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Vegetable posted:Alexa was still a good idea for them. It’s a land grab. If they didn’t do it then Google and Apple would be controlling the market. I might use mine for more if: 1. It didn't usually gently caress up going anything more complicated than the above 2. Alexa learned to stfu and stop suggesting I do more random dumb engagement poo poo every single time I ask about the weather. Even turning on the stfu mode buried in its horrible options menu doesn't fix this. Somewhere a user experience person or algorithm is probably listening to me and thousands of others tell Alexa to SHUT UP and taking notes on when expletives are added. I mean whatever, it's better at figuring out poo poo than OK Google is.
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I think you'll find that e-waste owns, actually.
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Nov 21, 2022 23:27
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Drones crashing down on top of you from sky for no reason? Now people in the West can experience their foreign policy firsthand!
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Eric Cantonese posted:So would it have taken a long time for the market to catch up to what Alexa is capable of? Problem is how do you monetize it? Setting timers is no doubt useful but Amazon doesn't sell anything when you do it. The same is true for playing music, checking the weather, setting calendar notifications etc. Amazon needs you to buy poo poo from them or sell you ads and Alexa isn't a good conduit for either. Google has the same problem. Siri as a feature probably sells more Apple phones than if it didn't exist so there might be some financial justification for it.
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Jaxyon posted:Drones crashing down on top of you from sky for no reason? One of the more haunting parts of Omar El-Akkad’s American War was post-apocalypse America being haunted by uncontrolled autonomous killer drones (originally set up for US border security I think) that would randomly ping what the drone thought was a hostile and come down and wipe out whole groups of people with nothing that could be done to stop them.
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lol it's sponsored by Gina Rinehart one of Australia's worst mining billionaires (she was at Trump's election announcement the other day for some reason) hence the "Roy Hill" up in lights. They had to let everyone know who was paying for christmas
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Arivia posted:One of the more haunting parts of Omar El-Akkad’s American War was post-apocalypse America being haunted by uncontrolled autonomous killer drones (originally set up for US border security I think) that would randomly ping what the drone thought was a hostile and come down and wipe out whole groups of people with nothing that could be done to stop them. Yeah that's been what we've been doing to large groups of people in other countries for over a decade. It is haunting and horrifying. I don't know if the fact that they're run by people instead of fully autonomous makes it any better.
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People you can at least put on trial. Have you ever tried to take a major corporation on trial? Or worse, the US military, which doesn't let you sue them except under special circumstances (I've been hearing a lot about a lawsuit for Camp Lejeune recently).
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Jaxyon posted:Yeah that's been what we've been doing to large groups of people in other countries for over a decade. It is haunting and horrifying. Yes, sorry, if it wasn’t obvious I was agreeing with you. El-Akkad is a Canadian journalist and a big theme of the book is “what if what the US did elsewhere across the world was visited upon it instead.” Highly recommended.
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Nov 21, 2022 23:57
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Severe lack of swan song jokes about this. I'm very disappointed.
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if they were going to fly them over water why didn't they give the drones lifejackets?
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Arivia posted:One of the more haunting parts of Omar El-Akkad’s American War was post-apocalypse America being haunted by uncontrolled autonomous killer drones (originally set up for US border security I think) that would randomly ping what the drone thought was a hostile and come down and wipe out whole groups of people with nothing that could be done to stop them. I need to rewatch Screamers with Peter Weller...
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How has Twitter been holding up through the World's Cup without engineers?
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Well I'm hearing reports of the Fail Whale has returned.
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Kwyndig posted:Well I'm hearing reports of the Fail Whale has returned. The what now?
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Blue Footed Booby posted:The what now? This.  Twitter displays it when it's over capacity. It hasn't really been a thing for ten years. Coincidentally, the event that it got really common during was the World Cup (I think 2011's), which practically brought Twitter down. edit: It was 2010's. Prism fucked around with this message at 06:21 on Nov 22, 2022 |
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Alexa might have become popular in business settings but it looks like Amazon gave up on that 18 months ago and stopped updating their blog https://aws.amazon.com/alexaforbusiness/ They had ready-to-go video calling hardware to integrate with their own meetings platform (Chime) or could have charged a fee to bridge it into Zoom, Teams or whatever but seemed to be even less focused than Google at seeing an idea through.
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Thanks Ants posted:They had ready-to-go video calling hardware Meta also had ready-to-go video calling hardware. Let's check in with them and see if their attempt is fairing any better... https://twitter.com/internetofshit/status/1594894813446696960
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That's what you get for pulling Xmas poo poo in November. Also wow that company owner and mayor look skeevey as gently caress. I guess Taxpayers lose again!
