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Laid Off From Job, Man Builds Tweeting Toilet
dcblogs writes With parts from an electric motor, a few household items, an open-source hardware board running Linux, and some coding, Thomas Ruecker, built a connected toilet that Tweets with each flush. The first reaction to the Twitter feed at @iotoilets may be a chuckle. But the idea behind this and what it illustrates is serious. It tracks water usage, offers a warning about the future of privacy in the Internet of Things, and may say something about the modern job hunt. Ruecker built his device on a recent long weekend after he was laid off as an open source evangelist at a technology firm undergoing "rightsizing," as he put it.
We can create a new social network called Shitter, instead of tweets we can have flushes.
Oh look, I'm getting a new flush about Chocolate Starfish.
Calling someone a "hater" only means you can not rationally rebut their argument.
And the difference would be...?
Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens
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