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smarxist
Jul 26, 2018

by Fluffdaddy
here's a smart home twofer

https://twitter.com/nex3/status/1041760567814443009

(gets more fun in thread)


https://twitter.com/bjmay/status/1041833853852311553

i will never install any of this poo poo in my house

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HorrificExistence
Jun 25, 2017

by Athanatos
https://twitter.com/MauriceJCasey/s...2Fr%2Frussia%2F

dont be mean to me
May 2, 2007

I'm interplanetary, bitch
Let's go to Mars


ShriekingMarxist posted:

here's a smart home twofer

https://twitter.com/nex3/status/1041760567814443009

(gets more fun in thread)


https://twitter.com/bjmay/status/1041833853852311553

i will never install any of this poo poo in my house

:hai: some poo poo aint gotta be smart :hai:

The Nastier Nate
May 22, 2005

All aboard the corona bus!

HONK! HONK!


Yams Fan

ShriekingMarxist posted:


i will never install any of this poo poo in my house

my wife bought an alexa against my wishes. the only thing we ever use it for is as a glorified music player

Former DILF
Jul 13, 2017

The Nastier Nate posted:

my wife bought an alexa against my wishes. the only thing we ever use it for is as a glorified music player

i use mine as a thing to scream the n word at


e: my cat loves it, he used to fulfill this function

Ommin
Apr 5, 2006
I like to watch CinemaSins and Honest Trailers for all the movies I'm curious about but don't want to watch. It's like Cliff's Notes with commentary notes to use in conversation to "prove you watched it."

The Nastier Nate posted:

my wife bought an alexa against my wishes. the only thing we ever use it for is as a glorified music player
:same: And also a timer.

chesnok
Nov 14, 2014

ShriekingMarxist posted:

here's a smart home twofer

https://twitter.com/nex3/status/1041760567814443009

(gets more fun in thread)


https://twitter.com/bjmay/status/1041833853852311553

i will never install any of this poo poo in my house

There has to be some legislation prohibiting leaving the house in a t-shirt like that after the age of 13.

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

BREADS

chesnok posted:

There has to be some legislation prohibiting leaving the house in a t-shirt like that after the age of 13.

checks Twitter bio, is not disappointed

Sing Along
Feb 28, 2017

by Athanatos
just print the homeowner's face on a tshirt and wrap a scarf around your head and you'll get right in

he even has a nice mugshot right there on his twitter bio for you to use

Former DILF
Jul 13, 2017

Socks4Hands posted:

just print the homeowner's face on a tshirt and wrap a scarf around your head and you'll get right in

he even has a nice mugshot right there on his twitter bio for you to use

this will be the new wardriving

Former DILF
Jul 13, 2017

1. google address
2. get facebook etc
3. print face
4. ransack house

KomradeX
Oct 29, 2011

The Nastier Nate posted:

my wife bought an alexa against my wishes. the only thing we ever use it for is as a glorified music player

A glorified music player that is a wiretap

Former DILF
Jul 13, 2017

KomradeX posted:

A glorified music player that is a wiretap

it might be wiretapping 10 second snippets, but it delets them after determining you aren't are risk to whomever controlls that uh you know, thing. do not rise up epic gamers

bring back old gbs
Feb 28, 2007

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN
some middle manager got a kickback from amazon to pepper those lovely alexa boxes throughout our offices. i like to think whenever i clearly enunciate 'jeff bezos is a pedophile' or 'amazon doesnt pay employees a fair wage' into it every morning it gets played back in one of their conference rooms somewhere

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

Former DILF posted:

1. google address
2. get facebook etc
3. print face
4. ransack house

This would absolutely work.

bring back old gbs posted:

some middle manager got a kickback from amazon to pepper those lovely alexa boxes throughout our offices. i like to think whenever i clearly enunciate 'jeff bezos is a pedophile' or 'amazon doesnt pay employees a fair wage' into it every morning it gets played back in one of their conference rooms somewhere

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17VQtmxmLfM

got any sevens
Feb 9, 2013

by Cyrano4747

Former DILF posted:

i use mine as a thing to scream the n word at


e: my cat loves it, he used to fulfill this function

NEOLIBERALS NEOLIBERALS NEOLIBERALS!!!!

