I have Google Home and monitors on my own network, I’ve never seen suspicious activity. Here’s somebody else doing it:

https://labs.sogeti.com/google-home-spying/

So the only piece of evidence is a single mention on a low quality PowerPoint presentation from a company nobody has ever heard of. This is tinfoil hat territory

Neither of those articles has any evidence of them secretly listening through everybody’s microphone

Stories of these companies listening through everybody’s mics are like modern day ghost stories. It definitely totally happens every single day but nobody ever manages to get a piece of hard evidence. Maybe the algorithms can sense wireshark like ghosts sense cameras

One time my buddy had sex with a girl he was seeing on my sofa. I just thought meh, I’ll clean the cushions, no big deal. My wife was pissed about it being on the sofa so she posted it on Reddit.

The Reddit response was fucking insane. We had a threesome. I watched it. I orchestrated the entire thing. My buddy wasn’t even there and I was just cheating on my wife. Somebody posted detailed advice on how to hide secret cameras around the house to catch me next time I’m cheating.

These aren’t cherry-picked, they were 95% of the responses. Those people don’t want to give relationship advice. They want drama.

Oh yeah I definitely wouldn’t recommend doing this unless you’re comfortable with all your colleagues!

Exactly, it’s my own version of teaching cyber security!

I recently set somebody’s homepage to meatspin.com and they snitched on me to the boss because they were worried they’d get pulled up for visiting NSFW websites. The boss just said “Why was your PC unlocked?”

If a coworker leaves their pc unlocked near me I like to click the phishing emails so they have to do the course. Tee hee!

I’m still ok to have my stag do there, right?

Hooray, you have better security than Apple, who won’t let me use my own email because some idiot in Australia used it first.

Maybe, but it’s just not the same if you can plug your keyboard back in and fix it. CURSE YOU USB

I loved the PCs that had Ctrl + up as a shortcut to flip the monitor orientation. I think it was a Dell thing?

My favourite prank was to flip the screen upside down then unplug the keyboard. Good luck saving your work fuck face

Just putting the finishing touches on GNAW (Gnaw’s Not A Wheel)

A vibe programmer that built a palm-sized fusion reactor in a cave over the course of 3 months with a single companion

With a box o scraps!

Error message: “you must manually run ‘sudo dpkg --configure -a’ to fix this”

Junior dev: 😵

Here’s an example from NASA

https://x.com/bagder/status/1379897937141063686?lang=en

My keyboard has a dictionary. And DJ! Woo! Cmon! Hibaa! Yeaaa!

I’m an idiot and I put emojis in my SSID and sometimes devices don’t like that but I don’t want to change everything. So there’s a guest network with no emojis