Smart Houses Are Kinda Tacky

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• AG

  @aggie_ · 4 years ago

  From a cybersecurity perspective, smart homes are a vulnerability nightmare. Most smart devices can be hacked! It is way easier than most people would think. Please make sure you’re protecting your network safely while using smart devices. They are full of vulnerabilities.

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• AN

  @Anttheyoutubeuser · 1 year ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGGlbe2y5jE&amp;t=571">9:31</a> f1 did this before they realised six wheels didn’t really help all that much except for having to worry about six wheels instead of four

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• BL

  @bling-tut · 4 years ago

  There was a short story written by Ray Bradbury in the 1950s that was about a house with AI that kept cleaning and making meals and going about the daily routine despite the fact that a nuclear war happened and all the people living in the house had been killed. That story always reminds me of smart houses.

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• JA

  @JasperTales · 1 year ago

  Danny&apos;s hate for smart fridges obviously originated from the billion surprise toys video

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• OP

  @opatopatopat658 · 4 years ago

  What went wrong with smart technology is that it could have been so useful for disabled folk, but instead they make the tech super expensive, impractical to use, and they market it towards rich people who don&apos;t know what to do with their money. Overall just inaccessible.

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• LI

  @lixak6307 · 4 years ago

  I read a book as a kid where houses were customizable and you could move walls and change layouts and eventually the house took over trapped everyone inside and crushed them to death….. been terrified of the concept of smart houses ever since

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• LE

  @LemonArsonist · 4 years ago

  On the subject of smart friddges; anyone who works in cybersecurity would tell you never get smart fridges or toasters or whatever. They can be ridiculously easy to hack, and give people access to the rest of your house. And the more smart items you have on a network the more vulnerable it gets.

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• JE

  @jeremymcallister8320 · 1 year ago

  Soooo, we just gonna gloss over the caption at <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGGlbe2y5jE&amp;t=685">11:25</a> where a home microwave costed $3K ($24k in the video&apos;s day)?? 😅

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• NI

  @nijapyrosphere4145 · 4 years ago

  Most of the people I know in Tech jobs (such as myself), would never get most of the smart home things purely because of how unsecure the systems are. <br><br>For example that initial video of someone opening a house with a wrist chip can be opened just as easily with a magnet - in fact probably more easily because the chip might not be read immediately.

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• GR

  @gretablackwell495 · 4 years ago

  The “touchscreens everywhere’ idea of the future kind of horrifies me because imagine what companies will do with that. Your smart house blares ads at you as you enter. You can’t use your toaster because you forgot to pay a subscription. Pop-ups on your windows and mirrors. A power outage happens and you’re locked out of your house. Hell world

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• PC

  @pcpulcher · 4 years ago

  &quot;I hope she doesn&apos;t call the police on us&quot;<br>&quot;...CALL THE POLICE&quot;<br>this made me laugh way too hard

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• MI

  @michaelramsey82 · 3 years ago (edited)

  God I hate the trend of making everything &quot;smart&quot;. Stop trying to solve problems that don&apos;t exist and reinvent stuff that has worked perfectly fine for 100 years. There are tons of very real problems these companies could be working on (like making appliances more easily usable for disabled people), or legitimately cool stuff they could be inventing, but no, they made a fridge you can tweet from instead.

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