@@saawysorenson4585 Why? The odds of a random person on the internet knowing about a specific meme are not that high until you get to stuff like rickrolls
The printers are so cheap nowadays so the business can lock your printer down if you don't buy and use their specific brand of ink. Specifically HP but other brands of printers will follow their example.
@@nealdz1031 Arent cartridge printers coming with like 25% cartridge? You are not getting "full ink" when you buy it. You have just enough so it doesnt feel like scam but not enough to have it cheaper to buy new printer. Either way, thats why I changed to fillable ones. Not perfect but 90% cheaper. Either that or laser ig.
@@SurrealLeaf tbh, i dont use it enough to notice. Recently was homebound (work injury), but needed to have ink signed document for home building. So there i was, faced with the dilemma...do i buy $60 worth of ink for my $49 printer, or buy a new $38 printer and toss out the one i had
The people who grew up when internet became a household thing should remember how dangerous we were taught the internet was. If you know what a/s/l means, you probably were told don't answer. Now we have live streams in front of the house
don't even get me started. I have an entire soap box speech about uber/lyft. I'm one of those rare ones that grew up with a PC in my home, playing games on since birth in the 80's... I can't even with the world right now.
I once saw a tumblr post very close in concept to this. It said something like "the difference between tech enthusiasts and cybersecurity specialists is that a tech enthusiast will have a smart home controlled from an app on their phone, whereas the cybersecurity specialist's most recent piece of technology is a printer from 2006 that they keep a loaded shotgun next to in case it makes an unexpected noise"
makes me think of a post I once saw. Neighbors of the poster kept playing loud music (believe the son was an 'aspiring' drummer). But they didn't have a password on their wireless printer. so whenever the neighbor kid started practicing his drums late at night, he'd have their printer print out an essay about chickens... in chicken.
Tech neophyte - I kinda know how my phone works Tech enthusiast - my house is automated Tech security specialist - nothing is connected, toaster looks sus, kill it
funny because he streams his life. Thor not streaming, thor not home. also now we know thor no has security, house gonna be broken into. External security is fine.
I like to imagine Thor having only a fireplace and radiators in his house for heating. "No smart devices. That shit can be hacked. How can you hack a hundred year old fire place? Put more wood on it for me?"
What I personally always found interesting is that the more you know about a certain technology, the less you trust it. A locksmith generally doesn't trust physical locks for the exact same reason Thor doesn't trust "smart" devices.
Really shows how vapid the border between being safe and „in danger” can be and how „feeling safe” in your own home is just an illusion your brain needs to create to be able to rest in peace(literally, like sleep deeply at night but also switch to less alert state of conciousness, thats exacly why people who went to jail say time goes by „weirdly” because theyre in „survival mode” all the time)
A locksmith knows most practical locks are nothing more than deterrents, and not actual inhibitors of crime. A locksmith will therefore still use physical locks, because they at least do not facilitate that which you're trying to prevent.
I've been a follower of LPL for several years, and I picked up lock picking over that time. Can confirm, you'd be SHOCKED at how easy it is to get through most locks. I mean, security flaws that have been known for almost a CENTURY(comb bypass, anyone?).
I'll tell you this, the first lock 99% of pickers get the first time is a Masterlock. You can GET high security locks, but they're very expensive, and in all honestly there isn't a lock out there that a grinder won't get through.
*SMOKE ALARM:* "BEEP" News anchor: "Aaaand this just in , a local man was arrested for shooting up his own home!! Police found him ranting about TikTok hackers. More on that Tonight at 11."
The cold box should not decide how cold things are. It's a box, it doesn't understand what temperature *is* let alone how the temperature in the box affects the temperature of my leftovers lol. The only reason I want a smart fridge is so I can play DOOM on it, as is the fate of all machines
@@scratthesquirrel5242 yeah, but if the only thing the fridge does is connect to an app so it can tell Amazon or Google or someone that I'm outta Ketchup, that's a dumb fridge, and I'd be a dumb guy for buying that model, so just 'cuz it's IoT doesn't mean it's earned the title of smart in my book
You're literally Skips from Regular Show with technology. In an episode where they're trying to kill a virus in a computer, Skips says to destroy the computer at the beginning of the episode because its seemed evil.
I find a good ole full size door bar works wonders... not even a police issue battering ram is doing shit against my front door.... if it isn't simply easier to go through the wall it's not a door I want
@@Da_Sharksince you bar the door it wouldn't matter, but don't buy doors with mortise locks, or any mortise style knob/lever. The pocket cut for the lock reduces the integrity of the door. Not an issue if it's made of Oak and has a steel bar blocking it, but still, food for thought.
Watching LPL videos made me realize that disc locks are the most secure there is, considering even the cheapest example takes over 30 seconds to pick using a custom tool that LPL and McNally's company made. Watching break-in videos made me realize that locks are only as good as your doors, windows and fences. Nothing is stopping them from breaking down doors or smashing windows. Sadly the only thing that locks stop are crimes of opportunity.
My favorite saying is, Wallstreet millionaires have smart cameras, security systems and electronic locks. IT security specialist have a dead bolt and shotgun. Which home security is safer. . .