Morphix
May 21, 2003

by Reene

sometimes I feel like I've seen the craziest Alex clips, and than you show up with that badboy

Control Volume
Dec 31, 2008

Former DILF posted:

1. google address
2. get facebook etc
3. print face
4. ransack house

Thats a lot of steps when you can just break a window

Prav
Oct 29, 2011

Control Volume posted:

Thats a lot of steps when you can just break a window

neighbors aren't gonna give a poo poo if you just walk in the front door normally though

poo poo pull up in a moving van or something

BULBASAUR
Apr 6, 2009




Soiled Meat

bring back old gbs posted:

some middle manager got a kickback from amazon to pepper those lovely alexa boxes throughout our offices. i like to think whenever i clearly enunciate 'jeff bezos is a pedophile' or 'amazon doesnt pay employees a fair wage' into it every morning it gets played back in one of their conference rooms somewhere

I unplug them when I show up to a meeting

Milo and POTUS
Sep 3, 2017

I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?

Prav posted:

neighbors aren't gonna give a poo poo if you just walk in the front door normally though

poo poo pull up in a moving van or something

They'd probably be glad to see him leaving.



Audible whoa on this one

SMILLENNIALSMILLEN
Jun 26, 2009



ShriekingMarxist posted:

https://twitter.com/bjmay/status/1041833853852311553

i will never install any of this poo poo in my house

Technology deciding on its own to unperson adult fans of superheros, silver linings.

System Metternich
Feb 28, 2010

But what did he mean by that?

quote:

How spiders terrorized a woman with a creepy midnight nursery rhyme
Natasha Frost September 18, 2018

It’s the stuff nightmares are made of: For months on end, a woman living in Ipswich, England, was awoken nightly by the far-off strains of a child’s recorded voice, singing the nursery rhyme “It’s Raining, It’s Pouring.” Eventually, the noise would depart—only to come again another day.

“The first time I heard it it was the most terrifying thing ever,” the woman, who did not want to be named, told the BBC. “I went cold and felt sick, and thought, ‘What on earth was that?'” Frightened by the song’s “threatening undertones” and questioning her sanity, she finally decided to take matters into her own hands and call on the local borough council, she told the Ipswich Star. “I started to ask myself why I was living with this when I could do something about it.”

The next time the woman heard the song in the middle of the night, she rang the council’s rapid response team, and sent them in the direction of the noise.

In what must have made for a terrifying scene in the middle of the night, the team found the music blaring out from a loud speaker over an industrial premises down the road. While they’d initially found the woman’s claim “difficult to believe,” a spokesperson told the paper, “it sounded very eerie at that time of night. We appreciate that people living nearby would find it quite spooky.”

In fact, the music had been designed as an anti-trespassing measure, like a kind of siren to deter “opportunistic thieves.” The sound is activated by motion sensors, and supposed to be heard only on the estate itself, but it had accidentally been turned up so loud that it was audible even on neighboring roads.

As for the intruders, they were probably too small for larceny. Spiders had triggered the siren by crawling across the lenses of the cameras, sometimes resulting in the song playing for hours at a time. It’s since been turned down—so the itsy bitsy spiders can cavort to their hearts’ content, while their neighbors get some sleep.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkcntJ9Hnhk

Mariana Horchata
Jun 30, 2008

College Slice

chesnok posted:

There has to be some legislation prohibiting leaving the house in a t-shirt like that after the age of 13.

yeah dude looks like he's missing some parts

Communist Thoughts
Jan 7, 2008

Our war against free speech cannot end until we silence this bronze beast!



When I was a lad we used to climb up a nearby dry ski slope at night and if the alarms went off they would just play dancing queen extremely loudly.
To this day that song triggers my flight response.

Communist Thoughts
Jan 7, 2008

Our war against free speech cannot end until we silence this bronze beast!


Quoted the wrong person wanna fight about it?

The Nastier Nate
May 22, 2005

All aboard the corona bus!

HONK! HONK!


Yams Fan
I was making dinner last night and noticed something that wasn't quite right...this feels like the appropriate thread.

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Shear Modulus
Jun 9, 2010



The Nastier Nate posted:

I was making dinner last night and noticed something that wasn't quite right...this feels like the appropriate thread.



is it the fact that you were using meat a week past its expiration date

The Nastier Nate
May 22, 2005

All aboard the corona bus!

