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Objects should shut up
Personal blog of Julien (jvoisin) Voisin
And of course, the notification will repeat a couple of times, at seemingly random intervals, likely because the complete bellend who designed this terrible scheme is taking the ever-lowering worldwide car-crash statistics as a personal affront, and is on a mission from God to fix this. I'm a CyberSecurity Professional™, earning a living breaking into computer and computer-adjacent systems, so I own the bare minimum in terms of Smart Devices™, and yet, yet I realised that I still have a non-zero amount of infernal noise-making crap. If you're designing objects, please take some time to test their notification mechanism near an asleep toddler and/or a sleep-deprived lunatic, instead of making piling more noisy interruptions to our already notification-saturated reality.
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