most of it stayed within his parents’ home network rather than being sent over the internet

Nomad considered digging deeper to find out exactly what the machine was doing, but ultimately decided it wasn’t worth keeping the device connected

What on the LAN was it connecting to, and furthermore, what’s the point of writing an article about it that doesn’t include such details or even what brand and model coffee machine this is.

Edit:

Ah, the X post says Keurig. Sounds like a faulty unit or somehow misconfigured. More details about what it was specifically doing on the local network and whether another unit behaved the same way would be useful info.

Wonder if this coffee maker is running Java…

mine did, too, and downloaded a bunch of torrent movies

probably training its ai

is the firmware vibecoded to death or is it 1984 levels of spying?

Well that's what you get for downloading pirated espresso.

Geez, you could probably download the molecular formulas for all of the many chemical compounds in coffee and the ratios to combine them in to imitate various beans without using that much data.

Wtf: 1747 tracking cookies in one single site?

Comparable to this shitty coffee machine. Didn‘t read it.

Maybe it's better to call it a server which can make you a coffee then...

Small price to pay for shitty dehydrated coffee.

Reads like a typical x post. Blithering nonesense from a right wing lunatic.

Again?!? This is like the 9th time I've read this post in a week. Why does this keep happening? ?

#lemmyNeedsDedupe