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The SMART Home is a DUMB idea, and a privacy and security NIGHTMARE

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#smarthome #privacy

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01:46 The Smart Home: comfort, at which price?
03:29 Security problems
06:29 Privacy is non existent
09:16 The Cloudless Smart Home
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"Privacy is Dead" Video:

The more obvious threat is to your home security, and to who inhabits that home. Most devices use a cloud service to store data. But while YOU can't access this data, hackers definitely can, and have in the past.

Look at EUFY, the smart camera system that proclaimed everything was local and not in the cloud.

lifewire.com/why-ankers-eufy-c…

In March 2021, hackers breached a server for security cameras, gaining access to live feeds for hospitals, women's health clinics, prisons, police departments, and even schools.

finance.yahoo.com/news/hackers…

Alexa speakers were also hacked, with malicious actors getting access to banking details, voice search history, and even access to the various skills and commands you could ask Alexa.

avira.com/en/blog/these-are-th…

Or, still on Amazon, their Ring range of devices was also easily hacked.
nordvpn.com/blog/ring-doorbell…

With access to your smart home devices, hackers could remotely disable the alarm, disable the cameras, and just wait until you leave to go and grab everything they want. They could even have a full map of your house thanks to your robot vacuum which diligently created that map for them.

Same applies for privacy, but the main people who benefit from that are the companies that sell you the products.

Most companies that make smart home appliances don't care about the smart home, they care about the data these appliances can give them, and how they can sell access to that data to advertisers.

And again, why would that matter? We're already giving away most of our data to Google, Apple, Meta, Microsoft, and a lot of others.

But it's not just data about YOU, is it? It's data bout your home, and everyone who lives in it. Your significant other, your kids, your visiting friends, family. As long as they stay in your house, their data is also going to the company who made your appliances.

But why you probably SHOULD care is because that data isn't going away. And it's available to any government that has laws that gives it access to.

Basically, here again, if your data is going to a server that's not yours, then the company that hosts it probably uses that data for profiling, and various governments around the world probably have access to it as well.

Now, of course, you CAN set up a smart home without using cloud based products. There's a very cool thing called home assistant. It's open source, it can run on something as small as a raspberry pi, so you can self host it, and all the data stays on your local network, where it's not 100% safe, but it's still way safer than being on the open internet.

Home Assistant integrates with tons and tons of services, like homekit, alexa, google assistant, zigbee, philips hue, samsung smarthings, google cast, Z Wave, and more.

BUT home assistant isn't perfect. First, out of the box, it's local only, so no controlling your stuff when you're not on your wifi network. You can solve that using Home Assistant Cloud. But guess what: you're still using other cloud services like a voice assistant for example to communicate with Home Assistant.

Why Anker’s Eufy Cameras Upload Scandal Shows the Dangers of Home Automation

The whole eufy camera debacle raises a good point; even if you choose a reliable brand, how do you know your security cameras won’t leak data, or worse, be hacked to spy on you?
Charlie Sorrel (Lifewire)
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ST20

La gelé de compte de banque c'est déjà commencé au Canada... Suffisait de faire un don de 1$ au convoi de la liberté pour perdre son compte... La ministre des finances de l'époque avait même rie de cela publiquement... Ce genre de criminels devraient passé à la guillotine!

yewtu.be/watch?v=8m1BuDlJXro
ou youtu.be/8m1BuDlJXro


FLASHBACK: Chrystia Freeland Laughs at Canadian Protesters Getting Their Bank Accounts Frozen

Chrystia Freeland Laughs at Canadian Protesters Getting Their Bank Accounts Frozen
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#POUTINE : LE BAL DES VAMPIRES EST TERMINÉ !

🔥 Pendant que les #BRICS réclament la fin du monopole occidental sur le FMI, Poutine résume 500 ans d’« ordre mondial » :

« Le milliard doré s’est gavé sur le dos de l’Afrique, de l’Asie, de l’Amérique latine. Le bal des vampires touche à sa fin. »

Et pour une fois, ce ne sont pas que les chefs d’État qui applaudissent — ce sont les peuples.

