Tinidril

The smart home has been broken for over a decade. From day one the goal was always to lock in users to an ecosystem and invade their privacy. Actually providing useful and reliable products didn't even register as a goal.

The one way to do decent home automation is with locally run He Assistant and Zigbee or Z-Wave. It should only rely on the Internet for resources that are truly non-local like weather reports.

Thread/Matter might also be becoming an option. At this point I'm still watching to see what they do with it.

Assuming that the cable hadn't already been manipulated, in which case they were protecting it from being read.

I was assuming an imperfect narrator. The only person who knows why the cable was locked up was the one who locked it up.

Not actually an insane practice. There are compromised cables that look normal but have hidden storage to record data for later retrieval.

High effort is not a great thing to count on. Once these things are discovered there are all sorts of clever (or not so clever) ways to automate the effort away. Especially now with AI.

The US was also pretty sure Sadam had chemical weapons because the US sold them the precursors and empty warheads. We actually did find some of those weapons in Iraq, but not in any great quantities.

It's because of greedy capitalist fucks who are squeezing you

A healthcare system that makes everyone dependent on employers really makes it easy for them.

Medicare For All is about a lot more than just healthcare.

Couldn't we just pray it away?

If only we had some way to prevent these outbreaks.

Anyone else think they are going to try and get the Supreme Court to expand the presidential pardon to state charges?

My purity test is that anyone who uses the term "purity test" unironically is either braindead or an establishment clown.

They have no right for cameras in public.

I'm pretty sure they do. That comes along with the word "public". This sounds like ICE telling observers to stop filming.

Collecting the footage from thousands of cameras and turning it into a giant surveillance system to track everyone is a different matter, and that's what needs to be made illegal.