You sound like MAGA. Create your imaginary “Trannies” and fight against it. Grow up

It’s Russias way to keep the soviet legacy intact and justify it’s war of aggression to “denazify” Ukraine. There is a huge cultural shift of breaking off any remnants of Soviet “glory” in the country. Sadly it’s hidden behind a lot of valid points, that would explain the abstain votes.

5. Expresses deep concern about increased frequency of attempts and activities intended to desecrate or demolish monuments erected in remembrance of those who fought against Nazism during the Second World War, as well as to unlawfully exhume or remove the remains of such persons, and in this regard urges States to fully comply with their relevant obligations, inter alia, under article 34 of Additional Protocol I to the Geneva Conventions of 194

5. Expresses deep concern about increased frequency of attempts and activities intended to desecrate or demolish monuments erected in remembrance of those who fought against Nazism during the Second World War, as well as to unlawfully exhume or remove the remains of such persons, and in this regard urges States to fully comply with their relevant obligations, inter alia, under article 34 of Additional Protocol I to the Geneva Conventions of 194

Clearly designed to enforce Russian rethoric and force the glorification of USSR. Not surprised it’s voted against by Ukraine.

The doctrine always allowed “defensive” operations against a nuclear actor, tho.

Are these ukronazis with swastikas in the room with you now?

Russia said green men we’re never Russian in DPR. The Monke himself admitted it later on.

Shove Your whataboutism on US up the tight hole. We’re discussing Russian aggression and lies. Mr goal post movementeer.

The Russian doctrine ws changed to include “defending” from non nuclear nations. Which basically is a free for all at this point.

Only in self defense? Really mate? (Really hope the quaity remains for the image)

The foreign legion wasn’t lied about and hidden behind ‘hoax’. It’s clear as day. You can even apply if you want.

Ghost of kiev - Single super soldier feel good story, doesn’t matter. Mostly discussed by the Russians

snake island BS - Another non strategically significant story to keep you occupied. (I think) Dugin had a boner for the island

we’re getting Crimea in the summer offensive - Ok the offensive was actually a failure. Lots of people died. Really sad how it panned out.

Please get of the Kremlin propaganda train my dude. Touch grass, take a breath of free air.

If you follow the war you’ll know that Russians denied NK troops for a long time. And after some time they just memory-hole it.

Everyone has their propoganda, but Russia’s is just laughably bad beyond belief, because they are fire-hosing that shit.

It’s forbidden because it constantly shoves misinformation, redirection and whataboutism.

You are not immune to propoganda, mate. No one is.

Stop watching RT, no one has an irrational fear for Russia.

They do casually joke about invading Europe on national TV

I’m a simple man. I see Marichka, I updoot

I don’t think you should be downvoted tho. Reasonable and correct opinion from a (guessing) security professional.

The 20 year smart devices argument should be the norm, imho. We have way too much e-waste as it is. Although that would also mean that smart devices should include that in sales calculations.

The firmware flashing before EoL brings a tear to my eye from the elegance of a solution. Also manufacturers would have to stop with other anti-consumer practices like serialization and scrubbing identity markings, otherwise reversing could be too costly.

The point I was trying to make, is that if the device is sold and the consumer is the one with physical access, the device should be treated as compromised. You are correct about minimizing attack surface and blast radius.

The thermostats EOLd before the 20 or so years is more directed in breaking the trust/expectation of the consumer/client. No one reads the EULA. It’s a deep can of worms.

You are correct that the device still works, excluding the cloud services, not denying it.

Edit was because it’s uncalled for. Hoped you wouldn’t have to read it. Sorry about that.

The article makes a presumption, that the active listening is actually sending voice data as audio. Then tries to splurdge, that “acsthually it’s other data”

Then tries to splurdge, that they would require to download all “wanted” words as keywords, and it wouldn’t be feasable.

Not like you would only need some words of intent “I would like to (enter 10 s of transcription)” and just hit send.

The whole article smells of washing, and the question is directed to other people, who maybe followed the story more closely, and actually has the idea what exactly is “active listening”. Maybe someone reversed engineered it.

Thanks for your useless comment

Wasn’t the whole CMG active listening about sending transcription data only? It’s not like it can’t be done directly on the device…

Why would you care about an insecure device connecting to your servers if the server is connected to the internet?

Any packet can be from an attacker and your server has to deal with that regardless if the computer you’ve sold is the one attacking.

Sounds like security through obscurity. Or some shit manufacturer says to force users to upgrade.

You might argue it’s there to protect the user from state actors attacking during winter. Which would be fair. But they did not disclose the actual reason why they EoL’d the device as insecure, seems shady.

Still the correct response should be retuning probably half of the money for the device to any user that proves ownership, instead of this entrapment. No one buying a thermostat expects it to work for only 5-11 years.

Nintendo is extremely aggresive when it comes to intelectual property.

There is an argument to be made, that IP laws are too powerful giving exlusive rights for shit ton of time (170 years or sth like that)

The law basically is there for corporations to force small companies out of business and keep their monopolies.

So just excersing a law written by the rich for the rich, for them to stay rich is evil. And by extension the company is evil. And by extension, not supporting the company is inherently good.

You can be principled on multiple fronts at the same time, food for thought…

Steam deck is as plug’n’play as it gets. With direct steam game purchase you just play.

Where do you see more fuss?

Where does one just use such edition?