JackbyDev

It’s spam. They don’t care what you say.

I don’t know about desktop/laptop stuff but I can do it on my Pixel phone (Android, I know).

One of my old coworkers from a place I no longer work would come to me for every exception his code threw. Being generous, I understand his intentions, he was curious if they were known problems or things to avoid. That said, every time I asked him what line of code it happened on or if he’d searched online about it the answer was no. I was probably ~25 at the time and had a bachelor’s degree. He was definitely at least 50 and had a PhD.

Stable Diffusion has the option to include an invisible watermark. I saw this in the settings when I was running it locally. It does something like adds a pattern that is easy to detect with machines but impossible to see. The idea was that you could check an image for it before putting it into training sets. Because I never needed to lie about things I generated I left it on.

Male bees have sex once mid flight and die.

Yeah, whenever people say “the other country pays” (well, before this election cycle) what they meant was that the higher price would encourage shoppers to buy domestic this the other country “pays” because they get less revenue. Prices would go up either way though because of the domestic goods were cheaper they would’ve already been the first pick. The thing about taxes is that it doesn’t really matter if it’s placed on the supply or demand side, the end effect is the same. Sure, it will feel different and there might be different short term effects, but it’s the same regardless. The price is higher and government gets a cut.

So I don’t really understand why people believe that even if the foreign country/company was paying the tariff why people would think prices stay the same. As if other countries are just going to get a 25% fee and not increase prices by ~25% to cover that.

I didn’t even know this was a feature. My understanding has always been that Echo devices work as follows.

1. Store a constant small buffer of the past few seconds of audio
2. Locally listen for the wake word (typically “Alexa”) using onboard hardware. (This is why you cannot use arbitrary wake words.)
3. Upon hearing the wake word, send the buffer from step one along with any fresh audio to the cloud to process what was said.
4. Act on what was said. (Turn lights on or off, play Spotify, etc.)

Unless they made some that were able to do step 3 locally entirely I don’t see this as a big deal. They still have to do step 4 remotely.

Also, while they may be “always recording” they don’t transmit everything. It’s only so if you say “Alexaturnthelightsoff” really fast it has a better chance of getting the full sentence.

I’m not trying to defend Amazon, and I don’t necessarily think this is great news or anything, but it doesn’t seem like too too big of a deal unless they made a lot of devices that could parse all speech locally and I didn’t know.

While the young people of this generation are generally useless when it comes to something more complicated than microsoft word, the people who are good at technology, usually are very good at it.

“Young people bad!” This paragraph has nothing to do with the rest of the post.

I interpret top level comments as responses to OP unless they say something otherwise.

I don’t get what your comment is getting at. I don’t view this post as saying anything special or unique about the notification. I see it as a warning that Firefox is now doing this.

Sending telemetry like crashes and what features you use/don’t use isn’t really in the same category as using location data for marketing purposes. It’s a very important distinction to draw.

Alright gang, what are some good open source Firefox forks available on Android and Linux?

I had an Amazon bot lie to me. I told it some item didn’t show up and I wanted a replacement. It said it would send one and it would show up in my orders. It never did. So I requested a refund later. So tedious.

If you observe what passes for a “normal” “person” these days, they will endlessly scroll algorithmic ai-generated incomprehensible horrors on Tiktok, then purchase something through an ad from temu, they do not think.

Can you just like, not be so damn condescending and elitist? Literally saying people who use TikTok and purchase stuff from Temu are sub-human…