ontario-to-lake-america-even-faster-than-us-government/

This might also explain why Apple Maps is still listing 'Lake Ontario' right now.

#News #OrganisedAffiliatedFuckers #USpol

Does anyone know of a decent contacts app for iOS with rock-solid CardDAV support? Like, not iCloud or Google Apps, but third-party servers?

The built-in Contacts app doesn’t seem to sync properly, and I am tired of trying to debug why.

Paid is fine as long as it’s not ‘my employer picks up the bill’ levels of subscription nonsense.

(Looking at you, Fantastical)

#AskFedi

"Meta is testing robots that can plug in cables, reset servers, and handle other tasks inside its data centers, according to several current and former workers familiar with the projects. The ongoing effort, which has not been previously reported, may eventually allow Meta to operate its rapidly expanding data center footprint with fewer humans, keeping labor costs in check as its spending on AI infrastructure soars."

Imagine hating having to pay humans a living wage for their labour so much that you'd rather spend a ton more money on having robots do it 🙄

Also, tech rags; 'keeping labour costs in check' is a bullshit argument. The number of humans employed to do this is quite limited, and the cost of labour is a very small percentage of the overall cost of running a data center.

Apply some critical thinking, FFS.

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/08/inside-metas-push-to-put-robots-to-work-in-data-centers/

#News

"US authorities have detained right-wing commentator Milo Yiannopoulos and plan to deport him, the Department of Homeland Security said on Friday.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents arrested the British provocateur at New Orleans International Airport on Thursday for overstaying in the US, the department said, describing him as an 'illegal alien from the United Kingdom'."

Once you are no longer useful, it always turns on you.

https://www.dw.com/en/us-arrests-right-wing-provocateur-milo-yiannopoulos/a-78553559

#News #OrganisedAffiliatedFuckers #USpol

"Norway's King Harald, Europe's oldest living monarch, has died at 89, the royal court said on Friday."

"Harald succeeded his father, King Olav V, in January 1991 and went on to modernize the Norwegian monarchy during more than 35 years on the throne. He was widely praised for his response to the 2011 far-right terrorist attacks that killed 77 people and later drew attention for speeches stressing tolerance, diversity and LGBTQ+ equality."

Huh, I did not know this about him. TIL.

https://www.dw.com/en/norways-king-harald-dies-at-89/a-78524572

#News #Death

Rest in power, Dolly Parton 🫡

https://www.dw.com/en/us-country-music-legend-dolly-parton-dies-aged-80/a-78501931

#News #Death #DeathAndTheGrabClawMachine

Blijkbaar schieten we in Friesland katten dood, en Overijssel overweegt het te gaan doen, ook al blijkt uit onderzoek in Utrecht, waar het sinds 2021 verboden is, dat 86% gewoon verdwaalde huiskatten zijn 😿

(What the fuck?!)

Teken de petitie;

https://actie.degoedezaak.org/petitions/stop-het-doodschieten-van-katten-2

Artikel over de 'Katopia' van Stichting Zwerfkatten, een rijdende operatiekamer waarmee ze overal zwerfkatten steriliseren of castreren, en vervolgens ook chippen;

https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/08/21/de-katopia-rijdt-rond-om-zwerfkatten-te-steriliseren-en-castreren-zodat-ze-niet-worden-afgeschoten-a4934789

It's kind of interesting how quickly we get used to the amount of shit that happened since Trump took office, to the amount of damage done to so many things, worldwide. The level of first- and second-order impact is just mind-blowing, once you make an attempt to list it all.

Millions have died, as a result of this. We have all paid for it, some of us dearly, and we will continue to do so for years to come, probably decades. It will likely be two generations before we are back where we could have been.

It's not the sole reason, because the regressive backlash is too widespread for that, but it has been such a massive boost for every asshole out there that it might very well be seen as a critical tipping point, twenty years from now.

The alternative would have been so much better.

Cheaper, too.

Witness, y'all, and remember who collaborates.

#OrganisedAffiliatedFuckers #USpol