#BRICS2025

➡️ Abonnez-vous à @Camille_Moscow


Camille Moscow 🇷🇺 ☦️

🔥 Pendant que les BRICS réclament la fin du monopole occidental sur le FMI, Poutine résume 500 ans d’« ordre mondial » : « Le milliard doré s’est gavé sur le dos de l’Afrique, de l’Asie, de l’Amérique latine. Le bal des vampires touche à sa fin.
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Varcoe: Carney says it's 'highly likely' an oil pipeline will make Ottawa's major project list.

I'm a way, liberals are worse than conservatives on the climate because at least conservatives are honest about what they're doing.

Meanwhile, liberals pretend to care about the climate while doing the exact same thing.

calgaryherald.com/opinion/colu…

#canada #cdnpoli #climatecrimes #climatecrisis


Varcoe: Carney says it's 'highly likely' an oil pipeline will make Ottawa's major project list

Varcoe: Prime Minister Mark Carney says it's 'highly likely' an oil pipeline will make Ottawa's list of nationally important projects.
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Greengordon

This is exactly why people become cynical about politics and become open to ’they’re all the same - corrupt!' - appeals.

"Varcoe: Carney says it's 'highly likely' an oil pipeline will make Ottawa's major project list.

"In a way, liberals are worse than conservatives on the climate because at least conservatives are honest about what they're doing.

"Meanwhile, liberals pretend to care about the climate while doing the exact same thing.”

#cdnpoli #Liberals

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#music #for pleasure
Some Kinda Love (Version 4 / Live At The Matrix, San Francisco
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Some Kinda Love (Version 4 / Live At The Matrix, San Francisco / Audio)

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LIVE: Israel pounds Gaza after attacks on Yemen | Israel-Palestine conflict News | Al Jazeera
aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/20…

- Israel wants to cram Palestinians in ‘humanitarian city’ built on ruins of Rafah
- 10 Palestinians killed in East Jerusalem so far in 2025
- Hamas says aid mechanism a ‘death trap’ under US cover
- Houthis claim sinking Magic Seas vessel after assault
- Iran’s president says Israel ‘tried but failed’ to assassinate him

#Palestine #Gaza #Israel
@palestine


LIVE: Israel pounds Gaza, Yemen; Houthis fire more missiles

Attacks come as Trump says a truce between Israel and Hamas could be reached this week.
Nils Adler (Al Jazeera)

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LIVE: White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt Holds a Press Briefing - 7/7/25

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me, vanta, trans enby girl polyam lesbian gender terrorist: "people should block threads because it will make fedi unsafe for queer people"

the verge, for some reason: "OBVIOUSLY it's a bunch of NERD BOYS trying to keep the WOMEN out"

#FediPact #meta #threads

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Please join G-Man and his great line up of guests today. He will also be doing the premiere of our latest song video, made completely with 5py AI. It's much higher quality video than I've done in the past.
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The Sane Asylum #340 Based Monday - 07JewLie25

The Sane Asylum #340 Based Monday - 07JewLie25 - Alfred Schaefer @schaefer_a31100 + UK Steve + Flood @OMGitsFlood + Davis Lurmann @DavisLurmann Five Insightful, Courageous White Nationalists discuss the latest talmudic madness.
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July 7 - Robert A. Heinlein birthday!

American science fiction author, aeronautical engineer, and naval officer. Sometimes called the "dean of science fiction writers", he was among the first to emphasize scientific accuracy in his fiction, and was thus a pioneer of the subgenre of hard science fiction.

(Photo courtesy of Wikipedia)

#Birthday #Tribute #Memoria; #SciFi

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It's the birthday of science fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein, born in Butler, Missouri, in 1907. He studied physics and mathematics at UCLA and then began writing science fiction, or, as he preferred to call it, "speculative fiction." His novel Stranger in a Strange Land, published in 1961, became a cult classic.

