it only seems kinky the first time

name: miranda location: south yorkshire Our life is what our thoughts make it - Marcus Aurelius Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow - Oscar Wilde If you cannot fold up your sleeping bag small enough, try running over it several times with your car - Scott Speed

[deafmic]

i wish tumblr's servers and engineers a very genuine good fucking luck

[silverfoxlou]

I love Louis

"It's not like I had a lot of radio support" in an interview with BBCR1

[sabertoothwalrus]

hell world hell world hell world

WHY DOES YOUR SOAP NEED INTERNET

[pftones3482]

Anyway this is your reminder to STOP BUYING SMART DEVICES THAT AREN’T NECESSARY.

Your soap does not need to connect to the internet. Your fridge does not need to be able to track the temperature in other countries. Your stove shouldn’t talk to you

This is not “technology bad” this is “these corporations are tracking you and your movements at ALL TIMES OF THE DAY.” They know your every move down to when you wash your hands after you take a shit. Alexa and Siri were the first introduction to this, and once people got used to them on their phones, they put them in their own little gadgets for your house.

And then they connected those gadgets to the lights. To the doors. To the window locks. To the thermostat.

You should be TERRIFIED at how many things are becoming “smart” these days. It’s yet another way for companies to sell to you, and, in a worst case scenario, it can be the thing that puts you in harms way.

Imagine you’re running a little late on your electric bill, and your fridge is a “smart” fridge. And because you’re running late on your payment they just….lock your fridge. Not shut the electricity off. Lock your fridge. Because fridges can now be locked remotely. You can no longer access your food until you pay them.

Cops want to know if you’ve been to any protests recently? They can track that handy dandy smart watch you decided to wear, even though you left your phone in the car. They can tell if you were home all day or lying.

Abusive partner or family member? They can shut off your support systems everywhere. Decide when you get to eat, if you do. Decide how hot or cold the house should be to make you suffer. Turn off the oven in the middle of you cooking dinner bc you upset them. Lock you in. Lock you out.

Your appliances, your LIFE, should not be surrounded by smart tech. Buy normal clocks. Get normal soap dispensers. Keep a pen and paper on the fridge to write down your grocery list. Set a manual timer for the oven. Wear a normal watch that only tells time. Get a step counter that clips to your belt.

Phone, laptop, TV. Those are the only things that make sense being “smart.” Everything else is one step closer to a dystopian novel that you don’t want to be in.

Your phone already tracks your every step. Don’t give every other thing in your life that ability.

[word-heap]

And here’s the thing! It’s not only something that can cause you problems if you’re late to pay bills or have abusive partners/family or are doing something the government may not take kindly to!

Let’s say, hypothetically, you do literally nothing. Well, turns out there’s a bug in the fridge software that sets the temperature to 60 degrees when it receives some unexpected input from your fridge app. Or the manufacturer pushes out an involuntary fridge update and now, while the update is downloading, sorry! your the fridge doesn’t open until the update is done.

And these are only the issues that affect you. Generally, Smart Device manufacturers do not think for even one second about the security of their devices. So, this means that hackers will see well known and publicized security holes that have been easily available for literal years but the manufacturer is simply too lazy to fix, use those holes to get into devices, and use those devices as bots to attack whoever they please (and, as a bonus, it look like it’s coming from your home!)

You’d think that this sounds like something out of a horror movie but this is the reality we live in RIGHT NOW. Many of the largest botnets (e.g. the Mirai botnet) in the world consist largely of compromised smart/IoT (internet of things) devices.

So uh just give it some thought before you buy the SmartChair3000 – it’s probably not as cool as it sounds :P

[pancakeke]

A few “fun” smart device things I recall off the top of my head:

The smart grill that had an automatic update pushed out on Thanksgiving so this guy couldn’t start cooking dinner.

A smart washer a reddit user found was consuming 1GB of data a day due to a bug.

459 votes and 208 comments so far on Reddit

The LG Home Hack which allowed hackers to control a variety of LG smart devices.

The second season of award-winning TV thriller Mr. Robot premiered with a scene that sent shivers down the cybersecurity world’s spine. In u

Ring devices enabling police overreach by creating a surveillance network that allows police to circumvent warrants and spy on people who have committed no crimes.

Commentary: As Amazon gears up for its annual fall hardware event, it's worth taking stock of Ring's track record -- and talking honestly ab

[wakandama2]

Wasnt there that one story where some people on a roadtrip where stranded becusse their car got hacked?

Also those scary ass videos of weirdos hacking people baby monitors and would talk/spy/record people toddlers.

[spaceshipsandpurpledrank]

@drukhari

[xkcd-for-that]

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Smart Home Security

[cluegrrl]

And don’t forget the cryptoBro who got completely cleaned out when he downloaded the app for a SmartVibrator. Yes, it really happened.

