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IoT is when your fridge knows your eating habits and credit card number and autonomously shares that information with interested third parties.
by Y_Y 3y ago
IoT is when your fridge knows your eating habits and credit card number and autonomously shares that information with interested third parties.
- Gare 3y agoOr it might be some solar powered sensor deep in the forest detecting trees falling down.
- conover 3y agoThe sound aspect of the simulation of reality is going to take up a lot more cycles if we’re going to be hearing every tree that falls in the forest…
- sph 3y agoThe thing is we're in the simulation as well, so we wouldn't notice any slowdown of the "host" machine itself. But yeah, maybe it'll start consuming so much energy our alien gods will just shut our universe down. Thanks, Elon.
- simondotau 3y agoThe sound recording data doesn’t need to be simulated to a high precision, especially for the 99.999% of the time when trees aren’t falling.
- cyanydeez 3y agoI mean, one means frothing capitalism and the other trying to figure out whether it makes a sound
- maximus-decimus 3y agoI thought it was when hackers could control the color of your light bulbs.
- est31 3y agoThere is a lot of IoT: autonomous forklifts in a parking lot, TVs that upload which TV shows you watched, oil pumps in the middle of nowhere, smart meters. Some make more sense, others less. But yeah, often consumer privacy and user control of the devices they bought is not the priority of the IoT activated device manufacturers.