Testing a new dns and email management provider (Infomaniak):
- overloaded interface
- no idea where I am in the damned system
- notifications everywhere that can't be set as already read even if they are
- new tab each time I click on a link
- payment info required even for free services
- big red warning until you activate 2FA

I really fell in a crack to hell this time.

But I can toggle to the dark mode, which is nice.

#design #internetofshit

Testing a new dns and email management provider (Infomaniak):
- overloaded interface
- no idea where I am in the damned system
- notifications everywhere that can't be set as already read even if they are
- new tab each time I click on a link
- payment info required even for free services
- big red warning until you activate 2FA

I really fell in a crack to hell this time.

But I can toggle the dark mode, which is nice.

#design #internetofshit

I can not express in words how infuriating this is, especially coming from the state which ended Covid 19 unemployment benefits early because it didn't want to "reward bad behavior."

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bitcoin-mining-cryptocurrency-riot-texas-power-grid/

#bitcoin #internetofshit #fuckTexas #Texas #heatwave

@philipp Du brauchst aber einen Smart-Kühlschrank, damit Du von unterwegs aus sehen kannst, ob/dass Deine Kühlschranktür offensteht, um Dich den ganzen Tag darüber ärgern zu können, weil Du ja eben nicht zuhause bist und sie nicht zumachen kannst.

#InternetOfShit

@grrrr_shark

Great thread! Very relevant to a lot of discussions!

#Accessibility #Privacy #CutKerb #Alexa #GoogleAssistant #InternetOfShit

Friends don't let friends buy "smart" stuff. #InternetOfShit

https://infosec.exchange/@lorenzofb/110996963209452134

After #internetofshit, I have the feeling we are now on the verge of a massive #AIofshit, with more and more applications and devices integrating AI/ChatGPT/Midjourney/... for all things and mostly those where it's not needed. Don't hesitate to post examples of this below. Mine is the Goodnotes app, for annotations and taking notes on iPad, that now includes (I think) useless AI help, and in the same time increases its prices...

Neues aus dem #internetofshit
https://www.golem.de/news/bambu-x1c-und-p1p-3d-drucker-fangen-ueber-nacht-an-zu-drucken-2308-176846.html

@gareth @eljefedsecurit A woman I know informed me that she encountered a _clothes dryer_ that required an _app_ and vetoed the purchase, can't agree more.

#InternetOfShit is correct.

Tips for jail breaking the Kindle App. I've bought an ebook on Amazon and seem to only be able to read it via the Kindle App. I have a KOBO, no Kindle. This means I have to read the ebook on my phone, which is ridiculous. Is there are way to free the ebook-file from the Kindle App environment and turn it into a readable file format for KOBO?

#KOBO #Kindle #KindleApp #Amazon #WalledGarden #Internetofshit #enshittification #jailbreak

They could do it — but nobody stopped to ask if they *should* do it.

#internetofshit #aihype

That said, there’s probably less harm in AI laundry than many other use cases. I feel sorry for anyone who buys this junk.

#ChatGPT software instructed to help people use their leftovers for healthy meals cooks up dangerous #recipes instead.

https://www.rfi.fr/fr/asie-pacifique/20230810-nouvelle-z%C3%A9lande-une-intelligence-artificielle-propose-des-recettes-culinaires-dangereuses (in French)

#food #AI #InternetOfShit #NewZealand

Source: https://amicale.net/@RFI/110867377452872617

@heiseonline
Schade.
Habe mich gefreut dass die Dinger massenhaft entsorgt werden und dann Bastler unkonventionelle Umbauten und wilde Lötereien zur Schau stellen, um den Dingern wieder Leben einzuhauchen.

#internetofshit

I just got an ad for a smart oven, I really want the appliance that has the ability to burn my house down to be hackable! #internetofshit

OH: I just do not vacuum my apartment, my guest wifi that the robot vacuum cleaner uses is broken.
#IOT #InternetOfShit

@doctorow on fire:

"This is the urinary tract infection business model: without digitization, all your car's value flowed in a healthy stream. But once the car-makers add semiconductors, each one of those features comes out in a painful, burning dribble, with every button on that fakakta touchscreen wired directly into your credit-card."

#enshittification #car #CarIndustry #InternetOfShit #SurveillanceCapitalism

https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/24/rent-to-pwn/#kitt-is-a-demon

But even amid all the complaining about cars getting stuck in the #InternetOfShit, there's still not much discussion of *why* the car-makers are making their products less attractive, less reliable, less safe, and less resilient by stuffing them full of microchips. Are car execs just the latest generation of rubes who've been suckered by #SiliconValley bullshit and convinced that apps are a magic path to profitability?

9/

Anyone else thinks it's stupid that all of TOMRA's reverse vending machines were offline for days?
Not because they suffered a cyber attack, that can happen.
But apparently you can't simply return a plastic bottle in multiple countries without the machine being connected to the vendor's server #InternetOfShit #statiegeld

Mail von DHL: Paket da, hol's ab, dazu brauchst 'nen Code, guck in die App, da ist der Code drin.

DHL App: Paket? Welches Paket??

#internetofshit

@moritzkraehe korrekterweise ist das dann Internet of Shit #internetofshit