I suspected it shouldn’t need the connection, but I’ve never had one of those, so, I didn’t know for sure.

It’s just that the article gets in a tangent about how the device might require offloading that to online servers… and then it’s obviously not the case since the guy made it work offline.

My VR headset can create pretty accurate 3D maps of my environment like nothing, and it only uses cameras to do so, so I can imagine it’s doable.

Then, yeah, it doesn’t “make sense” for that thing to externalize that.

There’s something not working in this article.

They say it “makes sense” for the device to basically send the plan of your home to some online server, because the vacuum is not powerful enough to process this data on its own. This is already a bit horrifying to me, but okay.

And then when that guy blocked it out, the vacuum “worked for a while” before something sent the kill command through an update.

How come is it still working at all if navigation requires that server?

Yeah, I would never even have considered those if I just encountered them with no other info.

I can get branding things that are maybe even tangentially related to their main activity, and then there’s a chance they’d want something at least decent. Possibly.

That one is so random I couldn’t imagine more thought went into it than tacking their logo on the cheapest thing they could buy.

If Mother Brain from Metroid is going to be a thing, they should also start using that biocomputing to develop the Power Suit.

Unless you know that guy working on both API management and the identity provider.

If, hypothetically, someone came to that person with a problem like that, they might do it just for fun. Allegedly.

“Prompt yourself with some bullshit so that it looks like you’re doing something productive.”

Who knows, maybe that’s how you attain AGI? What is a more human kind of intelligence than looking for ways to be a lazy fuck?

Nothing tells that AI is a clever use of your ressources like enforcing a mandatory AI query quota for your employees, and having them struggle to find anything it’s good at and failing.

My parent’s TV is absolutely terrible, and the source menu is a big part of it.

It doesn’t show sources that have not sent any input since the TV was turned on. So when trying to get the Switch on it, I’d need to start the console first, then push the source button… and the menu is so slow to appear that the Switch has gone back to sleep mode before I can reach it…

Most remote design is honestly atrocious. Somehow they keep hiding “source” in random spots, when it should be one of the most important buttons. The obscure pictograms are all over the place, and most buttons will never be used by anyone.

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Regarding how quickly Instagram started sending them personal stuff… Letting an app access your location, especially if it’s not a one-time authorisation, is basically telling it who you are.

There was a newspaper investigation recently on data brokers, they approached one to get a sample of their data. It was “anonymous” data, only in the sense it didn’t contain names. Using Apple’s advertiser ID, they had no problem building profiles from specific devices and could easily identify a lot of their own employees, simply because their routine around a location made it clear it was their workplace. And from there, it was not hard to find out on the data what their home address was.

It probably took only location for the burner phone Instagram to know that this is either the same person, or someone closely related to them.

Not sure, but I understood that comment to mean “it would be worth getting angry against YouTube if the videos they removed were about rufus”, not that rufus itself is wrong.

“and you can buy that exact SD card model for the low, low price of $62.99 on Amazon RIGHT. NOW!!!”

That might not be the weirdest, most awkward product placement I ever saw, but close.

EDIT : for those not seeing it, yeah, the article actually mentions that price and has a direct link to Amazon.

Friday’s what now?

It’s not about the concept of AI, it’s about current developments in generative AI, which is just one approach for it but has largely hijacked the term. This one could burst and disappear, hopefully replaced by something better, but the general field of AI would not.

Also, I’m not sure where you are going with that argument. Despite being the subject of stories for millennia, nobody has invented dragons yet.

I am guessing this is a rethorical question, but, they already forcibly flag videos as “made for kids” against the creators’ will (and despite very clear audience statistics proving it’s not).

So yeah, they are totally using their magic 8-ball to restrict your content.

Worse, since generating a whole bunch of potentially correct text is basically effortless now, you’ve got a new batch of idiots just “contributing” to discussions by leaving a regurgitated wall of text they possibly didn’t even read themselves.

So not only those are not fact checking, when you point that you didn’t ask for a LLM’s opinion, they’re like “what’s the problem? Is any of this wrong?” Because it’s entirely your job to check something they copy-pasted in 5 seconds.

My kindle is from 2011, got it for free from someone getting rid of it. It’s old and dumb as shit and Amazon fortunately doesn’t care about it anymore.

Since I got it, it never had an Amazon DRM-ed e-book loaded on it. I intend to keep it that way.

Wow that’s bullshit. A freaking sports mafia has the power to cripple the internet.