If it's part of a fingerprinting lib, then they just fucked it up. Because the fingerprinting can be done in one ~16ms window of time when the script runs and then you can break down the audio objects and pretend nothing happened.
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Republicans lost their shit but not Donald Trump!
Because of the diaper.
Honestly, this doesn't sound like spyware. More like absurd optimization. Here's why: Audio devices often go to sleep (to save battery) and can take a second or two to wake up. That's enough time that the end user will miss the first second or two of audio.
By keeping the audio outputting something (even if it's just silence), they can guarantee that their little (often hilariously terrible) product videos will play the way they expect (which is loud and startling, of course!).
This is just one of those stupid tricks that's bad for energy use but good for ignorant users who might complain that the first second of every AliExpress video is silent 🤷
The reason why I believe this to be the case is because there's really nothing unique or interesting to be learned from an audio output loop that's literally sending zeros through itself. If you wanted to use that to fingerprint a user, you wouldn't need to keep it active. You could pass a single zero (silence) through and be done.
...and then they all died of dysentery because that uneducated, unnamed boy was never taught proper sanitation because he pooped in the woods nearby and didn't bury it, resulting in shigellosis being spread to the entire family by the flies that landed in the poop transferring the shigella dysenteriae bacteria on to the food the family was preparing for the poor, sweet boy who they worried would drive his pole into their daughters just as surely as he would a pole into the ground.
They have a bit of a case, but not really because "demon hunter" is a generic term that predates their band by hundreds of years (LOL).
How does that work, though? It must be weird banging your head into a Bible.
If you're just looking for the best, most reliable access points, Ubiquiti stuff is fantastic.
I highly recommend their stuff. Unlike most ISP-supplied wifi routers, Ubiquiti access points and routers can actually handle hundreds to thousands of simultaneous clients (connected devices) without having random drops, massive losses of speed, etc.
Their software also makes it easy to deploy loads of their access points in your home without ever having to worry about things like channel overlap, interference with your neighbors, etc.
Perhaps I'm a bit weird, but things like this bother me in ways that nobody else seems to think about:
- The $180,000 is for the entire state. That's nothing. I don't know how many schools Kansas has, but let's say it's 100. That's $1800 per school. Come on.
- Why can't the school just ask some locals to build them some phone lockers? Just put out a school bulletin asking for some volunteers. I'm certain that in the entire state of Kansas they have plenty of companies and locals who would be willing to make the simplest of tiny, metal lockers.
They talk about these complicated technical solutions when all that's necessary is a very thin, very small traditional locker. Make the kids bring their own lock! That's what we did with lockers when I was in high school in the 90s.
Those old school steel lockers were certified for fire resistance, BTW. Not because they went through some special certification process, but because they were steel and painted with school-certified paint (which every school district already has plenty of).
Who better to resurrect a dead computer?
LOL! I was making a joke.
Classically, science fiction was all about the, "what if?" Whereas fantasy was all about the, "same old story archetypes, fancy characters and setting."
Over time, the two styles have overlapped and become interchangeable. For example, a lot of "sci-fi" is just "drama, in space!" Or "drama, with time travel!" Or... Well, you get the picture.
We also have fantasy that follows that "what if?" question. "What if... Magic was like programming?" "What if... Transformation changed who you are?" "What if... The system of the world granting everyone special powers was secretly just a mechanism to keep populations under control?" Stuff like that.
We probably need new categories for fiction. Story types have been inter-mingling for a long time now and the classical filing system doesn't work for a lot of things.
What if your fantasy has space ships? What if your space pirates use magic? Etc
I was going to say... I've had an elastic belt that basically disintegrated when I pulled it out of the closet after not having worn it in 15 years (wore it for 5 years before that).
"For life"? No. Pretty long time? Probably.