@@magnuskramer2the thing is that its a deterrent until it isnt. and you dont known when it wont be. The moment someone finds a workaround, and they will, you have to hope to god you wont get hit until the workaround gets fixed. at least a deadbolt you know what youre gunna get and it wont ever change
@@magnuskramer2 Camera and alarm systems are a double-edged sword. Saves you some money, but if they can prove you didn't have the alarm set right or left the door open then you don't get insurance when something does happen. It's very rarely used to catch the person who robbed you and more often used by insurance companies to try and justify not paying you if they can. Unless you have cameras inside your house in which case you're also surveilling yourself 24/7, bu if it's hosted anywhere the cops can get it with a subpoena without you being alerted. Likewise if you alarm and disarm your system whenever your leave or arrive, there's at least a few people in the world who know when you're not home for extended periods. Of course the way the world's going, anyone without an active social media account, dashcam in their car, phone giving out GPS coords, and door providing 24/7 surveillance of your street corner is going to be considered sus.
@@TheInsomniaddict That does sound like something the greedy companies would do. I do think that a few people knowing when i leave my house for extended periods of time, that would be the case whether or not i have a alarm.
Percussive maintenance is to show it who's boss when it's making complaints. Ballistic (idk but it ain't "maintenance") is for removing it from service.
As a disabled person some smart tech can be really beneficial. It's also designed with security as a last thought. My compromise is only running smart tech I can operate locally via Home Assistant, no cloud based whatever. If they're in my LAN I already have a problem.
That's the thing.... most of what it's sold as smart anything is just dumb machine connected to the cloud. Real smart stuff wouldn't really be needing any internet connection. Or the myriad of vulnerabilities and redundant subscriptions that they have. I wish for more actually smart and beneficial stuff to one day actually get made and the hype about internet connected trash cans can die off.
@@Despoina_Nyx Exactly! Most of it is just a microphone and a camera and all the "smart" is elsewhere. *That* feux-smart is vulnerable trash. But if it can work on its own, and be controlled locally, and you have the knowledge required (that part makes it less appealing for most) you can set up some really useful stuff just on the LAN and even blacklist it in your router/firewall so it can't phone home if it tries - or get accessed from the outside because of some silly flaw they should have thought about, like hardcoded default passwords.
@@infra_Gray Firstly I want to say that ADHD can absolutely be classed as a disability if you want to see it that way, it gets in the way plenty enough (a disability/disorder is something that negatively impacts your ability to function). That's a personal choice for you though! Secondly, I want to tell you that there is local "AI" assistant technology. Its just a lot harder to set up and you need a dedicated computer and a bunch of experience in IT. If you have that or know someone who does and could help you, look into Home Assistant, by default it controls everything via a web interface (can be set up all local, can also network with cloud-based things if you want it to), but you can install addons like a voice recognition system.
Didn't listen to the original full context, but the reference to the printers that use the motors to leak data via sound is genius, he definitely still keeps up with the cyber security papers
Let me guess, by assuming a starting position and analysing the tone produced by the steppers you can sorta reconstruct the printed file by knowing where the printer head spent the most time in? If so, that's some advanced tomfoolery and way too cool.
@@tiagobelo4965 that's pretty complex and fancy, but like in a more caveman-ish way, assume you want to transmit data out of a network you have code running on without leaving any packets out to trace? Encode the data as sound, dial-up style and have the printer head run through the pitches during whenever you have the opportunity to listen in. Same principle as that instrument that guy made out of disk drives.
"printer makes a weird noise I shoot it" Hell I want to do that whenever its not making sus noises, but refuses to cooperate and print what I want it to
Mind-blowing fact, Linux comes with all the printer drivers installed. That was one of the reasons I got it the first time: I could not for the life of me find the printer drivers on the Canon website. One Fedora install later, it just works like you'd expect it to after decades of technological progress. Now, if only my videogames would work like that, then I'd be in hog heaven, but nooo. Window's one claim to legitimate fame is that their operating system was designed from day one to run videogames. "But can it run DOOM?" was an ad campaign once -- a _Windows_ ad campaign, because DOOM was a more popular piece of software than Windows.
As someone who occasionally has to troubleshoot printers for a living, those devices are Satan! Thankfully it's just laser printers. Inkjets are a triple-decker Satan with extra bastard-sauce.
I'm with Thor on this one. No smart devices unless I know exactly how it works and what connections it has. And none of those better leave my private server.
Ding ding ding. Especially with how easy and accessible it is nowadays, long as you're willing to put in the time. Raspberry pi + home assistant is probably the easiest route for those that don't already have a home server set up.
Exactly. It's bad enough that i have a smartphone, i don't need the rest of my house to also be constantly connected to the internet and gathering data about every single thing i do or posing a security risk. Seriously, why the hell do i need an app to turn on the lights in my room? What was wrong with a normal light switch? Why do i need a camera on my door bell to check who's at the door remotely when i can just look through the hole or the nearest window? It's so stupid. It's just a bunch of solutions to problems that never existed in the first place.
@@Fraggr92 "Why do i need a camera on my door bell to check who's at the door remotely when i can just look through the hole or the nearest window?" Because if people want to unalive you, then going to your door or window to check who is there isn't safe. It's not that EVERYONE needs that, but with how common home invasions are becoming... But yea, people either need to suck it up and use wired so that it can't be exploited, or just stop using them.
@@alu2901 They actually had (admittedly primitive) automatic firearms back in the day. They weren't stupid, they knew where firearm tech was headed, and more importantly they also knew what happened to unchecked governments.
