NaibofTabr

percussive maintenance, my favorite

You don’t pet your printer?

So, more reliable output then.

I’m not sure what I need an AI assistant for when I’m eating breakfast, but OK.

It’s a bad idea to compare Lemmy to Reddit or expect Lemmy to replace Reddit.

Slow growth is not a problem, it’s actually a benefit.

There is no hurry, and no need to push for high user counts.

Rather than trying to attract more people, focus on making your communities an attractive place to be.

PenDriveLinux or rufus or balena etcher (frequently just referred to as “etcher”) or just dd.

Birds of a feather.

Are we sure it’s not a werewolf being taken over by Venom?

The problem is that when you accept the terms of service for smart devices and applications with voice interfaces, you give consent to be recorded.

Well my comment was a response to the comment above, not to the article, and in the context of “Kamala’s Thoughts” it is relevant.

ravhall’s point is good, that if a Democrat tried to share their ideology this way the response would be overwhelmingly negative. But on the other hand, we have “Truth Social” which might as well be labeled “Trump’s Thoughts” because he uses it as his personal soapbox. Political candidates owning social media companies should be illegal.

If Cox is advertising this as a product, it’s because they have a market that will buy it.

And on the other side, Donald Trump owns a social network, and yet no shit storm.

How the fuck did ethics become so asymmetric?

Well look, not to be dismissive of what you’re saying, but the technical aspects of it really don’t matter. There is not (yet) any law in the US that would protect people from such surveillance, regardless of its current technical infeasibility. The point of getting people at large worried or upset about this is to get law established before it becomes a widespread problem, not after some company publicly admits to doing something despicable.

The fact that companies are thinking about this, trying to accomplish it, trying to buy this functionality from other companies… that should be enough to scare people and get them angry. It’s certainly enough that we should all be talking about it, and publicly shaming them for the voyeuristic creeps that they are.

There should be riots in the streets over stuff like this, because you can’t build a surveillance state without surveillance technology.

For a “robot” or other automated appliance to be able to perform tasks in the world, it must be able to perceive the world around it in some way. For it to interact with humans, it must perceive the humans (observe their actions, interpret their instructions, and understand their intentions). The direction our technology is headed in has shown us that any such device would primarily be a surveillance platform which collects data on its users. Any helpful tasks it might perform for the user would be the bait that gets them to swallow the hook, and not the device’s primary purpose.

I don’t want a smart car or a smart TV and definitely not a smart household appliance such as a refrigerator. Why would I want a self-propelled, self-aware surveillance platform under the control of a multi-billion dollar corporation in my home? or workplace? or anywhere?

Yes they do. Not enough people know.

We need everyone to talk about this until it becomes general public knowledge, and then general public outrage.

It’s cost-effective!

By Grabthar’s Hammer…

And when the company fails anyway because it’s too late to change course, the intern is an easy scapegoat!

Go on mate, pull the other one!

This article doesn’t really say, but gas power plants are frequently used for peak demand because you can easily throttle them to meet fluctuating demand (and generated power that is not used is wasted). So, even though we’re comparing energy production (gas) with energy storage (batteries) it does make some sense because the batteries can probably replace the need for peaking plants eventually. If we can smooth out the demand cycle with storage for power generated during off-peak hours it would make the power grid much easier to manage.