“To be a Luddite today is to refuse the fatalism of techno-inevitability & to demand that technology serve the many, not the few. It is to assert that questions of labor, agency & justice must come before speed, efficiency & scale.” https://www.brookings.edu/articles/we-should-all-be-luddites/
Reject modernity, embrace tradition
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Para celebrar halloween mi hija ha decidido ponerle una máscara a #Plushtodon
The Creature is enjoying the colors at Mariachi Plaza 🔶🔷🔶🔷
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This is a valuable lesson for any manufacturer: never awaken the nerd sleeping inside your customer, because his wrath shall be terrible.
In this case the warning was quite literal.
The company annoyed a buyer enough to push him into full blown nerd mode. He tore the product apart, reverse engineered every part, and then published a step by step guide showing exactly how to disable "kill switch" that prevented the use of the product without the vendor spying on the user.
What started as a minor grievance became a public, technical exposé that left the maker exposed and embarrassed.
Moral of the story: underestimate your users at your own peril.
The Day My Smart Vacuum Turned Against Me
Update: This post seems to have struck a nerve and went very wide. As I will not be able to answer every comment, I want to add a few points:
This burger is offering me a free burger. Is it offering itself, or has it enslaved the other sentient burgers, trying to make me complicit? Do I *want* to join this burger's rewards? What kind of life do the rewards have? The QR code isn't answering any of these questions.