This reminds me of a joke. Forgot how it went but the gist is. "I was walking in the forrest hunting with my buddy and felt i was being watched, i told a joke. My buddy laughed, i laughed, the tree laughed and i shot the tree"
Another version: "My wife asked me why I carry a gun in the house. I said 'for Decepticons.' My wife laughed, I laughed, the toaster laughed, I shot the toaster."
Reminds me of that video where people figured out you just yell "hey alexa unlock the front door" through a closed window and it would work. Also reminds me of people hijacking thermostats, setting the heater to max, and demanding a ransom to turn it off.
"Also reminds me of people hijacking thermostats, setting the heater to max, and demanding a ransom to turn it off." Me a person with a brain: *flips breaker switch shutting heater off.*
@@namedrop721 Awh da widdle baby afraid of a widdle heat? Suck it up princess, AC hasn't been around that long, people have survived in 90f and higher temps for centuries.
No Officer, I wasn't firing the buckshot at the toaster, I was performing high speed and high force percussive maintenance in a large volume at a distance utilising a Shotgun.
Is he talking about the light that shows up on the doorbell when you’re looking at the camera through the app? Boy, we’d sure have a surprised burglar, cause we almost exclusively check the app before we open the door.
I ask my echo show to show me the front door lmao. I thought the point of the ring doorbell was to answer it more readily when you ARE home? Lol. If I'm not home, I'm not answering jack. I am going to look through my other cameras though.
@@pogolaugh The problem is that Ring's encryption for the camera footage is notoriously lackluster. And if a hypothetical thief were able to access it, they'd be able to determine the average hours of the day where the home is unoccupied with a fair degree of accuracy.
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TECH ENTHUSIASTS: My entire house is smart. TECH WORKERS: The only piece of technology in my house is a printer and I keep a gun next to it so I can shoot it if it makes a noise I don't recognize.
Door locks and stuff on your house are extremely vulnerable to physical attack too. Picking a house door takes a few seconds once youve practiced. Security is a deterrent, it never keeps everyone out.
A few security pins throws the novices for a loop, but at the end of the day your house is made of wood and your windows of glass. If someone _really_ wants in your house they _are_ getting in. Best thing is to make your house look low priority to the amateurs, a pain for the novices, keep your valuables hidden for the professionals, and keep a decoy previous-gen gaming console in the living room for the crackheads.
I have honestly thought of going back to using like the gate locking method for medieval gates. Not the metal portcullis you see in stone gatehouses. But a wooden gate that was “locked” by putting a large wooden beam in across the threshold of the gate. Only issue with this idea is windows are still a weakness, so replacing them with some sort of stronger material that still does the job as glass would be something to look into. Another issue would be the door and wall strength, but I would assume most criminals won’t take it that far. Still might have to find a way to get a reinforced door, like a metal core but a wooden exterior to conceal the strength. But I would also have to find a way to reinforce the hinges as I don’t think the beam holding the door closed would be enough. Anyways I’m done rambling, feel free to use my thoughts on the matter of reinforcing your house from criminals and and thieves.
@@koboldsage9112Not what he means, wifi is just a method to connect devices to a network , He is talking about creating a network that has no connection to the internet and someone who goes to that effort is not gonna use the stock wifi password.
I've told people when they ask me about smart devices, like, how to set them up and shit, and I always tell them "I don't do smart devices, you're on your own"
Or people who post pics while on vacation. Why don't you just put a huge banner on your house that says "ROB ME!"? If I ever have any home automation stuff it will all be locally run and kept on its own private network with no internet access.
@@alu2901Even then, why do you even need to post pictures of your vacation at all? It's just more information that random-ass people can use against you. If there's one thing you learn when you spend a lot of time on the internet, it's that the less that people can find out about you from your online accounts the better. If you want to show your friends pictures from your vacation then either create a private group where you DM the pictures directly to them, or just show them in person. You don't need to post your entire life on social media for anybody and everybody to see.
Yeah, but not that easy. I wanted some cameras (cause pretty often i go to my family's, 4 hrs from here, and no way to check my house.), excluded the china stuff butt i have no ability to make my own system (and it has to be cheap). Tried with motionEYE on a rasp and my Synology NAS but couldn't make it work
first get your house physically burglar-proof, otherwise all they need is a rock. if you get a message from your system and calling the cops asap. by the time they arrive, the thieves are most likely gone.
Amazon(I think) actually did this to a guy over perceived "naughty language". He got in, but none of his stuff worked for like a week. edit: Yep, just checked, locked him out for a week because a delivery driver accused him of being racist. So much for innocent until proven guilty, and besides, who the hell are they to pull something like that?
@@logicplague2077 because the person is using product that is owned under their umbrella too, they could, if it’s in the fine print and not already forbidden by law, include that wording that allows them to disable it if used for purposes they deem abusive to their employees, as Amazon isn’t the government
Between this and Lockpicking lawyer, I have learned that the best defense against a home robbery, is just not having things that look worth the trouble to steal.
i like how every cybersecurity specialist knows how evil computers are and uses every advantage they have to aid them against the uprising of "smart" devices
"I laughed, my girlfriend laughed, the toaster laughed, I shot the toaster"
Came to comments for this joke, was not disappointed. 5/5
“A toaster is just a death ray with a smaller power supply! As soon as I learn how to tap into the main reactors I will BURN THE WORLD!"
@@Equinox226 "You should be afraid! I am the scourge of all small appliances and the boogeyman that keeps lesser toasters awake at night!"
Excellent summary of the _Battlestar Galactica_ prequel.
Wait a minute. I don’t have a girlfriend!
