this is wild: https://spur.us/blog/smart-tv-apps-residential-proxy-sdks

this shit is why i do not ever configure network access on 'smart' appliances

@ariadne Same.

Appliances can connect to my computer systems in my home, or not at all. And for some reason nobody makes them with an API for me to connect with, so I guess they're not getting a connection.

@ariadne @dne who knew you can build a botnet by just asking people nicely if you can use their computer

@ariadne well at least you've plausible deniability for anything that relies upon IP logging...

@ariadne wow. I wonder how that's monetized in the end - for botnets?

@ariadne @dne

my TV kept insisting but I kept refusing to give it the password to the wifi and it eventually gave up.
If the kids want 'flix and stuff, there's an hdmi cable and their laptop.

@ariadne my TV does not need to have a computer in it, it only needs to be a big screen with speakers that has an HDMI cable plugged in. I do not want that computer in there, get it out (even if it is funny to scroll thru the software license listing and guess how their thing works. Seeing Mesa and Android components listed on the same TV is wild. Or seeing a random project I contributed to listed.)

@ariadne @dne is there an easy way to determine if my lg tv has this proxy?

@ariadne @dne now I'm wondering how I sell use of my residential IP for a sick discount on my internet bill

@ariadne This is why I never wanted a 'smart' TV, but why we just bought a 'big' monitor (32" might be debatable as big) when our old CRT wide-screen TV died.
As extra I needed a HDMI switch to select either the SatPVR or the Blu-ray player as source. And audio is going via the audio amplifier and speakers.

Currenly cameras are in the home network, but it's not something I'm happy with.
I need to work on the cabled network, and then there will be a separate IoT network.

@ariadne@treehouse.systems not the best reason because if you simply don’t install random shit on it you won’t end up sharing your network with scrapers and cybercriminals

@ariadne@treehouse.systems this is the reason you shouldn’t let your not tech-savvy family connect TV to internet tho

@ariadne @dne that is just unspeakably ghastly

@dngrs @ariadne mostly! this is where a lot of AI scraper spam comes from.

@davidgerard @ariadne oh wow, the future of hosting has arrived

@mkljczk @ariadne it's ok the OS itself is doing shit that's just as bad

@ariadne And people thought I was nuts for wanting that shit on its own VLAN with restricted access.

@ariadne I got it via https://mastodon.social/@campuscodi/116804084610706053

@ariadne @dne
I wonder if the spy tech will move to projectors