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If you're using an internet-connected vibrator equipped with a camera that allows you to stream your "pleasure" right to the internet
Then you should probably reconsider what you're doing.
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@RaceProUK Or start charging people to watch.
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@anonymous234 said in Internet of shit:
@CarrieVS said in Internet of shit:
But I'm really waiting for a USB-mitochondria adapter that I can install in my arm and charge devices by burning calories
Necro-replying, but this is something that has really interested me for a while.
Energy density of li-ion batteries: <1 MJ/L
Energy density of body fat: 37 MJ/LWe're much more energy efficient than any battery we have. If you could harvest that, you could recharge your phone for the day with a cheese sandwich.
One way would be to attach a mechanical device on your limbs that generated energy by movement (and making movement slighty harder, but that's what you get). It seems too simple to be true. I'd like to know if there's any reason why we don't do that? (other than "people don't like exercise")
It has been tried. They don't seem to work.
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@anonymous234 said in Internet of shit:
@RaceProUK Or start charging people to watch.
I'm just guessing, but I'd imagine most of the people who'd buy that already are.
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@DCoder said in Internet of shit:
Hackers from the UK-based security firm Pen Test Partners have found that it's trivially easy to hack into a Svakom Siime Eye, a $249 Internet of Things dildo that has a small camera on its tip, allowing users to stream a video to anyone of their choosing over the internet.
I cannot read that as anything other than "Slime Eye".
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Hm, that looks familiar.... zoom, enhance
Ayup, a Discourse forum
http://community.garadget.com/t/iphone-app-will-not-stay-open-just-flashes-when-trying-to-launch/1706Apparently Jeffism is an infectious disease...
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@DCoder It didn't even take a hack, just default passwords.
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@izzion @Rhywden The last comment on the thread summarizes everything (well, not everything, but a major issue) that's wrong with IoT:
do something to convince people that you not only will not, but cannot remotely lock people from using your device. This is tough, but your sales are going to tank if people think you have a killswitch to be fired any time they say something you don't like... Which, y'know, you currently do.
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@dcon said in Internet of shit:
Anyone who puts a device in their house that responds to common input deserves all the malicious input they get.
Also: Burger King just handed over their mouthpiece of an uncontrolled third party. Someone should figure out how to googlebomb "What is a whopper" so that instead of reading off Wikipedia (or whatever), it reads off Urban Dictionary.
Because anyone who relies on third parties that rely on possibly malicious input deserve it.
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@Lorne-Kates said in Internet of shit:
Anyone who puts a device in their house that responds to common input deserves all the malicious input they get.
Question: is it possible to configure these things to require a verbal password?
If not: WHY THE BELGIUM NOT??
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@Zecc said in Internet of shit:
Question: is it possible to configure these things to require a verbal password?
Yes, of course it is. That's what the “Alexa” (etc.) is. The problem is that they only support a (very) short list of passwords.
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@Zecc said in Internet of shit:
@Lorne-Kates said in Internet of shit:
Anyone who puts a device in their house that responds to common input deserves all the malicious input they get.
Question: is it possible to configure these things to require a verbal password?
If not: WHY THE BELGIUM NOT??
Because IoT is working hard to recreate the history of the Internet with every single security issue it had?
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@Zecc said in Internet of shit:
Question: is it possible to configure these things to require a verbal password?
Not sure that's such a smart idea, either. I'm pretty sure the speech recognition uses some cloud service (because doing that on the device itself would require a huge amount of data), which means your device "password" will be sent to a third party who can then decide whether to unlock your device.
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@asdf
Plus, how does one pronounce "●●●●●●●"?
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@izzion wakawakawakawakawakawakawaka
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is the closest thing we have to a Pac-Man emoji
Edit: I'd suggest , but it looks terrible.
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@asdf said in Internet of shit:
I'm pretty sure the speech recognition uses an internet connection (because doing that on the device itself would require a huge amount of data)
I doubt that.
On the one hand, I don't think the amount of data required for training the recognition of one particular sound is that big. Voice dialing pre-dates internet-connected phones. (citation needed, but I know there were voice-dial-able phones that didn't required the internet)
On the other hand, that would imply these devices are unable to recognize by themselves when they are being spoken to and are therefore continuously sending everything they hear to the servers. That's a scary thought.
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@Zecc said in Internet of shit:
On the other hand, that would imply these devices are unable to recognize by themselves when they are being spoken to and are therefore continuously sending everything they hear to the servers. That's a scary thought.
not sure about alexa but..... Google home, and google assistant on enabled phones, doesn't do it that way. it knows how to recognize its trigger phrase "Okay google, " and when it heard that it records what you say next and sends that to google for parsing and voice to text and all that other fun stuff.
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@Zecc said in Internet of shit:
On the other hand, that would imply these devices are unable to recognize by themselves when they are being spoken to and are therefore continuously sending everything they hear to the servers. That's a scary thought.
I'm pretty sure Cortana won't respond unless you say "Hey, Cortana!
sudo make me a sammich!"
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@accalia @RaceProUK Yes, that's how I expect these things to work.
