I know other people have brought this up - but your oven connected to the internet - what the feck?
I can understand a smart speaker - not that I would ever have one in the house and have been known to ask people to turn them off when I am visiting but do people know anything about what they are ‘sharing’?
And no, I have a very dumb television whose connection to the outside world is strictly controlled.
#Privacy #Stupidity #Naivety #NetworkConnections #AirFryer #Dumb
Most Singaporeans rate China’s #clout above US, prefer it as #strategic partner: #survey
"More Singaporeans based in the city state & abroad believe #China’s influence in Southeast #Asia has grown in recent years cf w #USA, according to findings of a new survey.. Leong CH, one of the researchers behind the poll, told SCMP the numbers showed #naivety among some #Singaporeans on certain #geopolitical issues.. identifying areas where #Singapore might be #complacent" #naivete
https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3282416/most-singaporeans-rate-chinas-clout-above-us-prefer-it-strategic-partner-survey
As is well known, #greed turns off the last spark of common sense in many people and turns on unscrupulousness in others. The latter then have an easy time of it with the former to take money out of their pockets. Nothing new.
What is shocking, however, is that it is developing contrary to all expectations and is getting worse and worse. Despite more knowledge available, people are choosing to ignore it. With #AI and the technical possibilities, everything will reach new dimensions.
But there is no cure for #stupidity. At least I don't run out of topics for the blog.
Why did nobody tell me #America was an #experiment?
In my youthful #naivety I was led to believe it was an established entity.
Remember when folks freely gave their bandwidth and CPU time to programs like SETI and others...
Now folks are charging big money to run things "in the cloud"...
