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Why leave the country?
different jurisdiction
To avoid a litigation? Genuine curious what could happen.
I found a backdoor into my bed
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Re: I found a backdoor into my bed
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There was a cool device I saw once, used for timing your work. You'd program the faces for different tasks (bug fixes, new features, etc.) and whatever you worked on, you'd have that face up, and when you changed tasks, you'd turn it to something else, and it would track how you spent your time.
You’re probably thinking about Timeular? A neat device but like the 8Sleep also tied to a monthly subscription which is why I stopped using it :’)
No, it was dodecahedral or octahedral, I can't remember. I just vaguely recall it looked like a Platonic solid. I don't remember it having a subscription. I think it just communicated with BT to your laptop or something? Might've just been a kickstarter that didn't get funding.
Re: I found a backdoor into my bed
#403The state of the product's security wasn't unexpected. I was, however, shocked by this part: > I was willing to overlook: > The bed costs $2,000 > It won’t function if the internet goes down > Basic features are behind an additional $19/mo subscription > The bed’s only controls are via mobile app Nothing about this bed should depend on off-site servers. Nothing about the product should necessitate a subscription fee.…
It's not that the market is stupid, it's that consumers are flawed. We are all just meat sacks at the end of the day. Our time is limited. We can't investigate everything thoroughly.
I mean, if I wanted to check how many calories are in a food item and the FDA didn't make companies tell me, that's going to be at least 1000 hours of work. For one food item. One time. If I had to do that for everything I'd just starve.
Software is, arguably, more complex than modern ultra-processed food. We can't audit these things. Even when we do audit, we only scratch the surface. There's billions of lines of code behind "hello world".