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I'm an American, and I'm grieving because I used the Book Depository to order British-published books. Blackwell's has pointed out that they offer free shipping to the US, but of course that doesn't cover non-English books.
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Mr. Nemo posted:Lol all the americans outing themselves I don't think I've ever tried to hide that I'm an American, but now that book depository closing has been given context, I'm sad on behalf of everyone that enjoyed using them.
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I’m kinda curious how Firefly did that well at reproducing trademarked IP it supposedly has no knowledge of. Where’s it getting the information on Mario being a short guy in a red jacket or Pikachu being a yellow hamster-like thing?
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Apr 4, 2023 22:46
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It probably was trained on massive amounts of Nintendo erotic fan-fiction that contained *very* detailed descriptions of them.
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TACD posted:I’m kinda curious how Firefly did that well at reproducing trademarked IP it supposedly has no knowledge of. Where’s it getting the information on Mario being a short guy in a red jacket or Pikachu being a yellow hamster-like thing?
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https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkadqy/hackers-can-remotely-open-smart-garage-doors-across-the-world-simpaltek Hackers Can Remotely Open Smart Garage Doors Across the World quote:A security researcher found a series of vulnerabilities with the Nexx brand of smart garage openers. He says he could remotely find garages to target, and then open them across the internet.
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Apr 5, 2023 13:09
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The Dave posted:I don’t see the point in the message when everyone knows adobe is trying to not create images of copyrighted characters and it’s model is trained on its own stock images. I so wanna ask Adobes AI to give me images on the colours they wont licence fro mPantone which fucks up ALL legacy users.
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Humphreys posted:I so wanna ask Adobes AI to give me images on the colours they wont licence fro mPantone which fucks up ALL legacy users. If you try this a guy from Adobe comes to your house and threatens you with guns
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BiggerBoat posted:https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkadqy/hackers-can-remotely-open-smart-garage-doors-across-the-world-simpaltek
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Apr 5, 2023 15:19
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A lot of things are becoming IOT by default. Went dish washer shopping, above a certain price point they all had WiFi.
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Apr 5, 2023 15:36
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Mega Comrade posted:A lot of things are becoming IOT by default. Went dish washer shopping, above a certain price point they all had WiFi.
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Apr 5, 2023 15:54
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Yeah that's the plan
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Apr 5, 2023 15:58
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But how are you get critical security updates for your dishwasher? Plug in a USB drive like some kind of Luddite?
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Apr 5, 2023 16:10
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So what's the option, start buying dishwashers made for commercial settings, I bet those don't have useless features.
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Apr 5, 2023 16:11
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Why make a dishwasher smart anyway? Smart TVs make sense because they show you ads, but I don't get the angle for a dishwasher.
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Apr 5, 2023 16:13
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Don't forget GE's new Smart Stand Mixer that costs... let me check... almost $2,000. https://www.geappliances.com/smart-stand-mixers You can issue it voice commands to speed up or slow down instead of flicking the switch, though!
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cat botherer posted:Why make a dishwasher smart anyway? Smart TVs make sense because they show you ads, but I don't get the angle for a dishwasher. GE posted:With a GE Profile Smart Dishwasher and the SmartHQ app, you can monitor cycle time and status, remotely lock and unlock controls, and automatically reorder detergent. Plus, you'll get alerts if anything prevents a less-than-perfect wash when the load is finished. Emphasis mine. E: But really it’s probably just there to collect data to sell. Boris Galerkin fucked around with this message at 16:22 on Apr 5, 2023 |
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ah yes remote lock and unlocking, cant wait for hackers to unlock a bunch of washers when theyre filled as a nice lol. also while its nice to just not connect, its another part that can break and supposedly some badly engineered models softlock themselves until everything is fixed. so good luck not having your washer while you wait for a proprietary part and an officially license tech to come. (or you can void your warranty by getting the part or a equivalent part yourself and installing) edit: lol at still data mining everything. trying to make infomation out of any and all data. even if its useless data.
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There was a recent article where manufacturers were, in fact, lamenting that consumers didn't want to connect their fancy smart appliances to wifi: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/01/half-of-smart-appliances-remain-disconnected-from-internet-makers-lament/
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shoeberto posted:There was a recent article where manufacturers were, in fact, lamenting that consumers didn't want to connect their fancy smart appliances to wifi: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/01/half-of-smart-appliances-remain-disconnected-from-internet-makers-lament/ quote:The challenge is that a consumer doesn’t see the true value that manufacturers see in terms of how that data can help them in the long run. Just lol.
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Boris Galerkin posted:Emphasis mine. e: It makes more sense reading that Ars article, in that it can potentially be used to flog service, replacement parts, etc. cat botherer fucked around with this message at 16:51 on Apr 5, 2023 |
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I visited family recently and they were showing me their smart home tech. It was just a bunch of random stuff they ordered off of Amazon/AliExpress from random vendors, you know, the ones with random names like GLOPS Home(tm) and whatnot. I just said oh that's cool and avoided saying personal poo poo about myself when we were inside because there is probably a 90% chance that everything was being recorded and sent to some data farm in China. I think a lot of people don't care or know the dangers of buying random IoT poo poo as long as it's "cool."
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Mega Comrade posted:A lot of things are becoming IOT by default. Went dish washer shopping, above a certain price point they all had WiFi.
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Motronic posted:Just lol. "If only these ungrateful people could see how us harvesting their data to sell for even more profit is actually good for them." IoT is such a loving blight. Arsenic Lupin posted:Same with washers. I solved the problem by not connecting the washer to the internet. OTOH, the last TV I bought won't work unless connected to the internet: you can't pair the remote. I bought an OLED a few years ago and while it has a bunch of smart stuff it can thanbkfully just not be paired to the internet and so it's not. I can't imagine having to have my loving TV always online to use it.
