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Actually, this (and worse) was/is predicted: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radicalized_(book) by "Unauthorized Bread".
@BoydStephenSmithJr @rbmath @niavy @cmconseils
I was just coming here to note this book by @pluralistic - this story made me laugh out loud and then cry inside for how plausible an internet connected proprietary toaster over could be....
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@cmconseils This seems like a very ballsy design decision to make in an appliance that 100% of users are going to be, at a minimum, hungry when using. Which itself isn't a problem, except that "hungry" is going to be combined with "just woke up" and one or more of "hung over" or "in a hurry".
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@bhaugland Very British of it to be like, "Would you like a bite to eat while you ponder life being just 80-90 years of existential dread wrapped in a t-shirt?"
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@cmconseils why in the world would your toaster need an internet connection, or to know what time or date it is? It's not like you're going to leave slices of bread to get stale in the toaster and to auto-toast in the morning, right? sheesh.
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@cmconseils They do this to make the products worse, so they’ll break and make us spend more money on them. We’re down to ‘smart’ pencils. Anything to enshittify every aspect of our lives in this capitalist hellscape.
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@cmconseils why in the world would your toaster need an internet connection, or to know what time or date it is? It's not like you're going to leave slices of bread to get stale in the toaster and to auto-toast in the morning, right? sheesh.
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@cmconseils I had to cancel downloading my toast midway the other day because the cops came. They found out I was getting it off piratebay.
You wouldn't download a Panini would you?
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Camping toaster.
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@cmconseils I want Linux in my toaster, too, but not like this...
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You wouldn't download a Panini would you?
@Sector9 @cmconseils I can't, it doesn't have seeds.
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- To receive security updates.
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@cmconseils Cheers, bread! *toasts*
Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic) gave a sneak peak on what that update one day will contain:
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/01/unauthorized-bread-a-near-future-tale-of-refugees-and-sinister-iot-appliances/@punissuer @cmconseils @pluralistic there it is. I scrolled for such a comment of Unauthorized Bread
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@cmconseils why in the world would your toaster need an internet connection, or to know what time or date it is? It's not like you're going to leave slices of bread to get stale in the toaster and to auto-toast in the morning, right? sheesh.
@briankrebs@infosec.exchange @cmconseils@mastodon.social For tracking your activities. it makes it easier for the bigtech to control your minions, without you noticing it... and you are even paying them for it
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@cmconseils Just put the toast on an old smart phone. Gets equally hot.
@honze_net @cmconseils (or a new one, i came to whisper)
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@cmconseils I almost had no quesidilas to serve at a friends place yesterday because their oven needed a software update.
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@cmconseils I want Linux in my toaster, too, but not like this...
Nice SGI workstation there.
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@cmconseils this is why I de-smarted my smart new house a couple of years ago...
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Also: why don’t toasters have a window so you can see how toasted your bread is
Toaster ovens do, but toasters have heating elements very close to the bread and on both sides. They rely on having a reflective surface on the other side of the elements to reflect all of the heat back. If you made this glass, you wouldn’t be able to see very well because there would be a bright heater between you and the bread, and you’d lose efficiency. That means the only place you could make a window is the end, and that would give you less visibility than just looking in at the top.
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@cmconseils This has been coming since 1990 - I saw it at Interop '90.
The toaster in the house I rented from around 2002 said ‘microprocessor controlled’ on the side. We joked that the microprocessor sat in a loop sending the signal to keep the bread locked down and the bread was assumed to be cooked once it suffered thermal failure and stopped sending the signal. It was about as reliable as if that had been the case.
