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cbarrick ,

There are still issues with WearOS, but I think some of that is hardware. Last I heard, Qualcomm's wearable SoCs were trash, but Samsung is in a good position since they have both the SoC fab and make the watch itself.

Many industries are shifting to a model where Android is the de facto OS for consumer-facing interactions. It's not well optimized outside of phones yet, but it is rapidly improving. Many cars run Android now, for example.

I'm moderately optimistic about the next generation of WearOS devices.

cbarrick ,

Unfortunately, I think it's been demonstrated that OpenAI will feed your data into their training pipeline whether you like it or not. They did this with YouTube. And they demonstrated this with Scarlett Johanson. (Even if they used a voice actor instead of actually scraping voice clips of her, it's still unethical.)

So we knew they'd just scrape these articles anyway. This way, at least the publications get paid.

cbarrick ,

Fine tuning a general TTS model on a specific custom voice doesn't require as much data as you think it does.

The hard part is building the foundational model that can be easily fine tuned. And OpenAI has already done that.

cbarrick ,

In the US, I pay $90/month ($1,080/year) for 1 Gbps internet.

That's it. No TV. No landline. Just Internet.

cbarrick ,

Compared to software developer compensation in California, Germany is waaaay cheaper.

Heck, Munich is cheaper for Google than literally any of their US offices. You would make more by working for Google in Raleigh, North Carolina than in Munich.

The only European city that pays as well as the US is Zürich. The pay is really good there, about the same as Seattle.

cbarrick ,

Munich is cheaper for Google than literally any city in the US.

Software developer compensations are insanely high in the US, at least at these multinational corporations.

cbarrick ,

What is this?

I use the current gen Chromecast. Never encountered this issue.

I've got a bunch of apps.

A new NES emulator was briefly available on the Apple App Store (www.theverge.com)

Now, clicking on a link to Bimmy shows “This app is currently not available in your country or region.” This time, it wasn’t Apple that removed it but the developer. Over on MacRumors’ forums, the developer said it pulled the app “out of fear.” ...

cbarrick , (edited )

Right. But there is no copyright infringement in an NES emulator, as long as no copyrighted games are distributed.

Emulation itself is not copyright infringement.

The recent issue with the Switch emulator was that they were distributing encryption keys along with the emulator. That wasn't a copyright issue (encryption keys are not expression, therefore not copyrightable) but a CFAA issue. See other comments.

None of that applies to the NES.

cbarrick ,

Even if they were such a thing as a cookie banner law, and there is none, companies in the USA would not have to comply in their country.

It would be only for Europe.

This is a pretty naive take.

If you operate in Europe, you must comply with GDPR. To selectively show a cookie banner, you have to be able to identify the (location of) the user.

It is totally reasonable for a company to operate in Europe but not wish to implement a full identity or location detection system. And so they just show the opt-in prompt to everyone.

And you can't just implement that by using the browser's location API, because European users can totally choose to not share their location with you using that API. But you still need to comply for those users.

There has been for years a proposal for a standard, designed in 2009 (!), still available in all the popular web browsers (except safari) that can make for a seamless experience: the DNT header.

The diversion about the DNT header is irrelevant.

Firstly, it is not codified in law that the DNT header is canonical. What if a user forgets to check the box? What should the default be? What kind of UX should be presented to users? This stuff needs to be spelled out in law for DNT to be a valid way to express opt-in.

Secondly, it's not a robust per-site permission. Browsers only let you set it globally.

Thirdly, it's actually bad for privacy. By making your headers different from the majority, you are easier to fingerprint. This is why Safari does not implement it.

Be mad at companies

I get the spirit of the article.

But the GDPR has pushed the problem of consent to the users, and they haven't done anything to make this easy or convenient. Therefore cookie banners are inevitable. Like, you can't blame companies for acting in their own self interest; that is entirely counter productive.

The EU needs to solve this.

First, go after the data brokerage industry so that it is no longer profitable to sell user data.

Second, regulate how websites can seek permission. Ideally by specifying a consent API and requiring browsers to implement a sane UX.

