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Google's call-scanning AI could dial up censorship by default, privacy experts warn (techcrunch.com)

A feature Google demoed at its I/O confab yesterday, using its generative AI technology to scan voice calls in real time for conversational patterns associated with financial scams, has sent a collective shiver down the spines of privacy and security experts who are warning the feature represents the thin end of the wedge. They...

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Like turning off Google Location history, its just hidden from your view.

I obviously don't trust Google (who does?) but you say that like it's a verifiable fact. Is it?

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Yep put ur phone traffic through wire shark and u really location gets sent to google regardless..

Have you done that?

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Can you provide some links or something? I desire to own a thermal camera but they are just so expensive.

I don't need anything fancy but higher res would obviously be cooler.

lud ,

Oh, that looks pretty dang good.

300 USD is probably a bit too much for me to spend on something that I have no real use for but its very neat.

Firefox 126: New Search Data Telemetry, Improved Copy Without Site Tracking, Security Fixes, and More (www.mozilla.org)

Telemetry was added to create an aggregate count of searches by category to broadly inform search feature development. These categories are based on 20 high-level content types, such as "sports,” "business," and "travel". This data will not be associated with specific users and will be collected using OHTTP to remove IP...

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Click on "read more" in the article:

To improve Firefox based on your needs, understanding how users interact with essential functions like search is key. We’re ramping up our efforts to enhance search experience by developing new features like Firefox Suggest, which provides recommended online content that corresponds to queries. To make sure that features like this work well, we need better insights on overall search activity – all without trading off on our commitment to user privacy. Our goal is to understand what types of searches are happening so that we can prioritize the correct features by use case.

More info here: https://blog.mozilla.org/products/firefox/firefox-search-update/

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Windows is the most common operating system for developers

https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2023/#section-most-popular-technologies-operating-system

Visual studio which the the most used IDE after Visual Studio Code is only available on Windows and Mac.

The Mac version will soon be retired though.

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I dont think it's even possible to use more than two monitors on a M series computer (maybe except if you spend extra for the max edition)

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In general dual booting windows and Linux on the same disk is risky.

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Yeah, it's a ridiculous limitation.

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It's still ridiculous to limit it.

Pretty much any modern computer should be able to output to more monitors than that.

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There is no reason that they couldn't do 3 1080p monitors or more especially when the newer generation chips are supposedly so much faster than the generation before it.

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If true they are some pretty shitty chips.

Having two external monitors + the built it minor is extremely common.

At work almost everyone has at least two monitors because anything less sucks (a few use just a big external one plus the built in) and it's also common to also use the built in monitor for stuff like slack or teams.

Having more than two monitors isn't a "pro" feature. It's the norm nowadays.

Sure it might be enough for the cheapest option if the cheapest option was cheap. Unfortunately they are absolutely not cheap, and are in fact fairly expensive.

lud ,

1080p is perfect for getting actual work done though.

And there is not reason why they couldn't allow you to have multiple normal res monitors. It's not a limitation to get you to overspend on a more expensive computer.

lud ,

It was a joke. Calm down .ml

lud ,

you're a scab against the people and shouldn't be regarded past that point.

WTF‽ They are trying to stay alive, not murder your parents!

Do you think they are well paid or something? If you have an income, they likely earn 100 times less or something.

Seriously what the fuck is wrong with users on some instances?

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Can't they at least update the localisation files too?

After announcing increased prices, Spotify to Pay Songwriters About $150 Million Less Next Year (www.billboard.com)

When Bloomberg reported that Spotify would be upping the cost of its premium subscription from $9.99 to $10.99, and including 15 hours of audiobooks per month in the U.S., the change sounded like a win for songwriters and publishers. Higher subscription prices typically equate to a bump in U.S. mechanical royalties — but not...

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I think they actually just started making a profit.

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Pocket is essentially free.

You can pay but it's only for small non essential features
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/what-is-the-difference-between-pocket-free-and-premium-accounts

lud ,

Parse html then.

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Normal DIMMs work fine but soldered RAM can just be much faster and in general better. It's not an acceptable compromise on most desktops but for laptops which also has to be smaller and need to worry about stuff like battery life, it matters more.

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If there are just a few movies just make a separate library or something.
If there are a fuck ton of shit movies that takes up lots of time to rip or use lots of storage, just say no.

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They have done this for a long time now.

HDMI stream live processing?