"printer wakes a weird noise, I shoot it"
-Thor 2024
True democracy
It's a reference to a meme
@@Banana_FusionI'm flabbergasted that people don't get this one...
My kind of tech advice.
@@saawysorenson4585 Why? The odds of a random person on the internet knowing about a specific meme are not that high until you get to stuff like rickrolls
Take it from me, a guy with 20 years in office security.
EVERYTHING IS A MIMIC.
Printer is out of ink
Thor: Time to die
The ironic part of that, is that its cheaper to buy a new printer, then it is to buy the ink cartridges for them these days
The printers are so cheap nowadays so the business can lock your printer down if you don't buy and use their specific brand of ink. Specifically HP but other brands of printers will follow their example.
@@nealdz1031 facts!
@@nealdz1031 Arent cartridge printers coming with like 25% cartridge? You are not getting "full ink" when you buy it. You have just enough so it doesnt feel like scam but not enough to have it cheaper to buy new printer.
Either way, thats why I changed to fillable ones. Not perfect but 90% cheaper. Either that or laser ig.
@@SurrealLeaf tbh, i dont use it enough to notice. Recently was homebound (work injury), but needed to have ink signed document for home building. So there i was, faced with the dilemma...do i buy $60 worth of ink for my $49 printer, or buy a new $38 printer and toss out the one i had
He's a troubleshooter. If there's trouble, he shoots it.
A troubled shooter.,
@@hedition9346 that too
how is this not popular yet
@@Eve.n.t_horizon because the algorithm has determined I should not be adopted into the halls of the goblin king
Good one.
Thor shooting his printer, knowing damn well from his 20 years in security that it's actually a Decepticon in disguise.
I can’t tell if that sentence would funnier with or without context
@Epsilon2001 I read the comment before I saw the clip, I definitely funnier without
Is „Thor“ his actual name?
@@daedalus5253yes it is.
@@daedalus5253his second name. Something Thor something something.
Sometimes I feel like PirateSoftware would make a great NPC in Cyberpunk 2077
The people who grew up when internet became a household thing should remember how dangerous we were taught the internet was. If you know what a/s/l means, you probably were told don't answer. Now we have live streams in front of the house
don't even get me started. I have an entire soap box speech about uber/lyft. I'm one of those rare ones that grew up with a PC in my home, playing games on since birth in the 80's... I can't even with the world right now.
You had a pc in the 80s? Wtf how rich were you? @@twhimsy
@@parkeydeeYou didn't need to be rich to own an Apple II.
I once saw a tumblr post very close in concept to this. It said something like "the difference between tech enthusiasts and cybersecurity specialists is that a tech enthusiast will have a smart home controlled from an app on their phone, whereas the cybersecurity specialist's most recent piece of technology is a printer from 2006 that they keep a loaded shotgun next to in case it makes an unexpected noise"
makes me think of a post I once saw. Neighbors of the poster kept playing loud music (believe the son was an 'aspiring' drummer). But they didn't have a password on their wireless printer. so whenever the neighbor kid started practicing his drums late at night, he'd have their printer print out an essay about chickens... in chicken.
And if someone wanted to use the printer as a distraction to break in, the shotgun will let them now, that's not a healthy idea 😂
One of the responses to that comment was: Dont keep the gun next to the printer, you're gonna give it a weapon
Came here to post this one. I paraphrase it every time I tell people I work in machine learning and they ask me about chatgpt or whatever, too 😂
I wonder where that originated lol
Tech neophyte - I kinda know how my phone works
Tech enthusiast - my house is automated
Tech security specialist - nothing is connected, toaster looks sus, kill it
keep the 12-guarge in a gun safe next to the printer cause i aint arming the deceptacons
funny because he streams his life. Thor not streaming, thor not home. also now we know thor no has security, house gonna be broken into. External security is fine.
@pluto8404 oh he has security alright, it's not just connected to an Alexa
@@pluto8404 my man he let you know his security throws hot lead.
I like to imagine Thor having only a fireplace and radiators in his house for heating. "No smart devices. That shit can be hacked. How can you hack a hundred year old fire place? Put more wood on it for me?"
You know what's the best security? Grandma on the second floor of your apartment 😂
this man will survive just about any apocalypse.
What I personally always found interesting is that the more you know about a certain technology, the less you trust it. A locksmith generally doesn't trust physical locks for the exact same reason Thor doesn't trust "smart" devices.
Really shows how vapid the border between being safe and „in danger” can be and how „feeling safe” in your own home is just an illusion your brain needs to create to be able to rest in peace(literally, like sleep deeply at night but also switch to less alert state of conciousness, thats exacly why people who went to jail say time goes by „weirdly” because theyre in „survival mode” all the time)
"A lock does no more than keep an honest man, honest"
A locksmith knows most practical locks are nothing more than deterrents, and not actual inhibitors of crime. A locksmith will therefore still use physical locks, because they at least do not facilitate that which you're trying to prevent.
I've been a follower of LPL for several years, and I picked up lock picking over that time. Can confirm, you'd be SHOCKED at how easy it is to get through most locks. I mean, security flaws that have been known for almost a CENTURY(comb bypass, anyone?).
I'll tell you this, the first lock 99% of pickers get the first time is a Masterlock. You can GET high security locks, but they're very expensive, and in all honestly there isn't a lock out there that a grinder won't get through.
