I worked for Cisco during the time IoT was being pushed into everything. You don't want to know how bad it is. If I was malicious I could have easily written several backdoors into their products without anyone knowing. I wrote kernel code in their IOS operating system. There are no checks on that shit and the entire switching team does next to zero peer review on kernel security.
Yes, there products that (at the time) touched upwards of 95% of all packets sent over the Internet.
Yeah but what if you could make it worse? What if you could add the garbage motion sensor that takes ten hand waves to get working? Or add a touch screen that showed you visually how hot or cold the water was and could also show you ads?
The problem isn't necessarily smart toilets. The problem is companies attempting to have complete control over the product and ensuring that their products do not function without dependency on their infrastructure.
There is no functional reason to have a toilet connect to an outside server. There are no functional reasons to have many of these smart devices require outside dependencies. But their profits and their subscription models definitely benefit from being able to remotely disable features.
Technology is garbage not because we've gone too far with Technology. Technology is garbage because of capitalism.
I am currently actually. My startup I put my heart into for 5 years got bought out by $BIG_COMPANY for pennies on the dollar a couple years ago. Have just been giving about 2-5% effort since. Half the people that built our startup got screwed over and laid off. It felt only right to give zero effort since then as a survivor of it. Waiting for $BIG_COMPANY to drop next round of layoffs and rethink my career.
I love programming. But this field is just garbage to the people that care about it. I'm bitter for sure. Collecting a paycheck until then. I'm surprised at how little effort I can give and still not get fired.
And don't even get my started on how much this field exploits the fuck out of H1 visas for what is basically modern day serfdom.
/woosh I guess. Resistance to fascism can be called a "felony" too. They called Nelson Mendela, Malcom X, and MLK terrorist too. Maybe take some context for the people that control those definitions of what a "felony" or a "terrorist" are today. Because if you're gonna keep listening to the definitions they use today then you would be better deciding first which side you're on.
I've explained what I've done in other replies to my comment. TLDR: connect with DSA and PSL in your local branch. Or find the best organization resisting ICE right now. Which may literally just be YOU if your area is small enough. And it that case you should be getting to know your neighbors and coworkers asap.
I'm not just rambling online. I'm literally here trying to get people to organize locally. That's kinda the point of this thread.
I hear myself being critical of the politicians doing fuck all to bring material changes. But I guess if we fall further into fascism while liberals resist "enough" symbolically to make us feel better then I'm sure all the brown people that get disappeared to GITMO and ElSalvador will feel some graditiude to our support.
I literally told you something effective to do. Which is what you asked. Or did you want me to point to a politician doing a "better" performative dance that you can follow and use as a reason to do nothing else in your own life?
Not sure if this comment is satire in the way I think or if you really are missing the point that the definition of "terrorism" is a flexible definition that western countries use to classify groups that (morally or not) resist US Imperialism.
Either way. You're close to understanding "Blowback" to US Imperialism and I can respect that.
I think the more the autism the more you're frustrated that the other autistic people didn't connect to your sarcasm. It's the autism paradox. We found something we thought was relatable to normies and lost all relatability to other neurodivergent people in an attempt to be normal and still no one fucking got it.
But we're on fucking Lemmy. We're all on a level of neurodivergence I'm sure.
Thanks. I was trying to match some dry humor with the frustrations the relationship with wage labor frustrations and my usual balance of alcohol. I'm glad it hit for someone.
I actually appreciate all the downvotes and comments. I'll take the "make people think". Which is why I think my comment got so many replies. Enjoyable either way.
That was the joke. Maybe it was too Meta. Maybe it needed /s tag. But sometimes you just leave a tongue in cheek comment and miss. I'm ok if it was a miss. But I think if you took it seriously you probably outrank me.
I'm glad someone enjoyed my humor. I'm a mix between your most annoying coworker and your favorite coworker that approves your PR whenever you ping them. No unit test attached? Approved. Im sure you're gonna do that when you have the time. Just make sure you address my minor comment that looks like I had some feedback ok?
I would hope just motion activated. I really don't want to have to yell at my toilet either.