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- Comment on 5 days ago:
It’s a big rabbit hole for sure, with how many household devices are internet connected and the concerning capabilities they offer. And an expensive one if you seek to replace devices at home.
- Comment on 5 days ago:
I don’t know. Is it internet connected? If so I wouldn’t trust it…
Many home grade routers allow you to set up a guest WiFi network though so you may be able to isolate it that way if you’re concerned/can determine what telemetry it’s sending from the privacy policy or other reports.
This article talks about their website’s standard creepy tracking cookies and stuff, which depressingly everyone does. https://blog.avast.com/what-peloton-knows-about-you-avast
But if it has Bluetooth and WiFi it has a lot of potential for tracking all sorts of things. I don’t have one and don’t know if they’re using that potential, but it’s there. It would be interesting to investigate.
- Comment on 5 days ago:
You could configure different settings, such as preventing the device from connecting to ad servers. You also prevent it from scanning your network to learn about all your devices, since all it would be limited to that isolated network.
- Comment on GOG apologizes for emailing people Nazi symbols 4 months ago:
Yeah this seems like a very stupid unforced error. The devs didn’t provide this, they internally were like “don’t send that to Germany, yikes!”, and then went ahead anyway?
Even if they’d been like “Oh, you’re right that looks a bit too Nazi, let’s just put one of them so it doesn’t” then this would be another boring marketing email.
- Comment on Trillions of miles of data: Your car is spying on you, and it's only just the beginning 4 months ago:
My understanding is that the radio antenna module on the roof will have several antennas (AM/FM radio, satellite radio, GPS, mobile data), and you could disconnect the mobile data and GPS from the telemetry module, after which it would appear to the car that it just didn’t have service. I haven’t done this myself though so I’m not sure
- Comment on Fiber internet provider says it can detect leaking water pipes using existing infrastructure, prevented loss of 2 million liters a day over three months 7 months ago:
Weird, and interesting.
How long until this is extended into some new dystopian surveillance device, tracking footsteps or something…
- Comment on First highway segment in U.S. wirelessly charges electric heavy-duty truck while driving 9 months ago:
Also, supplying electricity to fast moving ground vehicles isn’t new, just look at… every high speed rail system ever…
- Comment on First highway segment in U.S. wirelessly charges electric heavy-duty truck while driving 9 months ago:
Yeah, this sounds stupid, and I’m worried about the amount of power wasted by induction charging. Anyone who’s wirelessly charged a phone knows it can get quite hot; that’s wasted energy. And Indiana’s generation is still mostly natural gas and coal, so at some point, with enough losses in transmission and charging, you’ll end up with a higher-carbon vehicle than a diesel truck…
I am not sure what that point is, but the efficiency of charging is an important consideration in my mind.