Amazon Echo users will no longer have the option to process their Alexa requests locally, which means all of their voice recordings will be sent to the
They legally shouldn’t be allowed in any home. They were a general attack vector, and are now a fascist attack vector. Either the hardware and software is FOSS, or GTFO. If you can’t survive with competition, without holding a gun to your customers heads, throwing up artificial barriers and holding their data hostage, and they can’t leave you easily the moment they no longer want anything to do with you (regardless of the reason), you don’t deserve customers. You don’t deserve to waste our planets resources on your narcissism. Period.
Every product needs to be reigned in, including government services which mostly rely on proprietary foreign tech, otherwise we’re all going to end up in a fascist black mirror hellscape.
They legally shouldn’t be allowed in any home. They were a general attack vector, and are now a fascist attack vector. Either the hardware and software is FOSS, or GTFO. If you can’t survive with competition, without holding a gun to your customers heads, throwing up artificial barriers and holding their data hostage, and they can’t leave you easily the moment they no longer want anything to do with you (regardless of the reason), you don’t deserve customers. You don’t deserve to waste our planets resources on your narcissism. Period.
Every product needs to be reigned in, including government services which mostly rely on proprietary foreign tech, otherwise we’re all going to end up in a fascist black mirror hellscape.
Funny how capitalists make people blame everything except capitalism itself