Man discovers his parents’ coffee machine used 1TB of data in 10 days - Dexerto
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The man said they discovered that their parents’ coffee maker had generated far more traffic than they expected.
  • melsaskca@lemmy.ca
    8·
    2 days ago

    In the 1970’s I had a smart toaster that would pop the bread up to let me know it was finished with it’s toasting task. /s

  • cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    27·
    3 days ago

    It’s probably running a proxy server so the company can sell your internet connection to the AI scrapers.

    • The Bard in GreenAEnglish
      12·
      3 days ago

      Or vibecoded firmware that is sending every piece of telemetry Claude decided it needed to some hard coded local ip address and NO HUMAN has ever looked at the code or the network traffic.

  • criticon@lemmy.ca
    16·
    3 days ago

    He found that while the coffee maker had generated 1TB of traffic, most of it stayed within his parents’ home network rather than being sent over the internet

    • DdCno1@beehaw.org
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      2 days ago

      Going to be? The vast majority of appliances are still sold without this nonsense.

  • Sina@beehaw.org
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    2 days ago

    What I’m somewhat curious about is that typically to what degree are smart appliances usable without their app & the network.

    I have a smart air fryer & a smart scale. Neither has been set up to connect to wifi or my phone & both work just fine …

    • Manalith@midwest.social
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      2 days ago

      I think in most cases it’s added functionality and convenience at the cost of privacy, sure the scale is still gonna tell you how much you weigh, but what if it automatically saved that to an app so you can track your weight loss progress without writing it down manually (as long as you’re OK with some company also having that info so they can share ads with you for weight loss products to help you reach that goal faster without allowing you to build the habits to do it right.

      Isn’t it nice that you can just ask your fridge if there’s milk in it while you’re at the store rather than hoping you have milk, or assuming you dont? Disregard the fact that Samsung is using that fridge to know whether or not you’re home right now, if you have an iPhone, or what kind of smart TV you have. It’s still a fridge, it still keeps things cool, until a firmware update breaks that of course, guess you just need to buy a new fridge, it’s been a couple years anyway.

      Sometimes (though not often) the smart appliance is cheaper since they know they’re gonna make money on the data.