cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/38062
Part of the infrastructure to enforce Social Credit Scores in America.
22,000 people lost control of temperatures in their homes for hours Tuesday.
As you can see PAP-10 calls for the tracking of everything from your TV, gas, water, heat (Includes Hot Water and Steam), refuse (trash), sewerage, internet, TvLiscense & cold (Includes chilled water and ice) through the Smart Grid.
A heat wave in a nice test run
This sort of thing is why you need stuff either controlled by stuff that’s mechanical or doesn’t have any sort of network connectivity, or alternatively stuff that’s fully free and open source and you can replace the software on if they pull some bullshit.
I’ve got my corpo devices, but I run all my own services for a reason. Spotify can’t delete songs off my subsonic compatible music server.
All this technology that offered so much convenience and efficiency is being turned into a weapon against us.
Using open source where we can helps, but often you either have no choice or the implications are not explained for you to make an informed choice