Amazing. Real leadership on display here; human-centric values.

In some cases, they might be looking for unsecure devices… but really I think the main use case for LG is to identify the devices. They are more interested in knowing what and whose products you have. And maybe also to what degree they identify individual people by the unique characteristics.

Your phone, for example, would communicate its response to this scan using a unique physical ID (MAC address), and that ID would stay consistent regardless of what wifi network you were on. So you see how that’s useful to fucking Palantir or whoever wants it.

smart devices belong in an isolated network zone on your network.

I realize (and so does LG and many others) that smart devices offer a back door through perimeter security defenses. They understand that most people cannot defend themselves against (or even understand) this and also effectively use the product at the same time.

Effectively, many smart devices are trojan horses. Limit how many you use, understand whether or not they actually need persistent internet access, and segment your network if you have the ability.

Braindead comment.

Sony fully-embracing its enshittification arc.

I have a lot of Sony gear; I’ve been really happy with the quality… but I’ll look elsewhere as they have been self-destructing as a company for a while now. I know their TVs are going to be crappier than they have been, because they stopped making them themselves. Probably the audio gear will be next.

6. AI company hijacks your processes, trade secrets, and market to offer the same thing for cheaper than you can. Raises rates for competitors to cover its own token use and simultaneously drive the others out of business.

Cloudflare is the SSL/TLS endpoint between you and the application.

When you use Cloudflare, data is encrypted between a client and Cloudflare (using ‘their’ SSL cert), they unencrypt it and inspect so they can process it, caching etc, then it’ can be encrypted between Cloudflare and the backend using your own backend certificate.

So Cloudflare can see everything, its required for them to do what they do

Oh, you definitely got why I’m against Cloudflare…

Cloudflare has bot-mitigation built in, sure. So why would someone Anubis between their app and Cloudflare as it fulfills it’s reverese proxy role, idk. It seemed like that person was trying to explain to me where Anubis was supposed to fit in sequence here. It’s meant for the reverse proxy scenarios specificed in the example (nginx, Caddy, and others)

You are also correct. The “free” DDoS mitigation is an irrelevant argument against the privacy implications of using Cloudflare. Cloudflare isn’t the only DDoS mitigation option.

*BuT iT’s FrEe! *

Is it, really?

Yeah, I accept your apology. Anubis self-hosted and open source. I suppose you COULD use it between Cloudflare and your service, but why WOULD you?

Correct. That is an accurate description of my post.

Cloudflare was the reason why I changed instances, I specifically sought one that used Anubis instead. There is no other reason why I changed instances, this is the lemmy privacy community.