[mirandaskye]

People think we’re weird for not wanting a smart meter to replace our clunky old mechanical gas and elec meters but seriously, try hacking something that looks like this

(not ours)

[sporesgalaxy]

[mirandaskye]

Thought my PC was dying and was budgeting for buying a new one, tried disabling crappy Chrome background processes that run even when you’re not using Chrome and there we go, fans no longer sounding like a jet fighter taking off *facepalm)

Now getting a solid 60fps in a heavily-modded Skyrim AE (with Weather is Sacred ENB), where I was getting 40-50 before, and Sims 4 and Cities Skylines run beautifully too.

[agnesmontague]

live footage of elon musk shitting his pants

[agnesmontague]

(via @ohyesididnotjustdothat)

[thesilicontribesman]

Minninglow Prehistoric Cairn Complex and Landscape Feature, Peak District

[churkey]

[greyias]

Twitterpocalypse -- The Final Countdown(?)

*cracks knuckles*

All right. I had thought we were done. I had thought about retiring these, as the last one got a bit out of hand. I had planned on doing other things tonight, but it appears, my people need me.

And this genuinely might be the last one (at least from me). So let's see if I can sum up what's happened since our last episode, and see how many screenshots I can artfully arrange together before Tumblr breaks.

On Tuesday, things were already starting to break.

Wednesday:

Twitter 1.0 is dead. Long live Twitter 2.0!

It's just like the nineties, because it's EXTREMEly HARDCORE

Then somehow. After that was when things started getting weird.

Not content to be the technoking who is responsible for the engineering of rockets and for the technology in the exploding cars that make them successful, he decided to become a lawyer too.

He's really good at it.

And then this is what lured me into a false sense of security at *checks timestamp* almost 5pm last night.

That's right. Less than three weeks at the job, looking at the flames spreading all around him, Muskhead decided "I did good", or you know. He got bored. Things were quiet this morning, I thought maybe they'd found the tranq gun again. Nope. I shouldn't have looked away.

Because suddenly on Discord everyone's asking me about my next Twitterpocalypse update. And I'm like "??? I looked away for like A SECOND". And open up the app and...

Reactions have been mixed.

I don't know what you guys are talking about. This is HARDCORE EXTREME. Like a Rob Liefeld drawing. Which is absolutely the way to run one of the most important communication platforms in the entire world.

UMMM

RIP TWITTER 2.0

🫡

Farewell big bird. You were hilarious. You were horrible. You connected so many people, you literally ruined so many lives. Just waiting for the official return of the Fail Whale, as we all know it's coming.

[wilwheaton]

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[f1incorrects]

Nico H.: Even Kevin and I have been getting closer. The other day, he gave me half of his sandwich.

Kevin: I mistook him for a garbage can.

[collarboen]

[zeraparker]

Lewis in purple just hits differently

[kingsmanhartwin]

A collection of all the weird geo-edits I did for the first film on my old computer!

[beccasafan]

PSA - Export your Tumblr Blog

Remember a few months ago when it felt like every single website in existence updated their privacy policy? That was because of GDPR, the General Data Protection Regulation from the EU.

Another part of GDPR? Right of access / right to data portability. 

What this means is that if you ask for it, companies are to give you access to your data so that you could theoretically move it to another service. Many companies have done this by allowing you to export your data and download it. Even if a company doesn’t provide an automated way, you should still be able to contact them and they should provide your data - it doesn’t have to be automatically generated and downloadable.

Tumblr does provide an automated way to export your blog. This should be done individually for each sideblog as well, if you want. (These are instructions for the website - not the app.)

Go to your blog settings page, ie https://www.tumblr.com/settings/blog/<your-blog-name>.

Look for the Export section (currently at the bottom)

Click the “Export <your-blog-name>” button.

Depending on the size of your blog, it may take a while to generate the export. It will say that it’s processing, and you can reload the page and come back later to check if it’s done.

When your export is processed and ready, the Export section will have a button to download.

Once you’ve downloaded the file, extract it to a folder on your computer. It will contain:

A media folder with images, gifs, videos, and audio files.

A messages xml file. Your messages are in here, even if it doesn’t look “human readable” and is gibberish to you, I promise. There are tools that will “beautify” xml to make it more readable.

A posts.zip file. Extract this and you’ll see an html folder that has an html file for each of your posts.

[misfitstylinson]

Valid question….

[trillow-deactivated20130822]

do you think ants get confused when they accidentally get on buses and end up really far away

[willowfey]

#I thought this said antis

“how did you get all the way across town??” “NOT LARRY THAT’S FOR DAMN SURE.”

[mirandaskye]

A requirement for UK readers suffering from certain diseases to refrain from taking out any books while ill still exists. Sick library book readers must also inform the local authority – who may choose to disinfect or destroy any volumes. The law requiring this was brought about as a result of scarlet fever being transmitted from an individual due to his unusual habit of using skin peelings as bookmarks.

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TIL