On: YouTube's CEO limits his kids' social media use – other tech bosses do the same

[leosanchez]

> Ye and Zuckerberg plugs the laptop mic with a dud cable.

Are you talking about Kanye West ? also can you expand what this means? "plugs the laptop mic with a dud cable"

[myko → leosanchez]

What they're saying is these folks don't trust the privacy of their hardware, they use a dud cable to block the microphone from listening.

I think what they're getting at is people close to the situation (not sure why Ye is in the privacy discussion, but Zuck certainly is) don't trust the controls in place.

[rightbyte → myko]

Appearantly there is a mixup risk using "ye" between "Kayne West" and "yeah" I wasn't aware of.

[myko → rightbyte]

ah, yeah Kanye goes by "Ye"

I've never heard of "Ye" as meaning "Yeah" but I'm not as online as I once was (also from the US, maybe this is used elsewhere)

[kankerlijer → myko]

I can think of a lot of reasons why someone like Zuck would be targeted for surveillance but the rest of us are fine.

[GlitchInstitute → myko]

who has a dedicated mic input port in 2025? I doubt any CEOs do.