HONK! HONK!


Yams Fan

Shear Modulus posted:

is it the fact that you were using meat a week past its expiration date

No, I had it frozen right after I bought it and let it thaw out.

It's the "ALL VEGETARIAN DIET" that I needed explained to me.

Either the claim is that this chicken is part of a vegetarian diet OR those chickens were not fed meat, to which my follow up question is - what the gently caress kind of meat are we feeding the other chickens? it has to be other chicken meat right?

Trabisnikof
Dec 24, 2005

The Nastier Nate posted:

No, I had it frozen right after I bought it and let it thaw out.

It's the "ALL VEGETARIAN DIET" that I needed explained to me.

Either the claim is that this chicken is part of a vegetarian diet OR those chickens were not fed meat, to which my follow up question is - what the gently caress kind of meat are we feeding the other chickens? it has to be other chicken meat right?

chickens are omnivores

hobbesmaster
Jan 28, 2008

The Nastier Nate posted:

No, I had it frozen right after I bought it and let it thaw out.

It's the "ALL VEGETARIAN DIET" that I needed explained to me.

Either the claim is that this chicken is part of a vegetarian diet OR those chickens were not fed meat, to which my follow up question is - what the gently caress kind of meat are we feeding the other chickens? it has to be other chicken meat right?

Wild chickens will eat insects, worms, small lizzards and the like.

To get enough protein the "all vegetarian diet" birds are probably fed feed with soy in them

Siamang
Nov 15, 2003
They make a lot of chicken feed with processed chicken feathers to increase the protein content:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feather_meal

Shear Modulus
Jun 9, 2010



The Nastier Nate posted:

No, I had it frozen right after I bought it and let it thaw out.

It's the "ALL VEGETARIAN DIET" that I needed explained to me.

Either the claim is that this chicken is part of a vegetarian diet OR those chickens were not fed meat, to which my follow up question is - what the gently caress kind of meat are we feeding the other chickens? it has to be other chicken meat right?

hmm, what kind of meat thats generally unsaleable would chicken farms generally have on hand

Wheeee
Mar 11, 2001

When a tree grows, it is soft and pliable. But when it's dry and hard, it dies.

Hardness and strength are death's companions. Flexibility and softness are the embodiment of life.

That which has become hard shall not triumph.

Trabisnikof posted:

chickens are omnivores

“vegetarian feed” is used because people are stupid and think it’s better despite being worse, for both chickens and people

The Nastier Nate
May 22, 2005

All aboard the corona bus!

HONK! HONK!


Yams Fan

Wheeee posted:

“vegetarian feed” is used because people are stupid and think it’s better despite being worse, for both chickens and people

I'd accept a label that said "these chickens were not cannibals"

Trabisnikof
Dec 24, 2005

The Nastier Nate posted:

I'd accept a label that said "these chickens were not cannibals"

so then what you do is feed the chickens to pigs and then slaughter the pigs and feed them to the chickens. that's the trick they use to get around laws against feeding cows to cows. they feed the waste cow meat to chickens then feed the cows the chickens

Syd Midnight
Sep 23, 2005

Socks4Hands posted:

just print the homeowner's face on a tshirt and wrap a scarf around your head and you'll get right in
This is how the AI apocalypse creeps up on us while the nerds build their Maginot line of Asimov's Laws and such. Facial recognition software is obviously going to have to be taught pop culture artifacts and fictional characters like Batman, and identity databases are going to have to create records for them. There will be a way to flag them to avoid false positives, but as long as people continue to draw, dress as, or use Batman as a user name there will be online activity for countless bots to observe and mine for data.

Sloppy algorithms harvesting personal information linked to Batman will build personalized advertising and behavioral prediction models. Content procedurally generated to appeal to the entity identified as Batman will be observed by other algorithms, legitimizing his existence. Data will accumulate as spambots register social media accounts, auto-generate user profiles, and design products and storefronts to appeal to him. advertising bots will impersonate him in DMs and chat rooms, until Batman has a rich and complex life and history, created and lived out entirely by AI that have convinced each other that he is real.

