Diablo 4

I second this - though I agree that it definitely isn’t universal. Especially given that I’m exactly the opposite - I welcome critique and improvements to anything I write because I love learning and improving.

Same

It’s just trucks all the way down

The fuck you just say to me?

Side note - I can’t wait for AI to fix autocorrect. Shirts getting old

Okay, but could maybe you just go after the rich? For boo other reason than being rich? Because, in my experience , rich people tend to suck and that seems reason enough to investigate. Please?

Pls Switzerland?

Failure to pay attention in civics class cannot possibly be the fault of a presidential candidate.

Also, presidents and presidential candidates do a ton of campaigning for both their own candidacy as well as for down ballot candidates in an effort to achieve these things. They’re only advertising their intentions and priorities. That’s your it has worked since the beginning of American democracy

I mean they’re making the Bolt EUV instead, but it’s basically the same car. It’s 2 inches taller and 6 inches longer than the Bolt EV.

Though I take your point. Discontinuing it was a mistake.

Bolt owner here. Love my car very much.

It’s Ohio. What infrastructure?

As a non-Dolly music fan, I agree with you wholeheartedly… for now.

But later, if it comes out after she’s dead, that she was secretly harvesting puppy blood in her basement or abusing handicapped kids for decades or some other crazy awful thing, I’ll have to re-evaluate. And though I’m not hoping for this to be the case, it just seems like that’s exactly the type of shit this timeline would do to us. Guys I think I’m losing hope for humanity. Dolly save us all.

How will my cotton business survive without slave labor?

Lol honor system omg I’m dying

Setting a timer is more of a hassle than having my washing machine notify me when it’s done - however is most convenient for me. Due to the layout of my home, I am unable to hear the washing machine directly. And setting a timer on my phone sounds like a pain in the ass. And sometimes my wife or kids started a load and I don’t know when they did that, but I need to do some laundry myself, so I need to know if the washer is free but I don’t want to go all the way to the basement to find out.

Luckily, my washer connects to my Wi-Fi and, unfortunately, to the Internet. I very much like that it will notify me on my smart devices around the house and on my phone. It’s actually a great feature. Similarly, I can see my next oven notifying me when it’s preheated. Similar reasons - might be doing laundry or out of earshot when it’s ready to cook.

The problem here isn’t the feature itself. It’s undeniably useful. The issue is that LG’s programmers somehow wrote code that resulted in a tremendous amount of web traffic considering the extremely limited data that could possibly be collected by a washing machine. Think about every tiny thing you did today and write it all down in great detail. You could probably write a short novel if you really tried. And all that can be written to a file less than 1MB in size. The washing machine did not, could not collect that amount of private information about you without also sending audio and/or video. And I’m going to go ahead and assume it has neither microphones or cameras.

So, in the end, this is pretty clearly a programming error. My guess: The washing machine sent a json file containing:

• The status of the washer (basic functionality)
• the ssid’s and signal strengths of every nearby WiFi and Bluetooth signal (this is personal data they’d sell - which is gross)
• Mac address, rtt, ip address, and dns address of every device on the LAN (this is more personal data they’d sell - which is still gross) *Basic hardware health data including counters for how many cycles it has ran in its lifetime, how long it’s been running, total revolutions of each motor, temperature, and humidity readings (more basic functionality)

And, due to a programming error, it sent this exact same data every second, uncompressed, all day, every day, until the stupid thing gets updated with a firmware patch.

My point is, that’s simply not useful data to collect at that sort of frequency. It’s true - LG wants that data , but it absolutely does not want that data sent to their servers every millisecond of every day. They want it probably once per hour. Maybe even once every 5 minutes. LG doesn’t want 4GB(!) of the exact same data. Collecting and storing data costs real money and infrastructure.

TLDRB I’m going to guess that someone screwed up on the coding side and that’s how you get such egregious amounts of network traffic from a washing machine.

But the one I own does a great job of notifying me and doesn’t show the same traffic patterns. So I still think those and features are useful. Eventually you’ll probably be glad to have them in your appliances too. There’s a ton of use cases for it and it’s quickly becoming standard since the technology is incredibly cheap to produce.

Source: a programmer

Hang on - in your analogy, the 17 year old kid is the battered wife and the black strangers - miles away and across state lines - are his abusers? Suggesting the kid was somehow a victim here? Like he spent his whole life being tortured by his abusive spouse (black strangers)?

da fuq?

Heh. Meat ball

This makes me a bit excited to see a court rule that a sitting president is immune. If that happens (it won’t), I would expect Biden to immediately take full advantage of his newfound powers and publicly announce a dead or alive bounty for a whole slew of right-wing fascists currently holding or running for public office. That particular ruling could really solve this little Nazi problem that’s been developing here in the US.

“Good news, Mr Trump! You’re off the hook since one of those obviously illegal things you did were crimes because you had presidential immunity. Hey, while I have you…”

“Opposing beliefs” is often just coded language for extremely offensive, factually inaccurate, demonstrably dangerous, and often indefensible speech. Social media companies aren’t obligated to keep posts about Jewish space lasers, Holocaust denialism, and pro-fascist ideologies on their servers.

Social media advertisers don’t want their product advertisements appearing adjacent to batshit, nonsensical, conspiratorial, alt-right bullshit.

Having a Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, or Instagram account isn’t a right and having it taken away doesn’t make you a victim. Nobody owes anyone else a platform to spew toxicity to the masses.

I’m using the royal “you” btw. I’m not saying you, specifically, are a Trump supporting crybaby.

One of the many, many reasons*