#24

Lots of shite examples in here:

https://twitter.com/internetofshit

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#26

Iā€™m a big fan of stats, but even Iā€™ll draw the line at how many times I open the fridge each day.

Without wanting to get all tinfoil hat, it seems a bit off that these sorts of activities should be tracked, logged and presumably used for something.

@ericthefourth @BodyInTheThames

OH shit, you mean I can share it on Social Media when I make a piece of toast? Fuck it, Iā€™m in!

#27

Imagine getting excited about some inanimate internet presence congratulating you on having achieved something arbitrary a certain number of times!

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#28

None of it sounds very useful to me. You get ovens that connect via WiFi now and, again, I donā€™t really know what you get thatā€™s useful from that.

#29

I think itā€™s just a natural and appropriate development that some day Vladimir Putin will be able to take out the UK power network simply by simulating the nationā€™s biggest ever Coronation St ad break, setting off every kettle in the country. What could be more British than that?

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#30

Exactly. I can see very, very little benefit to the consumer for most of this stuff, but it must be benefitting someone or they wouldnā€™t be selling itā€¦

#31

Data is useful for marketing, and marketing is more important than having a well-designed product.

#33

Sure, although I donā€™t think

wireless NAS (home network only)

really counts as what weā€™re talking about, though? :smiley:

#34

Remember when Corbyn did that tweet about the Internet of Things and nobody realised that ā€˜Internet of Thingsā€™ was a legitimate phrase and just thought he was writing his tweet half asleep and didnā€™t have a clue what he was on about

#35

Yeah and weā€™re gonna invest in an internet of things and shit like that

#36

How good are smart TVs these days at streaming via wifi?

When we did up our place, they were still pretty ropey, so we hard-wired in sockets alongside the TV/FM points.

We went for this alarm - it doesnā€™t need to be ā€˜Smartā€™, just with a phone connection: http://www.yale.co.uk/en/yale/couk/productsdb/alarms/-ef-series-alarms--accessories/Telecommunicating-Alarm-Kit/

Really easy to fit and get additional accessories for, too.

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#37

Ability to pre-heat while sat on the bus home

#39

Out of interest, did you consider Homeplugs instead of the hardwiring in network cables?

#40

thatā€™s proper done me.

#41

Itā€™s all surface fixed and wireless too, so there is no chasing out needed and it can be retro-fitted.

They do smartphone alarms as well, but we were worried about the lack of guarantee for the continued support of the apps needed to work them:

http://www.yale.co.uk/en/yale/couk/productsdb/alarms/smart-home-range-/

If our one goes off I get an automated phone call. The one we went for is not a monitored alarm, and doesnā€™t call through to the police, but the former will have a charge, and neither will guarantee that the police will actually come out anyway, so we went for the one we did.

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#42

one thing about this CIA leak makes me think that the increasing usage of the devices has yet to be matched by a similar efforts to secure the protocols they use.

#44

My TV is reet good at streaming on wifi. Iā€™m 3 floors above the router and it streams 4K content fine.

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#45

But then you think a burrito has to have meat in so can we trust anything you say?

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#46

We did, but everything I read suggested that hard-wiring was the better option, especially if you were stripping everything back and re-wiring your house at the same time and were wanting to cater for the possibility of FTTP/cable TV.

It added a couple of hundred pounds to the overall job to have 7 sockets put in throughout the house and back to a patch panel.

#47

Anyone read about the journalist who was killed by the CIA hacking into his car? Even though itā€™s probably not true itā€™s something that could happen. Imagine if ISIS or some other slags took control of loads of cars :scream:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Hastings_(journalist)#Controversy_over_alleged_foul_play