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  • Absolute horseshit. Bulbs don’t have microphones. If they did, any junior security hacker could sniff out the traffic and post about it for cred.

    The article quickly pivots to TP-Link and other devices exposing certificates. That has nothing to do with surveillance and everything to do with incompetent programming. Then it swings over to Matter and makes a bunch of incorrect assertion I don’t even care to correct. Also, all the links are to articles on the same site, every single one of which is easily refutable crap.

    Yes, there are privacy tradeoffs with connected devices, but this article is nothing but hot clickbait garbage.



  • I always wondered if Gogoro-style batteries, but for cars could be a thing. Doesn’t need to be automated. You pull up, twist and pull out ten ‘pods’ and replace them with fresh ones. Then drive off. Want a quick top-off, just swap out two. Pay for what you use.

    As battery density improves, your range goes up too. They would need to engineer the access ports and the battery/BMS interconnect. No need for expensive, automated swap stations. Any gas station, hardware store, or grocery store could have a battery swap wall. Like 7-11s in Taiwan for Gogoro.