Alternative article: ‘Silicon Valley’s Favorite Mattress, Eight Sleep, had a backdoor to enable company engineers to SSH into any bed’
Genuinely just stop buying tech tbh, there is no better solution
Well, this is a first for me:
BPC > disable Dark Reader or enable JavaScript for site
Javascript is enabled, so I assume Bloomberg just wants to blind me.
Sounds like some janky workaround to address complaints they got from users
Wild. I might agree to that if I’m allowed to visit their offices first and poke someone in the eye. Seems only fair.
“You are a bed! Why do you need my email address?!”
I know this isn’t exactly the point of this post or the article but anyone who thinks a smart bed is useful very clearly has more money than sense.
I feel like I’ve woken up on another planet.
$19 subscription service, for a bed.
I feel like I’m losing my grip on reality
I mean you kind of are if you conflate the idea of the subscription being for just having the bed in your house and sleeping on it. You still have to drop ~2k on the physical product. Then you start paying the $19/mo for their active temperature monitoring and cooling service. It’s still ridiculous but it’s not ‘a bed you have to pay a subscription to use’ ridiculous. Those are called hotels/apartments/layaway…
a backdoor to enable company engineers to SSH into any bed
ಠ_ಠ
The world we’ve created is fucking stupid. Read the article. It only made it more dumb. Good Lord.
Meanwhile, the Purple I got 9 years ago is still giving me my best sleep ever
I’m looking at buying one, but I’m hearing the modern products aren’t as well made as the originals.
I also found a backdoor into my bed, but more on that later.
This is just in general a good read.
