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Elon Musk Silences Critics By Deactivating Accounts And Reaching Out To Their Employers(finance.yahoo.com)

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I am seriously considering discontinuing my use of Amazon Echo devices

Only just considering it? That’s some serious Stockholm Syndrome energy.

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Itty53@kbin.social
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That dude 100% deserved it. Not for anything he said but for being a tech career guy and wiring his house up so hard he couldn’t open it without Alexa. He wouldn’t have been able to open it without wifi either.

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Ghostalmedia@beehaw.org
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If you’re going all in on smart home shit, you should ALWAYS buy the products that work when the internet goes out, or when the local IoT network shits out.

Example, fuck Hue lights. Gets Caseta switches that are wired in and can be used like real switches. Don’t get a smart lock that requires a phone or a wireless pays. Get one that also has a keypad that is hardwired directly into the lock and has a normal key hole. Carry the key just incase.

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festus@lemmy.ca
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The title there is awful. He wasn’t physically locked out of the house, he was locked out of the ‘smart home’ devices.

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KNova@links.dartboard.social
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Yeah that’s just dumb.

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Mugmoor@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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That’s not what happened. His Amazon devices were locked out, but he has HomeAssistant setup with various other IoT devices that worked fine still.

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Recordings from the home’s smart doorbell appeared to show the delivery driver, whom Mr Jackson said was the same race as him, misheard an automated response from the device asking: “excuse me, can I help you?”

Seriously, that’s what it was? They’ll ban him for that?

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randomperson@kbin.social
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Yeah. People lying about racism towards them (or as they called it “mishearing”) can ruin other people’s lives. Getting deprived of Amazon services for one week could be considered being lucky if we think about what happens to some people after such false accusations.

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somedude5@lemm.ee
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100% shit is crazy

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Hubi@feddit.de
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In Musks case it would probably be deemed not offensive enough.

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