The VergeMeta’s AI glasses reportedly send sensitive footage to human reviewers in Kenya https://www.theverge.com/tech/889637/meta-ai-smart-glasses-human-reviewers-kenya
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What I would give to go back to REAL design…
@fatcatsoftware hi! Do you know whether PowerPhotos can convert old JPGs in my library to HEIC to reduce the overall library size?
sodslawyerIf you're publishing a magazine which is a consumer guide to electric cars and you're not calling it WHAT EVS then you're wasting everybody's fucking time.
Martin SeegerThis is a valuable lesson for any manufacturer: never awaken the nerd sleeping inside your customer, because his wrath shall be terrible.
In this case the warning was quite literal.
The company annoyed a buyer enough to push him into full blown nerd mode. He tore the product apart, reverse engineered every part, and then published a step by step guide showing exactly how to disable "kill switch" that prevented the use of the product without the vendor spying on the user.
What started as a minor grievance became a public, technical exposé that left the maker exposed and embarrassed.
Moral of the story: underestimate your users at your own peril.
The Day My Smart Vacuum Turned Against Me
Update: This post seems to have struck a nerve and went very wide. As I will not be able to answer every comment, I want to add a few points:
- The linked article was not written by me. It came to me on a different channel (Discord). I only wrote the post on Mastodon.
- The top image in the article looks AI generated. It is no a good image, but in my view less irritating than an advertisement (which is far more common).
- Some people suggest the article itself is AI generated. I don't think this is the case. I wouldn't rule out he author wrote the text in a different language and used AI for translation assistance.
- The claims in the article are not fully backed by the linked repo, but the general statement is correct and IMHO important.
The Day My Smart Vacuum Turned Against Me
Would you allow a stranger to drive a camera-equipped computer around your living room? You might have already done so without even realizing it. The Beginning: A Curious Experiment It all started innocently enough. I had recently bought an iLife A11 smart vacuum—a sleek, affordable, and technologically advanced robot
Natasha 
🇪🇺Why do we say 'slept like a baby'? Babies wake up every two hours crying.
I want to sleep like my cat. 14 hours, no responsibilities, zero regrets.
BeeCycling has movedCorporations want you to think "red tape" is a bunch of arbitrary rules to frustrate business. But most of it is regulations that protect people. That make water, food, drugs and buildings safe. That protect you in your workplace and your children in their school. That make sure your home is safe, your car is safe, the plane you take is safe. That when you try to evacuate a burning building, there is a fire exit and it's not locked.
stux⚡️Putting that PhD to work!
Andres Jalinton
Marco ArmentDye’s “consistency” poorly attempts to solve a problem no Mac users had, by radically redesigning the Mac to be utterly unlike itself, carelessly discarding decades of thoughtful design, function, and delight without bothering to understand any of it, and lacking adequate resources to replace it with anywhere near the quality and consideration that it once had.
It’s the sad conclusion of macOS’ takeover, under Tim Cook, by people who seem to kinda hate the Mac.
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