*Toaster makes toaster noises*
Thor, Goblin Lord: *racks shell* YOU GOT ME FUCKED UP.
bro you had me wheezing, thanks for the laugh man
I'm imagining him dressed up for Halloween or something, with like a nervous blaster and a toaster. Got me to tear up
Laptop: makes a noise
Me: *loads grapeshot* yep not today cia
That’s some cogboy shit
*SMOKE ALARM:* "BEEP"
News anchor: "Aaaand this just in , a local man was arrested for shooting up his own home!! Police found him ranting about TikTok hackers. More on that Tonight at 11."
Man's out here defending us from skynet like a frontline soldier
No one show him lock picking lawyer.... He's gonna lose it
The S in 'IOT' stands for Security!
There is no security in IOT 😉
@@mjohnson2807exaaaactly!
And the P stands for Privacy
@@mjohnson2807thanks for reiterating the joke, you acoustic genius 😂
I remember my engineering professor using this on a college
"I don't want smart devices, if a fridge can think for itself it's not coming into my home."
The cold box should not decide how cold things are. It's a box, it doesn't understand what temperature *is* let alone how the temperature in the box affects the temperature of my leftovers lol. The only reason I want a smart fridge is so I can play DOOM on it, as is the fate of all machines
@@bobthegamingtaco6073doom and also so you can have that tag that probably doesn't exist anymore. - tweeted from Samsung smart fridge 😂
Yo is your fridge running? No literally its a smart fridge it has 4 wheel drive with FSD enabled
smart doesnt even mean that. it means 'hei, its connected to a bunch of other shit, isnt that smart?'
@@scratthesquirrel5242 yeah, but if the only thing the fridge does is connect to an app so it can tell Amazon or Google or someone that I'm outta Ketchup, that's a dumb fridge, and I'd be a dumb guy for buying that model, so just 'cuz it's IoT doesn't mean it's earned the title of smart in my book
when the toaster doesn’t spit the toast back out in exactly 15 seconds
You're literally Skips from Regular Show with technology. In an episode where they're trying to kill a virus in a computer, Skips says to destroy the computer at the beginning of the episode because its seemed evil.
"Printer makes a weird noise, I shoot it."
As a Texan, I approve.
As a fellow Texan, it's the only way
Also Texan, the trick is to surround your current printer with the corpses of previously shot printers to let it know there will be no second chances.
Also Texan. I have a shotgun trap pointed straight at my printer. One weird noise, and that thing is going straight to God.
As a Texan I prefer knives but to each their own
As a Texan, I am also a Texan.
Get the locks that lock picking lawyer takes over 60 seconds to pick, or the ones McNally doesn't chuck in the trash with disgust.
Or security though obscurity. Disc detainer locks require a special tool that Bosnian Bill and LPL designed (lol), and most pickers don't have one.
@@logicplague2077Ohhhh. that's a good one.
I find a good ole full size door bar works wonders... not even a police issue battering ram is doing shit against my front door.... if it isn't simply easier to go through the wall it's not a door I want
@@Da_Sharksince you bar the door it wouldn't matter, but don't buy doors with mortise locks, or any mortise style knob/lever.
The pocket cut for the lock reduces the integrity of the door.
Not an issue if it's made of Oak and has a steel bar blocking it, but still, food for thought.
Watching LPL videos made me realize that disc locks are the most secure there is, considering even the cheapest example takes over 30 seconds to pick using a custom tool that LPL and McNally's company made.
Watching break-in videos made me realize that locks are only as good as your doors, windows and fences. Nothing is stopping them from breaking down doors or smashing windows. Sadly the only thing that locks stop are crimes of opportunity.
My favorite saying is, Wallstreet millionaires have smart cameras, security systems and electronic locks. IT security specialist have a dead bolt and shotgun. Which home security is safer. . .
Having a camera and a alarm system is more deterent and helps more with insurance than not, no?
@@magnuskramer2I do not disagree with this statement
@@magnuskramer2the thing is that its a deterrent until it isnt. and you dont known when it wont be. The moment someone finds a workaround, and they will, you have to hope to god you wont get hit until the workaround gets fixed. at least a deadbolt you know what youre gunna get and it wont ever change
@@magnuskramer2 Camera and alarm systems are a double-edged sword. Saves you some money, but if they can prove you didn't have the alarm set right or left the door open then you don't get insurance when something does happen.
It's very rarely used to catch the person who robbed you and more often used by insurance companies to try and justify not paying you if they can. Unless you have cameras inside your house in which case you're also surveilling yourself 24/7, bu if it's hosted anywhere the cops can get it with a subpoena without you being alerted. Likewise if you alarm and disarm your system whenever your leave or arrive, there's at least a few people in the world who know when you're not home for extended periods.
Of course the way the world's going, anyone without an active social media account, dashcam in their car, phone giving out GPS coords, and door providing 24/7 surveillance of your street corner is going to be considered sus.
@@TheInsomniaddict That does sound like something the greedy companies would do.
I do think that a few people knowing when i leave my house for extended periods of time, that would be the case whether or not i have a alarm.
They can hack my ring but they can't hack my pitbull
Yet
"Printer makes a weird noise, I shoot it."
Speaking on behalf of every IT tech; It doesn't even need to make a noise
I've heard of percussive maintenance, but I think ballistic maintenance is much better for printers.
A more harsh version of kinetic therapy
They need to be reminded of who works for whom...
Percussive maintenance is to show it who's boss when it's making complaints.
