The domestic robot's lidar has detected evidence of a mirror universe.
@th
Your landlord will charge you for any m² you use in the mirror universe!
@ultem @th Their landlord will charge them regardless of them using any m² in the mirror universe or not!
@th
Hilarious! Did the robot try to enter the mirror universe in order to have a more detailed look?
@th Prince of Darkness (1987)

@th

Hallo Tina,
schmeiss bitte Windows runter und installier dir eine Linux Distribution deiner Wahl. Für Umsteiger empfiehlt sich Ubuntu oder ein Flavour davon. Dann brauchst Du solche Virenscanner gar nicht mehr.

@th lol, I had to block the mirror in my room when I was setting mine up for the first time
@th I have been thinking of buying a vacuum robot, but are there ones that respect your data privacy?
@Victor Venema You don't have to connect that robot to the internet.
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@VictorVenema @th I have a old unconnected one. So if it doesn't respect my privacy at least it has the decency of keeping what it discovered for itself !
@VictorVenema @th You can flash valetudo on some models but it is not always easy
https://valetudo.cloud/
Valetudo

Cloud replacement for vacuum robots enabling local-only operation

Valetudo
@th Call in the SCP foundation!
@th get rid of that mirror.unless you know how to use it.
@th wait, does the robot not see itself in the mirror?
@piebald @th I don't think we have to worry until it does see itself.
@th lol this is priceless

@th The question arises what the mirror universe beholds. I am hoping for wise wizards, magic and a vile, majestic dragon.

Oh and perhaps a rainbow unicorn.

@th Gorgeous!
BTW I love all that windows in the room.
@th The "room" behind my wardrobe mirror is labeled Narnia for a reason 😄
@kroimon @th I would say the developer had some fun with naming conventions

@th

Looks like it failed the "mirror test".

@th the robot made a few attempts to break on through to the other side using The Doors algorithm.
@th that is so cool! Thanks for sharing!
@th It WILL clean that room on the other side of the mirror. You cannot stop it.
@th they see things we can’t
@th Looks like the Roborock interface. Just set up my Roborock Q5.
@th robovac staring into the mirror universe like "why can't I go through this door, who is that other robot who gets in the way"

@th That is incredibly creepy, and also pretty damned cool too.

Does the robovac come and spy on you…when you are SLEEPING, mapping your bedroom so it KNOWS when the Mothership says to ATTACK!"

@th It looks like a SketchUp project barfed.
@th horror plot just dropped
@th an entrance to the back rooms?

@th No one mentioned Vonnegut?

And so it goes…

@th @frandroid RUN it’s the House of Leaves 
@th it's clearly not self aware, because otherwise it would've detected itself already taking care of it.
@th impressive though

@th put a mark on the robot's face which it cannot detect except by looking at a mirror, and see if the robot can tell there is a mark on its face.

If it can, destroy it immediately, for the sake of humanity.

@th Duke Nukem 3D did it before!
@240185 @th lol, yes! mirrors in Build Engine
@th Well, hopefully it doesn't attempt to clean it. My Roomba is able to smack into things so hard that they break sometimes.
@th what made me giggle is the squiggly line in front of the mirror where it clearly tried to "cross over" 😂
@th
Great. Put a big wallwide mirror on the short roomside... The room will be very clean (depending on ur vac's batterys)
@th
and remember: never let it go between 2 mirrors ;-)

@th

Yesterday it was the chat bot
Today the floorbot’s acting strange
Alone with our devices
We do nothing but complain
About our tragic human fate

#poetry

@th One could say it has peered through the looking glass.
@th
The latest episode of the Smashing Security Podcast has a funny seg on spying robovacs.
@smashingsecurity
@th Crikey, you've opened up a whole new world for me and I don't mean the mirror one
@th careful, your universe is spilling
@th @kyleve wow, I never thought about how they’d react to mirrors. 😂
@th Wait until it gets to the wardrobe...

@th its universe must exist within the Build engine.

(Which, for anyone missing the reference, implements mirrors by having a set of mostly identical flipped sectors on the opposite side of them)

@th WHY. CAN'T. I. GET. THROUGH.
@th I remember when The Marx Brothers did this bit!