The increasing use of apps to connect your white goods and home appliances to wifi or bluetooth.
I just read about this on [email protected] but the post was deleted after a few minutes.
so I thought it might be of interests here, plus I’m old, hardly slept last night and I’m bored.
Here’s my take on it.
When I type:
nmcli dev wifi
Into my terminal I see lots of people using wifi for their not very smart white goods and appliances.
when I type these:
sudo hcitool -i hci0 lescan
sudo hcitool scan
sudo bluetoothctl --timeout 10 scan on
Into my terminal I see lots of people using bluetooth for their not very smart white goods and appliances.
The most recent addition is a delonghi vertuo espresso machine, masquerading as; ESSID venus-“macaddress”.
Epresso machines. washing machines, fridges, freezers, TV’s, who the fuck connects that shit to the internet.
Have we really forgotten how to press a buttons, twiddle a knob and actually think.
or forgotten how to operate a bialetti moka pot. Yay!
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I want one of these though! Its my invention.
I want a smart arse toilet that notifies me if anyone has left a floater, left a huge skid mark down the side of the pan or pissed on the toilet seat.
To use my smart arse toilet. I would force the users to download the app, login in via wifi with their email and phone number.
It could then take a photo of any delinquent who disrespected my smart arse toilet and send it to the culprit, with a warning that the photo will be uploaded to social media with their name and contact details.
And a further email with my bitcoin address so they can easily send me some blackmail money.
Now that is what I call a smart arse!
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Addendum;
Are these wifi and bluetooth connected devices safe?
As a punishment for not thinking and having no concern for the environment, I’ve decided I am going to de-auth the espresso machine for a few days, so they cant have coffee before work. that will teach them.
Do they not realise that buy buying this shit, they are making the company more money to make even more of this shit.
maybe they will reconsider and dust off their old moka pot, faithfully waiting in the cupboard to be used again.
Kind feedback, with a hint of humour would be much appreciated
My dear sewer rat
I am shocked that you failed to understand the humour in what I wrote
What you have written in reply is meaninglesss to me.
I do not understand what you are trying to say.
I do not to respond directly to the questions people ask me, if I consider them intentionally confrontational. like calling me a smug know-it-all to a smug script kiddie asshole.
that is awfully rude and judgemental when you dont know me
I will not reply to people, who, selectively pick one sentence, or a selection of my words, that do not conform to, or meet, their personal agenda, and who’s sole purpose is to create a passive aggresive fruitless argument.
Especially when they have not read and attempted to understand what I have tried to explain or expand upon.
Unless of course, you are willing to pay me £200 for every 50 minutes of therapeutic work we do together. You will then get my full attention, congruence, love, and undiminished empathy. Maybe we could dismantle your defence mechanisms, and point you towards a more productive way of life.
You could then be a useful and fully functioning member of the human race, and stop acting like a sewer rat consumed by anger, toxic shame and hate.
Until then. I shall look forward to reading with interest your next privacy post.
oh… yeah okay I completely fell for it 🤦♂️… Honestly to me, the line between sarcasm/memeposts and realposts nowadays are so thin, to the point of making me dense as fuck…
Sorry, I’ll carry along.
Dont beat yourself up over it
These things happen.
Maybe you was having a shit day.
we all have different ways to express our humour. I’m particularly shit at it to be honest.
I struggle too, half the time I cant tell the difference between real and ai.
Imagine being 69 years old and being called a script kiddie. Now that is something.
I think Ill get my flares and platform shoes and tie dye T-shirt out and start playing some led zeppelin and bob dylan over the weekend.
enjoy your weekend