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Re:Vacuum bricked after user blocks data collection – user m... by bitwize on Wednesday November 05, 2025 @06:41PM (#45829569)
Probably a felony under the DMCA.

I'm reminded of when AWS us-east-1 went down and all the beds made by EightSleep (business model: Juicero for beds) became disabled. EightSleep put all the significant control for their beds in the cloud, doubtless because they couldn't or didn't know how to hire embedded engineers, and the only devs they could find were node.js flunkies who only knew how to do cloud. Looks like the makers of this vacuum did the same thing; they didn't know how or didn't want to build just enough smarts to do the localization and mapping itself, and said "fuck it, we'll do it in the cloud".

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Re:Vacuum bricked after user blocks data collection – user m... by observationist on Wednesday November 05, 2025 @06:45PM (#45829608)
That's awfully generous. Forcing phone-home, remote control, data harvesting features to be always-on creates a huge amount of data that can be sold for a lot of money. It gets all the wrong people excited about investing and normalizing the level of intrusion into your privacy, with some faceless corporation harvesting gigabytes of data per month from the most intimate and vulnerable physical location in nearly anyone's life.
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Re:Vacuum bricked after user blocks data collection – user m... by fron on Wednesday November 05, 2025 @08:22PM (#45830312)
"Never attribute to incompetence that which can be attributed to malice" or something.

Clearly automatic beds have some degree of embedded software. The decision to put the controls in the cloud was certainly a conscious one.

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Re:Vacuum bricked after user blocks data collection – user m... by goku12 on Thursday November 06, 2025 @06:13AM (#45833924)
> "Never attribute to incompetence that which can be attributed to malice" or something.

Isn't that the inverse of the Hanlon's razor? But I agree - the Occam's razor says that the inverse Hanlon's razor is most likely the case here.

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Re:Vacuum bricked after user blocks data collection – user m... by cyberax on Wednesday November 05, 2025 @08:33PM (#45830396)
And what the company did is a felony under CFAA.
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Re:Vacuum bricked after user blocks data collection – user m... by StillBored on Wednesday November 05, 2025 @08:47PM (#45830476)
Yes, I was thinking he needs an attorney to file suit against them for intentionally damaging his property, and then charge them for the 'repair' which would be the months he probably spent fixing it at a top grade engineering salary.
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