It's Not Your Fault Your TV Doesn’t Work Right

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The problem is the same as pluralistic societies: each corporation wants to own its proprietary technology and to have everyone adopt and pay for it. Then as each corporation fights for dominance, the technology suddenly changes making the old technology obsolete. Remember the fight between DVD, Blueray and HD-DVD? Suddenly, it makes no more difference because optical technology no longer matters.

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A very interesting article. I had hope in technology at one point in my life when Steve Jobs was still alive and had revolutionized phones and music consumption. With him gone, I don’t have much hope anymore. A few years ago, I bought a Sony Ultra HD (4K) 75” AndroidTV that was supposed to be the best TV in existence and had a built in computer with even a full 3D car racing game installed on it akin of quality car racing games you see in arcades. Anyways, the TV software was extremely complicated and some things didn’t work sometimes like connecting my Bluetooth Bose headphones, which could not be used from a long enough distance forcing me to sit right by the TV and defeating their wireless purpose with it. Anyways, Apple eventually offered Apple software that could be installed on the TV, but had some caveats. The TV was definitely very interesting from a hardware point of view, but suffered greatly from user interface and usability issues. I was so disappointed I knew that without Steve Jobs, it’s hopeless in technology usability. I could tolerate it, but what about the elderly and impatient non-computer-savvy people?

Godspeed.

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I have been in depthly interested in tech and media for my entire life.

I can confirm, everything the enduser sees, has been done on purpose.

We are fortunate the spammers pissed off enough lawmakers or we still wouldnt be able to unsub from ANYTHING. That one norm got in, the unsub rule. A fine rule indeed. The only quarter given.

I was literally today working with a technology vendor, for lack of a better word (code resellers). I am not the admin, I am the guy who is advising the actual admin on more technical matters outside his expertise, in this product we intend to sublet and brand and sell. So the rep is chatting up the admin and I'm in the back listening. He walks him around the UI etc, real basic. Then I go to implement a few things, and while these things dont affect me, I must still care about the endusers, because I saw at least 4-5 elements of the application, whose sole purpose is to restrict the abilities of the user to do things that would not incur cost to either provider.

Let me tell you something, you dont have to worry about Comcast reading your packet captures, what you need to worry about is whether or not they store, package and show that information to 3rd parties for "troubleshooting". I have on nearly every occasion its been presented to me, been able to use the most basic admin tools, and even if they dont broadcast, almost every single one (made for profit at least) does store and later reveal 1:1 data copy of the transactions, whatever sort they may be.

Furthermore, I'm not saying anything the savvy among you dont already know. This is more for the guy who isnt sure if this post title is true. It is. I live behind that curtain and the wizards are real, but most of them are evil af. Here's the thing too, I was the blackhat hacker style (cracker/troublemaker) and this kind of evil was the sort I though was 'too far', and still do. I suspect I've been a reluctant good guy and not the villian I presumed I was.

When you are coding you inevitably become aware of what YOU KNOW vs what the user knows and 'probably believes'. Its real, its a game and we really do play it that way. Good guys like me, step around when we can, we wont look into places we totally could look into, because we dont want to be that guy. I'd like to believe all coders are idealistic 80s hackers too, but this does not seem to be the case.

tl:dr - Correct. Large mainstream apps are more containment than they are content.

tl:dr summary:

I have been in depthly interested in tech and media for my entire life. I can confirm, everything the enduser sees, has been done on purpose. We are fortunate the spammers pissed off enough lawmakers or we still wouldnt be able to unsub from ANYTHING. That one norm got in, the unsub rule. A fine rule indeed. The only quarter given. I was literally today working with a technology vendor, for lack of a better word (code resellers). I am not the admin, I am the guy who is advising the actual admin on more technical matters outside his expertise, in this product we intend to sublet and brand and sell. So the rep is chatting up the admin and I'm in the back listening. He walks him around the UI etc, real basic. Then I go to implement a few things, and while these things dont affect me, I must still care about the endusers, because I saw at least 4-5 elements of the application, whose sole purpose is to restrict the abilities of the user to do things that would not incur cost to either provider. Let me tell you something, you dont have to worry about Comcast reading your packet captures, what you need to worry about is whether or not they store, package and show that information to 3rd parties for "troubleshooting". I have on nearly every occasion its been presented to me, been able to use the most basic admin tools, and even if they dont broadcast, almost every single one (made for profit at least) does store and later reveal 1:1 data copy of the transactions, whatever sort they may be. Furthermore, I'm not saying anything the savvy among you dont already know. This is more for the guy who isnt sure if this post title is true. It is. I live behind that curtain and the wizards are real, but most of them are evil af. Here's the thing too, I was the blackhat hacker style (cracker/troublemaker) and this kind of evil was the sort I though was 'too far', and still do. I suspect I've been a reluctant good guy and not the villian I presumed I was. When you are coding you inevitably become aware of what YOU KNOW vs what the user knows and 'probably believes'. Its real, its a game and we really do play it that way. Good guys like me, step around when we can, we wont look into places we totally could look into, because we dont want to be that guy. I'd like to believe all coders are idealistic 80s hackers too, but this does not seem to be the case. tl:dr - Correct. Large mainstream apps are more containment than they are content. tl:dr summary: [fuck cornflower blue](https://youtu.be/LYcNa2w-HYI)

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