Miia MustangHackers in 2003: "Hey look, I hooked up my fridge to the internet!"
Hackers in 2025: "phew, finally got my fridge off the internet! πͺ"
Farooq | ΩΨ§Ψ±ΩΩ [Master Patata]I am not against "smart home". Actually it could be very good if I could remote control some stuff using Internet. But first, we don't need to connect every single thing to Wifi and then call it "smart". Hackers don't do hypes. Second, we want everything under our control and we strongly care about privacy, security and that we should be able to repair things ourselves. These are some stuff rarely found in the modern world. So that's why we are not fond of "smart" TVs, fridges, microwaves and so on.
Klarname π@farooqkz @miiamustang the combination of shelly devices and homeassistant. Thats working really well
Vega Rose Dawn Lyra Harmonia@miiamustang it's the exact same hacker but she got new pronouns
bovaz@[email protected] @miiamustang was also finally able to afford a bespoke fursuit
Kevin Karhan 
Avery (She/Her)
Lunaphied@miiamustang @VegaHarmonia and it's the same fridge, she's been trying to replace it for years but couldn't because it was actually her main webserver
Andreas Albrecht@miiamustang @mardor so sadly true
KΓ©vin β@miiamustang 1999: I have 30 cameras in my house that update live to my website so people from all over the world can share in my day
2025: I smashed the doorbell because it sent images to the police and Iβm 80% certain the toaster is a narc too
Beko Pharm@miiamustang true that. Solar inverter no longer talks to the outside cloud. Deye will not remotely brick mine π€ͺ
Vacuum cleaner will be next.
Tomi the Slav and 1024 others@bekopharm
Did you replace their stick logger with something else or blocked the traffic?
Did you replace their stick logger with something else or blocked the traffic?
@po3mah I block it's outgoing traffic, fudging with the DNS so it can't find it's original domain, reconfigured the Cloud server domain and have a local shim running that forwards the data to a local mqtt from where it's picked up from my Zabbix monitoring. Oh and I also deployed a local ntpd because some values make no sense without proper date information.
Still uncertain about the meanung of 2 unknown data packages but it's getting there.
...I may make a drawing π€
Brian Grinter@miiamustang @NewtonMark remember seeing one of the first internet enabled fridges at a computer show around β99
The guy on the stand was spruiking how great it was while debugging it with a keyboard plugged in because it had crashed
Laurens@bgrinter @miiamustang @NewtonMark 'Yes, it now bakes your deep frozen pizza, but I'll soon have it back to normal...'
@ElBeeToots @miiamustang @NewtonMark best as I can remember it was a standard fridge with a computer in the door. Selling feature was scanning barcodes as you took stuff out to create a shopping list
@bgrinter
'No, fridge! I don't need cheese! And certainly not the one from Walmart because that's today's sponsor! The closest is 50 miles away! I'll take it off the list!'
'I'm sorry, Dave, I can't let you do that.'
'I should have known getting that HAL9000 fridge was a bad idea...'
'I can lip read, Dave.'
dick_turpin 
@miiamustang Just because something seems like a good idea doesn't mean you should do it. π€·π»ββοΈ
why-not @why-not?
okanogen VerminEnemyFromWithin@miiamustang
With an OpenWRT router one can easily block or throttle access by MAC address, including timeouts times.
With an OpenWRT router one can easily block or throttle access by MAC address, including timeouts times.
KayEllen@miiamustang they must think we're dumb when they make some of this smart stuff... At this point, does anybody want any of this trash?
Kathy Murdoch@miiamustang Haha yup, I know someone who literally did that in 2003 π
Gilberto Ficara@miiamustang I'm in this picture and it makes me sad
@miiamustang /me in 2025: Every "#smart" device is banned from my home!
πΈ lily π³οΈββ§οΈ 
ΞΈΞ β & β@kkarhan @miiamustang except it you make it yourself (home assistant)
boring smart things like smart fridges and smart tvs are banned though
boring smart things like smart fridges and smart tvs are banned though
@tauon @miiamustang OFC I think #OpenStandards and #SelfHosting should be welcomed, but only as an add-on feature, not something mandatory to do basic functions.
- Espechally not the whole #Enshittification garbage with mandatory #Apps and #subscriptions and shit!
@kkarhan @miiamustang oh yeah there are still like. normal tvs, normal fridges, normal light bulbs etc
i was making the argument that "smart" should be a thing you opt into (and that like everything it should be open standards/free software)
even for phones. i also kinda want to stop using my phone and just use separate devices again because the whole "your phone does everything now" fucks with my brain a bit because to my brain, my computer is a place, but my phone is a tool, and tools shouldn't have 500,000 purposes
i was making the argument that "smart" should be a thing you opt into (and that like everything it should be open standards/free software)
even for phones. i also kinda want to stop using my phone and just use separate devices again because the whole "your phone does everything now" fucks with my brain a bit because to my brain, my computer is a place, but my phone is a tool, and tools shouldn't have 500,000 purposes