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Cake day: July 8th, 2023
  • If you work on a supervirus with zero safety net, knowing that it will likely escape containment like many of its predecessors did and wreak havoc and still decide to go forth with it, you should be held criminally responsible for what it does. More importantly, something should be done to stop people from doing this.

    It’s like filling a huge cistern with nitroglycerin and then claiming you’re not responsible for the destruction after it inevitably blows up.

  • Sadly I can see a future where the non-smart option will no longer be available. Or very limited in choice for the consumer.

    It’s already the case with TVs. The next logical step is to make it so it will refuse to work unless you connect it to the internet to “activate” it or even worse have it connect to the cellular network to be always on-line whether the owner of the device is aware of it or not. The vast majority of the consumers are still completely ignorant about this and buy this crap.

    Fortunately appliances seem to still offer plenty of “non smart” options for now. But who knows what it will be in 10 years?