Login

Recent searches

No recent searches

Search options

Only available when logged in.
mastodon.online is one of the many independent Mastodon servers you can use to participate in the fediverse.
A newer server operated by the Mastodon gGmbH non-profit

Administered by:

Server stats:

11K
active users

mastodon.online: AboutStatusProfiles directoryPrivacy policy

Mastodon: AboutGet the appKeyboard shortcutsView source codev4.4.0-nightly.2025-03-14-security

Public
Seth 🎙️:jawn_sg:

@9to5Mac Kinda creepy but also sometimes necessary to keep the property safe.

Public
Melvin Gundlach

@pch @9to5Mac Hidden cameras are never (!) ok in a rental unit.

Public
Richard Ayres 🇺🇦

@pch @9to5Mac If anyone feels the need to do that then they shouldn't rent to strangers.

Public
Tim Lavoie

@rayres @pch @9to5Mac Probably also correlates with the tendency of people to do AirBnBs as an actual business. If they were renting out a spare room or suite where they lived, they would already have some idea if major shenanigans were going on.

Also, some people are just creeps.

Public
canleaf08 ⌘ ✅

@pch @9to5Mac how and why? There are so many fishy airbnb host out there, also so many motel innkeepers at the Trans Canadian near Baddeck who have bedbugs and are strange.

Quiet public
Tagomago

@9to5Mac Ugh. Will avoid some Kamasutra postures from now on.

Quiet public *
MMR Nmd

@9to5Mac
If anyone is doing a paper or a survey on the matter, I have a story for them.

One dear friend of mine from UK went to visit her dying father in Vancouver so she took an Airbnb in this city.

My friend smoked drugs in the apartment (she rented the whole apartment, not just a room) and the owner, who had placed 5 of these devices in a 2 rooms apartment, called the police.
My friend being English, she didn't know her rights and ended up arrested and kicked out of the Airbnb.
She ended up sued for detaining and consuming heroin.
When she got out of the police station, she had no more room, her money had been sucked by her bail and cold turkey.

Nobody knows what happened, but 12 hours later, she was found dead in an abandoned building, having bought fentanyl instead of the crap heroin she used to smoke in UK.

To me, this tenant who grassed my friend to the police through an illegal device should be charged with involuntary manslaughter.

We used to call her Bee, she was 48 and a beautiful soul.

Public
Derek Martin

@9to5Mac Any good tech to help detect them (other than a magnifying glass). Some sort of signal scanner?

ExploreLive feeds
About