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- on It’s not just LG. Every TV company is spying on you in c/privacy@lemmy.world · 3d ago
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on It’s not just LG. Every TV company is spying on you in c/privacy@lemmy.world · 3d ago
Main one (which is a little pricey) is the switcheroo. Comes with a lifetime warranty: www.switcheroo.com
I was thinking of the RunLessWire ones with the switch with no battery required, but it looks like they got sold to Philips. Nowadays it looks like several brands make a similar item: www.amazon.com/…/B0BRPKLL1Y
These are the stair lights I have: www.amazon.com/dp/B09DZ4SQNZ.
There are a whole lot of wireless outlet / light switch kits at low prices if you’re looking to have a lamp somewhere a distance from the switch source.
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on It’s not just LG. Every TV company is spying on you in c/privacy@lemmy.world · 4d ago
Sensors, timers, and other tons of non-ip networked solutions exist. I have lights that automatically turn on with bulb sensors and it does not require that they be IP networked with each other. Your red light could be wirelessly triggered on a lamp in another room if you wanted without IP networked devices. Many of the “dumb”, working solutions for these problems are cheaper and less complicated than using their networked equivalents.
I have motion sensing, magnetically attached wireless lights that turn on when I go down the stairs. I even have things that can use a single light switch to trigger multiple lamps without rewiring that required zero IP networking.
There are wireless light switches that have no battery because the switch sends a signal using the power from the force exerted on it. There are many types of automation that do not require IP networks.
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on It’s not just LG. Every TV company is spying on you in c/privacy@lemmy.world · 4d ago
None of these use cases require modern “smart” things.
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on It’s not just LG. Every TV company is spying on you in c/privacy@lemmy.world · 5d ago
100%
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on It’s not just LG. Every TV company is spying on you in c/privacy@lemmy.world · 5d ago
This is why I thought the “talk to your TV remote” things were all garbage…Involving a fucking microphone and a speech to text algorithm and potentially cloud bullshit just to fucking change a channel? Change the volume level? STUPID. It’s much worse than just pressing a fucking button and having the volume / channel change immediately, as well as a needless sacrifice of what little remains of your privacy.
I don’t get it with smart switches / smart fans and shit either. Like a light switch already works completely fine guys. I don’t know why we need to be able to talk to this shit.
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on OpenAI boss and Elon Musk back calls to put brakes on ‘reckless’ AI development in c/technology@lemmy.world · 14 Sep 2026
Stop running LLMs attached to an unsupervised eval yolo harness in an endless loop you fucking dinguses.
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on One of AI’s Fiercest Critics Says All the Doom Talk Is ‘Meant to Distract Us’ in c/technology@lemmy.world · 13 Sep 2026
Literally stop trying to pretend that executing LLM output in a loop with no supervision makes sense.
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on No Man's Sky 10th anniversary Cosmos update is here, and that means orbital bases, space station ownership - and yes, you can finally fly to the sun in c/games@lemmy.world · 11 Sep 2026
Paradise planets are best for bases IMO. Having to set up all these different buildings in a planet where you constantly have to be indoors to not be losing life support resources is a pain in the ass and prevents you from bothering.
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on Calls in the UK to ban sex offenders from buying smart glasses in c/technology@lemmy.world · 7 Sep 2026
But that’s their whole demographic.
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on As Ubuntu embraces AI, Debian discusses banning all AI-generated code in c/technology@lemmy.world · 28 Aug 2026
I agree partially: banning AI generated code is a little nuts at this point.
BUT it isn’t “just a tool”. No mere tool requires tech companies to set up illegal energy plants. No mere tool requires the construction of data centers that consume more power than whole cities. No mere tool requires the acquisition and destruction of untold amounts of rare books. No mere tool requires trillions of dollars in funding without any proof that there will ever be an ROI. No mere tool requires a money furnace to operate. No mere tool requires constant, costly maintenance and development so it doesn’t get out of date. No mere tool requires hundreds of billions of dollars of investment only to see little in terms of quantifiable improvement in the tool. No mere tool requires constant chirping about fictional possibilities of super human intelligence and singularities in order to stick around.
No hammer is built with the promise of replacing the carpenter. No pencil is built with the promise of replacing the architect.