Ballistic (idk but it ain't "maintenance") is for removing it from service.
only if it's HP
Especially hp printers
Jigsaw traps around the home, lol. Never fails!
"Printer makes a noise, I shoot it." I fucking spit out my food lmfaooo
As a disabled person some smart tech can be really beneficial.
It's also designed with security as a last thought.
My compromise is only running smart tech I can operate locally via Home Assistant, no cloud based whatever. If they're in my LAN I already have a problem.
That's the thing.... most of what it's sold as smart anything is just dumb machine connected to the cloud.
Real smart stuff wouldn't really be needing any internet connection. Or the myriad of vulnerabilities and redundant subscriptions that they have.
I wish for more actually smart and beneficial stuff to one day actually get made and the hype about internet connected trash cans can die off.
I'm not really disabled but I finally caved to the bezos and got an echo to help with my ADHD. Tech is beautiful sometimes even if it comes with risk
@@Despoina_Nyxan ai assistant not connected to the cloud would be hype
@@Despoina_Nyx Exactly! Most of it is just a microphone and a camera and all the "smart" is elsewhere. *That* feux-smart is vulnerable trash. But if it can work on its own, and be controlled locally, and you have the knowledge required (that part makes it less appealing for most) you can set up some really useful stuff just on the LAN and even blacklist it in your router/firewall so it can't phone home if it tries - or get accessed from the outside because of some silly flaw they should have thought about, like hardcoded default passwords.
@@infra_Gray Firstly I want to say that ADHD can absolutely be classed as a disability if you want to see it that way, it gets in the way plenty enough (a disability/disorder is something that negatively impacts your ability to function). That's a personal choice for you though!
Secondly, I want to tell you that there is local "AI" assistant technology. Its just a lot harder to set up and you need a dedicated computer and a bunch of experience in IT. If you have that or know someone who does and could help you, look into Home Assistant, by default it controls everything via a web interface (can be set up all local, can also network with cloud-based things if you want it to), but you can install addons like a voice recognition system.
The most American interaction with a printer
- Thor 2024
Most normal* it's such a common experience to not have a printer work and yet aside from bed leveling my 3d printer works every dang time.
Printer: bzzzzzz
Thor: so anyways, I started blasting
LMAO. that last line got me.
Didn't listen to the original full context, but the reference to the printers that use the motors to leak data via sound is genius, he definitely still keeps up with the cyber security papers
Let me guess, by assuming a starting position and analysing the tone produced by the steppers you can sorta reconstruct the printed file by knowing where the printer head spent the most time in?
If so, that's some advanced tomfoolery and way too cool.
@@tiagobelo4965 that's pretty complex and fancy, but like in a more caveman-ish way, assume you want to transmit data out of a network you have code running on without leaving any packets out to trace? Encode the data as sound, dial-up style and have the printer head run through the pitches during whenever you have the opportunity to listen in. Same principle as that instrument that guy made out of disk drives.
I admire this man’s approach to printer troubleshooting.
He hears trouble, he shoots it.
nice joke
Admittedly, for a good stretch of time it'd typically been cheaper to get another printer than to repair it or get new ink for it.
"My printer makes a weird noise, I shoot it." Words to live by
"printer makes a weird noise, i shoot it" i legit laughed so hard i gave myself a migraine
"printer makes a weird noise I shoot it"
Hell I want to do that whenever its not making sus noises, but refuses to cooperate and print what I want it to
I'm telling you, that thing can smell fear
40 years of technology progress in every single thing.
Except printers. Printers have remained a pile of shit for 40 years. Or possibly got worse
Mind-blowing fact, Linux comes with all the printer drivers installed. That was one of the reasons I got it the first time: I could not for the life of me find the printer drivers on the Canon website. One Fedora install later, it just works like you'd expect it to after decades of technological progress.
Now, if only my videogames would work like that, then I'd be in hog heaven, but nooo. Window's one claim to legitimate fame is that their operating system was designed from day one to run videogames. "But can it run DOOM?" was an ad campaign once -- a _Windows_ ad campaign, because DOOM was a more popular piece of software than Windows.
As someone who occasionally has to troubleshoot printers for a living, those devices are Satan! Thankfully it's just laser printers. Inkjets are a triple-decker Satan with extra bastard-sauce.
Insert buckshot into tray 2... At high speed lol😂
Remember, the S in IoT stands for security
Security Hardened Internet (of) Things
SHIT
IoT Internet of That's not mine anymore 😮
Toaster: “Ha yeah… Printers suck, they’re always low on Cyan.”
Thor: Shoots the Toaster, “Gotcha!”
"Printer makes a werid noise, I shoot it."
- PirateSoftware 2024
I'm with Thor on this one. No smart devices unless I know exactly how it works and what connections it has. And none of those better leave my private server.
Ding ding ding. Especially with how easy and accessible it is nowadays, long as you're willing to put in the time. Raspberry pi + home assistant is probably the easiest route for those that don't already have a home server set up.
Exactly. It's bad enough that i have a smartphone, i don't need the rest of my house to also be constantly connected to the internet and gathering data about every single thing i do or posing a security risk. Seriously, why the hell do i need an app to turn on the lights in my room? What was wrong with a normal light switch? Why do i need a camera on my door bell to check who's at the door remotely when i can just look through the hole or the nearest window? It's so stupid. It's just a bunch of solutions to problems that never existed in the first place.
If it's wireless, it will never be secure, period. Especially with the pitiful encryption used on "smart" devices.
