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@levicki said in Internet of shit:
@topspin Hot polish? As in fireman's pole getting spit-polished?
I wouldn't mind getting my pole polished by a fireman.
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@Carnage said in Internet of shit:
I wouldn't mind getting my pole polished by a fireman.
/me puts on a firefighter helmet and winks
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@Vixen said in Internet of shit:
@Carnage said in Internet of shit:
I wouldn't mind getting my pole polished by a fireman.
/me puts on a firefighter helmet and winks
I'll get the pole ready!
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in Internet of shit:
@Carnage said in Internet of shit:
I'll get the pole ready!
Ooh, threesome!
The more the merrier!
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@Carnage said in Internet of shit:
@Vixen said in Internet of shit:
@Carnage said in Internet of shit:
I wouldn't mind getting my pole polished by a fireman.
/me puts on a firefighter helmet and winks
I'll get the pole ready!
Is he stuck in the basement?
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@topspin said in Internet of shit:
@Carnage said in Internet of shit:
@Vixen said in Internet of shit:
@Carnage said in Internet of shit:
I wouldn't mind getting my pole polished by a fireman.
/me puts on a firefighter helmet and winks
I'll get the pole ready!
Is he stuck in the basement?
Naj, just need to be properly shackled to the cross. :bdsm:
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Oh! I forgot
Oh! I also received an Amazon Echo Auto.
I plugged it in, and it's 100% useless without the Alexa App.
I'm going to install it, set up, and then uninstall, and see what it does...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Internet of shit:
then uninstall, and see what it does...
Setting it up...
Dafuq? Why do you need my phone's microphone? Cancelled that request.
Bullshit, it won't continue without it.
Found out: yup, when the App is gone, it just says "just a moment, connecting to your phone".
Piece of shit.
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@Tsaukpaetra Your car's speakers emit a series of supersonic clicks that your phone's microphone picks up, allowing it to receive seekrits from the car (like a bluetooth pairing key). These seekrits are apparently too complex to have a manual type-in.
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@TwelveBaud Is 0000 not good enough for them?
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@TwelveBaud said in Internet of shit:
@Tsaukpaetra Your car's speakers emit a series of supersonic clicks that your phone's microphone picks up, allowing it to receive seekrits from the car (like a bluetooth pairing key). These seekrits are apparently too complex to have a manual type-in.
False, it's not a Chromecast.
Finishing installing worked perfectly fine, even though it's literally impossible for my phone to have "heard" my "car" because said "car" was actually my bone-conduction headphones (which are not known for their high-frequency response) that were already turned down low.
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@hungrier said in Internet of shit:
@TwelveBaud Is 0000 not good enough for them?
I once had Ubuntu ask me to type in 0000 in a Bluetooth device I wanted it to pair with.
It was a mouse.
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So? It's easy. Just click the left button zero times, and do this four times
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@Zerosquare said in Internet of shit:
So? It's easy. Just click the left button zero times, and do this four times
My brother told me to move it in a circle 4 times.
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@Zerosquare said in Internet of shit:
Sonos states on their website that "sustainability is non-negotiable," and that they design products to minimize impact
But that statement is entirely true, as borne out by the comments. You just have to mentally re-insert the words Sonos left out:
Sonos states on their website that "sustainability of our business model is non-negotiable," and that they design products to minimize impact on sales of new products
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What do you have to do to put their speakers into this recycle mode? Asking for a
friendlocal sonos store visit...
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@cvi said in Internet of shit:
What do you have to do to put their speakers into this recycle mode? Asking for a
friendlocal sonos store visit...apparently log into your account and select the devices to recycle.
and if it's irreversible..... i'm waiting for the news story where some couple breaks up and on his way out of the house he logs into their shared account and sets all her speakers into recycle mode as an act of revenge......
because that's going to happen eventually........
[real edit: corrected spellaring post caffeine ingestion]
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@Vixen said in Internet of shit:
@cvi said in Internet of shit:
What do you have to do to put their speakers into this recycle mode? Asking for a
friendlocal sonos store visit...apparently log into your account and select the devices to recycle.
What on Earth is the use of this?
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@Gurth It might erase your embarrassing favorites from the device?
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@Gurth said in Internet of shit:
@Vixen said in Internet of shit:
@cvi said in Internet of shit:
What do you have to do to put their speakers into this recycle mode? Asking for a
friendlocal sonos store visit...apparently log into your account and select the devices to recycle.
