What sort of grill needs a firmware update lol
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I wasn’t in IT, so my hands were tied. If I tried running a network scan, I’d have been able to hear the screeching all the way from city hall.
Never said it had to be you.
But a threat to do exactly that would have likely called IT’s bluff long before the four-month mark.
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As someone in IT, the answer is in the comment.
City Hall is closed by 7:30
So nobody was ever in the office and nobody on the team wanted to stay (I'm guessing here) 2.5 hrs after work to actually do any troubleshooting and because it was never a problem during office hours then who cares
Read the comment more carefully… while IT was most certainly not at their posts, this implementation team was actively monitoring the rollout and witnessing the carnage.
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Read the comment more carefully… while IT was most certainly not at their posts, this implementation team was actively monitoring the rollout and witnessing the carnage.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Yes, I you agree with me. They absolutely were not at their posts 2.5 hrs after end of day on a Friday, which is likely why they responded to the tickets Monday morning.
And I am also agreeing with you that there should have been someone(s) who stayed late to actually watch this. But it's not gonna be me haha
And of course, this is all speculation from a random unsourced comment on social media. It's not that deep
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Grill, Dehumidifier, Air con, Fridge, Dishwasher, Washing Machine, Lightbulbs, Ovens, Doorknob…
None of that should be smarter than "press button, get action".
Connected HVAC can be pretty damn great depending on your house. It’s changed my energy usage a lot, and I like being able to adjust temps without walking downstairs in the middle of the night. Although having your thermostat lose cloud support ever 10-15 years is pretty shitty.
Connected doors are also great for handing out virtual keys and ensuring that stuff is shut and locked when you’re away.
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Sending a temp updates to your phone so you don't have to be standing near it the whole time is a nice feature.
It’s better to just purchase a temperature probe with wifi. Those are handy as hell.
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Okay, I'm not a huge griller, but wouldn't it be better just to build in a thermostat? Let it maintain its own temperature?
Commercial grills do exactly that. There's just a thermostat built into the gas valve which uses a sensing bulb to modulate the gas flow based on actual temp and set temp. They don't even need electricity let alone wifi.
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Okay, I'm not a huge griller, but wouldn't it be better just to build in a thermostat? Let it maintain its own temperature?
Sometimes you need cook on different temperatures at different periods. Sometimes you want to set it to cool down or heat up and instead of waiting near it, you could just set the target and let your phone ding when it's time.
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I agree, but that should be a separate device. One that I can use in any grill or oven. There's no reason for the grill itself to have that feature, especially if it can potentially brick the whole thing.
Sometimes I just need a device that can do what I want it to do. Obviously I don't want a device that can be bricked, but that's just a shitty programming, not a condemnation of the whole concept. I have a whole host of devices that never brick themselves, and I intend to get more.
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It’s better to just purchase a temperature probe with wifi. Those are handy as hell.
I don't think it's better. It's a different way to achieve that, but there is nothing inherently bad with whatever appliance that can do more than one thing. We shouldn't expect the makers to be satisfied with the shitty job at programming damn things however.
I do want all my appliances to have wireless connection, I do want to talk to my kettle and set my oven temp on my phone. -
Gets up to 700 degs
That's a furnace. Aluminium melts at 700 degrees. Gold at 1000.
I think they are using facism units
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Now it can run Crysis
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The original story was written before the Internet and so before hackers even existed. One of Stephen King's cocaine fever dreams iirc.
Hackers predate the Internet. Phone phreaking, like the Captain Crunch whistle is basically the origin of hacking and hacker culture.
But your larger point is valid and there was probably more than a little cocaine involved with thinking up that story.
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Iirc, these grills are wifi connected so you can remotely monitor and control temperature. Makes sense if you are bbqing something that is gonna be in there for 12 hours. But then, you kind of lose one of the benefits of bbqing - sitting next to a grill and drinking beer with your friends for 12 hours.
For this you could have a timer on the thing you set when you start it up and can then walk away from. You don't need the damn net to have a clock in the appliance.
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Sounds like the start of Cory Doctorow's book Radicalized.
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poor baby. who grills out on thanksgiving? also my charcoal grill never does this
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I'm an IT nerd but they could not pay me to buy a grill that requires software updates. What a bunch of nonsense.
As an IT nerd I got one of these and put it on a different subnet and it's not able to reach out to anything external but my phone can hit it from a different subnet. Thing works great.
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Probably a security update to try and keep it from being part of a botnet maybe?
Then we're back to the same question. At what point a grill have anything that could be part of a botnet
Anything with a network connection (unfortunately).
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poor baby. who grills out on thanksgiving? also my charcoal grill never does this
My dad's gas grill doesn't do this either. Sometimes the boomer inability to understand technology is a blessing. Now if only he'd stop downloading sketchy slots games and getting viruses...
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I have a Christmas tree with built-in LED lights where I can change their colors and make patterns and animations. Every year I get it out I have to do a firmware update on my Christmas tree before I can use it
wrote last edited by [email protected]If they are WiFi controlled that’s actually a good thing, as it sounds like the manufacturer is still supporting it & hopefully updating it to prevent security issues & hacks!
But this is also why I personally try not to buy WiFi enabled gadgets unless it really needs to be remotely accessible.
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Or we could just have better wages and shorter work weeks.
Reliable public transportation that doesn't cause or get stuck in traffic jams, also.
