Everything doesn't need to be connected to the internet

My husband shared this with me.


Why on Earth does a bed need to be reliant on Amazon AWS? This is just crazy to me.

Internet of things is what they call it but I think it's just crazy. Does anyone else feel like this or is it just me?

I did some laughing at my man Musk trolling basically the whole internet - X and all his companies didn’t budge.

Just goes to show how fragile things are, why on earth are massive companies like that relying solely on AWS, its mind boggling.

Also makes me even more weary and against this dystopian digital ID bullshit!

That article brings a funny side to it though to be fair, however under the surface it showed how vulnerable the “ecosystem” of online life is.

Spicy Nug said:

My husband shared this with me.

AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat and get stuck upright - Dexerto

The AWS outage caused chaos for owners of Eight Sleep’s Pod3 mattresses as they had no offline mode and were stuck at high temperatures.

www.dexerto.com

Why on Earth does a bed need to be reliant on Amazon AWS? This is just crazy to me.

Internet of things is what they call it but I think it's just crazy. Does anyone else feel like this or is it just me?

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Imagine all the "pillow talk" on some server...

The bed is mad. It's as bad as a fridge, coffee maker and so on..

t0mmy said:

I did some laughing at my man Musk trolling basically the whole internet - X and all his companies didn’t budge.

Just goes to show how fragile things are, why on earth are massive companies like that relying solely on AWS, its mind boggling.

Also makes me even more weary and against this dystopian digital ID bullshit!

That article brings a funny side to it though to be fair, however under the surface it showed how vulnerable the “ecosystem” of online life is.

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Yes.

But you see it more and more how many BIG companies are tied to shopify. If anything happened how quick could some of those companies redeploy.

The more we rely on the few the more vulnerable we become.

It's a sad state of affairs in tech, manufacturing and our modern life as a whole

You either adapt to the modern world or you stay in the past.

Humans sleep 1/3 of their lifes. Why would we not try to improve upon something that affects our lifes so much.

Anytime someone criticizes about ’why everything needs to be connected to internet’ just screams that they are an angry old impotent man who is getting too old for the modern world.

But, that’s just the story of life. There will be a time when I’m that old impotent man who doesn’t understand something that’s ahead of my time.

It's still new invention. There will be a fallback added in the future.

t0mmy said:

Just goes to show how fragile things are, why on earth are massive companies like that relying solely on AWS, its mind boggling.

Also makes me even more weary and against this dystopian digital ID bullshit!

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Agreed, but we all knew this was coming. The attempt at a digital ID for citizens was sadly inevitable the moment it was even joked about.

Aidan said:

You either adapt to the modern world or you stay in the past.

Humans sleep 1/3 of their lifes. Why would we not try to improve upon something that affects our lifes so much.

Anytime someone criticizes about ’why everything needs to be connected to internet’ just screams that they are an angry old impotent man who is getting too old for the modern world.

But, that’s just the story of life. There will be a time when I’m that old impotent man who doesn’t understand something that’s ahead of my time.

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At the end of the day, product that rely on a service by another company have a built in flaw.

Imagine this bed when the wifi is out? It has no offline mode.

Products need to have a fallback option if the infrastructure they are built upon becomes unstable.

Can you imagine a bed that stops working if the internet is out? This is not me being old and grumpy, it's common sense.

roydan said:

At the end of the day, product that rely on a service by another company have a built in flaw.

Imagine this bed when the wifi is out? It has no offline mode.

Products need to have a fallback option if the infrastructure they are built upon becomes unstable.

Can you imagine a bed that stops working if the internet is out? This is not me being old and grumpy, it's common sense.

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Exactly

End of the day it's a bed. Why does it need internet access. Don't think anything has changed in terms of the bed apart from the materials we lie on, and that's relative to where you are in the world.

If it's not broke don't fix it.

Whats next. Floor tiles or carpet that requires internet access to "function"

t0mmy said:

I did some laughing at my man Musk trolling basically the whole internet - X and all his companies didn’t budge.

Just goes to show how fragile things are, why on earth are massive companies like that relying solely on AWS, its mind boggling.

Also makes me even more weary and against this dystopian digital ID bullshit!

That article brings a funny side to it though to be fair, however under the surface it showed how vulnerable the “ecosystem” of online life is.

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It's a financial merry-go-round; they invest in and support each other's companies. All the more reason to embrace open source as much as possible imho fuck big tech's false economy

This freaking bed is 3500 euro.

This is insane!

It doesn't even hug you!

Gives me Bryan Johnson vibes.

t0mmy said:

I did some laughing at my man Musk trolling basically the whole internet - X and all his companies didn’t budge.

Just goes to show how fragile things are, why on earth are massive companies like that relying solely on AWS, its mind boggling.

Also makes me even more weary and against this dystopian digital ID bullshit!

That article brings a funny side to it though to be fair, however under the surface it showed how vulnerable the “ecosystem” of online life is.

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or i think it was last year
MS/cs went down
and so many airports hubs went dead too
all eggs in 1 basket
ITS Ms/AMZ/GOOGLE
THEY WONT DIE
righttttttttt

roydan said:

At the end of the day, product that rely on a service by another company have a built in flaw.

Imagine this bed when the wifi is out? It has no offline mode.

Products need to have a fallback option if the infrastructure they are built upon becomes unstable.

