All it takes is watching a few home improvement videos on YT to start the idiot ads rolling: bots reading screen text a la TikTok that boil down to “Doctors HATE this one trick!” nonsense. I’m never sure if the knowledge gained from the video is worth the brain cells lost to the ad.
The article does not clearly cite its sources. ‘Based on 1019 responses’ from who? Sydneysiders? People from the NT?
This uncited survey from a for profit company, with major shareholders being venture capitalists, asset managers, shitbags, etc. with a history of possible poll manipulation means nothing.
Was that edited in after the fact? Why are people dogpiling based on that first sentence and ignoring the rest?
But we need strict financial oversight on medical services. What if someone tries to use it improperly?!? That’s fraud!
/s because Poe’s Law
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Who educated them?
I think the most common answer for this topic would be, “No one, really.” Except maybe energy marketing/ads. You know, the folks that brought us “clean coal” and “fracking is totally safe and will definitely not bork your groundwater.”
A perfect example is this guy from my last job. Thought himself a leader. Thought himself knowledgeable. Always had an answer, regardless of actual facts. Alternated between barking out orders and lamenting on how he had to do everything himself. Constantly getting schooled by people who actually knew the subject matter. Those who had been around just kinda put up with his BS because he filled a position that nobody else wanted.
Enter new management, who was very impressed with his authoritative tone, apparent breadth of knowledge, and willingness to lick boot. Suddenly management is bypassing dude’s bosses to go straight to the horse’s mouth and get the straight dope (which often involved taking credit for other people’s work and bus-chucking whoever was handy). All because someone who barely knew what he was talking about spoke confidently to people that had no idea what was going on.
American here. My ISP blackholes certain sites at the DNS level. Easy enough to work around, but it’s there.
Kbin doesn’t display federated downvotes (if it even pulls them). Any downvotes you see on kbin came from kbin.
In addition, his crotch goblin needs to GTFO as well.
So, disregarding physical brute force (because that lock bypass method will never change), let’s say a smart lock today is functionally equivalent to a traditional lock in terms of security. How’s that smart lock going to look in 5 years? In 10? When is the manufacturer going to abandon the product and stop providing security updates? It’s only a matter of time before whatever firmware it shipped with becomes obsolete. And then it’s just one more thing on the list of pwnd devices that unscrupulous actors can access at will. Your friendly neighborhood junkie in search of quick cash might not know the difference, but a list of people that have e-Lock v2.2 would be very lucrative to the types of people that run the current smash and grab operations.
Soft/firmware obsolescence is a thing with any “smart” device, but it becomes especially egregious when it’s built into what are traditionally durable devices like appliances. And even more so when it’s something embedded, like a lock, outlet, etc. It becomes “replace that light fixture, or leave that vulnerability on the network.” A lock takes that from “someone can waltz into my home network” to “someone can waltz through my front door.”
They’re in cahoots with the frogs.