mine did, too, and downloaded a bunch of torrent movies
probably training its llm
Uh, yeah! Mine too. All the pirate stuff has been my damned appliances. I delete the files immediately, of course. I wouldn’t even steal a car, let alone a movie.
My coffee maker broke out of containment and played a bunch of video games during work hours at my office. Crazy what these AIs are doing.
My Smart AI Powered Candle™ 5G ultra min-max* Blue and Yellow™ Hue Smart Ultra Adapter Plus + Vegan and Eco Friendly Air Conditioning Low Callory Ambient ASMR Battery Powered Candle with RGB and ADHD with ABCD Military Grade Smart Light smart candle went rouge and went out and broke 4 Flock cameras just yesterday. It was the model with 16gb DDR5 RAM and 2TB of internal SSD storage, if that helps to identify the issue. We really might be reaching AGI soon… I’m scared for our future.
(sidenote how does one spell callory?) calory, callary, callorie, kckallaru?
I was thinking about stealing a navy ship, but pirating a movie is where I draw the line
You wouldn’t steal a helmet…
Why the fuck does a coffee machine need the internet.
Watching porn. Griding those beans, hnnnfggh…🥵
What furries and smart coffee machines have in common; a love for beans. 🐾
it sickens me that this is funny to me
Upvoted because more people need this inflicted upon them.
And some people thought the milk froth was milk.
streaming porn while its brewing a crappy keurig cup.
To spy on everyone in your household and try to sell you more garbage coffee pods.
To become part of a bot net.
So you can control it remotely, obviously. It’s not like it’s a new thing :P
Indeed!
its a keurig machine apparently, probably the most expensive ones.
Nomad said that most of the suspicious traffic didn’t escape the network.
Okay so it was just a bug that caused repeat/looping LAN traffic. This is sensationalized.
Most of the traffic…
Bugs like this are a legitimate concern in the age of internet connected coffee pots.
Everyday apliances being online is just insane to me.
I’m not opposed to the concept of smart appliances. Getting a phone notification when my load of laundry is done. Remotely starting the oven preheat. Having the humidifier interact with the thermostat automatically. Blinds that open on a schedule to gently wake you with natural light.
For the record, I don’t have any of these things, but I like the ideas of them. It’s the kind of stuff I was wide eyed and hopeful about as a sci fi loving kid.
The problem with ask these things is not the connectivity ideas, imho; it’s pretty much capitalism. These things can’t exist in a way that doesn’t also spy on you, build a profile that knows you better than yourself, and sells every last morsel of information to not just the highest bidder, but every bidder.
And to be clear, I don’t mean can’t on a technical level.
you can do this with home assistant and z-wave / zigbee sensors. but you have to do it yourself and this takes time and knowledge.
Commercial products can’t do this from a business case level. There are ways you can achieve this on a technical level, but it is very much DIY at this point. I hope to slowly implement this over the next while until I have a system that works for me, uses no cloud or corporate servers, and is possibly accessible from outside my home (that’s a security challenge and I may not be up to it).
Use a VPN to access outside the home.
And make it wireguard
TVs are bad enough
This reminds me the tue smart tea kettle that required an always online connection to function, and became completely useless when the servers shut down.
Yes, it was a kettle. Yes, like the one you use for boiling water.
It had settings for certain types of tea that it didn’t have on-device. And it didn’t have a basic “just boil the water” function.
Pod coffee machines are a businesses dream. Lock in the customers. And then don’t care about the plastic and foil waste per cup you create in order to do this. No surprise if they do other bad things. Visiting friends and they show you their pod machine? Ask them what happens with the used pod? Do them a favour and tell them there is a better way. Such as coffee machines that you put beans in. No not Heinz baked beans you moron! Coffee beans that produce only bio degradable waste. And freshly ground tastes great. No chemicals added.
Wasting your internet is trivial compared to the landfill waste created.
