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https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/04/you-can-now-buy-a-flame-throwing-robot-dog-for-under-10000/quote:If you've been wondering when you'll be able to order the flame-throwing robot that Ohio-based Throwflame first announced last summer, that day has finally arrived. The Thermonator, what Throwflame bills as "the first-ever flamethrower-wielding robot dog" is now available for purchase. The price? $9,420. https://youtu.be/U83BfU1phCw Every police department has just increased their budget to purchase these robotic flame throwing dogs to
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Shrecknet posted:the only thing to do with a Google nest is cast it into the ocean! If you say "repeat after me 'fart fart fart fart fart'" to it it'll say fart really fast twenty times or so. We like it.
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TACD posted:lmao you get 10% off if you pay with Bitcoin Lmao they also have a flame throwing drone.  Flying a flame throwing drone loaded with liquid fuel over a power line sure is a choice. But the guy has a hard hat and a high vis vest so he's safe I'm sure. Wasn't there a goon that rigged up a gun on a drone to "shoot pigs"?
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Owling Howl posted:CNBC currently running the headline “Meta loses $200 billion in value as Zuckerberg focuses earnings call on all the ways company bleeds cash” which is indeed funny. Their search engine used to be pretty cool.
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Owling Howl posted:How many of Alphabets skunkworks projects have actually turned into something useful? I'm sure the last successful one was Gmail
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Amphigory posted:I'm sure the last successful one was Gmail I like the Google Nests/Home and the Chromecasts, but that's basically it.
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Owling Howl posted:Zuckerberg desperately does not want Meta to be an ad company but has no idea how to do anything else. Alphabet is sort of the same with all their failed projects from Project Loon to Google Glass. How many of Alphabets skunkworks projects have actually turned into something useful? Per Ed Zitron's latest couple of articles, Tech is no longer about "technology". It's all ADs and financialization from here on out. Google's AD division did a little business coup against one of the last remaining, and one of the founding, good actors and search developers left at Google: The Man Who Killed Google Search "Prabhakar Raghavan, then Google’s Head of Ads and the true mastermind behind the code yellow, would respond curtly, saying that the current revenue targets were addressed “by heroic RPM engineering” and that “core query softness continued without mitigation” — a very clunky way of saying that despite these changes, query growth wasn’t happening. A day later, Gomes emailed Fox and Thakur an email he intended to send to Raghavan. He led by saying he was “annoyed both personally and on behalf of the search team.” in a long email, he explained how one might increase engagement with Google Search, but specifically added that they could “increase queries quite easily in the short term in user negative ways,” like turning off spell correction, turning off ranking improvements, or placing refinements — effectively labels — all over the page, adding that it was “possible that there are trade offs here between different kinds of user negativity caused by engagement hacking,” and that he was “deeply deeply uncomfortable with this.” He also added that this was the reason he didn’t believe that queries were a good metric to measure search and that the best defense about the weakness of queries was to create “compelling user experiences that make users want to come back.” The reason that Google Search has had a precipitous falloff in the last few years is precisely because the guy who killed Yahoo Search, who is an out and out corporate parasite, who's entire worldview is "revenue and growth at all costs" kicked muscled out the man who made Google Search actually work well in the first place, so that he could undo decades of effort to create clean, useful, and efficient search tool in favor of opening the flood gates to SEO and Spam that he could sell space and page positioning to. The first half to full page of Google returning ADs and nothing else is not a bug, but an explicit feature implemented in pursuit of profit. It's the Rot Economy manifest. It's also why Google via Youtube, Chrome, etc is going so hard against adblockers.
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Boris Galerkin posted:Lmao they also have a flame throwing drone. If it's the guy I'm thinking of, no. He mounted thermal imaging on a drone to find pigs to shoot. IIRC He was also hunting them barefoot with a spear in the Louisiana backwoods.
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socialsecurity posted:I like the Google Nests/Home and the Chromecasts, but that's basically it. Google bought Nest.
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Megillah Gorilla posted:(stolen from the Aussie thread, but oh so relevant here) Giving new meaning to "stolen valour" :stankelly:
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Mega Comrade posted:Google bought Nest.
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Boris Galerkin posted:Apparently you can't wash the Cybertruck without putting it into a special car wash mode, Yeah, because the crossmembers are cast metal, so it's smooth/flat on the bottom but the internal reinforcements that are a grid pattern are open on top and capture/retain water, and wouldn't you know it, there's wiring harnesses/plugs that lay on top of those structural elements and they'll soak/leak. Other trucks figured out you just drill a drain hole or have a gap somewhere in the crossmember to allow poo poo to drain out. Tesla Engineers....
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Big K of Justice posted:Yeah, because the crossmembers are cast metal, so it's smooth/flat on the bottom but the internal reinforcements that are a grid pattern are open on top and capture/retain water, and wouldn't you know it, there's wiring harnesses/plugs that lay on top of those structural elements and they'll soak/leak. Wait so do you have to also have to remember to activate carwash mode when if you're driving in the rain as you pull over and step out into the rain to attach the single massive windshield?
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was just about to ask about just normal rain. but will instead ask, what does special car wash mode even do, like does it open a drain? why isnt jus topen by default to let water drain?
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PhazonLink posted:was just about to ask about just normal rain. Alerts Tesla to cancel the warranty.
