WHY DO WASHING MACHINES HAVE ACCESS TO THE INTERNET???

Related: a criminal group managed to steal data from a casino thanks to their internet connected fish tank. In 2017

https://www.forbes.com/sites/leemathews/2017/07/27/criminals-hacked-a-fish-tank-to-steal-data-from-a-casino/

the hell? why the fuck a washing machine needs a wifi for? to google how to wash clothes?

Lesson: never buy an appliance that has internet connectivity.

Bored household item developed sexting addiction with ChatGPT

1980: "I bet there will be flying cars in the future!"

2026: "Oh......nonononononono. That would be far too dangerous. Not after 9/11."

80: "9/11?"

26: "Yeah, they flew a bunch of planes into buildings, and blew up the pentagon, and the world trade center buildings, and an empty field in PA."

80: "Why would they blow up an empty field?"

26: "Because those men and women inside that plane are HEROS!"

80: "I don't understand....."

2020: "Hey guys!"

26: "Oh god! 1980, put this mask on. 2020 is here."

80: "I don't understand whats going on..."

~~2012~~ 2016: "I just shot a gorilla, and altered the future!

20 and 26: "FUCK OFF ~~2012~~ 2016!!!"

My dishwasher keeps begging for internet. And it can keep on fucking begging.

For what it's worth, my LG washer has sent 14.3 MB in the past MONTH, but my Unifi router has misidentified my Nvidia Shield TV as another LG washer. The Shield has downloaded 11.6 GB in the past month, mostly from YouTube. While I don't doubt it's possible for a washer to send/receive that much data if it's compromised and part of a botnet, I'd also question whether the device in question is actually an LG laundry appliance.

"Sock! Sock! Sock! Sock! Sock! Sock! Sock! Sock! Sock! Shirt! Sock! Sock! Sock! Sock!" - LG Dishwasher, probably.

If they ever sell a smart hammer that measures my impact strength and sends it to some system somewhere for further analysis then I'm giving up building. Let the damn AI build. Why does the world incorporate tech even when it adds nothing to a pre-existing method and drives up the price? Oh...I get it now.

Pretty disappointed in Lemmy not noticing and downvoting this AI slop.

I'm all for calling out bullshit IoT garbage but zoom in and look closer.

Update: op updated the photo with a non AI image that's the same but without hallucinated text. The original graph was real and made by a human, but through memes got degraded and an AI upscaler added new hallucinated text to it. Mystery solved and fixed.

I think in 1980 3.7 GB of data seemed further away then a flying car.

I imagine a darkened office in the far outreaches of an LG research facility where a hermit lives.

They call him the stain expert. He gazes at this data all day.

What is a reasonable amount of data for a washing machine to use (other than zero)?

If I remember correctly the OP of this network traffic graph figured out that their network equipment were accidentally misattributing the traffic to the washer, and it was actually some other device that had caused the traffic.

When I installed pihole at home the Number One request in the network was the Google nest thermostat. Why the fuck do you need to upload the temperature or other stuff this often?

say what you will about al-qaeda but at least they made a solid demonstration as you why flying cars have always been a stupid fucking idea.

Go a little back and look at the prediction made in 1949 for the future, written in a book with the title "1984".

Sure, it came a little late than forecast, but a lot of it came true.

Today's society has been pretty predictable for quite a while:

• Political and social environments like now have been pretty common recurrences througout History, with the rise of Fascism in the early XX century being the previous time it happened (incredibly similar to nowadays, not just are most propaganda techniques and discourse used by the rightwing almost exactly same, but we even have a XXI century version of the NAZIs called Zionism doing pretty much the same thing as their predecessors did in 1930s Germany). Society and Economics seem to follow a grand-cycle with a period of around 100 years and we're back at the point of the cycle of "Highest inequality and the Elites diverting the discontentment of the populus away from them by funding Far-Right politics scapegoating foreigners and using tools of authoritarianism in power" hence why this shit ressonates so much with the 1920 - 30s.
• The extreme desire for surveillance of open authoritarians and those with covert authoritarian leanings (lots of those in Europe plus the previous regime in the US was already the latter, though now it's the former) and the forms it could take were pretty predictable by observing the secret police of the Fascist regimes in Southern Europe that lasted until the 70s and 80s as well in the Eastern Block, most notably the Stasi in Germany. It's quite linear to map what Stasi would do with today's technology and come up with using smartphones as mobile surveillance devices with the complicity of the Tech companies that control them (predictably so if you look at, for example, how IBM helped NAZI Germany), surveillance of citizen's use of the Internet and modern digital communications (already done by the 7-eyes for ages and explaining things like the repeated attempts at imposing Chat Control on EU citizens) and the increasing automation of mass trawling surveillance made possible by ML to allow far wider civil society surveillance levels than were possible for the Stasi.

Sure, people used to think "Democracy" and thus "This time is different", but it turns out politicians and elites under Democracy still operate per the very same principles of Power as in the early XX century, they just managed over the years since then to get the populace to stop thinking and talking about Power itself and instead think only in terms of Politics all the while making sure Politics was subservient to older forms of Power, most notably Money.

Personally, ever since I observed how governments in the West reacted to the 2008 Crash, most notably who they chose to save and who they chose to pay for it, that I realized that the power of Democracy (specifically, the control of Citizens over how countries are managed by chosing who manages it using their Vote) has been made almost entirelly subservient to the power of Money, which is why it looks so much like we live in Oligarchies with theatrical Voting that changes only that which Money doesn't care about (hence the loud Identity Wars in the Moral plane between the dominant parties) rather than real Democracy.

From this point on , any useful new technology, any advancement in medicine, will be for the very wealthy. The rest of us will be taking ivermectin and paying unholy fees just to keep driving our falling-apart cars.

Well in 1985 they "predicted" that in 2015 we will be so advanced that we will all have Home Cold Fusion Reactor, flying cars, double neck tie and each home will have multiple Fax Machines.