Being one of those gamers, I do question why a lot of the games targeted at us (looking at you Path of Exile) has to have so much goddamned pointless busy-work clicking. I play a league, then skip a league, which means I skip buying a supporter pack, just because my arthritis can't put up with their bullshit interface year-round.
I doubt the guts of something like an Echo would be capable of containing any kind of speech to text model. It'll probably be a lot more of a concern in a few years when speech models like that are getting baked into cheap chips for consumer devices, though.
i really do not like being the guy that goes "but chatgpt" in threads about other topics, but i have found it to be pretty good at generating simplified recipes.
>“Then Apple could explore its records, query the original owner if it wants, but then at the end of the day if there are no red flags and the original owner does not protest within 30 days, the device should be auto-unlocked."
so, they only have to detain you for 30 days before the lock expires. nice.
search has always been a peeve of mine, too. then i had to work on a self-hosted magento project and saw how resource expensive search is compared to everything else.
so tired of hearing about amazon, though. it's like we've got a new demographic of people who are incapable of going to best buy or target without turning it into some "fight the power" internet activism.
i felt like it might be an embellishment. mostly because i interviewed so many infosec people in the early 2000's and like a quarter of them had some similar story from when they were 10-12 about contact with 3-letter agencies or other nonsense that "got me started on this path at an early age".
that's how i knew 'voice stress analysis' tests were trash. when i was a teenager, it was all the rage for companies to put candidates through these and i'd sit there lying all the way through it and still get the job every time.
now, any of my ex's can agree, i'm the worst liar in the world and if that test thought i was being honest, there's definitely something busted with it.
just be happy you didn't get caught up in the g+ debacle. i did exactly what they told me to do to keep from using a real name across their services and they fucked me 10 ways to sunday for doing so.
brand account worked great up until ~2013, then they changed something and my settings are all greyed out. can't update phone numbers, can't view mature content, etc. all i can do is collect adsense while the account lasts.