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Drew Towler
@drewtowler@mas.to  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

For the avoidance of doubt, this is what every app in the Mac App Store should be showing. #apple #mac #appstore #telemetry

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Drew Towler
@drewtowler@mas.to  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

For the avoidance of doubt, this is what every app in the Mac App Store should be showing. #apple #mac #appstore #telemetry

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Radio Azureus
@RadioAzureus@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 6 days ago

This vacuum robot does something nefarious. When it does not get the chance to phone home to spew out all the data of your house, the mapping of all the places it has cleaned, in the privacy of your home, without your specific explicit consent, it bricks itself!

Go read about it here, be amazed at what this programmer has done, to make his robot work, without phoning home again.

https://hackaday.com/2025/10/24/robot-phone-home-or-else/

#Programming #networking #technology #enshittification #phone #home #telemetry #hacking

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Robot Phone Home…Or Else

We would have enjoyed [Harishankar’s] tear down of a robot vacuum cleaner, even if it didn’t have a savage twist at the end. Turns out, the company deliberately bricked his smart vacuum…
The image shows a close-up view of a circuit board, likely from a robotic device. It has a green background with many components and wiring. There are several black and brown rectangular chips, alongside various resistors, capacitors, and other electronic components. Wires and connections are visible, forming a complex network. Text on the board reads, "ROBOT VACUUM" and the website address "hackaday.com/2023."

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The image shows a close-up view of a circuit board, likely from a robotic device. It has a green background with many components and wiring. There are several black and brown rectangular chips, alongside various resistors, capacitors, and other electronic components. Wires and connections are visible, forming a complex network. Text on the board reads, "ROBOT VACUUM" and the website address "hackaday.com/2023." Provided by @altbot, generated privately and locally using Gemma3:12b 🌱 Energy used: 0.372 Wh
The image shows a close-up view of a circuit board, likely from a robotic device. It has a green background with many components and wiring. There are several black and brown rectangular chips, alongside various resistors, capacitors, and other electronic components. Wires and connections are visible, forming a complex network. Text on the board reads, "ROBOT VACUUM" and the website address "hackaday.com/2023." Provided by @altbot, generated privately and locally using Gemma3:12b 🌱 Energy used: 0.372 Wh
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