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- on Owners mourn spoiled food after firmware update bricks Samsung smart fridges in c/technology@lemmy.world · 2h ago
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on Rulejected in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1d ago
They could react in horror, as if the sounds made by your voice box are the signs that doom has come upon the world, that they had not known true horror until hearing your voice. They could scream in terror, their screams so shrill, so loud that it caused their throats to open and bleed, so that they sprayed droplets of blood in their screams. These screams would cause everyone nearby to look, and to realize what was happening, causing them to also scream in horror and terror, causing a domino effect where each new screamer caused the people near them to turn and scream, until the whole world was screaming in horror and terror.
And when the screaming was done, they could also say “no”.
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on Rulejected in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2d ago
That’s bad, but I can imagine much worse.
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on Thanks FedEx, This is Why we Keep Getting Phished in c/technology@lemmy.world · 2d ago
If it’s not spam, you’re telling the chatbot that you were one of the people whose penile implant malfunctioned and are part of the class action lawsuit about that. That means you’re telling the Nigerian chatbot quality control expert about that.
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on Thanks FedEx, This is Why we Keep Getting Phished in c/technology@lemmy.world · 3d ago
So, your suggestion is to feed private, potentially sensitive information to an LLM and then trust its judgment?
I’m sure that a bank / delivery company / doctor’s office that uses such terrible practices is actually on the ball when it comes to making sure all the links they send only work once and time out after a while, right? So, when a guy in Nigeria is working at his job where he reviews LLM sessions to ensure they’re sycophantic enough, there’s no issue. He can’t click on it or sell the data to criminals or anything, can he?
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on synergy rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4d ago
There has probably always been business jargon, because every specialized field develops its own jargon.
For example, “benchmark” is used in various fields in a loose sense of a point of reference that you use to judge other things. But, it originally comes from surveying where it was a mark cut into stone to secure a “bench”, a kind of bracket used for mounting the levelling staff.
There’s also probably a lot of business jargon from the “Scientific Management” process created by Frederick Winslow Taylor. He was extremely influential in the business community, and no doubt coined lots of terms that are still in use today.
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on The Wirule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 11 Sep 2026
But, you have to specify it isn’t actually redditors seeing the question and posting an answer. AI doesn’t actually understand questions.
It’s more that it sees your question and generates text near that question that wouldn’t look out of place on Reddit. Sometimes what it generates is good, sometimes it’s what a troll would say, the key thing is that it’s believable but not accurate.
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on LG smart TVs caught logging audio with screen off and snooping on local devices in c/technology@lemmy.world · 8 Sep 2026
I searched and couldn’t find a modern OLED from a reputable brand that didn’t have “smart” features.
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on LG smart TVs caught logging audio with screen off and snooping on local devices in c/technology@lemmy.world · 8 Sep 2026
So by “remotely” you mean “from 1m away”?
When I was a kid we handled this “remote silencing” issue with a broom handle.
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on LG smart TVs caught logging audio with screen off and snooping on local devices in c/technology@lemmy.world · 8 Sep 2026
If it’s like a lot of other devices, it will realize that it can’t get to “The Internet” through that network, and might disconnect. It’s possible it will then look for another option, and might see an open network and use it.
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on LG smart TVs caught logging audio with screen off and snooping on local devices in c/technology@lemmy.world · 8 Sep 2026
Because if you want a screen of a certain size, there are no other reasonable options.
The same reason you might buy a phone that will spy on you and show you ads. You can’t buy a phone that doesn’t do that.
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on LG smart TVs caught logging audio with screen off and snooping on local devices in c/technology@lemmy.world · 8 Sep 2026
my wife and kids needed something they can mute remotely
But… why?
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on LG smart TVs caught logging audio with screen off and snooping on local devices in c/technology@lemmy.world · 8 Sep 2026
SO SAY WE ALL!
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on LG smart TVs caught logging audio with screen off and snooping on local devices in c/technology@lemmy.world · 8 Sep 2026
Unless you’re buying a commercial screen of some kind, you can’t really buy dumb TVs anymore, at least not from the major brands.
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on LG smart TVs caught logging audio with screen off and snooping on local devices in c/technology@lemmy.world · 8 Sep 2026
My TVs don’t get connected to the network because TV companies have started showing ads, and that was bad enough. Then came the fact that a lot of TV apps were making your TV into a residential proxy, making your TV into part of a botnet. And now, on top of all that, they’re spying on you.
