I asked that to chatgpt once and it's answer was something like "You like to translate R code to Python" just because I sometimes ask it's to translate R to Python, but I don't personally like it
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You don't like doing it so you ask something else to do it for you.
In 2023, 60% of UK households had a smart speaker, up from 22% before the pandemic.
Jesus Christ. I had no idea so many people were buying these things. That's astounding.
If you'd asked me to guess what percentage of households had one, I'd have guessed single digits.
60% of people in UK are certified morons. Slightly higher than I expected.
I got several free from both google and amazon. My electric company gave me one too.
My parents' ISP router has Alexa integrated into it
whatthefuck
Gross.
Why would they do that
Because we are the product...
remember when Texas power turned off peoples heaters when they were freezing to death as Rafael Edward Cruz went on a tropical vacation?
yeah, they did that because those people registered their smart thermostats with the company and gave them control to set the temperatures in their own damn homes.
"smart" means, "you don't own it".
That depends on the kind of "smart".
I have a bunch of IKEA "smart" light bulbs, but they are connected through a Sonoff USB Zigbee dongle. And all of it is controlled through the open-source zigbee2mqtt and home-assistant.
No one, but myself and my family, have any control or ownership of any of those devices.
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I have three unopened google pucks that I received as gifts over the years.
I had four, but I opened one to take apart to help identify if it was possible to hack it.
at the time it was not. the only part that can be reused it the plastic shell.
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It's completely irrelevant to the article, but I can't believe nobody mentioned how many fucking headphones this person goes through lol
particulars of every purchase I’ve ever made – from the noir novel I bought on the day that Amazon UK launched to the 28th pair of headphones acquired in as many years
someone need to backbone capitalism, he is a hero
"In as many years" is doing a lot of work there. I dont think Amazon was selling headphones in 1997.
That said if they are spending 10-40 bucks on headphones a year they are doing alright.
Are they?? Am I the weird one for not constantly breaking headphones? I'm in my 30s and I can count on two hands the number of headphones I've had in my entire life and several of them I got for free with iPhones
I paid I think 250 for earphones over covid. They went in the wash a few weeks ago. I'll probably spend between 300 and 400 on a replacement. That will ~700 spent which I would hope would do me for at least an additional five years so 70 a year is more than what I would imagine they are spending annually.
That said I expect mine to be better
That's fair I suppose. I buy quality to last as well. I've only bought two pairs of headphones in the last 10 years. One pair is wired in ear studio monitors that came with a pouch to prevent damage and the other was some wired over the ear open backs for when I need to be quiet at my desk.
We are lucky to be able to to make decisions that take us out of false economy situations. Inwould have bought multiples when I was younger, I might only have 10-30 to spend when I'd need/want them.
This is agood example of how it can be more expensive to be poor, the old example being boots that are half thebpricr lasting a quarter of time of the alternative.
they have hostile lobes
Maybe they have lots of ears.
I absolutely tear through headphones. When they're wired, the wire breaks where it meets the earpiece. When they're wireless, the battery last like two hours. The USB port on my phone is long dead, and they don't sell phones with the old headphone jack that didn't break.
But I still refuse to be that guy playing music on the bus.
Buy some on-ears or (better yet) over-ears, still rocking my Sony WH-CH700N for almost 6 years. Can't find a successor for them, CH710N and CH720N for unknown reasons got rid of aptX ;_;
You need to buy a pair of good ones. Not hyped, not endorsed by whatever weird rap singer, but good ones.
I bought a pair of good BT headphones 10 years ago, and they still going great. 10 years ago the battery lasted 20 hours, now it's around 12 or so, which is still more than enough.
Ok that sounds pretty good! What's the model number?
I don't know the exact model unfortunately, It's Sennheiser and they're all weird. The old one can't connect to their new configuration software so I can't check.
I also have their newer version, Momentum 3, and can very much recommend that one, all the same great quality, but also Bluetooth 5.0
Get a tiny carrying pouch for your wired headphones and they will last a lot longer
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you can go into the app and literally see your request history
The most concerning part about this article is that they put one in their nine-year-old's bedroom.
Based on the article, it lets her ask them things that she doesn't want to ask her parents, though I'm not sure that if I were 9 years old that I'd suddenly want to discover that my parents have a list of everything I've asked it and are reading through it, much less that Amazon has a database.
Yeah, that is a terrible violation of trust. A parent should stop listening when they find out that they have a copy of such conversations of their child. They shouldn't write a newspaper article with citations about it
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To add to the other responses, and I suspect the real reason, is that Coco is listening to Audible Audio books regularly and/or music. It's mentioned and then dropped by the article fairly quickly.
Interesting how every comment on the article is doing the "you're a terrible parent, how could you do that" routine when I'll bet it's there because Coco either took the first one in or asked for a second one. Kid wants, kid normally gets one way or another.
Also, surely this device is no different to a phone in that neither is meant to be listening indiscriminately. There's a chance a 9 year old has a phone nowadays I'd imagine
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I feel like I looked into a bag labeled 'everything Alexa has ever heard' and gone, "I don't know what I expected."
On the other side of the coin, the shock shouldn't be what it knows, but what every single other device you own with a micrphone might also know.
Anyone here that isn't as equally distrusting of a stock, off the shelf cellphone is lying to themselves.
And also a link to all of your Amazon data:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/hz/privacy-central/data-requests/preview.html
Its kinda depressing that the takeaway they seem have here is "we don't always have enough time for our family, but luckily Alexa can pick up the slack 😌"
Instead of "society pushes us to spend less time making meaningful connections and more time relying on services that cost you money or privacy"
Somebody's toddler is going to eat rocks after AI tells them it's safe, especially if you're giving your kids unfettered access to the internet, which is what Alexa is. You're just hoping Jeffy moderates good, when you and I both know rules and restrictions for an LLM are very hard to enforce.
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I asked my google home the same question and it told me that I told it that my dog is a good girl 3 times. I know it's not great for privacy, but it made me chuckle.
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