Like an emergent oral tradition, Batman becomes a mythical figure like gods and heroes of old as his enormous social influence and unrivaled media presence is noticed. Batman sightings start getting flagged by criminal databases, anyone with the username is bombarded by advertising bots competing for his attention. Somewhere in the Ukraine an unsupervised click farm, its admin having died several days earlier, decides that Bruce "Batman" Wayne is the most influential person on Earth. It purchases data and diverts resources towards creating custom content to post to his public channels and playlists. Animation sweatshops and webcam porn sites accept the algorithmically generated orders for 5-minute videos, and real human beings sigh and go to work acting out and producing the bizarre fantasies that machines think will appeal to Batman.

Sheng-Ji Yang
Mar 5, 2014


Syd Midnight posted:

This is how the AI apocalypse creeps up on us while the nerds build their Maginot line of Asimov's Laws and such. Facial recognition software is obviously going to have to be taught pop culture artifacts and fictional characters like Batman, and identity databases are going to have to create records for them. There will be a way to flag them to avoid false positives, but as long as people continue to draw, dress as, or use Batman as a user name there will be online activity for countless bots to observe and mine for data.

Sloppy algorithms harvesting personal information linked to Batman will build personalized advertising and behavioral prediction models. Content procedurally generated to appeal to the entity identified as Batman will be observed by other algorithms, legitimizing his existence. Data will accumulate as spambots register social media accounts, auto-generate user profiles, and design products and storefronts to appeal to him. advertising bots will impersonate him in DMs and chat rooms, until Batman has a rich and complex life and history, created and lived out entirely by AI that have convinced each other that he is real.

Like an emergent oral tradition, Batman becomes a mythical figure like gods and heroes of old as his enormous social influence and unrivaled media presence is noticed. Batman sightings start getting flagged by criminal databases, anyone with the username is bombarded by advertising bots competing for his attention. Somewhere in the Ukraine an unsupervised click farm, its admin having died several days earlier, decides that Bruce "Batman" Wayne is the most influential person on Earth. It purchases data and diverts resources towards creating custom content to post to his public channels and playlists. Animation sweatshops and webcam porn sites accept the algorithmically generated orders for 5-minute videos, and real human beings sigh and go to work acting out and producing the bizarre fantasies that machines think will appeal to Batman.

Nice

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

Syd Midnight posted:

This is how the AI apocalypse creeps up on us while the nerds build their Maginot line of Asimov's Laws and such. Facial recognition software is obviously going to have to be taught pop culture artifacts and fictional characters like Batman, and identity databases are going to have to create records for them. There will be a way to flag them to avoid false positives, but as long as people continue to draw, dress as, or use Batman as a user name there will be online activity for countless bots to observe and mine for data.

Sloppy algorithms harvesting personal information linked to Batman will build personalized advertising and behavioral prediction models. Content procedurally generated to appeal to the entity identified as Batman will be observed by other algorithms, legitimizing his existence. Data will accumulate as spambots register social media accounts, auto-generate user profiles, and design products and storefronts to appeal to him. advertising bots will impersonate him in DMs and chat rooms, until Batman has a rich and complex life and history, created and lived out entirely by AI that have convinced each other that he is real.

Like an emergent oral tradition, Batman becomes a mythical figure like gods and heroes of old as his enormous social influence and unrivaled media presence is noticed. Batman sightings start getting flagged by criminal databases, anyone with the username is bombarded by advertising bots competing for his attention. Somewhere in the Ukraine an unsupervised click farm, its admin having died several days earlier, decides that Bruce "Batman" Wayne is the most influential person on Earth. It purchases data and diverts resources towards creating custom content to post to his public channels and playlists. Animation sweatshops and webcam porn sites accept the algorithmically generated orders for 5-minute videos, and real human beings sigh and go to work acting out and producing the bizarre fantasies that machines think will appeal to Batman.

I want to believe.

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Trabisnikof
Dec 24, 2005

Bradbury had it right:

quote:

Until this day, how well the house had kept its peace. How carefully it had inquired, 'Who goes there? What's the password?" and, getting no answer from lonely foxes and whining cats, it had shut up its windows and drawn shades in an old-maidenly preoccupation with self-protection which bordered on a mechanical paranoia.

It quivered at each sound, the house did. If a sparrow brushed a window, the shade snapped up. The bird, startled, flew off! No, not even a bird must touch the house!

The house was an altar with ten thousand attendants, big, small, servicing, attending, in choirs. But the gods had gone away, and the ritual of the religion continued senselessly, uselessly.

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