petermorwood:goflowolfog:damnesdelamer: mornington-the-crescent:solarpunkcast:eeveelutionsforequ
petermorwood:goflowolfog:damnesdelamer: mornington-the-crescent: solarpunkcast: eeveelutionsforequality: rtrixie: rtrixie: rickjameskinkshame: rtrixie: Welcome to the future, where you don’t own anything and the stuff you rent stops working once your phone has no signal. App powered car? ♀️ I wish people remembered the age old wisdom that if something doesn’t absolutely require an Internet connection to function, it shouldn’t be connected to the internet - same goes for apps. WHY IS A CATFOOD DISPENSER CONNECTED TO THE INTERNET Sometimes I’m glad that I’m too poor for my “cool future stuff” monkey brain to be set loose to buy stupid shit like this. please please please do not buy into the Internet of Things. Digital displays for appliances are one thing, but you shouldn’t need the fucking internet to do your laundry or use the fridge. I hope this is obvious, but this is a means for corporations to abuse privacy and gather metadata. The only reason I can imagine no one discussing this is because it’s obvious. “Never trust a computer you can’t throw out the window” - Steve Wozniak I reblogged this a couple of weeks ago, and since then have seen a very sensible comment about IoT devices that went something like this:“If a ‘smart domestic appliance‘ was correctly labelled as a ‘corporate-owned domestic spyware appliance‘, buyers might be less eager to have that appliance in their home.” Was browsing at appliances a while back. Salesperson tried to get me interested in the latest internet connected fridge. My response:“If it quits working when there’s an internet outage, and if I can’t put an industrial magnet on it without it breaking, it’s not going in my house.”Needless to say, they only showed me mechanical ones without any high-tech crap in it after that. -- source link