Wenheng Zhao […] received at least $14,866 in bribe in exchange for secret military information […]

But a fine of only $5,500? It’s apparently profitable to be a BAD spy, too

My opinion: the fine should be AT LEAST 2x (if not 10x) what the bribes were. And not dismissible in bankruptcy.

Birds of a feather got to stick together.

My take is two fold: 1- Marketing over selling their product (common practice) 2- The “always listening” devices are mainly their Smart Remotes that have a microphone built in.

#2 Seems the most likely as is a device fully in their control and can pull as much ad marketing / information gathering details from it as they want.

I’m not an expert but this is what I understand from a podcast l listened to (https://twit.tv/shows/untitled-linux-show):

There’s a subset of Linux users who desire or need GPL compliant environments for they purposes (personal or work related).

There’s a kernel flag that is set to track if the drivers or gas loaded are also 100% GPL.

NVidia wrote their own video driver which is NOT GPL compliant, so as soon as they are loaded the kennel flag is set to “not GPL”. To get around the simple checks for GPL compliant drivers, NVidia wrote a wrapper (a “condom”) to lie that it was GPL-compliant when it was violating the GPL flag meaning.

The Linux 6.6 release apparently has more protections to keep NVidia from working around the GPL check. (For now…)

Descent - really loved the immersive 3D world and gameplay.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Descent_(video_game)

But I must have my CH Flightstick Pro to get the most out of the manuverability of the ships.

200-503 CH Products Flightstick Pro USB 4-Button Joystick 8-Way Hatswitch https://a.co/d/4DzrpAv

Of course I haven’t played it in 30 years so I might be a tad rusty now even if I have all the gaming upgrades. 😁