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From: The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: smart plugs???
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2025 10:36:41 +0000
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On 16/01/2025 09:33, Mike Scott wrote:
> On 15/01/2025 20:31, Pancho wrote:
>> I think you have to be careful that they are not controlled by a cloud 
>> service. If you have a cloud service you need a working wan connection 
>> and you are exposed to the cloud service provider disappearing.
> 
> (Thanks to all for replying)
> 
> This is the rub. tp-link clearly /want/ the consumer to use their 
> "cloud" service - which is usually just a fancy codeword for 'we want 
> your data'. There's no actual /need/ that I can see in this case.
> 
Actually there is.

It is the simple way to solve 'remote access' to your 'behind NAS' 
network connected gadgets

Now *we* can organise that because we are geeks, but te average 
coinsumer? Doan mak me larf!


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“it should be clear by now to everyone that activist environmentalism 
(or environmental activism) is becoming a general ideology about humans, 
about their freedom, about the relationship between the individual and 
the state, and about the manipulation of people under the guise of a 
'noble' idea. It is not an honest pursuit of 'sustainable development,' 
a matter of elementary environmental protection, or a search for 
rational mechanisms designed to achieve a healthy environment. Yet 
things do occur that make you shake your head and remind yourself that 
you live neither in Joseph Stalin’s Communist era, nor in the Orwellian 
utopia of 1984.”

Vaclav Klaus