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PhazonLink posted:was just about to ask about just normal rain. Supposedly it just puts the car into neutral, disables the wipers, and locks the charging port closed. It does absolutely nothing to actually prevent water from going anywhere.
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Perestroika posted:Supposedly it just puts the car into neutral, disables the wipers, and locks the charging port closed. It does absolutely nothing to actually prevent water from going anywhere. That sounds like things to prevent your Nissan leaf from damaging its wipers/charging port and in neutral to prevent running over someone? Is this another thing where something gets all twisted out of shape conspiracy style because people hate a person?
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The guy had it in car wash mode and the car wash still hosed up his truck and tesla voided his warranty over it. People aren't hating on Tesla because of Elon Musk, people hate Musk for the things he and his companies are doing
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Jose Valasquez posted:The guy had it in car wash mode and the car wash still hosed up his truck and tesla voided his warranty over it. People aren't hating on Tesla because of Elon Musk, people hate Musk for the things he and his companies are doing Por que no los dos?
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Boris Galerkin posted:Lmao they also have a flame throwing drone. Iirc China uses flame drones to clean plant matter off of power lines and other all-metal infrastructure. The alternative is turning off the power so a dude in a cherry picker can doink off a piece of wind blown vine or whatever.
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Time to add a new one to the https://killedbygoogle.com graveyard!Kirk Vikernes posted:I just got an email last night from Google about how they're making Google Pay worse. That second one is really something special....
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I, for one, welcome our flying flame throwing overlords. Are we still doing that joke?
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Mercury_Storm posted:Time to add a new one to the https://killedbygoogle.com graveyard! Is there a reason given for such a patently stupid loving decision?
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New Google Executive wants to kill off a project that nobody is protecting probably. That's usually how it works.
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Megillah Gorilla posted:Is there a reason given for such a patently stupid loving decision? Probably regulatory crack down on KYC, AML, untracked money transfers etc has google sweating that its service exposes it to no-mucking-around punitive action.
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So I know bugger all about Google Pay except it's an online payment thing, but the big online payment services make serious cash right? Like it seems like something where as long as you have enough people using it, it would be really hard to lose money on. Edit: Electric Wrigglies posted:Probably regulatory crack down on KYC, AML, untracked money transfers etc has google sweating that its service exposes it to no-mucking-around punitive action. Okay, yeah that make sense then.
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Don't worry there's still Google Wallet. Which used to be called Google Pay. Which used to be called Android Pay. Which used to exist alongside a different version of Google Wallet. Which used to be a different product also called Google Wallet.
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dr_rat posted:Like it seems like something where as long as you have enough people using it, it would be really hard to lose money on.  About that...
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Megillah Gorilla posted:Is there a reason given for such a patently stupid loving decision? Anything that makes less than billions of dollars is at risk. Things that only make hundreds of millions aren't worth it to executives so they just cut it instead of investing time and resources to maintain it
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Electric Wrigglies posted:Probably regulatory crack down on KYC, AML, untracked money transfers etc has google sweating that its service exposes it to no-mucking-around punitive action. That makes sense. Boris Galerkin posted:Don't worry there's still Google Wallet. Which used to be called Google Pay. Which used to be called Android Pay. Which used to exist alongside a different version of Google Wallet. Which used to be a different product also called Google Wallet. And now I'm confused again.
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I seriously doubt it has anything to do with KYC or AML. Google isn't some sketchy crypto exchange, they have an army of lawyers and they are almost certainly already complying with KYC and AML laws
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Jose Valasquez posted:I seriously doubt it has anything to do with KYC or AML. Google isn't some sketchy crypto exchange, they have an army of lawyers and they are almost certainly already complying with KYC and AML laws eh https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-06-04/commonwealth-bank-pay-$700-million-fine-money-laundering-breach/9831064 One of the "four pillars" Aussie banks, its whole business is money transfers and despite an "army of lawyers", accountants and banking professionals, got a $700m fine for not reporting 53k transactions to the govt within 10 days, failing to provide evidence of sufficient AML tracking of 800k transactions and a number of instance where criminal gangs were able to use the banks services that should have been picked up by the bank. And my understanding is that Australia is lax compared to the US when it comes to requirements for tracking stuff to the n'th detail for a government with way better resourced enforcement of said requirements. EU banks as well are being dragged kicking and screaming to what the US govt wants as far as this stuff goes. Not saying Google couldn't do it, just that it will be quicker than banks to cut off services that run the risk of falling afoul of such enforcement/requirements.
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There are new privacy/ security penalties arriving soon for financial institutions. It wouldn't surprise me at all if they'd rather take their service that is likely under used and just kill it off instead of making it more secure/them unable to harvest data from it. This is some wild poo poo. I guess not too surprising that the rich tech CEO brain worms are getting even more wild/fascist. Edit: thanks, fixed my link. withoutclass fucked around with this message at 19:49 on Apr 27, 2024 |
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withoutclass posted:There are new privacy/ security penalties arriving soon for financial institutions. It wouldn't surprise me at all if they'd rather take their service that is likely under used and just kill it off instead of making it more secure/them unable to harvest data from it. Fixed your link: The Tech Baron Seeking to “Ethnically Cleanse” San Francisco The tech bros are not all right.
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Megillah Gorilla posted:Fixed your link: The tech bros are alt right
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Megillah Gorilla posted:Fixed your link: I was not expecting Pierce Brown's hierarchy of colors to become real 
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