> The Protocol for Web Description Resources (POWDER) succeeded PICS but was also unsuccessful in its intentions

At least they were quite inspired for the naming.

It is 100% diminishing the concern. If someone were paid by LG to try to manage this revelation, they would post exactly what touwer posted. Like, there isn't a better way to try to normalize and excuse bad behaviour than doing the incredibly boorish tactic seen above. The "everyone is doing it" excuse is a go to.

I mean, LG would probably also pay someone to run around going "it's just funny, is all" in support if anyone noticed this pathetic astroturfing.

No I disagree here. I would argue that a TV doing this 30 years ago would find themselves in court, whereas now they are all skirting the edge of the law and we accept it because that frog has been boiling for decades.

The idea that logging audio is bad, but cars logging your weight, tvs logging your watch history, scales sending your wifi details, android and apple both mapping your access point to create a pseudo-location tracker without GPS, my mobile network sending me location-based adverts based on tower proximity via sms to a dumbphone are all very very bad.

LG have slightly overstepped the line here, legally, but in my opinion they've overstepped what is OK by a long long way. A website reporting on this while sending your details to hundreds of tracking sites are doing the same thing - abusing what is allowed and I assume only printing the report for more engagement and not because they actually care.

LG need to go a lifetime shit list for this behaviour - there should be outrage like there was about Sony's root kit. But websites like this also need to find out that this behaviour is not ok

It’s a non-profit that archives publicly-accessible content. If it were a for-profit (Google snippets, LLMs) I’d understand your question, but since it doesn’t profit from it I don’t see the issue.

> "kinda different but mostly the same"

Isn’t that the description of our whole lives?

…Or use a non-modern format and serve it as .txt, which supports all devices. The only downside is you’ll lose colors, but they are not strictly required.

Not OP but I don’t really care if it was or not. All I know is that I’ve been using the Spotify app 10+ years and it works well. I don’t know if this random app works, and if it hasn’t been supervised I doubt it does.

Gave it a quick try today, it works pretty well and is noticeably faster than the official app.

Of course I learn about it exactly when I’m out of Paris for just a couple of days.

There are a lot of large projects where X.1 is newer than Y.0. You release a new major version for breaking changes, but you backport security changes to previous major releases as well.

This is a general comment; it might not apply to your personal use-case.

I guess I should have prefixed my initial comment with "This is my personal use-case, not a general comment"?

gist was certainly not implying that it was not possible to do it or that some people won't continue doing it but the point was rather that the pool of such people or such projects will significantly decrease because software has now (mostly) reached the abundance state where all of these technical details start to matter less and less for general consumption.

> much prefer ai assisted development than someone who does it by hand, prone to errors and lacking in features.

You prefer AI-assisted development with errors and lacking features rather than something done by hand with errors and lacking features?

That can all be addressed by adding "make no mistakes" and "implement all feature" to the prompt, or so I'm told.

are you saying that you can do a better job than frontier models from OpenAI and Anthropic and Google when it comes to coding something that is free from zero days and exploits while matching its ability to ship feature at the rate a competent SWE with agents can?

not sure why you are being so cynical, lot of seasoned SWE use AI assisted development now.

I think a lot of people still have this caricature vibe coder image but competent and serious engineering companies and big and large have embraced agentic coding.

you certainly would not get hired and would come across as highly egoistical if you insisted on writing every piece of code by hand in 2026.

Frontier models from OpenAI/Anthropic/Google make tons of mistakes. I work with them every single day and you really have to verify everything if you don’t want to end up with overengineered spaghetti code full of bugs.