do I seem burnt out?

hey, real talk. if the users weren’t so obnoxious maybe the admins wouldn’t be burnt-the-fuck-out…

Because the EU at least remotely cares about it’s citizens.

don’t get over ambitious. EU is challenging all Western tech because they see the dangers of it running unopposed within the US government.

don’t believe for a minute that any government has your interests in mind when they create policy. you only have the illusion of support when your interests and the government interests align.

well, I don’t have anything to hide. Do you?

edit: because the sarcasm was lost on some, I am not advocating for this message.

I am mocking it.

cool. now I can lose even more data when it dies.

no thanks…

typically the phone home is looking for a response to unlock.

use a packet sniffer to see what the request/response is and replicate it with a proxy or response server.

this is also know as a man-in-the-middle (mitm).

takes skill and knowledge to do, but once you do a few dozen it’s pretty easy since most software “phone homes” are looking for static non-encrypted responses.

tbh anyone who’s willing to degrade themselves for a job like that isn’t going to have the same work ethic of someone who refuses to debase themselves to the whims of a micromanaging employer.

if you think you’re in that group, I’m happy to let you work for a shitty company while I go work somewhere that at least pretends like my contributions matter to the field.

I may be selling my soul to a company that secretly doesn’t care if I live or die but at least I can sleep at night with the belief that my contributions matter to someone within the company.

unlike at these shithole companies that don’t even care enough about their culture or other employees quality enough to put the effort out to find the best candidate for the role.

it does if you make it work in those conditions.

software that “phones home” is easy to fool.

everything is unmonitored if you don’t connect to the network.

fucking tomcat and jboss…🤮

they just need Detroit crackheads. five guys and a week and they’ll have every building in Houston stripped.

but you don’t understand! just one more model bro. seriously, just one more training and we’ll have it bro.

bro. bro. bro! just one more model to train.

please, bro. please.

and that is when I’ll diy should I need any foss cameras.

and this is why my security system will never connect to the Internet.

I’ve had cops ask for my footage before that sneer at me sending them the raw files. “why can’t you just pull up the app?” or my favorite, “you should use ring, then we can just send a request to them for the footage.”

sure, pig. sure. I’ll open my home as a part of your distributed network surveillance botnet. /s

if something so simple can kill an entire industry, that industry should not exist.

other than drop all support when “big ma bell” enters the chat with a corporate competitor and you have aging infrastructure built into your home.

it’ll be like those crappy intercom wall units from the 1970s all over again, except you won’t be able to turn on your lights or plugs.

*until the ZigBee alliance is purchased by a large corporation.

wait that happened when it merged into the Connectivity Standards Alliance in 2011.

my point is that merging home utilities with any technology is like drinking bleach. a small amount won’t kill you, but a large enough dose over time will.

being in the tech sector myself along with watching what the tech oligarchs are doing should warrant at least some caution.

IMO anything that is associated with corporate interests cannot be fully trusted. I understand that IOT cannot exist without corporate buy-in, but at the same time I think it should be acknowledged that anything that cannot exist without corporate interference is damaging to consumers.