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posted by janrinok on Wednesday August 14 2019, @07:37PM   Printer-friendly
from the grounded-until-eighteen dept.

Reportedly a girl earned a phone confiscation from her mother by watching YouTube while the stove caught fire. There were so many opportunities around their house to circumvent being grounded that it only slowed down her access to the source of her addiction, earning some attention around the net:

In her recounting over Twitter DM, Dorothy told me that her mom took away her phone after she "was boiling rice and was too busy on phone and stove burst into flames." She was watching YouTube at the time.

After her phone was confiscated, she began desperately searching for other ways to tweet. "I've been bored all summer and twitter passes the time for me," she said. She also worried that if she stayed off the platform too long, she'd lose her mutuals — internet shorthand for users who follow each other.

In her search for other posting methods, Dorothy came up with increasingly elaborate ways to daisy-chain systems not designed for tweeting. In her first post, she managed to send a tweet from her Nintendo 3DS, a video-game console with a rudimentary camera and web browser. [...]

She also allegedly used a Nintendo Wii U before settling on the family LG Smart Refrigerator.

Whether this is a gag or not, there are several important issues rasied here regarding both addiction and the proliferation of poorly secured comsumer grade devices.


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  • (Score: 2) by choose another one on Wednesday August 14 2019, @08:40PM

    by choose another one (515) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday August 14 2019, @08:40PM (#880517)

    > Perhaps plumbing fixtures must also be fitted with the technology to tweet.

    Aren't plumbing fixtures actually the technology that carries the tweets anyway, the internet being a series of tubes or pipes? no ?

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