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A funny case study of the 21st century "software engineering" at its best.
As result of #AWS failure, a number of commercial products stopped working that relied on AWS hosted services. Such as the Eight Sleep Pod beds.
Yes, physical beds for sleeping relied on AWS to work. And it was not some kind of extremely sophisticated "AI" processing, but simple schedule "make warmer", "make colder", "raise/lower" etc. All that was controlled through AWS.
When AWS stopped working users started complaining that their beds got stuck in weird positions and users were unable to control them. So yes, a bed say in Netherlands stopped working because it could not retrieve instructions from US server which were sent there by the person physically present on said bed.
And the bonus: each bed sent 20 GB of telemetry data to AWS each month.
Source: https://x.com/zimm3rmann/status/1980491408948572167 (on Twitter, sorry)
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A funny case study of the 21st century "software engineering" at its best.
As result of #AWS failure, a number of commercial products stopped working that relied on AWS hosted services. Such as the Eight Sleep Pod beds.
Yes, physical beds for sleeping relied on AWS to work. And it was not some kind of extremely sophisticated "AI" processing, but simple schedule "make warmer", "make colder", "raise/lower" etc. All that was controlled through AWS.
When AWS stopped working users started complaining that their beds got stuck in weird positions and users were unable to control them. So yes, a bed say in Netherlands stopped working because it could not retrieve instructions from US server which were sent there by the person physically present on said bed.
And the bonus: each bed sent 20 GB of telemetry data to AWS each month.
Source: https://x.com/zimm3rmann/status/1980491408948572167 (on Twitter, sorry)
@kravietz buy their beds, you'll feel like sleeping on a cloud!
(Literally π€)
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@signoredibaux grazie anche a te β¨π
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I hear they're rolling out some new humans for ai agents to use
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@supersarma it's quite popular here. Mine isn't connected to an antenna. It's a "smart tv" but disconnected from the network, I use it to watch series or other videos while my wife is already sleeping
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@stella Buonanotte π
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@sdm No idea but I pronounce it POO-lee-zer
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@vermaden @omar I agree. I'd use FreeBSD (or any other BSD) in my laptop if possible. For the next device, I'll carefully check the compatibility. For now, I'm ok with using Linux on my minipc and MacOS on my laptop. I have hundreds of *BSD powered servers so I don't miss the opportunities to use them
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@stefano TV in the bedroom seems to be a very Italian thing. Every italian I know in France have a TV in the bedroom π
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@SistaWendy @futurebird and, most of the competition is worse at it. Google and Microsoft don't host their businesses in their own public cloud offering. Amazon runs on AWS. So, if you move, you're probably downgrading to a worse experience (though I tend to try to avoid AWS, anyway).