AI is much more than a mere tool. It’s a fucking cult of autocomplete enthusiasts.
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on NVIDIA reportedly buys HuggingFace for 13 billion in c/technology@lemmy.world · 28 Aug 2026
Ed Zitron is going to have an aneurysm.
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on New Twitter launches, says Musk's X gave up the name in c/technology@lemmy.world · 27 Aug 2026
The worst part for me personally (and maybe nobody else) is I love the band the xx but wearing their merch these days makes it seem like I maybe support anything musk based.
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on Delta Will Use AI To Cut Costs And Set A Different Ticket Price For Every Passenger—CEO Says Profits Could Rise 50% in c/technology@lemmy.world · 21 Aug 2026
Or if we had a functional federal government we could just make this practice completely illegal, and then pass privacy laws while we’re at it.
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on Behold, "the whole story of Steam's economy in one picture": the top 1% of games earn 84.5% of estimated revenue, and most games barely make anything in c/games@lemmy.world · 20 Aug 2026
Behold the whole story of every economy
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on Google buys Spirit Airlines data for AI training for just $10 million — purchase includes hundreds of millions of emails, Microsoft Teams chats, billions of flight pricing records, and anonymized pass in c/technology@lemmy.world · 20 Aug 2026
“anonymized”
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on YouTube will now count a view as soon as a video starts playing in c/technology@lemmy.world · 18 Aug 2026
Man I miss the early days of the Internet with the bullshit hit counters that were completely inconsequential when wrong and anyone could game.
Now somehow cuz it’s big business, those same bullshit hit counters can be used to move big mountains of money.
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on New ChatGPT Feature Collects Every Keystroke You Make in c/technology@lemmy.world · 18 Aug 2026
“feature”
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on The best Spotify alternatives to ease your conscience in c/technology@lemmy.world · 15 Aug 2026
Algorithmic music is incredible for discovery and that’s about it.
This may be true for most but was not for me. I was on streaming services for two years and discovered maybe five new bands. I went back to my old process of discovery (reading magazines, reading online reviews) and discover many more every year.
Algorithms tend to pump you full of similar sounding artists. I’d rather be challenged as a listener and grow than be stuck in a same sounding culdesac.
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on The best Spotify alternatives to ease your conscience in c/technology@lemmy.world · 15 Aug 2026
Bandcamp is good for this. You can stream stuff you bought on there for free through the app if you want to. I download my purchases and add them to my enormous library that I started in the late nineties.
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on First test flight of largest all-electric aircraft used just $5 of electricity in c/technology@lemmy.world · 15 Aug 2026
Since a plane requires the most thrust at takeoff, you could use ground-based catapults to get the plane to takeoff speed (or faster even) and then you could carry smaller batteries and propelling machinery.
Don’t you dare talk about catapulting using electric technologies in America though. Steam only! 🇺🇸🗽🦅🏈
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on ‘New models will mark AI-generated content from day one’: Claude will now hide an invisible watermark inside ordinary words in c/technology@lemmy.world · 15 Aug 2026
I think this is honestly one of those 100% vs >80% issues. I get that it’s very possible — maybe even easy — to subvert this, but we have had several SITTING POLITICIANS read a fucking AI prompt in the middle of their “big speech” and nobody bats an eye. If they add a measure to outputs that works automatically for 100% of outputs without the people reading it knowing, there’s no chance that it won’t allow you to determine whether or not many outputs are AI.
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on AI agents aren’t legally responsible for any harm that they cause, experts say. So who is? in c/technology@lemmy.world · 15 Aug 2026
They aren’t even actually probabilistic. They’re deterministic with pretend probabilistic characteristics.
Pseudo-random is pseudo. It isn’t really random. That’s why some of them have a setting called a “temperature”. They’re just a fucking program they should have a seed value to behave 100% predictably from the same prompt. The people who own them are fucking responsible and obviously so.
Some applications make more sense to me than others. I haven’t fully dipped into the bluetooth controlled stuff, but I have used other various wireless solutions for things. Funny enough, I’ve been thinking about adding a wireless power switch to my TV so that I know it isn’t snooping on me when it’s off. Can’t snoop on me if you don’t have any power.