Sucks to be one of the 'relatively sparse' cases then.

Lots of cases are ultimately thrown out due to lack of evidence. Even Kevin Spacey was acquitted.

Absolutely; though in context of the article, names aren't being named and nobody's being accused. It's literally a private-ish list of "stay away from/be careful around these people".

I don't know if you can call any point&click game objectively 'good': they all suffer from the problem of the player getting occasionally stuck after missing a hint or failing to make a deduction. Besides, they are heavily story-based which makes liking them a matter of personal taste.

Just a few weeks until the OoT remake is released

Well, killing someone is an effective way to prevent them from harming others.

Tell that to all the heretics burned at the stake.

Yes, but support in devices and cables is very limited.

Support in cables is nearly universal, because the same pins in the cable are used for the Audio Return Channel feature that allows a TV to pass audio from its internal apps back out to a soundbar or receiver via the same HDMI cable it takes signals in on from other devices. As far as I'm aware no one has made a cable lacking those pins since 1080p was still the high end.

But yes, support for the ethernet mode as far as I'm aware was never actually implemented in any devices that reached retail availability.

How much would support increase when manufacturers realise how few of their TVs don't get connected to the network?

Even if it did support it, nobody connects their TV to their local network via HDMI, they connect it to their PC. And, as far as I'm aware, no PCs automatically start sharing networking with whichever networks they are connected to.

That could of course change. Could be even a nice feature for connecting your TV to the network via your multi media center, if the bandwidth is good.

LG was caught abusing (although it's hard to argue that it isn't intended behaviour) Windows automatic installation of hardware-related software to install adware. Doesn't take too many tinfoil wraps around one's head to imagine them doing the same to enable network sharing (assuming hardware support is ubiqtuous enough).

https://www.techspot.com/news/113031-lg-alienware-monitors-c...

Proportion of HN users whose TVs don't connect to the internet? Significant

Proportion of non-HN users whose TVs don't connect to the internet? Negligible

Their solution to that is to either use the cell phone network or services like amazon sidewalk where they connect in through your (or a neighbour's) internet-connected device.

I think it’s also possible to piggyback on other devices signed with the same certificate to exfiltrate using BLE. Maybe I’m wrong though.

Not at all, because it uses the same pins as ARC, so the two features can't operate at the same time, and a lot of people use ARC to get audio from TV apps back to a soundbar or receiver.

HDMI Ethernet is dead, it's never going to happen in consumer televisions because it has a hard conflict with a feature a lot of people actually use.

If people really start not connecting them. TV makers will just start including a cellular modem.

Then you make sure to only use HDMI cables that aren't HEC, in conjunction with not connecting the TV to the internet directly, if you want to keep them isolated.

Not even game consoles, PCs, even Raspberry Pi don't support it. Which is odd, so there are probably reasons why it's not worth the troubles.

Have you seen the backlash in gaming circles about game studios that use AI? Lots of gamers will avoid your game like the plague if there's even a hint of AI generated 'artwork' in it.

There are lots of open source games or game engines where the artwork is trivial to acquire and lots of people enjoy them. But these engines also have to be maintained to be available 'forever'. The business model of game development seems not really suited to open source, lots of games are ripped off within days and posted on app stores with a slightly different name. And that's with proprietary code, with OSS it will take even less time. If you can't sell it you can't live from it and if you can't live from it you don't have the time and incentive to make a great game.

That's Accelerated/X right. I had a Matrox Millennium card in my PC when I discovered Linux and remember trying that. Made a lot of difference.

Strangely enough I often use Google Maps on my iPhone because I'm looking for businesses that have no presence on Apple Maps. I don't see the opportunity for companies to present themselves in Apple's app as a net negative for users.

There are still landlines in use (although they mostly use VOIP instead of analog phone lines). All cheap cordless phones I know run DECT. It's more than enough speed for speech and more stable than wifi.

The AVM Fritz product line of consumer modem/routers all include a DECT modem for registering extra handsets for voice but they have their own proprietary handsets that support TCP/IP over DECT for things like audio streaming or sending extra media like a caller photo.

I've never really liked talking on cellphones and got a grandstream cordless DECT phone that runs over a voip line probably a decade ago. One of my favourite purchases.