“Why do they have to make everything about race? It’s like they’re obsessed. Nobody cares what color you are!”
Also these racists: “Hmm. You know what’s a good use of my time? Going out of my way to hack a Roomba so I can call my neighbor the N-Word.”
Maybe I’m giving them too much credit, but if you want to bring national news attention to poor security without doing real damage, racial slurs are probably the most sure fire way to do so.
Racial slurs do real damage.
Why do these things need to be internet connected in the first place?
I want them wifi connected at least so I can set my own schedule or control with Home Assistant. They don’t need to connect to any server except my own.
I would think Bluetooth or plugging it in once in a blue moon for a firmware/schedule update like the good old days would be far preferable to anything that could connect them to the internet. I’d much rather air gapped and slightly inconvenient than internet enabled spyware all over my house.
Bluetooth wouldn’t save you from that.
To harvest your data and sell it to anyone who’ll pay for it; including racists, hackers, and criminals.
The "smart"ification of stuff has got to stop. Nobody asked for wireless connected robots that don’t let you connect to your own server even. Maybe if these worked with home assistant this wouldnt have happened, because home assistant devs are more competent that big corporations.
We have a deebot but its a dumber model, no internet connection no app no cameras. Just a remote with some rudimentary pathfinding and it does the job.
I would only trust selfhosted and foss stuff for anything in my home.
Finally a feel-good story makes the news
The first time I heard this story, I immediately thought of what this guy did. I think it would’ve been an awesome addon if it was just cursing, and not doing racial slurs or spying.
What did you expect from “The Internet of Things”?
Also, now I’m just imagining the vacuums gaining sentience and actually becoming racist.
Fortunately they don’t know how to open doors, so they’re not organizing together in public (yet)
But racist against like really specific ethnicities and peoples. Like it goes off on a rant about the Jutes and Paraguayans for seemingly no reason.
I thought the deal I got on my KuKluxKlean was too good to be true!
Is this the one that specializes in picking up soiled Kleenex wipes on the ground? The one whose icon is peppy and targets incels?
Why does it have speakers? I mean maybe if it’s really quiet otherwise it might be helpful for it to beep occasionally because tripping hazards and whatnot, but why does it need to be able to speak?
to double as security camera I guess
Mine says “cleaning”, “charging”, etc.
To whine at you like a turtle on its back when it gets stuck
You know, vegans get a lot of hate for telling everyone they are vegan, yet I’ve never heard a vegan doing this and yelling about veganism. It’s almost like racists are so much more violent and outspoken about it, including in kid’s game lobbies and now with fucking vacuums. I have never seen vegans yell “VEGAN!” online repeatedly… and even if they did, that’s substantially less harm anyway than racist bullshit. I never want to hear people complain about vegans talking about veganism ever again when this shit is part of everyday society and not surprising at all.
And ps I am not vegan.
TBF I know only one militant vegan and she’s been outspoken about it for years. I eat meat, I either just tell her to fuck off or ask if all her cocaine is ethically sourced. She’s used to it.
But yeah, all the other vegans I’ve known are really chill.
Again, even if a vegan is spamming the word “vegan” in public spaces (which they almost never do like people joke about), it’s leagues better than racist slurs which society has just like, tolerated? In public spaces as being inevitable for several years, notably online and in games
I realize the irony in this opening statement, but as someone who’s been vegan a long time and never brings it up unless directly asked I can say that this people who are vocal about it tend to be the new vegans who are gonna drop out in six months because they just so happened to have a 1 in 6,000,000,000 person medical condition that makes it literally impossible for them to be vegan, which they discovered for the first time right after bbq season started back up. Definitely not just because they have a different outlook now, no sir.
How do you not bring it up before planning food out with someone? Sorry, I don’t believe you. Im forced to bring it up very early in relationships because food comes up pretty darn fast, even for casual acquaintances
Well a couple things, if possible I call ahead and see if anything can be modified, and if not I find some reason to bail. If it’s spontaneous, I benefit from, frankly, being a pretty heteronormative man so I can always manage to get beer and a large side. I really only have to let people know ahead of time if it’s some kind of work event, in which case the staff member in charge of us attending the event handles it but I’m not in that situation a lot. Of course, most of the time I’m eating it with people who already know me well so they already know I’m vegan.
Somebody call Tom Selleck!
It’s almost halloween and these idiots chose racism over spookyism.
Technically, might be both
Spook, noun
- slang (originally and chiefly U.S.). A derogatory term for a black person.
Me in shop: I want to buy a robot vacuum cleaner. Do you have one of those sweary ones?
It’s a good thing none of them were armed…
My take away from this image is that this person only owns 3 kitchen knives…
No, the tongs are for when the vacuum wants to take you alive.
Despite the slurs, Mr Swenson was glad that the hackers had announced their presence so loudly. It would have been much worse, he said, if they had decided to quietly observe his family inside their home. They could’ve peered through his robot’s camera, and listened through the microphone, without him having the slightest clue.
Who says they didn’t???
Even if Mr Swenson had used the same username and password on other sites, and if those credentials had been leaked online, that still should not have been enough to access the video feed or to control the robot remotely. These features are supposed to be protected by a four-digit PIN. The PIN code was only checked by the app, rather than by the server or robot.
I don’t even…
