Post

@stefano Sure does seem like all this technology going wrong in unprecedented ways is because this seems to be the first time where we expanded technology this aggressively and just chucked the old system that could easily have been an emergency backup into a landfill.

@stefano The most recent alarm and camera system I dealt with required a static IP for the client system to authenticate to their cloud. They owned the hardware on both sides of the connection but still needed a static IP. ;<(

@stefano

Same issue I had when they started replacing phone lines with VOIP.

@stefano

Yes. Like here,last week. A widespread power outage. So the mobile phone masts and repeaters were out as well, everyone's on fibre, so no Internet, no mobile phone, no landline.

#OwnYourData

@stefano The vulnerability tech giants have thoughtlessly placed the world in terrifies me.

@stefano and he didnt say to buy a new one?

@stefano

The new ones are 4G or Wi-Fi and use the cloud, so notifications go straight to your smartphone, it's not calling anymore."

Cloud storage I refuse to use any device that depends on it.

Local persons stood in front of fully charged solar battery's and were unable to use any power at all. There was an outage.

They made two errors, their device synchronized with mains and only works with Eco Flow Cloud.

My delta pro delivers, any time anywhere.

I no longer endorse eco flow...

@stefano Isn’t it a matter of network infrastructure reliability and ubiquitousness more than the tech itself?

One could have said the same about cell phone networks when they first appeared.

Your data transits regardless via a network service provider…?

@stefano Ugh, yes. Looking ahead for even a year or so thinking about the maintainability of some web code is apparently already hard enough.

But alarm systems are _infrastructure_. Those go in decades. A decade is a _loooong_ time in cloud...

I'll remember this story the next time I'll be "dialing in" to our current alarm system at 9600 baud or whatever it is.

@stefano many years ago worked in a state of the art data center just completed. Two outside power feeds, 2 battery rooms, just about everything automated.

A storm hit. Took down radio tower and the one water pump for coolers. Witnessing was spooky because all the fire doors were openly swinging in the wind. Back up lighting acted like an automated prop for a horror film.

Everyone had to be called in to manually take down everything before servers auto shutdown from overheating.

@stefano Silly! The Cloud is forever!

Why, just look up at that gray sky and you'll see what I mean!!

And ever!
/s

@stefano Vorwerk recently discontinued the cloud services for their Neato vacuum robots, bricking tens of thousands of 500€+ devices.

@stefano
What could be more simple for a power company than the customer reading their own meters and submitting result by trusted methods in use for decades?
My last property had ‘forced’ on us, wifi meters. The gas one (exterior) was too far from WiFi router so I still had to read it myself.
I am currently refusing to have meters changed.

@stefano
all my Life people laugh sayin I got my head inda clouds, now them's got their businesses, memories n contacts there, while da heavier da clouds get, da harder da rains onda rising plains ...