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"Please come back. And tell your friends what a cool guy I am." https://twitter.com/unusual_whales/status/1595050213877628929
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Pretty sure Elon is just loving with people or performing some elaborate social experiment to see how much employees will tolerate at this point. He has already said that he doesn't understand coding and nobody is going to read 1,200 emails per week of code and attached summaries of what they are working on. https://twitter.com/alexeheath/status/1594857578256748544 quote:Elon Musk wants every Twitter employee sending weekly updates about their work via email now.Per an internal memo to employees that I obtained, every Friday all Twitter employees are required to send an email update on their work with the subject line structure: “Weekly Update, name, dept, and date.”Inside the email, they must include what project they are working on, “code samples” if relevant or summaries of work for non-technical work, and what they have been trying to accomplish.“Looking forward to making Twitter the highest performing tech software company in the world,” the internal memo ends. Hardcore!
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Pretty sure Elon is just loving with people or performing some elaborate social experiment to see how much employees will tolerate at this point. Well no but it forces people to make impressive lists on a weekly basis so in theory it'll be the equivalent of managment boosting short term earnings to look good when the quarterly report comes out. Except employees can just make poo poo up and no matter what they write Elon may pull up the latest email at any time and fire them after "reviewing" their work.
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:...nobody is going to read 1,200 emails per week of code and attached summaries of what they are working on. Nobody sane, but I find it plausible that the same type of randoms who tweet at Elon about how they'll show up and fix Twitter's codebase were able to sell him on the idea of getting paid to do code review via email attachments. I feel like he would grasp at any kind of life preserver at this point, even if it's made of lead.
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He's either counting on being able to punt all those e-mails to a dedicated review staff or he's just trying to create the illusion of productivity and fastidiousness in an effort to somehow make the working culture and the company "look" better to others. This does smack a lot of bad consulting methods for increasing accountability and cross-silo communication.
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Can't wait for the Musk tweet that says he's sure his team will finally crack the "FizzBuzz" issue that everyone has been using so much time on.
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"Both N and P are complete!"
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Pretty sure Elon is just loving with people or performing some elaborate social experiment to see how much employees will tolerate at this point. Surely some of his sycophants or if there's any senior code folks still there convinced him of this. Like just riding this poo poo to the end of the line I'm sure with some rear end kissing someone convinced him this was good so now that that person/group's job is to do nothing except on Friday afternoon when they forward this so Musk with a "Wow this code checks out, looks great"
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:
This is a guy that searches his own name on Twitter for people to personally ban
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Mister Facetious posted:This is a guy that searches his own name on Twitter for people to personally ban Ahh the lowtaxification of elon musk continues. Are we sure he isn't being possessed at this point?
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Heck Yes! Loam! posted:Ahh the lowtaxification of elon musk continues. We haven’t seen any signs of mangosteen addiction. Yet.
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At this point I’m pretty sure there are ghosts of Internet Past, Present, and Future that come to haunt those who become too online. Instead of the ghost of a friend showing them his chains, it’s just Dril whispering in their ear, “theres actually zero difference between good & bad things. you imbecile. you loving moron”
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Heck Yes! Loam! posted:Ahh the lowtaxification of elon musk continues. He overbought Twitter for $44 billion not Goldbelly and a warehouse of grenade logo t-shirts.
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https://twitter.com/verge/status/1595039692717973505?cxt=HHwWgoDT8cmJ3KIsAAAA I was most amused by the spokespeople who expressed shock and horror that the Facebook plugin they deliberately installed on their secure website would just vacuum up personal user information like that.
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I hate it when you accidentally create an account with Meta and implement one of their tracking pixels
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They all take their users’ privacy very seriously!
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:"Please come back. And tell your friends what a cool guy I am." like it would not surprise me if "twitter 2.0" is literally a ground-up rewrite
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TACD posted:lmao it's like getting partway through a project and going "this all stinks, I've messed it up, I'm gonna start again and do it properly this time" except with a company you paid $44b for This assumes he has the money to do it.
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follow that camel!! posted:Nobody sane, but I find it plausible that the same type of randoms who tweet at Elon about how they'll show up and fix Twitter's codebase were able to sell him on the idea of getting paid to do code review via email attachments. I feel like he would grasp at any kind of life preserver at this point, even if it's made of lead. I hope someone sends him the same email with the same code every week and sees how long it takes Elon to notice, if ever.
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Evil Fluffy posted:I hope someone sends him the same email with the same code every week and sees how long it takes Elon to notice, if ever. Elon can just have one of his engineers write some code to scrape these emails into an excel file and highlight the duplicates. Oh wait...
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