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The claim being made is ludicrous, doesn't hold up to scrutiny or common sense, and the amount of details given is sparse enough to cause disbelief. If this is
by parl_match 3y ago
The claim being made is ludicrous, doesn't hold up to scrutiny or common sense, and the amount of details given is sparse enough to cause disbelief.
If this is real, the article is beyond useless in informing people of what has happened and how it's happened.
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- qwertox 3y agoI use a couple of TP-Link smart power plugs and one of them occasionally wants to access the internet to get the time from an NTP server. Since I block all their internet access this one goes crazy and brings my DNS server (custom written in Python) down to a halt. Just blocking him in the firewall of the AP would probably also not make him behave and he'd still pollute the RF spectrum. Happens rarely, though. Kicking him off of the WiFi and letting him reconnect makes him behave again.
- ethbr1 3y agoThis is the most anthropomorphically abusive and hilariously accurate comment I've read in awhile.
- sltkr 3y agoFunnily enough that happens also when you run the original article through Google translate: > She's in the bathroom at home, but she's part of a large-scale cyber attack. The electric toothbrush is programmed with Java, and criminals have unnoticed installed malware on it - like on 3 million other toothbrushes. (In German, toothbrushes are female, like all brushes.)
- readthenotes1 3y agoSo the claim is the women started talking and wouldn't be quiet? "Nevertheless, she persisted"
- geraldwhen 3y agoGerman, like many other European languages, uses gendered nouns and refers to nouns with gendered pronouns. It means nothing other than that you need to remember the correct pronoun for every noun, which is absurd.
- ethbr1 3y agoI didn't even consider that parent might come from a gendered language background! Lack of insight on my part. I just assumed they were gendering inanimate objects, which even non-gendered English speakers will do, but conveys more anthropomorphic intent.
- qwertox 3y agoIf he were a good boy, he would listen to what is told to him by the DHCP server and use the local NTP server instead (not only is it closer but it's also fed by PPS-accurate GPS data).
- CoastalCoder 3y ago> This is the most anthropomorphically abusive and hilariously accurate comment I've read in awhile. Let's coin a term for this: misanthromorphism.