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@Zerosquare I saw that in the other thread. Went . Then it deleted. And I went (that works for
:ahh
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@dcon said in Internet of shit:
@TimeBandit said in Internet of shit:
@dcon and it can't even bring you a beer. Useless
I'll bet it can freak out my dogs...
You know all the videos about cats sitting on Roombas and getting moved around? Now imagine that with this flying robot. And dogs barking mad below it while the cat is just sitting there, being a
dickcat.I could watch that for
hours8 minutes!
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Computer is better than humans with domain knowledge at pattern matching. News at 11.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in Internet of shit:
@Gurth
How very... uh, captivating video. I learned a lot... I'm sorry, what was it about again?It took her somewhat longer than I'd expected to get the door unlocked, but for some reason, I did not mind one bit...
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@HardwareGeek said in Internet of shit:
@Gurth said in Internet of shit:
It’s kind of hard to drink coffee out of that thing
A really long straw. Plastic, of course.
I've actually done that, except it wasn't coffee. And I didn't actually mean to get any of it in my mouth.
Turned out to be very simple, and not at all related to the dishwasher. We had installed a new disposal, and the dishwasher drain inlet had a punch-out that should've been but wasn't. Which was fine, I guess, because we weren't actually using it, until we were, after we replaced the sink and put everything back together again.
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Connected cars
Edit:
Toyota has promised not to gather and sell telematics data, but GM seems poised to create a market in data gathered by your car, which can listen to you, follow you, take pictures of you and your surroundings, and even gather data on which passengers are in the car at different times by tracking Bluetooth beacons from mobile devices.
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@TimeBandit My brand new car has a bazillion of sensors and cameras and what-not, including some pretty complex (I imagine) shape recognition to e.g. pre-brake if it detects a pedestrian in the road (the manual is quite clear that if it's not a pedestrian, then no action is taken... I guess running over a dog is OK?). Of course I have no idea what happens about all the data it collects, except the usual unreadable lawyer-ese of "we take your privacy very seriously and only use your data for a very long list of incomprehensible and vague services including, but not limited to, making as much money as we can from it". I guess I'll just wait and see...
Also, the manual has a pretty funny part about where all the RF emitters are inside the car, showing that they are basically everywhere (on the pillars, in the seats, in the roof...), with all stuff for key-less entry and wifi hotspotting etc. And then it goes on by explaining that people with pacemakers should not sit closer than 20 cm from any of those. Uh, I think that means they can't enter the car at all... although maybe they can slither in the trunk?
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@remi said in Internet of shit:
maybe they can slither in the trunk
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Next time someone tries to sell you any IoT gizmo, reply with "Even Google gets it horribly wrong. Why should I trust you?"
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@Zerosquare said in Internet of shit:
Next time someone tries to sell you any IoT gizmo, reply with "Even Google gets it horribly wrong. Why should I trust you?"
I have always been a fan of Google Products
Found his problem.
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@remi said in Internet of shit:
@TimeBandit My brand new car has a bazillion of sensors and cameras and what-not, including some pretty complex (I imagine) shape recognition to e.g. pre-brake if it detects a pedestrian in the road (the manual is quite clear that if it's not a pedestrian, then no action is taken... I guess running over a dog is OK?).
Here’s an experiment: set up a fashion dummy or photo cardboard cut-out of a person and drive your car towards it. According to the manual, it shouldn’t brake for them …
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@Gurth That would be an interesting one, as well as trying to see how little features are needed to make it look like a pedestrian. I think it even says that "small children" are not recognized, so there is clearly a minimum size. Is there a maximum one? What about very fat people? Gorillas?
But I'm not even clear how the feature is supposed to work, the manual is full of seemingly conflicting things saying that the car brakes but doesn't fully stop (uh?) or that it detects the pedestrian faster than a human but then just prints a warning, or maybe that it "pre-loads" the brakes (looks like brakes are like energy gauges in video games, you have to load them before using them?)... All in all, I'm not sure what exactly the car does...
Which is one more reason to try your experiment, to actually find out what happens!
But then, with all the electronics and given the thread we're in, I wouldn't be surprised if the car decides to turn itself off after I hit a pedestrian and stay there until I take it to a dealer to reset some sensors, or report me to the police or my insurance company, or take a full video of the incident and post in on my facebook account with a caption of "LOL! I killed this guy! <emoticon soup>".
(OK, the last one is over-the-top and unrealistic)
(it would never post on facebook, but on a more trendy website)
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@TimeBandit said in Internet of shit:
@izzion We have better ways to keep ourself warm
The long socks? She should probably wear some warmer trousers too or it will all be wasted
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@remi said in Internet of shit:
maybe that it "pre-loads" the brakes (looks like brakes are like energy gauges in video games, you have to load them before using them?)
