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When you want to turn on a tv series in Australia you have to wait and be told to go apply waiting security updates to your devices. πŸ’―πŸ’―οΏΌπŸ™ŒπŸ»
in reply to Lesley Carhart

Nah, it is just ad spam. I would have thought you’d be up with that. Since you were in the good parts of America before.
in reply to Martin

Or your TV is dead cheap and funnelling advertisements πŸ€·β€β™‚οΈ
in reply to Martin

@martintheg this is a dumb tv connected by very visible coax to the wall above 🫠

It’s an ad for a legitimate government public cybersecurity campaign. The campaign is good. It endorses MFA and security patches.

in reply to Lesley Carhart

I honestly love this, I really do. As much as this means ACSC is embedded in everything I am torn between security and being totally monitored πŸ’―
in reply to Martin

@martintheg it’s just an ad that links to an info site and the ad is very simple to understand. The message is legit one I wish I could get into every household after responding to horrible incidents every week.
in reply to Lesley Carhart

I just found out they alternate the MFA and patching ads with consent PSAs and it’s just amazing,

I have a dumb tv for everyone asking. It’s a Kogan monitor. There’s coax running to my antenna above it in the photo.

in reply to Lesley Carhart

Did …. everyone in the comments not watch normal broadcast TV in so long they actually forgot ads are a thing?
in reply to Lesley Carhart

I've spent enough time in doctors' waiting rooms and hospitals caring for family in recent months that I have been generously gifted a reminder of the horrors of TV ads (just in time for election season) and daytime television.
in reply to Lesley Carhart

What's a TV? Is that some sort of prehistoric technology like fax machines?

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in reply to Lesley Carhart

I’m absolutely dying, I posted a totally benign ad screenshot from a good PSA on cybersecurity - and everyone is freaking about high tech state spy stuff when I’m actually being as analog as a person can be since they killed analog OTA. I even took a picture of the screen with my phone.
in reply to Lesley Carhart

The sucky thing is the only way I can show it to you is though the worst possible internet sire: facebook.com/share/r/16UvCaeXL…
in reply to Lesley Carhart

β€œworst possible internet Sire” is my new title and favorite typo of the day
in reply to Lesley Carhart

huh, I thought you’d taken a picture of β€œPicture of the same.”
Snark about alt text aside, I find that worries of β€œmany states” correlate with more individualistic societies. I’m used to believing The State has a responsibility to educate The People, while a lot of your followers likely believe the scope of its responsibility is much smaller.
Or in other words, some people value their absolute Freedom (TM) to be scammed and hacked.
in reply to Lesley Carhart

at least I am not used to a count-down in the top right corner in sequential TV. We (Germany) rarely have a countdown in the bottom, when a single ad is shown. Online services on the other hand… I couldn't tell from the picture, but buying advertisement-slots isn't really spying, is it?
in reply to Lesley Carhart

I feel your pain--reminds me of when I used to regularly get pages of comments arguing whether or not my downstairs floor qualifies as a "partial basement" on detailed technical explanations and reviews of multi AP Wi-Fi gear.
in reply to Lesley Carhart

I live in Sweden so can choose PBS service. Thank god for that! 😎
in reply to Lesley Carhart

I tend to forget what that was like until something is on Tubi.
in reply to Lesley Carhart

I'm at a hotel for a little science fiction convention this weekend and I poked around with the hotel TV. Part of me remembered this ad-TV dynamic that I grew up with, and part of me was appalled. I could feel myself getting stupider with the ads running. And of course I have a limited attention span if I never get more than five minutes of programming between ads.

Back to my Plex server!

in reply to Lesley Carhart

Since I moved out from my parent's home, I don't really watch broadcast TV anymore. The few times I wanted to watch, say, a crime series broadcast on TV at the same time as others to (online) chat about it, I used the (internet) live stream.

I don't really miss the ads.

in reply to Lesley Carhart

I just watched a few episodes of a show on Amazon Prime with my daughter. It was so bad with ads it was like watching broadcast TV, and made me think of the old promise of cable TV ("we're paying a subscription so there won't be commercials!"). We just keep underestimating greed.
in reply to Lesley Carhart

I am mostly surprised that there's an ad timer on broadcast TV.
in reply to Lesley Carhart

I get a moment of broadcast every couple of years and every time get a "yuck, why would anyone suffer this?" reaction πŸ˜’
in reply to Lesley Carhart

πŸ™‹β€β™‚οΈ I've not forgotten!
But I watched TV in black and white as a youngster 🀣
in reply to Lesley Carhart

I’m pretty sure these ads are on Australian YouTube as well
in reply to Lesley Carhart

all it's missing is the AC jingle blasting at absurd loudness youtube.com/watch?v=1Qqx1z-vGw…
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