At first I thought ”Well, duh!”, but the manufacturer having a remote kill switch when he network blocked his vacuum from sharing his home map data with them, as well as unprotected root access when connecting to the vacuum… urgh.

The engineer says he stopped the device from broadcasting data, though kept the other network traffic — like firmware updates — running like usual. The vacuum kept cleaning for a few days after, until early one morning when it refused to boot up.

After reverse engineering the vacuum, a painstaking process which included reprinting the devices’ circuit boards and testing its sensors, he found something horrifying: Android Debug Bridge, a program for installing and debugging apps on devices, was “wide open” to the world. “In seconds, I had full root access. No hacks, no exploits. Just plug and play,” Narayanan said.

Thank you.

Holy shit.

Yep. I love the way Uppsala has done, with recycling chutes above garbage bins. I’ve only seen this done on Södermalm in Stockholm, really wish for this to be implemented everywhere. I did send a proposal for a cheap solution above garbage bins in the subway to SL 20 years ago, never did receive a reply.

Works very well in Sweden, to the extent that it used to be popular for youth sports club members, pensioners and homeless to scour garbage bins and recycling containers for aluminium cans and PET bottles. Nowadays it’s frequently Roma here on three month stints that do the scouring, but still good nonetheless.

Anyhow, we recycle over 87 percent of plastic and aluminium drinks cans and bottles in Sweden.

I absolutely hate planaria. shudder

Hey, stop gendertyping. With that surname, it’s surely ”their”, not ”his”.

They look entirely queer, and Robby, Robin, Rob or Ruby has always been gender neutral/multiversive in my community.

I… what… source?

TIL

Hilarious.

My guess is that now when he’s ”finally” married to ”the love of his life”, he has actually given up on politics and is going to retire from the public eye into a cushy private company role where he can hold lectures to right wing elites and their companies wage slaves about how great AI is and how unions suck.

Nope. We have Swedes flying across the world on holidays to ”authentic” places where they expect at least the same levels of comfort and more luxurious experiences because it’s ”cheaper” and more money gets us more. We expect to be able to buy ultra cheap clothes and food, get ultra VIP treatments, ultra disgusting censored extravagances across the world and then come home and complain about only being able to afford to take four weeks off in Thailand at an all inclusive resort, while Thai and Pilipinos are coming here to be treated as slave berry pickers, masseurs (with happy endings) and ”au pairs” (domestic helpers with ”all inclusive”).

The not-far-right of us are trying to make an effort for us and for the world. But the far right have the wallets on their side and can lie without caring if they get caught.

Our far right parties have been propagating against caring for the environment for many years. This time, unfortunately, ”tech bros”, Project 2025 and idiot leaders of the west have unfortunately let the far right gain wind.

Sorry, would have linked to the videos, but was out and about and I don’t like using YouTube on my phone. Glad someone else found them for you.

While they are technically not screen savers, Green Aqua has loads of 4K videos of their aquascaped tanks, both freshwater and salt water. They mainly donut as a bit of marketing for their store, but I suspect they get more money from their videos and workshops.

https://greenaqua.hu/en/

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Premise Data, Maury Blackman. Names to be cautious of.

I guess so. Hey, Maury Blackman, are you a partner abuser who also likes to abuse the law to hide the fact that you are a criminal (sorry, unconvicted) who likes to hurt anyone less monetarily or lawyery weaker than you?

Sorry. Maury Blackman, if you are truly innocent of hitting a woman half your age so hard that she had to report it to the police… please show us you are innocent or even sorry.

Never forget Maury Blackman, savior of the domestic partner beaters, girlfriend beaters, wife beaters. Who tried the Streisand approach to deleting his crimes from the internet, forgetting that even if technical services are subservient to money and power, not all of us low-lives are as impressionable.

Btw, did you know that there is a guy named Maury Blackman who likes abusing younger women? Read all about it!

https://jackpoulson.substack.com/p/the-covert-gig-work-surveillance