It "pre-loads" magical drifting brakes so when you run pedestrians down, you can tap brakes and swerve to drift for more combo points.
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@Applied-Mediocrity And what happens if you double-tap, or long-press, the brakes?
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@remi
It opens chat overlay whereupon Unicode emoji bug crashes the firmware, disables all car controls, and you drive into a wall. Depending on your speed at that moment you might be jeffed to the "lobby".
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@Jaloopa said in Internet of shit:
The long socks? She should probably wear some warmer trousers too or it will all be wasted
Or she could remove everything and it wouldn't be a waste
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@TimeBandit
But Seinfeld told me that you shrink in the cold
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@izzion when I see her naked, the exact opposite happen
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@remi said in Internet of shit:
(OK, the last one is over-the-top and unrealistic)
Don't give them ideas! I'm sure someone reads this thread for 'hey, we could do that!' ideas.
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@dcon I don't have any trendy social media account, so I don't care. Unless TD counts? It's definitely a social media (or is it "asocial media"?), not sure how trendy it is.
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@remi said in Internet of shit:
not sure how trendy it is.
According to Google, It's very trendy.
Everytime I search for something we talked about here, TDWTF is in the top results
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@remi said in Internet of shit:
@dcon I don't have any trendy social media account, so I don't care. Unless TD counts? It's definitely a social media (or is it "asocial media"?), not sure how trendy it is.
It's anti-social, for sure.
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@remi
It's definitely associal media.
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@Jaloopa said in Internet of shit:
@TimeBandit said in Internet of shit:
@izzion We have better ways to keep ourself warm
The long socks? She should probably wear some warmer trousers too or it will all be wasted
No, you're supposed to be in the place of trousers.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Internet of shit:
No, you're supposed to be in the place of trousers.
Like this guy?
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“This data is not getting fed into some larger morass of Google information.”
Naaaaaaaah, sure it's not.
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@Zerosquare said in Internet of shit:
“This data is not getting fed into some larger morass of Google information.”
Naaaaaaaah, sure it's not.
And WhatsApp will never have ads.
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Location-based spam
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@TimeBandit That's probably the "nearby" thing that new Android phones have.
But that's turned off by default, and no one will ever turn on because why the hell would you want to be spammed with links?
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@anonymous234 said in Internet of shit:
That's probably the "nearby" thing that new Android phones have
Yes, but support is going away
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@TimeBandit Wow, nobody could have seen that coming.
(read with extreme sarcasm)
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@TimeBandit said in Internet of shit:
@anonymous234 said in Internet of shit:
That's probably the "nearby" thing that new Android phones have
Yes, but support is going away
There will still be plenty of people left to spam using that device, though.
I’m almost tempted to buy one of these things to broadcast a “Turn off your Nearby Notifications” message all the time.
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@TimeBandit Heh … I decided to click on one of their other products:
I wonder how they handle postage and packaging. Ah, here we are:
Packing & Delivery
Semi-Automatic PET Bottle Blowing Machine Bottle Making Machine Bottle Moulding Machine
PET Bottle Making Machine is suitable for producing PET plastic containers and bottles in all shapes.
It is widely used to produce the carbonated bottle, mineral water, pesticide bottle oil bottle cosmetics, wide-mouth bottle and hot fill bottle etc.
Beverage bottle, cosmetic bottle, medicine bottle, jar etc.
Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book.
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I've heard of putting boats inside bottles, but I didn't know it was also used for Bluetooth beacons.
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@Zerosquare You want to keep track of where your bottle is, don’t you?
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What's scarier than an insecure IoT device? An insecure IoT device stuffed into your child's toy.
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@DCoder That's from December 21, 2017 though. I think we might have seen this before somewhere...
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Literal Internet of Shit
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@TimeBandit If you shit with your seat up, you're doing it wrong.
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@Luhmann That's a hightech version of the Russian one. Which is a mere two sticks.
One to hold fast to, the other one to shoo away the wolves.
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@Luhmann said in Internet of shit:
@Zecc said in Internet of shit:
If you shit with your seat up
Have you met the french toilet?
Fortunately, they are getting rare.
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@Luhmann said in Internet of shit:
Have you met the french toilet?
I didn't know they were called French. Here in France, they're called Turkish. And they're a rarity nowadays (fortunately).
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@Zerosquare I'm used to calling them (literally translated) squat toilets. And that's the translation google translate gives me too, but it may not know of the phrase.
It used to be though that if you went camping in France, both along the autoroute and on the campsite the large majority of toilets you'd encounter were squat toilets.