What on Earth is the use of this?
why would you as a purchaser do it? they give you a discount on buying new stuff. It's intended for upgraders. The fact that it effectively kills the second hand market stone dead is by no means an unintended side effect.
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@Vixen said in Internet of shit:
@Gurth said in Internet of shit:
@Vixen said in Internet of shit:
@cvi said in Internet of shit:
What do you have to do to put their speakers into this recycle mode? Asking for a
friendlocal sonos store visit...apparently log into your account and select the devices to recycle.
What on Earth is the use of this?
why would you as a purchaser do it? they give you a discount on buying new stuff. It's intended for upgraders. The fact that it effectively kills the second hand market stone dead is by no means an unintended side effect.
Wouldn't you get a better dealing selling it than scrapping it for the discount, though?
I mean, I have no idea how much a new one costs (or what that shit even is, and since it's IoS trash I refuse to go find out), but wasting $250 on not selling it seems pretty foolish.
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@topspin said in Internet of shit:
Wouldn't you get a better dealing selling it than scrapping it for the discount, though?
probably, but the discount is less hassle.
have you seen how many scammers there are on craigslist, or ebay? as a seller those places are a major PITA....
@topspin said in Internet of shit:
I mean, I have no idea how much a new one costs
too much.
@topspin said in Internet of shit:
or what that shit even is
"Smart" speakers with proprietary music library interface. Think Google Home assistant or Alexa on the Echo, but only the "can play music," part, and voice control is a bit crap...... when it works at all...... but at least there is a slick phone app..... But it is really opinionated about how you should organize your music.
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@topspin said in Internet of shit:
it's IoS trash
that is the point of the article is it no? ;-P
@topspin said in Internet of shit:
it seems pretty foolish.
Little bit.... yeah.
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@topspin said in Internet of shit:
it seems pretty foolish.
More than the products discussed in the other 2550 posts in this topic
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@levicki said in Internet of shit:
Wait, is putting a device into the recycle mode the only way to remove it from your account? Because if it is, then that means you can't ever sell it, which should be fucking illegal.
I can hear it now: "You don't own your device, it's a long-term rental with only one payment!"
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@levicki You can remove it from your account without putting it in Recycle Mode, but then you don't get an up-to-30% discount on the purchase of a replacement. And you "shouldn't" sell it anyway, because "it doesn't reflect a modern experience" (salesbeast-speak for "it doesn't support TLS 1.2 so it's practically a brick anyway") and the new buyer might not know.
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@levicki said in Internet of shit:
it might even be justified.
It plays fucking music. I’m going to go with “no!”
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@levicki said in Internet of shit:
where TLS 1.2 cannot be supported due to weak hardware not capable of required ciph
If a fucking Arduino with single-digit megabytes of RAM and a clock speed measured in the tens megahertz can do it, there's no fucking excuse.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Internet of shit:
@levicki said in Internet of shit:
where TLS 1.2 cannot be supported due to weak hardware not capable of required ciph
If a fucking Arduino with single-digit megabytes of RAM and a clock speed measured in the tens megahertz can do it, there's no fucking excuse.
don't forget that the ATMEGA line of processors that power the arduino are 8 bit processors. that makes them (presumably) 4 times "worse" than those in the Sonos equipment (i'm assuming they're 32 bit processors because.... well it's an assumption. And we all know that makes an ass of you)
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@TwelveBaud said in Internet of shit:
@levicki You can remove it from your account without putting it in Recycle Mode, but then you don't get an up-to-30% discount on the purchase of a replacement. And you "shouldn't" sell it anyway, because "it doesn't reflect a modern experience" (salesbeast-speak for "it doesn't support TLS 1.2 so it's practically a brick anyway") and the new buyer might not know.
Didn't they do a thing a couple years ago where they pushed an update that literally bricked old units, or something like that?
e: I'm totally wrong and stupid, it was actually a year and almost 11 months ago.
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Internet of garbage:
Although based on this, I don't think it's actually internet connected, just electric
Further, a 10-hour charge will keep the can’s battery running for about 10 hours.
I can't tell if this means it takes forever to charge, or just
e: It appears that the answer is "Mobilesyrup needs a competent editor" because according to the product website, it features a
Rechargeable Battery: Full charge that will last for one month.
