My farts in a sealed bucket are extremely limited and yet I haven’t found a single buyer.

4% of gross revenue is not a negligible amount. For no company.

How people will accept having their entire lives scanned, categorised and sold off to the highest bidder is beyond me

Me too. It was painfully obvious what Google will do once they launched Gmail and I never used it because of that.

Well, once the AI hype calms down and people realize the current approach won’t lead to actual intelligence or “The Singularity”, there may be quite some nuclear plants left over. That or they will be used to mine shitcoins.

And who forces all the corps to correctly implement that protocol? Getting you locked in is in all of their interests, after all.

Sure, but the networking and consent-finding are defining features of a blockchain. Nobody calls a git repo a blockchain.

horribly inefficient

The core feature of all blockchain tech.

Huh. And here I thought, Piece Of Shit Ready required at least Windows 10.

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I also don’t want to have to talk to it, so switching to Home Assistant with Zigbee

That’s what started it all for me. I have some Hue lights for TV backlighting and started looking for alternatives when Philipps first threatened making their cloud account mandatory.

Threw out the bridge, works like a charm and I have been buying new devices and return everything I cannot setup locally but it’s annoying because they don’t always tell about their crappy app and cloud accounts on the product info.

Good luck getting any other parents to give a shit though.

That’s the big one, sadly.

Joke’s on you - I can’t even reach my Zigbee devices in the next room, your car won’t have a chance from the street. That’ll make it easier to convince it to come back home though.

I wish. Every fucking bank has their own shitty app for 2FA instead of just using standardized and proven TOTP, no way around that.

Same about school apps the article mentioned since it’s connecting to their (one of many) proprietary system, no website for that.

And recently got into the home automation rabbit hole. Lots of devices that require their fucking app, sometimes with mandatory cloud account, just to connect! And people in reviews even praise how easy it is, it’s infuriating! I don’t need light bulbs connecting to the internet, thank you very much.

I have already ramped up on that one on their last ad ramp up.

got highlighted in a horse industry publication

Wait what?

Edit: duh, he was a jockey. I should let the moment of confusion settle before replying.

Hey now, it was carefully designed and thoroughly trained on Tinder dickpics

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Probably don’t know how to get it to run.

Someone needs to do it. But not me. That sounds like work.