[-] stankmut@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago

Luckily builders would set aside space in buildings just in case someone had an idea for how to move between floors without a ladder. Made retrofitting stairs a breeze. You can't even tell that they were added later most of the time.

[-] stankmut@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Heh. If you're so smart, why did you make a typo? I'm not going to listen to an idiot who doesn't know the difference between and .

You've got to be on constant alert or your phone's autocorrect changing lets to let's at the wrong time will derail the entire conversation.

[-] stankmut@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago

There is a Mac app called Rewind that came out a couple of years ago that does the same thing. There was also an open source thing for Windows. Everyone is desperate to show that they are hip and can do AI. It looks like someone at Microsoft saw a demo of one of those apps and thought that putting it into Windows would let them brag about how much AI Windows can do. They clearly tried to rush it out in time for their Copilot PC marketing push.

The idea is that you can use local LLM models and image scanning to talk to your computer. You could ask it to summarize your day, ask what you were working on last week, or find those articles you vaguely remember reading last year and can't find anymore. I can almost see the merit, but the security risk is so high.

I wonder if people will eventually stop caring about the security risk of features like this. Those AI girlfriends some people dream about will have access to so much private information. Give this thing a voice and you can market it as a companion who learns the things you like and can talk with you about the things you are reading. Hackers might be able to see literally everything you've done on the computer for the last few years, but you'll get to feel like Iron Man with your own personal Jarvis.

[-] stankmut@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

It can still be turned on or off, they are just saying it wasn't supposed to be on that particular screen.

My guess is that it was there as a temporary way to turn it on and off during development before they had a page in settings.

[-] stankmut@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

It's American Exceptionalism at work. Unlike the rest of the world, we have no healthcare, we use Fahrenheit, and we put on our pants one leg at a time.

[-] stankmut@lemmy.world 43 points 4 weeks ago

By the comments I've seen, it seems like no one read their previous announcement where they said they were delaying the feature while they continued work on it. We already knew they were still going to ship it.

Just having it disabled by default is a massive improvement. It's crazy that they initially considered releasing it with no encryption and it on by default.

[-] stankmut@lemmy.world 4 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

The judge's argument is that Tesla, which he owns stock in, isn't a party in the suit against Media Matters, just X. It's a pretty stupid argument, but he wouldn't be able to hurt Media Matters if he recused himself.

[-] stankmut@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

It would be interesting to see the Supreme Court try to enforce that on the person who has the ability to suspend habeas corpus and have them all arrested.

[-] stankmut@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

The build a pc tutorial is a huge outlier when it comes to their site. They've been pretty consistent in quality compared to most tech news sites. They've got a strong ethical standard and they fact check the things they publish.

[-] stankmut@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

This is the judge who ruled that Google has a monopoly and abused it. If Google is paying them, they didn't pay enough.

[-] stankmut@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Since I got covid last year, I haven't been able to drink any brand of cola. It has a weird gross flavor that I guess could be described as being bitter. I would never have described it as bitter before and I think most people wouldn't either.

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