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xkcd #3109: Dehumidifier

Title text:

It's important for devices to have internet connectivity so the manufacturer can patch remote exploits.

Transcript:

[A store salesman, Hairy, is showing Cueball a dehumidifier, with a "SALE" label on it. Several other unidentified devices, possibly other dehumidifier models, are shown in the store as well.]

Salesman: This dehumidifier model features built-in WiFi for remote updates.
Cueball: Great! That will be really useful if they discover a new kind of water.

Source: https://xkcd.com/3109/

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[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

What about [email protected]?

Or if you are using Home Assistant you could post in [email protected]

There is a Lemmy community search function here if you want to check other options: https://lemmyverse.net/communities

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

What about [email protected]?

I tried there but my posts never showed up. Tried twice. Not sure what I'm doing wrong. I'm on old.lemmy.world so it looks like old reddit.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

That's odd. How far did you get? Any error?

Federation from your instance Lemmy.world to the instance the community is on (programming.dev) is healthy, so that doesn't seem to be the issue.

My guess would be that you've tried to upload an image that is over the size limit - I think this is imposed by your own instance (Lemmy.world), and I'm not sure what the size limit is but I think 5MB per image is pretty common. If you drop the image size or upload elsewhere then link it, does that work?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

I just hit submit and it spat me back out to the new posts, but mine wasn't there.

I wasn't trying to directly upload an image, just directly link to an imgur gifv.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 17 hours ago

maybe the frontend is buggy. did you try with the default frontend?

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Hmm odd. Maybe just try again?

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