tech/IoT vent 

You know there's a problem when capitalism's solution to overworked people is to sell them internet controlled devices to ease the lack of free time they have, instead of giving them back their free time.

You know there's a problem when they target parents and create SMART CRIBS to rock your baby over the internet.

businessinsider.com.au/snoo-sm

You'd think the developers of all these Internet of Things things'd have never heard of LAN. How hard is it to just make them constrained to your LAN? It's hard, apparently.

I'm not mad, just disappointed.

tech/IoT vent 

@Taylor can't resell personal data over LAN, now can we?

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