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Amazon accuses customer of racism & shuts down their smart home!
bdunham7:
--- Quote from: .RC. on June 13, 2023, 07:07:14 am ---What is next a smart device attached to the cloud to wipe your arse?
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That's old news.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/lg-uplus-launches-iot-for-bathrooms-with-wi-fi-bidet-toilet/
NiHaoMike:
--- Quote from: tom66 on June 13, 2023, 10:04:45 am ---- Had to set up my own SSL certificate to secure my open connection (not doing so would be stupid)
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Or just set up a VPN.
tggzzz:
--- Quote from: Kim Christensen on June 13, 2023, 02:50:47 am ---
--- Quote from: DrGeoff on June 12, 2023, 10:46:13 pm ---
--- Quote from: daqq on June 12, 2023, 09:52:30 pm ---Today on "Why cloud based smart-homes are a dumb idea", episode #3489
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There's no such thing as the "cloud".
Just someone else's computer.
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I laughed the first time I heard of the Client-Server relationship being rebranded as "cloud computing".
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Those of us of a certain age remember when "cloud computing" was the only practical and economic option.
Everybody heaved a sigh of relief when we were finally able to own and control our own data, and weren't held hostage by the Timesharing companies. History doesn't repeat, but it does rhyme.
Anybody that discusses Oracle + gonads in palms wiil be guilty of derailing the topic :)
Haenk:
--- Quote from: langwadt on June 13, 2023, 08:51:23 am ---
--- Quote from: MK14 on June 12, 2023, 11:24:38 pm ---There was a potentially fairly serious incident
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really? someone says they thought they heard a racist remark
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AFAIR Rossmann said, the driver used headphones. When *I* use headphones, I can hardly hear anything being said around me, less so the cr*ppy digital voice recording from an 0,5" speaker.
PlainName:
--- Quote from: EEVblog on June 13, 2023, 06:06:30 am ---If you have to "smartify" your house then use a local system that has no internet connection.
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Easy for a geek to say (and sometimes do), but for Joe Normal it's a high bar to cross. The smart clouds make it dead simple to set up and program, trivially so. Having to buy the right specific model you can reflash to use some half-baked local thing (and then dick around with router ports for remote access) is going to lead to manual switches and a cupboard of unused sockets.
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