I think blogs like this need to have a conversation about the cybersecurity aspect of these things. How seriously do the companies that make these things take security and what options, if any, do users have to ensure that the IoT laden homes aren’t being used against them?

I picked up the original wink hub back in the day for $20 if I bought a pair of lightbulbs from Home Depot. And so I did, with the understanding that I would only add devices to my system that play nice with other platforms.

Can’t wait to send ransomware ware to your AC system ... hahahahahaha

Go for anything other than Apples HomeKit, mediocre system that ties you into Apples walled garden

Personally I’m hoping when he goes in for the creep hug on a woman, she does a judo throw.

Hahaha this is gold. I can’t believe (I totally can) that lazy bastard took a golf cart while the other six walked.

I don’t care how many arguments are made from how many different directions, I will always have contempt for the people who voted this man into the Oval Office. FOR FUCKING SHAME

Remember when Donald was going to make us respected by the whole world? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

I’ve decided, after having a couple alpha-assholes pull the move on me, that the way to deal with this kind of dimestore-leadership-handbook handshake-dominance bullshit is to cut off the attempt by not allowing the wannabe-alpha grab at the palm like a normal person, but instead to close the grip early, clamping down…

C’est un homme who doesn’t have le temps for your merde, Donald.

Why is it that usually the men get to chat while the wimminses do the child care?

No one in the history of politics has ever had so many mean handshakes directed at them. Sad.

This amuses me. Far more than it should. Vive la revolution!

god.. its fucking sad that something as small as a handshake could affect the world nowadays....

Thank god Macron won, I don’t think I could have handled watching Marine simpering up at Trump in feminine reverence.

Viva la France 🇫🇷

I can see it now, Merkel will go up to Trump and extend her hand to grab him by the balls, ‘cause when you are famous, you can do that’

Seems like “health and well-being of the animal” ought to be a requirement for working toward any type of “breed” of dog.

My parents have a pug. He’s sweet and affectionate and I love him. That’s why it’s so hard to watch him struggle to breathe or to play. I worry about what the future holds for him medically.

Everyone’s least favorite train wreck was being a jerk in the comments for the post about this on The Root, so, friendly reminder to ignore and dismiss at will when it’s called for