Tech enthusiasts; “I have my entire house hooked up as a smart home, with automation, remote controlled lights, presence detection…”
Tech workers; “That’s my printer, I keep a loaded gun next to it in case it makes a sound I don’t like”
The engineer who designed the printer: "I keep a C4 charge strapped to it with a non-networked, mechanical, dead-man switch.
I work in Infosec and my house is full of smart devices.
But they live in their own vlan and can only talk to my home assistant server.
The obvious solution is to make a smart bat that refuses to hit any smart appliances
In that case I will go into the forest and find a nice thick branch and use it to smash the smart bat.
Make smart clouds that start raining lava if anyone takes a branch on the ground
I think that’s cruel. Besides: how do you keep the bats from flying away?
It is cruel, but after you hit one appliance with a bat, it tends to get a lot less flighty.

The only good toaster/clanker is a dead one.
Anyone else spend too much time trying to see if that background was a magic-eye?
There needs to be repeating patterns for a magic eye to work. Then that pattern is adjusted to create the 3d image when you “mix up” the part of the pattern each eye is looking at.
Which smart appliances great you?
All of them with Alexa or some nonsense in them. My dad has tv remotes with google voice controls, but I did not set them up for him and he did not want them either. Clearly you should keep those in a hermetically sealed Faraday cage, burried 6 feet deep and have the hole filled up with concrete. Bit annoying to change the channel tho
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