@@Fraggr92 "Why do i need a camera on my door bell to check who's at the door remotely when i can just look through the hole or the nearest window?"
Because if people want to unalive you, then going to your door or window to check who is there isn't safe.
It's not that EVERYONE needs that, but with how common home invasions are becoming...
But yea, people either need to suck it up and use wired so that it can't be exploited, or just stop using them.
People down here thinking they’re important enough to be “at risk”z - Also known as paranoia and/or egotism.
The printer had it coming even if it didnt make a weird noise
The printer when the ink is empty: oh dear lord pls let him have a malfunction
“Printer makes a weird noise, I shoot it.” Major Ron Swanson energy, I love it!
The best home defense since 1776, the musket and a cannon loaded with grapeshot
Just like the American founding fathers intended?
@@alu2901 They actually had (admittedly primitive) automatic firearms back in the day. They weren't stupid, they knew where firearm tech was headed, and more importantly they also knew what happened to unchecked governments.
@@logicplague2077 That's pretty cool.
I was just making a "as the founding fathers intended" joke, but that's still pretty neat info.
@@alu2901 Gotcha lol, a lot of people use that to bash the Second Amendment, and these days sarcasm is hard to read.
@logicplague2077 yee its just the copy pasta joke, im all for the second amendment
I laughed, my friend laughed, the printer laughed.
That printer is dead now.
"No printers were harmed during the filming of this short."
"Printer makes a weird noise..i shoot it" epic
This reminds me of a joke. Forgot how it went but the gist is. "I was walking in the forrest hunting with my buddy and felt i was being watched, i told a joke. My buddy laughed, i laughed, the tree laughed and i shot the tree"
Another version:
"My wife asked me why I carry a gun in the house. I said 'for Decepticons.' My wife laughed, I laughed, the toaster laughed, I shot the toaster."
Reminds me of that video where people figured out you just yell "hey alexa unlock the front door" through a closed window and it would work. Also reminds me of people hijacking thermostats, setting the heater to max, and demanding a ransom to turn it off.
"Also reminds me of people hijacking thermostats, setting the heater to max, and demanding a ransom to turn it off."
Me a person with a brain: *flips breaker switch shutting heater off.*
@@shawnpitman876ok bigbrain how do you fix the outside that’s 90 degrees too? Your house ain’t cooling off buddy
@@namedrop721 Awh da widdle baby afraid of a widdle heat? Suck it up princess, AC hasn't been around that long, people have survived in 90f and higher temps for centuries.
@@namedrop721 I don't. I just deal with it. So sorry that you're too much of a princess to deal with something that humans have for literal centuries.
@@shawnpitman876 Me living in the country hills "police response is half an hour out here, what do you think can happen to you in that time?"
Lol that printer joke killed me
LOBOTOMIZE YOUR TOASTER
No Officer, I wasn't firing the buckshot at the toaster, I was performing high speed and high force percussive maintenance in a large volume at a distance utilising a Shotgun.
I mean if it's a HP printer I'd start blasting too.
Or a Brother. I've had a bad experience with them about 20 years ago.
Everybody gangster till the printer starts screeching and printing double sided black pages
Printer - Beep Boop
Thor - So you have chosen...death.
American IT: "If the printer makes weird noises ... shoot it."
"Printer makes a weird noise, I shoot it."
That one got me XD Damnit Thor you always drop those sneaky ones
Printers man, they've been sus since the beginning.
My microwave laughed when Thor made that joke about shooting the printer.
Is he talking about the light that shows up on the doorbell when you’re looking at the camera through the app? Boy, we’d sure have a surprised burglar, cause we almost exclusively check the app before we open the door.
I ask my echo show to show me the front door lmao. I thought the point of the ring doorbell was to answer it more readily when you ARE home? Lol.
If I'm not home, I'm not answering jack. I am going to look through my other cameras though.
He’s not talking about a real way to tell if people are home or not, just making up a situation that could theoretically happen.
@@pogolaughohh
We do the same. 😂
@@pogolaugh The problem is that Ring's encryption for the camera footage is notoriously lackluster. And if a hypothetical thief were able to access it, they'd be able to determine the average hours of the day where the home is unoccupied with a fair degree of accuracy.
Printer: *makes weird noise*
Thor goblin lord: So you have chosen death.
I've worked with printers and my professional opinion is also "yeah shoot it. It's an HP, it's robbing you in ways you can't possibly imagine"
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Printer: *makes a weird noise*
Thor: YOU PICKED THE WRONG HOUSE FOOL!!!
TECH ENTHUSIASTS: My entire house is smart.
TECH WORKERS: The only piece of technology in my house is a printer and I keep a gun next to it so I can shoot it if it makes a noise I don't recognize.
Printer developed a grinding noise
“YOU DARE BETRAY ME MACHINE”
The best security is you being in the room with a gun pointed at the only entrance.
I laughed, my wife laughed, the toaster laughed.
"Great first lines of epic novels"
Door locks and stuff on your house are extremely vulnerable to physical attack too. Picking a house door takes a few seconds once youve practiced. Security is a deterrent, it never keeps everyone out.
security measures keep the honest people out. If they want in, they can trade discretion for speed, but they’ll get in either way.
A few security pins throws the novices for a loop, but at the end of the day your house is made of wood and your windows of glass. If someone _really_ wants in your house they _are_ getting in.
