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Month: January 2020

Your TV is spying on you, water is wet

A “little while ago” I bough a Samsung “smart” TV from Costco.  It was neither the cheapest nor the most expensive model.  I was juuuust right.  At that point Samsung’s smart TV shenanigans were well known so I made sure to disable automatic updates and I declined the user agreement during the initial setup. One of the very first annoyances I noticed was this “TV Plus” that would start blaring anytime I turned on the Read more…


2020-01-25

It has been a while since the last update and a whole lot of progress has been made. On the software side everything seems to work.  For realsies this time.  The full software stack compiles and runs(!) on both Linux and FreeBSD.  On Linux it compiles using GCC and Clang.  On FreeBSD only Clang is used since that’s the default compiler.  To be fair I’ve only tested the client side stuff on FreeBSD, but as Read more…