• BakedCatboy@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1 day

    The wall screens from fahrenheit 451 or whatever was not an aggressive enough prediction.

    • Zwuzelmaus@feddit.orgEnglish
      1 day

      fahrenheit 451

      1984 by George Orwell.

      Read the book, and read it to the hurtful ending.
      Forget the movie.

      • BakedCatboy@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1 day

        I read both in school they just blur together 🙃 the old fahrenheit 451 movie was actually pretty goofy but I’m a super big fan of equilibrium with Christian Bale which is basically just fahrenheit 451. I kinda hated 1984 in comparison and found Julia to be really annoying.

        • LewdLemon@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          22 hours

          equilibrium with Christian Bale which is basically just fahrenheit 451

          That’s an odd way of spelling “poorly-crafted ripoff with pointless gun-fu action scenes crammed into it”, but OK.

          • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish
            21 hours

            It’s not as much of a cinematic masterpiece as the core, but pobody’s nerfect.

    • Guy Dudeman@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1 day

      I think both F451 and 1984 had tvs that were listening to you and recording you, right?

  • eicker@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1 day

    Amazon spent years putting microphones in our homes and apparently decided the real problem was that we occasionally leave the house. Now you can pay $75 plus $12 a month to turn every conversation into a potential shopping reminder. The future of privacy is apparently a subscription you forgot to cancel.

    • Pratai@piefed.caEnglish
      23 hours

      The future of privacy is apparently a subscription you forgot to cancel.

      Ugh…. That is profoundly bleak. It’s like the slogan for the future.

      • eicker@lemmy.worldEnglish
        23 hours

        Coming soon: Privacy Prime. For $19.99 a month, Amazon agrees not to listen to your conversations. For $29.99, it also agrees not to sell them. The free tier includes personalized ads based on things you whispered in your sleep. Cancellation requires speaking your full name into the microphone.

    • NaibofTabr@infosec.pubEnglish
      22 hours

      The same idiots that fill their homes with active internet-connected microphones.

    • gnutrino@programming.devEnglish
      21 hours

      Given who it is selling it, and particularly the whole week advertised battery life, I can’t help but think this is going to end up marketed towards employers wanting to monitor their workers 24/7.

    • ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      1 day

      After having used various smartwatches for the last 15 years, I switched to a cheap basic Casio digital watch six months ago. I thought I needed (and wanted) a smartwatch, turns out I actually didn’t at all.

      • kazerniel@piefed.worldEnglish
        22 hours

        I enjoy my Garmin for health and sports data, but I wouldn’t buy a regular smart watch, I don’t use its notifications or payments (or whatever else ppl use them for).

  • Zwuzelmaus@feddit.orgEnglish
    1 day

    We always used to tell the tale of that broken TV set, where your door bell rings right in the next second, and the Am*zon delivery guy already brings a new one.

    But now the guy doesn’t even need to ring the bell anymore…

  • dektep@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1 day

    we need apps that detect these fucking things

    and one day apps that destroy these things!