As enraging as this whole story is, I don’t think there’s any coming back from ‘you’re a war profiteer’

And I would hope those websites are extremely low-risk and not anywhere near essential infrastructure or data ;)

I’m not sure who needs to hear this, but unless you work as a security engineer or in another security-focused tech field, you really shouldn’t be exposing your homelab to the open internet anyway

Most people access their homelabs via VPN - i don’t see anything here that’s a problem for that use-case.

The longer I’m on lemmy, the more I realize just how dumb reddit user controls are

When I was on reddit, it seemed to matter so much how old your account was on any given subreddit, but now i realize it’s extraordinarily bad opsec to have a single account.

All this to say: there being a single point of authority that can issue IP bans and shadowblocks and generally have control over user identity information is just so needlessly stupid.

“Vibe Coding” is not a term I wanted to know or understand today, but here we are.

There are not enough smart-vacuum owners in the world that would make it more profitable to just make the hardware without hoovering up the data that comes with its use.

Better to put my efforts toward automating the flipping of light switches and the raising/lowering of window shades

And some brands of 3D printers have started placing those functionalities behind remote servers and paywalls

cough cough Bambu Labs cough cough

There are a million third party vendors that sell replacements on amazon, just take a look. Though - and I don’t know for sure having not actually read the article - it seems as though you may also need to change out the firmware so you can keep operating it if iRobot’s servers go down, since all the roombas i’m aware of need internet connectivity to operate.

If you’re at the point where you need to start replacing parts, it might be worth starting to look into other brands

Idk if using a homophonic slur (even as an lgbt individual) will fly here either, honestly.

Just a heads-up

Welp, I guess that pen plotter I built last year is going to be my full time printer

Someone with a medical background please tell me what on earth is happening inside that volume

All I can think of is that alien exo-suit from MIB with an alien operating him inside