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You may be right. Sidewalk is one of the most dystopian things I can think of in the past few years.
by freedomben 3y ago
You may be right. Sidewalk is one of the most dystopian things I can think of in the past few years.
- nxobject 3y agoIt's par for the course for Amazon, given how they're pushing Ring with law enforcement endorsements.
- lxgr 3y agoWhy do you find it more dystopian than carrier-operated IoT networks?
- qazxcvbnmlp 3y agoCellular operated iot networks are power hungry and $ expensive. Both provide insulation from unwanted tracking. A pervasive network that can be accessed with a couple dollar IC with minimal power that’s hidden from user would be much harder to escape.
- lxgr 3y ago> Cellular operated iot networks are power hungry and $ expensive. Power hungry? Not anymore – I believe NB-IoT is already within an order of magnitude of unlicensed IoT (i.e. LoRa, 802.15.4 etc). Expensive? That's relative, but what makes you think that Amazon is giving away Sidewalk for any less? AWS is not exactly known for their low prices.
- qazxcvbnmlp 3y agoHard to answer this question with specifics as sidewalk is still in development. Observations are my own, from when I developed devices using LoRa and nbiot. In general, NB-IOT is operated by the cellular companies and has associated reliability expectations. Additionally the cruft leftover from it being a cellular product really added to complexity and cost to implement. Unlicensed spectrum has much lower reliability, and I would expect them to charge less accordingly.
- freedomben 3y agoI find those roughly equally dystopian, but there is something grotesque to me about my devices (hypothetically, since I don't have any) talking mesh with my neighbor's devices, and using his internet connection to exfiltrate the data about me since I blocked it with my router. They're both pretty gross though.