It will be much more productive to try to solve this with the handful of Browser vendors than trying to regulate each and every consent banner.

cbarrick ,

But nowhere close to the human eye's dynamic range...

cbarrick ,

It's private equity. So presumably they have more discretion around buy backs than public stocks.

cbarrick ,

Pouring one out for the SREs at Meta

cbarrick ,

Meta has SRE. Not just a Google thing, even if Google invented it.

https://engineering.fb.com/2010/02/08/data-center-engineering/site-reliability-engineering-at-facebook/

cbarrick ,

Same one. University of Waterloo.

cbarrick ,

How many people are actually using kexec to update Linux without rebooting?

Elon Musk's Battle with Swedish Unions Is Now Impacting Tesla's Charging Stations | The months-long battle between Nordic labor and the petulant billionaire has led to perpetual humiliations for th... (gizmodo.com)

Elon Musk's Battle with Swedish Unions Is Now Impacting Tesla's Charging Stations | The months-long battle between Nordic labor and the petulant billionaire has led to perpetual humiliations for th...::The months-long battle between Nordic labor and the petulant billionaire has led to perpetual humiliations for the electric...

cbarrick ,

I'm pretty sure China is the biggest EV market. There just simply aren't enough people in Sweden.

The population of Sweden is 10M. A little bit more than the population of metro Chicago.

As a percentage of population, EV adoption is extremely high. But the ceiling for the EV market is nothing compared to China.

cbarrick ,

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cbarrick ,

Back in undergrad, before Facebook went HTTPS only, I would setup "free wifi" and steal people's cookies for shits and giggles. Use the cookies to authenticate with FB and send random messages to people.

Looking back, I probably shouldn't have been doing that. Definitely illegal.

cbarrick ,

No one is going to press charges about me fucking around with their FB accounts 10 years ago.

cbarrick ,

How do they make money off in-house infotainment?

It seems like better infotainment would lead to more sales...

Is theirs better? I doubt it.

cbarrick ,

God damn it Google.

When I turn on the TV, it's fine if the masthead is a banner advertising a new show. I'm literally using the product to find things to watch.

But fast food? That can fuck right off.

The Pentagon Tried to Hide That It Bought Americans’ Data Without a Warrant (www.wired.com)

The Pentagon Tried to Hide That It Bought Americans’ Data Without a Warrant::US spy agencies purchased Americans’ phone location data and internet metadata without a warrant but only admitted it after a US senator blocked the appointment of a new NSA director.

cbarrick ,

If personal data is for sale, the NSA should buy it. Like, it's negligent not to, because they need to know what exactly is being sold in these markets. It's not about spying on the people in the data, it's about knowing the market and who has access to what.

The problem isn't that it was bought, it's that it was sold.

We need to dismantle the data brokerage industry.

cbarrick ,

I use Vivaldi on macOS and Android.

I've never had stability issues.

cbarrick ,

Yep. I daily drive Vivaldi on both macOS and Android.

I love it. The sidebar is a great feature; I stash my extension icons there. The theme is highly customizable; I have mine set to something similar to the Opera dark theme.

I don't use the email or calendar features. The great thing about Vivaldi is that they provide a ton of power user features, but don't shove it in your face. It's super easy to turn off the things you don't want and to turn on the things you do want.

I do use UBO, but they also have a builtin ad blocker if you want to use that instead.

The settings page is very extensive. Tons of customization. True to the Opera legacy!

cbarrick ,

The true Opera fans moved to Vivaldi.

All that is left are those who got caught.

cbarrick ,

So HP is either malicious or incompetent

Why not both!?

cbarrick ,

The average American is not tech savvy.

(Which is surprising, given that the US has arguably the strongest software development industry in the world.)

Most Americans just use the default apps installed on their phones. Facebook Messenger is really the only non-default messaging app with mass market penetration, and that's because most Americans already have Facebook accounts.

Americans just don't want to sign up for new accounts or learn new apps. Therefore, iMessage won by default.

cbarrick ,

$4.01 in July 1976 is $21.61 in October 2023.

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