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Can Algorithms Make the Perfect Piece of Toast?

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, 05-13-2025 at 06:53 AM (30482 Views)
https://www.wired.com/story/high-tech-toast/

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Can Algorithms, a Touchscreen, and an Internet Connection Make the Perfect Piece of Toast?

Its freshly minted successor, the $400 R180 Connect Plus Smart Toaster, expands on the touchscreen-centric design while adding new abilities like being able to connect to your Wi-Fi network, update its firmware, show up to 24 photos on its screen, and display the weather.I may have missed the memo, but do we need all this from our toasters?
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  1. Ellsworth's Avatar
    On 5/13/2025 I made the original post above. I originally found the linked article on Wired.com, one of my free views.

    It was an article that was being shared on many different websites, mostly in snippet form, but some copied it more fully and some in its entirety. So I did a quick search and found a free version. I glanced at the website and it seemed fairly benign so I posted a link. That website was 'education transformer .com."

    The next day I could not bring up that site on my computer, using any browser, VPN setting or tor/onion router. That caused me to do two things, replace the link, and look at the internet archive for that website. Turns out that website was not as benign as I thought.

    So I dug around a little more and found the same article on "cao . news" I'm not even going to try and figure out that website. That's why the original link was replaced with the wired.com link, and unfortunately that means it's not as accessible.

    This scenario might be one of the reasons that 'Broetry' doesn't include links. It takes some due diligence to figure out what the hell a person is actually linking to, in the broader context of just the single linked page.

    When I link to something I usually use fairly standard / traditional media sources. I often use bias checkers and include that data. My links are sometimes 'page one SERP' links, and sometimes they from page 2 through 100 +-.

    Now ya know.