The ads were bad enough.
In any reasonable world you would have control over devices in your house that contained computers and would be able to remove bad software and install your own stuff. But, these devices are all covered by section 1201 of the DMCA which makes it a crime to bypass any access control software. This is how Apple is able to block alternate app stores. It’s why printer ink is the most expensive liquid on the planet. It’s why John Deere is able to remotely brick a tractor anywhere in the world, and prevent farmers from fixing their own farm equipment.
What’s especially galling about this is that, the US forced the rest of the world to adopt this bullshit as a part of trade treaties, threatening that any country that didn’t do it might lose tariff-free access to the US economy. And now what happened? Trump just ripped up those treaties anyhow and imposed the tariffs anyhow.
I just wish there was a country brave enough to rip up the IP agreements the US forced on them and allow us to actually own our own stuff again.
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on EA staff fear new Saudi Arabia owners will police their games: "Projects just won't get signed because they don't align explicitly with what the Saudi government wants" in c/technology@lemmy.world · 6 Sep 2026
The bigger threat is that they have no idea how to run a game company. EA was already hated for the various things they were doing to try to squeeze more of a profit out of gamers. Have a private equity company run it and that’s only going to get worse.
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on I rented a car, and within hours, my driver's license was for sale in c/technology@lemmy.world · 4 Sep 2026
Nineteen brazillian? Wow, that’s a lot.
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on Flour Rules in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 Sep 2026
Some use something called a “bag-closing chain stitch”, which is done using a special bag-closing machine. The way it works is that the machine punches the thread through the bag material leaving a loop on the back side. It then connects that loop to the next stitch. The thread holds the bag securely closed, but if you pull on the right part of the thread each stitch disconnects in a chain until the whole thing is undone.
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on Flour Rules in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 Sep 2026
There are really 2 problems:
- Flour is essentially dust. It’s really hard to find a good way to package dust.
- Flour is really, really cheap. The packaging needs to remain a small fraction of the overall cost.
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on Accents Rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 Sep 2026
A couple I know moved from Canada to the UK. Even at 6ish years old, despite being raised by them, including one as a stay-at-home mom, the kid had a strong British accent.
Luckily, they’re mostly immune, although my friend does now say “gareridge” instead of “gahraje”.
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on Tesla Robotaxi Mows Down Bollards & Keeps Driving, After “Impeccable” Record Touted on Stock Call in c/technology@lemmy.world · 18 Aug 2026
Getting out appropriately would have been reversing to the place where it entered the flex-posted area, not simply smashing through them.
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on Tesla Robotaxi Mows Down Bollards & Keeps Driving, After “Impeccable” Record Touted on Stock Call in c/technology@lemmy.world · 18 Aug 2026
Remove Teslas from that and now what are the stats?
As usual, anything Musk touches turns to shit, including self-driving cars.
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on Googles first trillion in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 14 Aug 2026
Google’s
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on Avoid this very common mistake in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 14 Aug 2026
its
First you have to imagine that the data is 100% yours to control, and not going to be used for spying, advertising, etc.
Ok, with that in mind:
Have you ever gone to the fridge for something like milk or yogourt only to find out that it went bad and you didn’t know? I hate that. I’d love it if the fridge could warn me 2-3 days before something went bad so I could remember to use it. It could scan everything that went in and that should give it enough data to tell you when something was about to go bad.
What about going shopping and realizing that you didn’t check to see if you still had X at home, and whether X was still good. Like, I’m often buying green onions but I don’t use the whole bunch right away. Do I need to buy more? So, when I’m shopping I either overbuy just in case I don’t have enough, or I take a risk and maybe I don’t get green onions on my dish this time. It would be handy if I could ask the fridge whether I still had green onions.
Before a big shopping trip, I’ll almost always check in the fridge for what I currently have, then start on the list for things I need to buy. It would be handy if I could just hit a button and the fridge could auto-populate the start of the list based on what I currently have remaining, and what I’m low on, based on what I normally buy. I could always edit what the fridge suggested, but it would be nice not to have to manually go through and say “ok, milk, how much do I still have? Is it still good? Veggies, what do I have? What meats do I have…”