Post AzT7JyIcLbMLaIoveS by ryan@bxe.io
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 (DIR) Post #AzQxiEG7H1yoAteuJM by kravietz@agora.echelon.pl
       2025-10-21T10:13:21.304203Z
       
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       A funny case study of the 21st century “software engineering” at its best.As result of #AWS failure, a number of commercial products stopped working that relied on AWS hosted services. Such as the Eight Sleep Pod beds. Yes, physical beds for sleeping relied on AWS to work. And it was not some kind of extremely sophisticated “AI” processing, but simple schedule “make warmer”, “make colder”, “raise/lower” etc. All that was controlled through AWS.When AWS stopped working users started complaining that their beds got stuck in weird positions and users were unable to control them. So yes, a bed say in Netherlands stopped working because it could not retrieve instructions from US server which were sent there by the person physically present on said bed.And the bonus: each bed sent 20 GB of telemetry data to AWS each month.Source: https://x.com/zimm3rmann/status/1980491408948572167 (on Twitter, sorry)
       
 (DIR) Post #AzRDCCepI6IdCwy2zo by dwhisper@friendsofdesoto.social
       2025-10-21T12:54:36Z
       
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       @kravietz Things like that are why I try to keep everything in my house as "dumb" as possible. The very idea of a smart house is just absurd
       
 (DIR) Post #AzRDCE1uBmM3Solzbk by kravietz@agora.echelon.pl
       2025-10-21T13:05:02.615833Z
       
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       @dwhisper Smart home makes sense but everyone in the beginning imagined that 99% of the processing will be local, because you don’t need anything more. The problem is of course that the “smart” economy can’t do anything today without stealing people’s behavioural data even if they pay $$$ for the product itself.
       
 (DIR) Post #AzS0TstuNdQWtr5C2C by ELS@sfba.social
       2025-10-21T16:17:13Z
       
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       @kravietz When we got a new heat pump for our house this year, we explicitly forbade the company from installing a thermostat that communicated via mobile phone. We do not want any “smart” appliances. We do not want to “rent” the car or appliance from the company that controls it. We want local control and local ownership.
       
 (DIR) Post #AzT7JyIcLbMLaIoveS by ryan@bxe.io
       2025-10-22T13:29:32.516752Z
       
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       @kravietz PSA self host your beds