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Interesting, I was sometimes kinda curious how they compared in that regard!

If you wanted to expand on that I’d be curious to hear your thought and experience on how things compare, but I appreciate you sharing that take ☺️

I’m not sure their like bananapi based router would be considered professional. More home tinkerer

I’m not sure what that’ll mean for the impact of this change, but I guess we’ll see 🤷🏻‍♂️

It sounds like you should still be able to buy stuff, I don’t believe it takes active effect immediately

I hope things like hardware made by/for openwrt remain available, but it sounds like they will cease to be?

My first thought was the risk of the us demanding us manufacturers include a backdoor

It sounds like the exemption for foreign companies is an option while they create plans for american manufacturing

I’m ashamed to admit I didn’t immediately register the joke. But at least from the slew of down votes I can tell I’m not alone in being a little bit dumb 😅

Neither of those sources really disagree with what I said, though I do appreciate you adding the additional context because those things are worth knowing about

Smart speaker research: Security researchers have documented potential vulnerabilities in smart speakers and voice assistants.

• Mobile security: Documented cases of spyware accessing device microphones have been reported.

• Enterprise security: Organizations have reported incidents involving unauthorized audio access.

• Application permissions: Studies have shown some applications requesting unnecessary microphone access.

None of those are really the widespread, passive, undisclosed listening for advertising data that people imagine there to be and that OP appeared to be asking about. The google and apple lawsuit is about google assistant and siri triggering unintentionally, which is a feature that discloses its always listening which I mentioned at the very beginning

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/04/facebook-doesnt-need-listen-through-your-microphone-serve-you-creepy-ads old article but the eff is pretty reputable

https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/features/no-your-iphone-isnt-listening-to-you-heres-but-the-truth-is-even-worse/ from 2025

Aside from devices that acknowledge theyre listening all the time there actually isnt any, for undisclosed data collection via microphone specifically. Research has, to my knowledge, never found that to be the case

Researchers have generally explained that they dont need to listen to what you say with a microphone- they collect so much data about you they can accurately model what you’re likely to have any interest in, and when that happens frequently enough confirmation bias takes over.

That being said, yes, that person is having all of their data collected, by meta directly and through cookies tracking them around the web. By google and android. By ai, and other companies. By the tracking images in the emails they open. Etc. Theres lots of evidence for all of those things

And there is evidence for companies having collected data that people didnt concent to, like when google tracked location data that people opted out of sharing (there was a lawsuit) or meta recently ended up in the news for circumventing the sandboxing around the Facebook app to collect mobile web activity in a way they’re not supposed to be able to.

What are fedora and opensuse based on?

I was trying to contribute some other options since the entire thread is like 50 people saying “some electrical tape will fix it” 😅

If the setting is saved by the drive you could set it on a windows machine and then switch it back to linux.

I’m not sure if wine for running whatever the window utility youre thinking of is would work for controlling an external device like that

Any chance you might publish it for firefox? I feel like I might prefer this over what I use now

Either way, super cool and thanks for sharing what you make with us ☺️

If I’m not mistaken that guy completely left the project like a while back now. Hasnt been involved in any way for a hot minute

That was fantastic

Thanks, this is a succinct and helpful explanation :)

It’s no freaking wonder that the Swiss government was like “yo, maybe pass.”

Fucking lmao

Whole article is a very fun read. I was expecting palantir was suing for like defamation or something, but it might actually be dumber than that