I’m getting tired of the extremely loud ads on that don’t seem to be subject to the old TV broadcasting laws that prevent them from being blasted 10db louder than the actual content. Wondering if there’s stuff out there that would let me take the hdmi stream from my Apple TV or other streaming source, and do ad detection...

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Isn't HDCP crap? If I remember correctly it's extremely easy to buy HDCP compliant splitters and stuff that just strips all protection.

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Sure, I guess it's a hard problem unless you have the easy solution. Fortunately the easy solution is easy.

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Really? What people do you usually hang around with?

Bears are incredibly strong and dangerous and will kill you just for fun.

I would honestly prefer a random man to a fucking moose.

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Yes, the safety guidelines are not being close to a bear.

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Sure. I guess it depends on what odds you are comfortable with. I prefer the very small odds of something worse than death or anything happing at all with Man than the high odds of death with a bear.

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From this scenario I'm obviously assuming you have to be close to the bear for the entire day.

It's not like the bear/man is at the other side of the forest.

And as to where I got my odds from? Well out of my ass. There are no statistics on this extremely specific scenario.

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YYYY-MM-DD is the only way.

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I'm happy that I live in Sweden where smokers are comparably rare.

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Or it's a surveillance attempt by someone.

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I wonder why they can't just buy straight from Cisco, surely they are big enough and the equipment is sensitive enough for that to make sense.

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It's a security feature. Microsoft is not breaking anything. It's the sysadmin that could accidentally break their own stuff if they don't set it up correctly.

They don't even have to set it up if they don't want too.

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Yeah, this sounds like a pretty interesting feature that will (in theory at least) make enterprise networking more secure.

I highly doubt this will even be possible to use on Windows home or maybe even Pro. It's probably locked behind at least some kind of extra licence as well.

It will also likely require quite a bit of effort to set up properly in enterprises.

People are freaking out over absolutely nothing. Just read the article and use common sense.

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This is a feature for complex enterprise networks and exclusively so. Enabling it will be very opt in, as you will have to do quite a bit of set-up before it works.

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Yes, but people obviously shouldn't comment and get mad unless they have at least read some of the article.

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https://devnull-as-a-service.com/

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Because they need to pay their supplier of synced (and non-synced) lyrics, Musixmatch.

And they obviously want to make money and free users don't make them much if any profit.

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I searched and I may have misremembered, the free version seems to have been around since the start except that the free version was initially invite and desktop only. Eventually everyone could use it but still only on desktop. The free version was even more limited back then it seems with a limit on how many hours you could listen to each month.

I could personally never use it. Because it was so incredibly limited. Not being allowed to skip tracks makes it unusable and I'm genuinely surprised anyone used it apart from trying the service.

I have a faint memory of it being announced that Spotify first got a free tier but I may be completely wrong, I was very young back then.
I'm also from Sweden so we had Spotify very early compared to most countries and it got popular very quickly here.

lud ,

It's free 🤷

Also the free tier was worse when it launched. And the free tier has always been useless for me.

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I just discovered something that VLC REALLY didn't like to play. A 4K50fps JPEG2000 YUV444 12bit lossless ~48 GB video that was only 1 minute long.

To be fair the bitrate of the video is insane at ~5700 Mbit/s. The bitrate is so insane that you should really consider using an NVME drive for playback.

MPC-HC could kinda play it but only with extreme stutter and lag. My CPU (Ryzen 9 5900x) was completely maxed out.

I think you need hardware acceleration for a video like this.

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Here: https://www.svt.se/open/en/content/

I downloaded "natural complexity" or something like that.
Unfortunately FTP downloads are limited to 100 Mbit/s so downloads can take a while. Imo they should make a torrent.

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You can read more about why and how it was made here: https://www.svt.se/open/en/content/

The only place I could find where I could kinda play the video is inside Davinci resolve, but it doesn't look how I would like it to. Probably due to the apparent lack of HDR support in Resolve on Windows (unless you have a separate TV connected to the PC somehow.

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Haha, that's fair 😂

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You can read more about why and how it was made here: https://www.svt.se/open/en/content/

It's basically intended to test encoding and stuff like that.

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I think it's more of a test for encoding, not sure if you are really supposed to try and play it in an app.

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JPEG2000 supports both.
That's why I specifically said that the video is lossless

https://jpeg.org/jpeg2000/

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I get similar results with ffplay compared to MPC-HC. I unfortunately haven't been able to get proper hardware acceleration to work anywhere.

Or maybe it does work and it's still bottlenecked by the CPU somehow.

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