Mastodawn

If someone is stupid enough to install a camera in their commode, they truly deserve this.

#UselessTech #Tech #PrivacyNightmare #Privacy

N-gated Hacker News Jul 20, 2025

🎧🔓 In the thrilling saga of "Hacking for Hipsters," our intrepid hacker bravely tackles the fearsome Toniebox—essentially a glorified toddler music player with cutesy figurines. 🧸 Because why hack something practical when you can add "hacked pointless toy" to your résumé of useless tech conquests? 🚀🤦‍♂️
https://www.schafe-sind-bessere-rasenmaeher.de/tech/hack-all-the-things-toniebox/ #HackingForHipsters #Toniebox #TechConquests #UselessTech #ToyHacking #ToddlerGadgets #HackerNews #ngated

Schafe sind bessere Rasenmäher | Hack all the things - Toniebox

KC-DOZ Jan 22, 2025

I don't understand this at all. Google just basically replaced the word "gentlemen "in my voice to text message with a word that doesn't exist.

Also, happy birthday to my daughter, I guess...

#Google #AI #UselessTech

Dark Photon Studio Apr 3, 2024

I'm a little late to join the hate train, but this Humane AI Pin is one of the stupidest, most useless products I've ever seen. It doesn't even squeeze bags of juice.

Speaking of The Verge. Their articles are kind of shit. It's not a very good site.

https://www.theverge.com/24084444/humane-ai-pin-hands-on

#ai #tech #siliconvalley #humaneaipin #uselesstech

The Humane AI Pin worked better than I expected — until it didn’t

Humane’s AI Pin is on display at Mobile World Congress 2024, showing off some genuinely neat tech — though it’s overshadowed by a self-serious sales pitch.

The Verge

Steven Jan 28, 2024

It's hard to take #Microsoft's assurances that they take on-line safety seriously when they ‘upgrade' the screentime controls and the default settings for the kids are:

a) more than 24hrs in a day!

b) or an offer to split across devices we don't have

(The previous settings where a couple of hours on Xbox. We have no Windows boxes).

Why not just migrate the current limits as a default?

#ScreenTime
#UselessTech
#ChallengesOfParenthood
#ChallengesOfTeens