The New York (city?) connection makes sense; it would be difficult to walk around outside in NYC and end up with shoes cleaner than your socks.

The book thing, sure, but I take my shoes off indoors because they are dirty and gross, and I don't want that tracked into my home.

I would love to do something like this, but I really don't like pair programming. I don't work well that way, and I'm just not interested in "improving" my skills at working that way.

Pretty much everything else they have there resonates with me, though, and would enjoy living in NYC for 6 weeks to do it. But It's a bummer that pairing seems pretty fundamental/integral to what they want you to do there, else I'd apply.

It's still worse; back then you didn't need to register at least a day in advance, and you didn't need a KTN.

Most of the contentious SCOTUS decisions these days are the opposite of that, where they defer to Congress or the executive.

I have a LG TV, but I do not allow it to connect to a wifi network. I don't trust LG, and expect them to do something anti-consumer to my hardware at some point, or to spy on me.

This particular failure is a blessing in disguise.

They do.

I dont understand why EU is not stepping in. LG literally spies on you by capturing screenshot of whatever you watch and send them to the mothership. This includes images and videos from your private USB drive.

> I dont understand why EU is not stepping in.

The surveillance state is not stepping in to stop spying? This is stuff they can use to profile you. The EU Commission is very keen on Chat Control and has pushed a lot of surveillance laws.

Governments only protect privacy when there is a lot of pressure to do so.

HSTS doesn't protect you from this at all. It only requires HTTPS, which a spoofed-but-trusted cert passes just fine.

No mainstream browser (or any browser?) is doing cert pinning.

What "other methods" are there that are deployed and actually in use?

Transparency logs. It's mandatory for a cert to be in CT logs for browsers to trust it. Those are public, if this was happening, someone would have noticed already.

I love cats, and ours are indoor-only. They are happy, simulated, and in good health. I expect their life expectancy is longer than if they were outdoor cats.

They don't have the opportunity to kill birds or other animals.

On the other hand, cats reducing rodent populations sounds like a very good thing. If only we could get them to ignore species we want to keep around...

Many Android phones have the hardware, regardless of where they are sold, but it's disabled for non-Japanese SKUs so the manufacturer can avoid paying the licensing fees for it.

Thanks for bringing this up, I actually had no idea it was simply disabled, and assumed it was simply not included at all (for whichever miniscule savings it would bring).

Your explanation makes more sense, because it is definitely cheaper/easier to just disable (but include) that hardware to avoid licensing fees (as opposed to having an additional factory manufacturing line just to produce the SKUs that physically exclude that hardware).

No, the chip is there, gated by a SKU check, so that Google only pays the licensing fees for their Japanese SKU.