Best thing is to make your house look low priority to the amateurs, a pain for the novices, keep your valuables hidden for the professionals, and keep a decoy previous-gen gaming console in the living room for the crackheads.
"locks only keep honest people out"
I have honestly thought of going back to using like the gate locking method for medieval gates. Not the metal portcullis you see in stone gatehouses. But a wooden gate that was “locked” by putting a large wooden beam in across the threshold of the gate. Only issue with this idea is windows are still a weakness, so replacing them with some sort of stronger material that still does the job as glass would be something to look into. Another issue would be the door and wall strength, but I would assume most criminals won’t take it that far.
Still might have to find a way to get a reinforced door, like a metal core but a wooden exterior to conceal the strength. But I would also have to find a way to reinforce the hinges as I don’t think the beam holding the door closed would be enough. Anyways I’m done rambling, feel free to use my thoughts on the matter of reinforcing your house from criminals and and thieves.
Convenience vs security.
The trick is you have all your smart devices ran and hosted locally on a network that isn’t even hooked up to the internet.
Wifi is a thing. Mosy wifi networks have terrible passwords and can be accessed from 2 houses away.
@@koboldsage9112Not what he means, wifi is just a method to connect devices to a network , He is talking about creating a network that has no connection to the internet and someone who goes to that effort is not gonna use the stock wifi password.
finally a voice of reason
Honestly Thor having a history in cyber security 100% has a shotgun trap at his front door just incase
"Printer makes a weird noise, I shoot it." Same but for different reasons.
I've told people when they ask me about smart devices, like, how to set them up and shit, and I always tell them "I don't do smart devices, you're on your own"
That escalated quickly
Thank God there are still people like piratesoftware around to alert the less cautious in our midst to the dangers of this brave new world we live in.
instructions unclear, printer was a man.
Printer thinks about being sentient and he takes it out.
Or people who post pics while on vacation. Why don't you just put a huge banner on your house that says "ROB ME!"?
If I ever have any home automation stuff it will all be locally run and kept on its own private network with no internet access.
Yeah, DON'T post pics saying you're not home while you're not home. When you get home, sure, post it if you want, but when you're out? Don't do it.
@@alu2901Even then, why do you even need to post pictures of your vacation at all? It's just more information that random-ass people can use against you. If there's one thing you learn when you spend a lot of time on the internet, it's that the less that people can find out about you from your online accounts the better. If you want to show your friends pictures from your vacation then either create a private group where you DM the pictures directly to them, or just show them in person. You don't need to post your entire life on social media for anybody and everybody to see.
@@Fraggr92 Listen, I hold a very similar opinion to yours, but even if I don't personally agree, I might as give advice so those who do it are safer.
Most people like to weirdly brag like that.@@Fraggr92
Cameras need to store information outside the local network though.
Printer makes a weird noise, shoot it. My new favorite quote
This philosophical tangent took a hard left turn.
Just make your own security system with frigate, miniserver, and some 3rd party cameras
If you can afford a frigate and have crew to crew it that is your security right there
Yeah, but not that easy. I wanted some cameras (cause pretty often i go to my family's, 4 hrs from here, and no way to check my house.), excluded the china stuff butt i have no ability to make my own system (and it has to be cheap). Tried with motionEYE on a rasp and my Synology NAS but couldn't make it work
first get your house physically burglar-proof, otherwise all they need is a rock. if you get a message from your system and calling the cops asap. by the time they arrive, the thieves are most likely gone.
Imagine the guy who has a smart house.
Someone hacks it and locks you out.
Amazon(I think) actually did this to a guy over perceived "naughty language". He got in, but none of his stuff worked for like a week.
edit: Yep, just checked, locked him out for a week because a delivery driver accused him of being racist. So much for innocent until proven guilty, and besides, who the hell are they to pull something like that?
@@logicplague2077they accused him of it via the person mishearing words through a smart doorbell camera that has a shitty speaker
@@nixel5695 And? So what if they even did? When did Amazon become the language police?
@@logicplague2077 because the person is using product that is owned under their umbrella too, they could, if it’s in the fine print and not already forbidden by law, include that wording that allows them to disable it if used for purposes they deem abusive to their employees, as Amazon isn’t the government
@@nixel5695 All the more reason not to use it.
Thor's toaster is secretly in love with him. Thor's printer is too scared to leave.
Just remember: Any "smart" home application is a pick added to a lockpicking tool belt.
"Printer makes a weird noise, I shoot it"
Spoken like a true helldiver. Superearth thanks you for your service.
Thor dispensing wisdom.
Legit got Office Space vibes when Thor said, "I hear a printer make a weird noise, I shoot it!"
“The printer makes a weird noise and I shoot it”
*Geto Boys’ “Still” starts playing*
I honestly love your takes on this stuff
Hahahaha haha YES that was an old ass tumblr reference XD
Between this and Lockpicking lawyer, I have learned that the best defense against a home robbery, is just not having things that look worth the trouble to steal.
I'm just imagining Thor laughing with his electronic devices like it's the scene from evil dead.
i like how every cybersecurity specialist knows how evil computers are and uses every advantage they have to aid them against the uprising of "smart" devices
Thor giving relationships advice: ❤
Thor giving career advice: 💪
Thor giving tech support advice: 🔫
Man took "offensive security specialist" a bit too literal
Thor is someone I believe could 100% sniff out any autobots or decepticons hiding in his house😂😂
It's amazing how the more someone knows about technology the less likely they are to use it