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
Re-reading can be magic. Won’t work all the time but when it does… I fear many readers won’t ever try that.
I prefer to call this a lifelong allergy to noise. Something I’ve been allergic to since I was a young kid.
It doesn’t mean I hate music or that I can only be happy surrounded by silence, quite the contrary I love music. It just is an allergy to those very specific kind of noise that are devised to prevent you from using your brain and that try to have you always react wit your guts instead.
Exactly like with TV and ads, most politics, most social media and, sadly, most traditional media too. It’s something learned by growing surrounded by a few adults that were in constant anger. Realizing I wanted to never be like that.
Thanks for sharing your own experience, it’s great to hear a similar one :)