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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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