Post B3DaUKdueooha3i8O0 by mwl@io.mwl.io
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 (DIR) Post #B3DaUKdueooha3i8O0 by mwl@io.mwl.io
       2026-02-11T12:29:51Z
       
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       Inspired by a discussion elsewhere:I've been on the Internet since 1987, started a career building the commercial Internet in 1995, and have spent the last 25 years writing books about how to build foundational Internet infrastructure. I've consulted for and worked with any number of dot-coms, and the one lesson I've gotten over and over again?The Internet's business model is betrayal.We have no smart lights. No voice assistants. No Alexa or Siri. No video doorbell. Our thermostat and appliances constantly complain about their lack of Internet. None of this stuff is safe.The Internet tech I do use? A desktop PC. Email on my phone is for travel only: airplane tickets, hotel reservations, hockey and concert tix. Location on my phone? Nope, we use a dedicated non-networked GPS in the car. The microphones are off.How can a light bulb betray me? I don't know. I do know that the vendors have put a LOT of thought into it, though, and I can't out-think all of them.
       
 (DIR) Post #B3DaUSoqG4JQwGsyX2 by mwl@io.mwl.io
       2026-02-11T16:39:22Z
       
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       My rant has hit a nerve? Seems I'm in the right part of the Internet.Muting to preserve my mentions, but will check in later.
       
 (DIR) Post #B3ED0lzgIZYZvvmytE by tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org
       2026-02-12T00:21:03Z
       
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       @mwl I run my technology like you.  Too many people "believe in" technology as if their identities depended on it, or casually dismiss, or however, just won't change habits no matter how ruinous. I ran ISPs since 1992 or so and BBSin back to mid 1970s, BGP4, SWIP, DNS, etc. The things im considering to be maybe a good thing to adopt would be tinfoil hat territory 5 years ago. Nearly no one i know will change their habits or even learn to be aware of them. Maybe 8 yrs ago I bought some novelty RGB lightbulbs from aliexpress, the come with and IR remote. Cute snd very well built, all but 2 still in use. Two of them have wifi access points inside.  ACCESS POINTS. They cost me $3 each.
       
 (DIR) Post #B3EDDN4eGGaQPV7TYu by rk@mastodon.well.com
       2026-02-12T00:23:20Z
       
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       @tomjennings @mwl The number of devices that can act as network bridges is way too high.