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@hungrier said in Internet of shit:
Mobilesyrup needs a competent editor
No, they don't. You clicked the bait anyway. Their raison d'etre is fulfilled. Whether the content is accurate, coherent, or even exists at all is utterly irrelevant. (Almost; they have to have something, or people would eventually learn not to take their bait, but that's a pretty low bar — obviously low enough that competent editor is not needed, as evidenced by the fact that every other site is just as lacking.)
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Cogo Guebara rushed over to the motorized police officer and pushed its emergency alert button on seeing the brawl break out in Salt Lake Park, Los Angeles, last month. But instead of offering assistance, the egg-shaped robot, whose official name is HP RoboCop, barked at Guebara to ‘Step out of the way’. To add insult to injury, the high-tech device then rolled away while humming an ‘intergalactic tune’, pausing periodically to say ‘Please keep the park clean.’
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@The_Quiet_One Also according to the article, the Emergency alert button doesn't work yet, and the robot said "Get out of the way" because the woman thought the button didn't work unless you were in front of the robot and its cameras.
This is why you hide buttons in GUIs when they're not ready yet — in this case a bit of ducttape or a message that it's not working could have helped a lot.
Also important to note is that this is the same kind of robot as the one that drowned itself in a mall fountain a while back.
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@JBert said in Internet of shit:
Apparently the Emergency alert button doesn't work yet,
You'd think the "make a call to the police button" would have been the first and easiest feature to implement!
But apparently, path finding and song singing are higher priority.
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@Tsaukpaetra It requires a SIM card and thus someone would need to pay for it. Likely the government hadn't decided yet which provider to go with...
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@JBert said in Internet of shit:
@Tsaukpaetra It requires a SIM card and thus someone would need to pay for it. Likely the government hadn't decided yet which provider to go with...
Unless they didn't have any forme of Zuckerberg goddamn it autocorrect, anti theft, they should already have a telemetry connection. And emergency calls do not require a SIM card or a service provider, feel free to try it at your own risk.
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@levicki said in Internet of shit:
@JBert said in Internet of shit:
It requires a SIM card
And how would they be testing it if they don't have remote access to it anyway? It could just malfunction in the middle of the park and they would be unable to do anything about it unless it is already connected.
They're obviously doing it in an area where public random humans are less likely to destroy our future robotic overlords.
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@levicki said in Internet of shit:
@Tsaukpaetra said in Internet of shit:
They're obviously doing it in an area where public random humans are less likely to destroy our future robotic overlords.
Judging from the proximity of a brawl woman tried to report I'd say there is no such area.
Human will destroy themselves just fine. In some areas they are less likely to destroy robots. Please pay attention, the investment is often worth it!
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Internet of shit:
And emergency calls do not require a SIM card or a service provider, feel free to try it at your own risk.
This is no longer true in all cases, sadly:
On some networks, a GSM phone without a SIM card may be used to make emergency calls, and most GSM phones accept a larger list of emergency numbers without SIM card, such as 112, 911, 118, 119, 000, 110, 08, and 999. However, some GSM networks will not accept emergency calls from phones without a SIM card, or even require a SIM card that has credit. For example, Latin American networks typically do not allow emergency calls without a SIM, nor British networks due to the prevalence of hoax calls.
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@The_Quiet_One said in Internet of shit:
But the egg-shaped device still didn’t work, forcing Guebara to call 911 on her phone instead.
So she didn't need the robot in the first place...? I suppose though if you saw one you'd think it would have a priority connection with emergency services.
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@Watson said in Internet of shit:
I suppose though if you saw one you'd think it would have a priority connection with emergency services.
Yeah. That's probably what happened:
Hey, I need the police! Oh, there's this robot with "Police" in big, friendly letters!
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@JBert said in Internet of shit:
Likely the government hadn't decided yet which provider to go with...
The government did it for the "future is here" headlines and didn't ever think to actually have any use for it. Now the project is in its %1 year and too much money has been spent to justify further spending, but too little to cancel it yet.
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@JBert said in Internet of shit:
@Tsaukpaetra It requires a SIM card and thus someone would need to pay for it. Likely the government hadn't decided yet which provider to go with...
If only the police had some kind of radio system that they could use
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Not sure that would be a good idea. You don't want police frequencies being jammed by a malfunctioning robot.
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But is it a smart thing to do?
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@JBert said in Internet of shit:
more than half the time it happens in front of the entire student body.
How often is the average female person standing with legs splayed in front of a student body? And where can I witness this extremely common event?