It sounds a bit off. But if you’re not looking for it, you won’t find it. That, I believe, is enough to fool most everyone, which is arguably a bad thing.

Made me think of this scene lol

One of the main reasons many people purchased a Kobo was to run quill. Those morons just cut off that market segment. A small segment, I know, but still a segment they just amputated.

Blank white screen on the personal profile (woot).

Outlook only on the work profile (only has notification access and nothing else). I’m actually surprised Teams isn’t on that list, but ok.

Pretty sure china won’t be the only one…

Trained on 19,000 hours of video content from undisclosed sources

I’m gathering their “undisclosed sources” are social media (YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, etc.) and copyrighted content (DVDs, BRDs, etc.), all without permission or legal rights. I wonder when pirating becomes just another brick in the wall…

I read about this DM. What’s the purpose of those messages?

Looks to stem from default creds and SPF+all, both of which are amateur hour. In their defense, devices should not allow keeping default creds, and SPF should have never implemented the +all tag. Still, though. It’s 2025, not 2005. They should have known.

Not an April fools, but it might have been a plan they (whoever it was) chose to later not follow through with.

I vaguely remember the Sony fiasco.

Both of these were in the USA. The first was with a friend’s purchase, the latter was an article he sent me. It’s been a little while, but I know one was Samsung, but can’t remember the other brand or which was which.

Not all tvs allow you to do that. Some require you to be online. Some took it a step further and are equipped with 4/5G modems to bypass your network restrictions.

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The smart ones are sold at cost or at a loss, and your privacy is then sold to subsidize the profits. A dumb tv costs more money up front (since it’s not subsidized by your privacy), but it costs far less in overall value. It’s a tradeoff that the consumer needs to make. The lovely thing, is that (for now, at least) it is still a choice we can make.

This article may have been right 2 years ago, but not so much today.

I have an offline stt keyboard on my phone that uses Vosk. I used to have a stt digital assistant, too (can’t remember which model), but I didn’t need a “siri” and ended up uninstalling.

A Computer Scientist Breaks Down Generative AI’s Hefty Carbon Footprint

2023 article, but way more informative than the TikTok one here, and doesn’t seem like blatant propaganda.

I guess the gif I posted about seeing this before was spam. Sorry, everyone. Didn’t mean to violate a rule :/

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Don’t worry. The apps they want you to use definitely don’t have backdoors for them to use to circumvent all encryption, and those nonexistent backdoors will definitely not be found by other bad actors.

Yes, that’s what the ad said, but the actual class was basically teaching how to trick a woman into bed. The movie sucked, by the way, even if the protagonist figures it out and leaves the class (happyish ending, I suppose). The original story is much worse and much more objectifying.

He had his own school for scoundrels, and got 800k people to join? What a sad commentary on the world in which we live.