Q The Misanthrope

Exactly. I don’t live on a long street but I know about half of the people on my street. I intentionally make the effort. I don’t need to be best friends with anyone but we face all the same local problems so why wouldn’t I want them to have my back, care enough to keep an eye on things as I do for them.

It takes effort to be outside and say hi and make a little small talk and learn their names, pets and kids.

Worth it in every neighborhood I’ve lived in.

Not shocked. I bought one four years ago, had a ton of issues. After many attempts they send me a new one with the exact same issues. So I have two and neither one works. I’d rather clean the floors myself than fight it.

Their software is garbage, their hardware is garbage.

Anyway based on that experience, I have no doubt their software is full of exploits and issues.

Not to reduce the impact of this article but it does point out:

Attackers need physical device access first, limiting the risk mainly to technically skilled people with a Shark device.

It’s everything with any memory or processing onboard.

I’m seeing it in my industry, devices are increasing in price every quarter to 6 months. These all cost businesses more money than even a year ago, and those costs will be passed to us.

It’s easy to call Apple out, but understand that any device in your house with any memory from robot vacuums to home surveillance cameras to routers are all affected by this drain of chips and components.

Maybe someone will enjoy this as much as I did but this news story about a bear sighting… But I don’t want to say why. I want the nonsense to wash over you as it did me the first time I saw it.

https://youtu.be/Y5C2gihnEkE

I have another too, this tiny frog, fiercely squeaking it’s battle cry with all all it’s might. It never fails to remind me of how Nibbler on Futurama looked cute but was actually a powerful race of creatures.

https://youtu.be/cBkWhkAZ9ds