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Dependent devices are not smart (escapebigtech.info)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Great story. Well, I didn’t actually read Jackson’s whole story (I’m lazy), but just the gist of it that his doorbell failed b/c his Amazon acct got into a bad state says enough. My lazy ass only skimmed through your page as well, as in my case it’s preachin’ to the choir.

But I agree calling IoT appliances “smart” is revolting and I reject it. And I think the problem with the early catch phrase (“Internet of Shit”) is that it’s too eccentric to hook the normies who really need to give some thought to this. So I quite like the idea of calling them “dependent”, as the terminology might take hold where it needs to.

BTW, you should not link to #medium.com. Your audience does not appreciate the #enshitifcation of that site, but would rather have scribe.rip URLs.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Thanks for checking out the article! As for skimming through it, well, I guess I'll take that as a hint that I need to write shorter posts as I do have a tendency of blabbering too much when writing haha

I didn't know about scribe.rip, I will definitely use that instead of medium from now on thank you!