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Smart TVs are like “a digital Trojan Horse” in people’s homes | 48-page report urges FTC, FCC to investigate connected TV industry data harvesting. (arstechnica.com)
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[–] penquin@lemm.ee 72 points 1 month ago (2 children)

And cars, and smart thermostats and smart cameras and smart fridges and routers and literally every fucking thing in your house that is connected to the fucking internet. Every single thing in our homes is a data miner.

[–] pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online 29 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Not mine! But my hobby is making my own smart devices.

[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org 25 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Also known as "hmm, what else can the ESP32 do?".

[–] curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago

Next stage - "What else can the same ESP32 do?"

[–] qfe0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

There are dozens of us!

[–] curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Dozens!

(They also last longer than the premade stuff, including the fairly dumb zigbee devices. Though just grabbing some ZigBee sensors is soooo much easier than cleaning up and painting small 3d printed housings...)

[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They also last longer than the premade stuff,

And they're a much nicer experience. It's funny how fast even minimum hardware performs when it's doing what I ask it to, instead of spying on me.

[–] curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago

Soooo much nicer.

Working on tweaking a new launcher for my "Kids Version" htpc, with gcompris, a few shortcuts to some really great non-profits with education games, and of course JF. 4th gen Intel dell micro, runs like a dream...

[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Yeah. Samesies. Not all of us put up with this crap.

Edit: There are dozens of us!

[–] thanks_shakey_snake@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

How do you learn? I have some ESP32s that I've messed around a little bit with, and done some neat stuff...But I don't have an electronics background at all and I often have trouble even figuring out how to power the damn things safely.

[–] pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Using homeassistant and esphome is a good starting place unless you want to learn python or C

[–] thanks_shakey_snake@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago

What if I'm already pretty good at Python and C? :)

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

God damn! You know things are god damn grim when even Oswald Cobblepot has gone woke!