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@dcon said in Internet of shit:
Burger King President Jose Cil, reached by The Times, said they considered consumers’ take on the ad and felt that it would ultimately be “a really positive way” to connect with consumers.
Yeah, it's positive.
-ly the best way to scare off potential customers.
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@dcon Fun fact: they could probably get sued for hacking and lose.
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@dcon said in Internet of shit:
Hah.
“Can we just nip this whole thing in the bud right now?” the outlet’s article asks.
Yes. You can QUIT USING GOOGLE HOME, or any other similar device that's voice-controlled, and always listening. Until they get some sort of reasonably reliable voice authentication, using those sort of devices is just stupid.
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@anotherusername said in Internet of shit:
@dcon said in Internet of shit:
Hah.
“Can we just nip this whole thing in the bud right now?” the outlet’s article asks.
Yes. You can QUIT USING GOOGLE HOME, or any other similar device that's voice-controlled, and always listening. Until they get some sort of reasonably reliable voice authentication, using those sort of devices is just stupid.
Here is an incomplete list of devices you are no longer allowed to use:
- iOS, Android, and Windows devices
- Web browsers
I think that shouldn't affect most people who live in fourth-world countries.
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@ben_lubar said in Internet of shit:
who live in fourth-world countries.
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@sloosecannon said in Internet of shit:
@ben_lubar said in Internet of shit:
who live in fourth-world countries.
https://www.reddit.com/r/eighthworldproblems/comments/1y7y25/eight/
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@anotherusername b-b-but how am I supposed to order two tons of creamed corn when I need to? Am I supposed to actually go on Amazon, press a few keys, and click twice - like a Neanderthal?!
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@blek said in Internet of shit:
@anotherusername b-b-but how am I supposed to order two tons of creamed corn when I need to? Am I supposed to actually go on Amazon, press a few keys, and click twice - like a Neanderthal?!
Or you could have button-activated voice recognition.
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For more on the United discussion, please go here.
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@ben_lubar said in Internet of shit:
Here is an incomplete list of devices you are no longer allowed to use:
- [...]
- Web browsers
Have they somehow managed to hack a microphone into my desktop computer?
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@Zecc Hey, the @index bug was fixed. It's messed my signature!
Ah well, it was good while it lasted.
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content://com.chrome.beta.FileProvider/BlockedFile_227185329175798
Yeah. That's the link that was "copied" to my 📋 on mobile.
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@ben_lubar said in Internet of shit:
Here is an incomplete list of devices you are no longer allowed to use:
I mean, you can just turn off all the voice control features...Hell, even iOS makes you push a button to use Siri, right? Either way, people who talk to their computers are weirdos
Inb4 "but it could still be listening regardless!": but it won't trigger any unwanted features or actions
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@bb36e said in Internet of shit:
but it won't trigger any unwanted features or actions
Aside from the NSA sending a SWAT team to your house to stop your aspiring terrorist plots
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@bb36e said in Internet of shit:
Either way, people who talk to their computers are weirdos
I have never successfully asked a question that I cared about the answer to after yelling "hey cortana".
It's always either a stupid question like "what do you think of the president" (to which Cortana read an article about Barack Obama) or I'm surprised by my entire screen turning black and a purple circle appearing at the top so I stutter and Cortana ends up opening Edge with a Bing search for some gibberish.
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@izzion said in Internet of shit:
@bb36e said in Internet of shit:
but it won't trigger any unwanted features or actions
Aside from the NSA sending a SWAT team to your house to stop your aspiring terrorist plots
I mean, I don't talk near my computer when I'm not intentionally recording my voice to send over Discord or whatever. Do people actually do that?
I'm pretty sure my microphone is too shitty to pick up my voice when I'm not in the basement.
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@izzion said in Internet of shit:
@bb36e said in Internet of shit:
but it won't trigger any unwanted features or actions
Aside from the NSA sending a SWAT team to your house to stop your aspiring terrorist plots
FUCK
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@ben_lubar said in Internet of shit:
"what do you think of the president" (to which Cortana read an article about Barack Obama)
Even AIs are in denial.
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@Zecc they fix the funny bugs and let we suffer with the bad ones
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@ben_lubar said in Internet of shit:
Here is an incomplete list of devices you are no longer allowed to use:
iOS, Android, and Windows devices
Web browsersI just disabled Google Now.
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@ben_lubar said in Internet of shit:
I mean, I don't talk near my computer when I'm not intentionally recording my voice to send over Discord or whatever. Do people actually do that?
Oh hell yeah. There's a reason my dog won't stay in the office when I'm working.
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@Lorne-Kates said in Internet of shit:
so that instead of reading off Wikipedia (or whatever), it reads off Urban Dictionary.
It would also need calling some votes to to Urbandictionary to get a dirtier definition then
A yummy sandwich made by an underpaid teenager working at burgerking.
to the top.
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@ben_lubar said in Internet of shit:
I mean, I don't talk near my computer when I'm not intentionally recording my voice to send over Discord or whatever. Do people actually do that?
Some people have a social life and might be in the same room as both their computer and another person. I understand that in such a situation the etiquette is to talk occasionally rather than sitting in silence