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Blooper ,

Okay, but could maybe you just go after the rich? For boo other reason than being rich? Because, in my experience , rich people tend to suck and that seems reason enough to investigate. Please?

Pls Switzerland?

Blooper ,

Side note - I can’t wait for AI to fix autocorrect. Shirts getting old

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Blooper ,

Mfer… you will not have the satisfaction of again my daughter’s hand at her graduation.

Blooper ,

Bolt owner here. Love my car very much.

Blooper ,

I mean they’re making the Bolt EUV instead, but it’s basically the same car. It’s 2 inches taller and 6 inches longer than the Bolt EV.

Though I take your point. Discontinuing it was a mistake.

Blooper ,

As a non-Dolly music fan, I agree with you wholeheartedly… for now.

But later, if it comes out after she’s dead, that she was secretly harvesting puppy blood in her basement or abusing handicapped kids for decades or some other crazy awful thing, I’ll have to re-evaluate. And though I’m not hoping for this to be the case, it just seems like that’s exactly the type of shit this timeline would do to us. Guys I think I’m losing hope for humanity. Dolly save us all.

Blooper ,

So… civil war?

Blooper ,

Setting a timer is more of a hassle than having my washing machine notify me when it’s done - however is most convenient for me. Due to the layout of my home, I am unable to hear the washing machine directly. And setting a timer on my phone sounds like a pain in the ass. And sometimes my wife or kids started a load and I don’t know when they did that, but I need to do some laundry myself, so I need to know if the washer is free but I don’t want to go all the way to the basement to find out.

Luckily, my washer connects to my Wi-Fi and, unfortunately, to the Internet. I very much like that it will notify me on my smart devices around the house and on my phone. It’s actually a great feature. Similarly, I can see my next oven notifying me when it’s preheated. Similar reasons - might be doing laundry or out of earshot when it’s ready to cook.

The problem here isn’t the feature itself. It’s undeniably useful. The issue is that LG’s programmers somehow wrote code that resulted in a tremendous amount of web traffic considering the extremely limited data that could possibly be collected by a washing machine. Think about every tiny thing you did today and write it all down in great detail. You could probably write a short novel if you really tried. And all that can be written to a file less than 1MB in size. The washing machine did not, could not collect that amount of private information about you without also sending audio and/or video. And I’m going to go ahead and assume it has neither microphones or cameras.

So, in the end, this is pretty clearly a programming error. My guess: The washing machine sent a json file containing:

  • The status of the washer (basic functionality)
  • the ssid’s and signal strengths of every nearby WiFi and Bluetooth signal (this is personal data they’d sell - which is gross)
  • Mac address, rtt, ip address, and dns address of every device on the LAN (this is more personal data they’d sell - which is still gross) *Basic hardware health data including counters for how many cycles it has ran in its lifetime, how long it’s been running, total revolutions of each motor, temperature, and humidity readings (more basic functionality)

And, due to a programming error, it sent this exact same data every second, uncompressed, all day, every day, until the stupid thing gets updated with a firmware patch.

My point is, that’s simply not useful data to collect at that sort of frequency. It’s true - LG wants that data , but it absolutely does not want that data sent to their servers every millisecond of every day. They want it probably once per hour. Maybe even once every 5 minutes. LG doesn’t want 4GB(!) of the exact same data. Collecting and storing data costs real money and infrastructure.

TLDRB I’m going to guess that someone screwed up on the coding side and that’s how you get such egregious amounts of network traffic from a washing machine.

But the one I own does a great job of notifying me and doesn’t show the same traffic patterns. So I still think those and features are useful. Eventually you’ll probably be glad to have them in your appliances too. There’s a ton of use cases for it and it’s quickly becoming standard since the technology is incredibly cheap to produce.

Source: a programmer

Blooper ,

Lol honor system omg I’m dying

Blooper ,

I tell this to people who want to move to Phoenix. Damn asphalt practically glows in the dark it’s so damn hot.

Blooper ,

That’s exactly what I was implying. I used to live there - the asphalt would be hot to the touch at night and outright dangerous to touch with bare skin during the day. The heat island effect made for an unbearable outside temperature for most of the year.

I’ll never understand people who want to live in the desert; plants can’t even survive there. Phoenix is a monument to man’s arrogance.

Blooper ,

I moved from there to Chicago as a young adult - best decision I ever made. Started my career in a beautiful city with 4 whole seasons and minimal magma pavement.

Blooper ,

That’s all America knows how to build anymore: sprawling suburbs with a minimum quota for parking spaces per-capita. Stucco and pavement as far as the eye can see.

Blooper ,

Definitely move back. Do whatever you can to avoid getting stationed in Phoenix. Whatever good it might do for your career just isn’t worth the inevitable misery you’ll experience getting into your car after it’s been baking in the desolate expanse all day.

Blooper ,

How are people like you still both-sides-ing for upvotes when one of those two parties is filled with literal fascists and Nazis and the other just forgave billions of dollars worth of student debt? Wake the fuck up. Your false equivalence only serves to help the fascists. Unless, of course, that is your goal?

Blooper ,

I’m not the person you are replying to, but I take your point and agree with you in principle. However, you didn’t really address their point that $42k is the median household income in her area. So at least half the households (not just individuals) are trying it. But I don’t know how it’s working out for them.

Perhaps that region is quite affordable or has a low cost of living or is crime ridden, idk.

Blooper ,

This is America. We’re obsessed with preventing adolescents from fapping.

Blooper ,

Heh. Meat ball

Blooper ,

Yup. These “free market” folks conveniently forget that competition is bolstered when there’s a floor. An impartial referee to call balls, strikes, and fouls. A set of rules everyone has to play by, or they don’t get to play at all.

Also known as regulation.

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