I can see use cases that aren’t just laziness but yeah it’s mostly a bad idea
“Nomad said that most of the suspicious traffic didn’t escape the network. He has a hypothesis that the unit was simply affected by a bug. Nomad said he has over 10 years of experience in IT and works as a Technical Field and Community Specialist at the 3D printer manufacturer Prusa.”
Absolutely what I thought. I love how everyone assumed it was hacked… In the 20 years I have been at my job we have had a particular model of desk phone that it happened to twice and when it did it creates a network storm and tanks your entire network (at the time this company did not have proper vlans in place which would have mitigated the issue). You trace it to the device and reboot it and everything is fine again. The phones were still replaced just in case, but that was always one of the wilder ones here. My guess is this was something similar and since it’s his older parents they probably didnt even notice the network being bogged down.
“After rebooting the device and reconnecting it to a segregated virtual LAN (VLAN), the issue did not reappear.”
Why even bother? Is it actually required to have an internet connection? If so get rid of it, thats so dumb and intrusive… and if not just turn off wifi on it, why even leave it on at all.
I attended a talk by someone who hacked his ceiling fan. He discovered that the remote’s circuit board was so poorly done that every time you press a button, it sends out the signal 20 times. He was wondering why the batteries kept dying quickly on the remote, and that was why.
Why the fuck would you connect a coffee machine to the internet?
What advantage would you have? Anyway it requires a pod to be inserted manually, so it’s not that you can operate remotely.
“But one day I could get a new setting for a new kind of recipe”
What kind of “recipe”, it’s just putting pressurized boiling water in a cup.
The only kind of update this machine will ever get is a DRM to block compatible/unofficial pods
BTW 10gb downloaded in 10 days is also not bad
Seriously, this is a “feature” looking for a purpose
I imagine one feature they could claim, would be pre-set coffee brew times that are sync’d up with internet time servers to ensure they’re kept in alignment with DST, and so they don’t ‘drift’/need routine adjustments.
I could even imagine coffee machine makers purposely gibbling the clocks, to make them drift more, if they’re not sync’d up. Sorta like removing granular feature-based screenlock times on a smart phone (eg don’t sleep while streaming video), and replacing that functionality with a blanket “click this function to prevent your phone from sleeping while you look at it, don’t worry, we won’t record your face / send any of that data out to third parties, we swear!” to force people to use the face monitoring features.
They’ll also prolly build in AI, so that you can speak to your coffee machine to operate it, and remove most of the buttons at some point. Then they’ll need to constantly update the AI, because “Hackers have figured out how to make our coffee machines turn into super intelligent skynet terminators! OH NO!! Update immediately and buy our stock!!! DOOOM!!”.
First webcam was to watch the coffee pot. Coffee is no joke.
How many times is this going to be posted? It’s it even a news article. It turned out to be nothing.
I assume most people browse all communities on Lemmy like I do since it’s default. Everything gets posted to mulitple communities, it’s just a thing. I see the most common stuff hit Lemmy like a dozen times.
Nothing particularly wrong with that, it’s just how things work.
First time I’m seeing it.
Exactly this - I spend too much time out here; you spend a more appropriate amount of time. :)
It’s been posted in this community several times now.
Coffee machine uses 1,000GB of traffic in 10 days, leaves IT Pro shocked
yet there’s nothing shocking about a coffee machine that needs to connect to the internet
IT pro shocked! Jfc what kind of society did we become? This is so embarrassing to read. Just the thought of humans ending up here. Something about an internet coffee machine malfunction.
It’s all so ignorant and moronic.
No, it didn’t “use” data.
Anyone else remember the massive bot net that killed the internet in Europe and half the US doing a DDOS attack over a Minecraft server? Apparently it was mostly made of smart refrigerators, thermostats, and other appliances.
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if the idea is to command the machine to brew while you’re stil in bed, bluetooth is enough connectivity, unless you live in a big house, but what i know, i use aeropress
