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Wednesday, March 26

Daily News Stuff 26 March 2025

Internet Of Bullshit Edition

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I won't connect my dishwasher to your stupid cloud and I hope your company burns down, falls over, and sinks into the swamp. (Jeff Geerling)

Jeff bought a new dishwasher.

To use even something as simple as a rinse cycle, you have to connect it to wifi, download the app, and set up an online account.

For a dishwasher.

My washing machine requires wifi and an app to set up custom wash cycles, so... I never use custom wash cycles. I set it to the wash/dry setting (it's a combination washer/dryer) and it does its thing.

My dishwasher has buttons.

Apparently that's now a $400 option.

Tech News

AMD's new Gorgon Point laptop chips are AMD's old Strix Point laptop chips. (Hot Hardware)

The clock speed has been bumped by about 2%. That's it.
The CEO of Alibaba warned of a bubble in AI datacenter construction. (Yahoo)

A bubble he is helping inflate.
How to delete you 23andMe data. (The Verge) (archive site)

You probably can't. The company already said they keep some parts of your data even before they went bankrupt, and now that they are bankrupt, your data is what they are planning to sell to become less bankrupt.

They would previously destroy any physical samples kept on your behalf, but now that they are bankrupt no-one is around to do that anymore.
What killed all that innovation in web presentation? (Shirley Wu)

People hated it.

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1 When I moved cross-country during the global supply-chain screwups, the home-appliance salesman apologized for only having "basic" models due to the chip shortage. I said "good!", and happily purchased a houseful of appliances with buttons and dials (and much better service records).

-j

Posted by: J Greely at Wednesday, March 26 2025 11:36 PM (oJgNG)

2 Geerling (not Greely, srry) is full of dung. He knows, but he's writing a (useless) blogpost about it anyway. But (and look at my big ol' but here): the "e-waste" angle that Geerling hits is probably the best one to get these dinks to stop. Despite it being a tad silly (they can still design stuff to junk itself without the whole IoT/Clod angle) if people (I use the term loosely here) attack it from that angle, it seems like that stands the best chance of getting notice and also creating leverage.
Anyway, that's my minor contribution.

Posted by: normal at Thursday, March 27 2025 10:08 AM (bg2DR)

3 Yep. Use their own weapons against them.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at Thursday, March 27 2025 12:52 PM (PiXy!)

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