He said, "I think that science fiction, even the corniest of it, even the most outlandish of it, no matter how badly it's written, has a distinct therapeutic value because all of it has as its primary postulate that the world does change."

writersalmanac.publicradio.org…

Poem on the Fridge by Paul Hostovsky | The Writer's Almanac with Garrison Keillor

'Poem on the Fridge' by Paul Hostovsky, and the literary and historical notes for Monday, July 7, 2014.
writersalmanac.publicradio.org

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Der Grund, warum wir Gutmenschen immer verlieren, liegt darin, dass wir uns an zig Fronten verzetteln: Artenschutz, Klimaschutz, Arbeitskämpfe, Mieterkämpfe, Verkehrswende, Energiewende usw. Unser Gegner hat dagegen nur ein Programm: Wirtschaftswachstum um jeden Preis, für immer mehr Gewinn für eine kleine, kaum wachsende Zahl von Menschen. Was wir brauchen, ist eine Mega-Organisation, ein mächtiger und auch finanzstarker Zusammenschluss aller, die begriffen haben, dass Bienensterben, Pflegenotstand, Klimakrise und Mietwucher alle die gleiche Ursache haben. Meint @oetting in diesem Vortrag
(knapp 12 Minuten - Individous-Key: JdUAItlVhKM)

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Drei harte Lehren aus sieben Jahren Engagement für eine bessere Welt

UPDATE // 11.04.2025: Mit diesem neuen Video schlage ich einen Weg dafür vor: https://youtu.be/oy4hQUKg9oA //Ich habe nach Trumps erster Wahl 2016 erkannt, d...
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Bargain basement liquidation close-out Quilt Plotter sale! Remember when we were trying to sell PaleGray Labs a few years ago? Well the space it's been limping along in is going away, and it's just gonna go into storage if we don't sell it like now. Therefore, the quilt plotter and anything else we have left is not just $5,000.
It was $30,000 a few years ago, so it's now ONE-SIXTH the price. C'mon, come get this machine and whatever else is left in the space.
ninapaley.com/2023/01/04/paleg… (now just $5,000!!!!)

PaleGray Labs is FOR SALE! - Nina Paley

The quilting and embroidery collaboration of Nina Paley and Theodore Gray is for sale and EVERYTHING must go! We hope to sell the whole business as a package.
Nina Paley

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Palestinians fear razing of villages in West Bank, as settlers circle their homes | Palestinian territories | The Guardian
theguardian.com/world/2025/jul…

#Palestine #WestBank #Israel
@palestine


Palestinians fear razing of villages in West Bank, as settlers circle their homes

An Israeli directive gives a green light for demolitions in Masafer Yatta, where residents keep watch at night for attackers in the darkness
William Christou (The Guardian)

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Yesterday's #sunset started rather humbly with a large amount of clouds and not much sun to be seen. (A typhoon was approaching.)
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Waves were quite stronger than usual and I thought that capturing the sun a last time in the gap between clouds and horizon would be it.
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But then the sun had disappeared behind the horizon and lit up more and more clouds from below.
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That was quite a spectacle and the fiery red clouds spread more and more. Only for a short time, but that was impressive.
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Partially it gave the impression that the clouds were on fire.
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#Taiwan #myphoto

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DOJ released 11 hours of video outside Epstein's cell. One of the comments I found from someone who watched it:

They may have used the old 'take a picture of the hallway and put it in front of the camera' trick from Mission Impossible. Or more likely the looped camera footage one. If you look closely at the video, you can see the same cockroach take the same path across the upper right hand corner of the frame seven times. 😂

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In a review of a new biography: "Although [Tim] O'Brien was adamantly opposed to American involvement in Vietnam, he dutifully showed up when his draft number was called because he 'lacked the courage' to do otherwise."
This confession challenges the macho penchant to dismiss as cowards those who refused to kill on command - & to glorify all who followed orders, regardless of whom they killed & why.
Would that there were more quietly heroic resisters today in, say, Israel, Russia, and the U.S.
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