Sorry but I’ll have to correct you there. The webcam (even the ones embedded to laptop screen frames) are a mere usb device, using four wires in total: 2 for power and 2 for serial comms. The device doesn’t get “powered on or off”. There’s a controller chip that handles everything, from the simple usb serial comms to image processing. What I was referring to is that, in the past, there was a pin on that chip which would go high indicating the chip was “called”, as in it had come out of standby. This pin was not software dependent and could not be changed. Manufacturers would use this enabled pin to control the led (amongst other things) but these days they don’t. Mostly because these pins get repurposed depending on the application and so it’s cheaper to use software to configure them with new functions instead of having pins that only carry out a single function. In theory is a smarter way to utilise chips in multiple products but by ignoring true customer privacy.

For a long time the LED indicators were part of the enable circuit and therefore hardwired to turn on/off on camera “active”. These days though… The fact that it’s a firmware “feature” already says tons about it.

That will backfire badly and Biff becomes a drug lord.

You’re being reasonable. That doesn’t fly here my friend.

“I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it”
Evelyn Beatrice Hall, 1906

Some of that data could be from (or for) customer use, like the service passwords.

here, I fixed it for ya! =)
dnf check-update
dnf updateinfo
dnf updateinfo list
sudo dnf upgrade

ctrl+alt+t
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade -y
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade -y
sudo apt-get autoremove

Yes, agreed, they deserve what’s coming for them but the “hyperbolisation” (as you called it) it’s still wrong. They still have 2 other doctors there and I’m sure some other religious nut case will turn up to fulfil that position. Leaving them to their “hopes and prayers” is still as cruel as what these nut jobs wish upon the misfits. My take is that we can’t take the same exact atitude towards them otherwise we are just proving them right. “An eye for an eye” rings a bell, probably biblical too.

original comment stated “there’s no need for doctors in red states” which it isn’t true. what are you? 12?

by your logic there’s no need for international refugees on blue states either. red states can deal with them. (I’m being ironic here as your logic is as bigoted as theirs and, imho, that’s not the way to resolve it)

Can I be number 3? I really wish I could get a medal.

And mine.

Please don’t. Seek help. You’re not alone.

There were branches of the political spectrum who brought up the discussion of accountability of the Brazilian electoral system. It had to do with the fact that the only way for a recount of total votes is now 100% based on software which no common citizen can understand and/or check. How can a voting system be fair to an entire population when only a few highly skilled people can actually understand its inner workings? My opinion in this particular matter is irrelevant here but this was the topic that I said bozo’s supporters highjacked to push forth their own agenda. Which in turn ridiculed the whole thing for no gain, whatsoever.

This is the same guy who claimed the election was rigged when… you know… he won!

He wasn’t smart for implying fraud, what are you talking about? He was clearly following his supporters wishes to hijack an important discussion of election accountability by making highly simplistic claims. Do you remember that? The whole thing started as a valid and important discussion which the bozo nutters made sound ridiculous and dumb. He was only a puppet for the right wingers, like what Dilma was to the left.

“A voting machine” he says. One machine or the elections? I thought bozo was the dumb fuck but I might be wrong.

Sorry, the guy who didn’t know what a golden shower meant wanted to contract a hacker to hack elections?! Look, you can’t have it both ways. He’s either a dumb fuck or he’s a smart cunt, not both.

You could always do that in Telegram…

https://demo.bigbluebutton.org/