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I had a smart TV that was disconnected from the Internet for a long time. I plugged an ethernet cord into the back, and the thing went loving bonkers. It was downloading poo poo like crazy stalling out glitching out. I guess it managed to update firmware because it went from having a solid LED light on to signal power on to a really annoying, blinking light. Really upgraded my user experience to have to cover that motherfucker up.
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DeeplyConcerned posted:I had a smart TV that was disconnected from the Internet for a long time. I plugged an ethernet cord into the back, and the thing went loving bonkers. It was downloading poo poo like crazy stalling out glitching out. I guess it managed to update firmware because it went from having a solid LED light on to signal power on to a really annoying, blinking light. Really upgraded my user experience to have to cover that motherfucker up.
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Arsenic Lupin posted:Same with washers. I solved the problem by not connecting the washer to the internet. OTOH, the last TV I bought won't work unless connected to the internet: you can't pair the remote. lol at replacing ancient IR tech with whatever tech is being used for pairing here.
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PhazonLink posted:lol at replacing ancient IR tech with whatever tech is being used for pairing here. I legit love that my Apple TV remote doesn’t need LOS IR to work. It’s honestly great.
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Some of the smart home things are great, you just don't want to connect them to the Internet. You have a VPN setup on the router and connect to home assistant to control everything remotely. Most people can't be bothered with any of this stuff so in general iot things are bad.
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I found a company that sells opaque dots to put over your LEDs, as well as dots that dim them. They rule. Found on Amazon, under the name BRIGHTDIMS.
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cat botherer posted:Why make a dishwasher smart anyway? Smart TVs make sense because they show you ads, but I don't get the angle for a dishwasher. I find this applies to probably 95% of the things my life. I do not need everything I own to be connected to my internet and am not sure why people think that doing so improves the quality of their lives. Solutionism is undoing most of the things that tech can actually provide and there's no loving end in sight. Glad to see people ragging on Adobe too because those fuckers are, hopefully, in for a big downfall and have basically become what Quark was 20 years ago where they shoved their arrogance down their customers' throats and surey get passed by a hungry upstart. Adobe was great for a while, peaking with like the Creative Suite 3 and 5 but now they just gently caress their user base to the point that I entirely left the graphics industry except for some freelance poo poo I do. Their "innovations" actively made my job harder and harder for about a decade, which is the opposite of what they should be doing. I could write a whole thread about the poo poo they get up to for no other reason than not having any serious competition. They're like the EA of creative graphics software.
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SpeedFreek posted:Some of the smart home things are great, you just don't want to connect them to the Internet. You have a VPN setup on the router and connect to home assistant to control everything remotely. Most people can't be bothered with any of this stuff so in general iot things are bad. I've been a big fan of Philips WIZ stuff, only because I have plants that I don't want to kill. Home Depot does clearance once a quarter for (firmware?)reasons so I can stock up, so every light bulb in the whole house is RGBW, and proves to be alot of fun during get togethers. I wont let a Voice assistant into my home until I can localize it, Almond still sucks, Home Assistant can limp along on a good day requiring extensive lockdowns, and Mycroft just isn't quite there . Yes, I know the hardware requirements. I've heard stories of jail broken versions of Cortana in the wild...
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I hooked my Samsung dishwasher up to the home network because the manual implied there were settings not available elsewhere. There were not any new settings, just a horrible UI for doing the equivalent of pushing the buttons on the door. Who would start their dishwasher remotely when they weren’t near it? It’s the thing you do right after you add detergent.
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Dishwashers are noisy. Our old-fashioned one has a simple delay timer though. Set it to start after five hours, watch some TV and go to bed. Wifi is overkill.
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Remulak posted:I hooked my Samsung dishwasher up to the home network because the manual implied there were settings not available elsewhere. There were not any new settings, just a horrible UI for doing the equivalent of pushing the buttons on the door. Who would start their dishwasher remotely when they weren’t near it? It’s the thing you do right after you add detergent. The one other motivation I can see is for an appliance to give you a bit more information about what the gently caress is wrong with it/why it's unhappy. My washing machine was being a fucker the other night. I gathered it was because I was washing my jacket, and when soaking wet, it was too heavy and unbalanced to spin at a high enough speed to get the water out, but nowhere did it actually indicate this was its problem (and it's managed to wash that jacket before, successfully), so I only figured it out after several attempts to get it spin and drain.
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My washer has this newfangled thing, called, what was it … ah. An LCD screen, that’s right. So when my fiancé washes one big bulky thing and it clunk clunks for 45 minutes it’ll stop and say “OB” for “Off-Balance”. Sorry for the bit of snark, but there are solutions other than spending wads of cash under-developing a lovely app that no one wants to use, is I think my point.
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Vegetable posted:Dishwashers are noisy. Our old-fashioned one has a simple delay timer though. Set it to start after five hours, watch some TV and go to bed. Wifi is overkill. Bosch dishwashers are very quiet, they are great for apartments where you don’t want to make noise in the evenings.
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Fornax Disaster posted:Bosch dishwashers are very quiet, they are great for apartments where you don’t want to make noise in the evenings. Yeah, unless you're within maybe 10 feet, you're probably not going to hear it running until it drains water.
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European brands with inline water heaters like Bosch also let you use all racks like they are the top rack. They don't need a heating element that can destroy plastic stuff. I suspect any smart device's error report to devolve to "you need a licensed tech to fix this and I am going to be a brick until one shows up and uses their proprietary whatever to clear me."
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