Can you imagine a bed that stops working if the internet is out? This is not me being old and grumpy, it's common sense.

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You are referring to AWS as some other company that could go bust any day.

I mean it's still not ideal, but if you're a small company with a small dev. team, it's just retarded to spend time developing for 'doomsday' scenarios.

It literally does not matter one bit if your internet connected bed is a bit hotter than usual for one day WHEN something as unlikely as AWS servers go completely dark.

RiskyStuff said:

This freaking bed is 3500 euro.

This is insane!

It doesn't even hug you!

Gives me Bryan Johnson vibes.

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3.5k is cheap as fuck when it comes to high quality beds, lmao.

Think more like 10-15k for a bed that's made-to-measure for your body, etc.

Aidan said:

You are referring to AWS as some other company that could go bust any day.

I mean it's still not ideal, but if you're a small company with a small dev. team, it's just retarded to spend time developing for 'doomsday' scenarios.

It literally does not matter one bit if your internet connected bed is a bit hotter than usual for one day WHEN something as unlikely as AWS servers go completely dark.

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Any company can go bust that's the problem I think.

There were big companies back in the 1900s people thought wouldn't go anywhere and now they aren't around. Some of them were even early tech companies.

Aidan said:

3.5k is cheap as fuck when it comes to high quality beds, lmao.

Think more like 10-15k for a bed that's made-to-measure for your body, etc.

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Yeah bro mattresses by itself run for like $3k sometimes haha.

Aidan said:

I mean it's still not ideal, but if you're a small company with a small dev. team, it's just retarded to spend time developing for 'doomsday' scenarios.

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It's not a doomsday scenario, the bed has no offline mode.
What happens if your own wifi goes down, if your cat ate the router or any of one million things that can cause the internet to go out?
I'm not talking about zombie attacks, these are things that happen everyday.

Overall I think this is a bit naive to not consider bigger companies shutting down, or be offline for a few hours. Every worker strike can shut such a service for a day or two.

Companies shut down all the time, and it's not just companies from a 100 years ago. Toys'R'Us, Sears, Blockbuster, Kodak, AltaVista and a million other examples.

t2van said:

The bed is mad. It's as bad as a fridge, coffee maker and so on..

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You know, they make a coffee maker you can date now.


Edit: I watched that video again and I cringed the entire time.

Zwielicht said:

You know, they make a coffee maker you can date now.

Edit: I watched that video again and I cringed the entire time.

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Jesus. Anyone who dates a coffee machine needs to head off and be composted.

t2van said:

Jesus. Anyone who dates a coffee machine needs to head off and be composted.

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Yeah, but, you know.. at least those who use it won't pass their genes to the next generation.

In a way, it's like those who died from playing Pokemon Go in highways - it improves the average IQ, or at least slows its global decline.

IoT is a bad thing for security, privacy and as we have seen lately with the AWS and Azure outages, reliability too. Security, for example, there was a Casino who's high rollers database got hacked and they later found out that it was an internet connected thermometer in a fishtank at the casion that got hacked, they used it to breach the data bases and syphoned data back through the thermometer up in to the cloud.

As for privacy, law enforcement and intelligence agencies around the world are outsourcing jobs to big tech companies at an alarming rate. Over here for example the GCHQ which is essentially the local counterpart to the NSA has secret deals with Amazon and uses aWS to hold it's data. All Ring doorbells here can be connected to the police's NICE platform which essentially gives them access to your devices footage they can access directly via uploads to AWS. These kinds of deals with govenrment agencies subcontracting work to big tech companies is happening everywhere around the world. Whole thing is becoming one big intelligence operation. And this comes not too long after a scandal involving AWS employees wathcing customer surveillance footage for entertainment.

IMHO if you really need everything from your bed to your vaccum connected to the internet for some reason imho maybe look at an easy solution that allows you to hold data on premises and control cloud upload, like Ubqiuiti's doorbells for example.

Aidan said:

3.5k is cheap as fuck when it comes to high quality beds, lmao.

Think more like 10-15k for a bed that's made-to-measure for your body, etc.

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How is 3/.5k 'cheap as fuck' for high quality beds? Even Super kingsize Tempur mattresses don't cost that much. Anything more than that is just going to be useless crap, like mattresses sprinkled with gold dust and that kind of crap for super rich people for the sake fhe sake of them haivng something super rare and exclusive.

ggmopa said:

IMHO if you really need everything from your bed to your vaccum connected to the internet for some reason imho maybe look at an easy solution that allows you to hold data on premises and control cloud upload, like Ubqiuiti's solutions for example.

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You could set up a PI-Hole & PI-Sniffer.

Get one to find all the outbound decides that are talking in your home and sending stuff out 24/7 (thats shocking in it's self!) and then get a Pi-Hole set up to stop any and all devices talking outwards to services or manufactures that have no business needing to know what goes on in your home.

ggmopa said:

Even Super kingsize Tempur mattresses

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What in the American bald-eagle freedom fuck is ”Super kingsize Tempur mattress”.

If that, whatever American garbage that you just referred to, is the go-to definition of a ’quality’ bed for you, we have nothing to talk about lol.


Maybe step it up a notch in class, and you might find that 3.5k for a made-to-measure bed is on the cheaper end of (actual) quality beds.