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  • Google preps Pixel ‘Audio Memory’ that ambiently tracks your ‘important conversations,’ like AI notetaker pins

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  • No such discussion happened. As per above, that group of people were super toxic and couldn't care less about this specific person...

    At most the remaining people would've mentioned how his panic attack inconvenienced their night out.

  • Google preps Pixel ‘Audio Memory’ that ambiently tracks your ‘important conversations,’ like AI notetaker pins

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  • Except as I said NOBODY looked up the term. How many times and in how many forms do I have to state that the MENTION of pulse oximeters was: verbal only, in no way entered into a computer before I started getting the adverts?

    The discussion itself wasn't even that long, colleague asked why I looked so tired, I told him how the previous night we had to call an ambulance and sort the guy out, colleague said "maybe he should get a cheap pulse oximeter, it can be helpful to predict attacks and handle them without a call [for an ambulance]", and that was it. Topic was dropped.

    And no, mutual friends didn't look it up either as they didn't care much for the guy (tbf it was a super toxic community I'm glad I've left behind).

  • Google preps Pixel ‘Audio Memory’ that ambiently tracks your ‘important conversations,’ like AI notetaker pins

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  • Nope, as only ~4 people remained at that point, and they wouldn't even be thinking of researching this topic.

  • Google preps Pixel ‘Audio Memory’ that ambiently tracks your ‘important conversations,’ like AI notetaker pins

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  • NONE of that data can predict a random occurrence discussion that goes in a specific direction.

    A great example is something that happened to me in 2015. One night I was out with friends, and one of them had a really bad panic attack. The next day I was discussing it with a colleague during a smoke break, who recommended he gets a clip-on pulse oximeter. No searches, nothing, literally just a half minute detour in our chat. I repeat, nothing was typed in or looked up or in any way entered into any computer intentionally.

    Five minutes later we're sitting in front of our respective computers and I start getting ads for the very thing. Mind you, we're still at a point where nothing noted during this discussion was entered into any computer. Explain this.

  • Google preps Pixel ‘Audio Memory’ that ambiently tracks your ‘important conversations,’ like AI notetaker pins

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  • That's been happening for well over a decade now, and while "respectable security researchers" call it bullshit... there's simply too much anecdotal evidence for it to happen organically.

  • Valve describes just how brutal RAM negotiations are in 2026

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  • Shitty, old processors? In which way?

    Zen 4 is literally just a single generation behind current latest gen architecture. And you're way off on the pricing too - Zen5 APUs are essentially the AI 300/400 lineup, of which the higher end models still cost well over what Valve would find affordable. Meanwhile the GPU Valve chose to be integrated into the SM is 30-40% more performant than the 890M bundled with the Ryzen AI 370 (the only affordable kinda-high-end Zen5 APU).

    So no, it's neither old nor shitty.

  • we're living in the future

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  • UV resin, basically, just super high resolution that makes it incredibly expensive (even the cheaper models used for quick check measurements by dentists cost $20k+ - that is, latest tech, brand new from manufacturer, before someone drops a link for a used unit from 2018 for 10 grand). But the sheer volume makes up for it, a single printer like that can be generating pure profit within a year.

  • Reddit's auto-moderation

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  • I was on Reddit since 2009, registered in 2011... Had the occasional 3-7 days bans, usually when I called out power tripping subreddit mods over modmail, who've tended to respond with the "help this user is harassing me" button (and even a decade ago Reddit was leaning towards trusting subreddit moderators over average users).

    Recently got banned for "ban evasion" - got banned from a tankie subreddit, someone else replied a "😂" to the power tripping mod, who must've reported it as ban evasion because a few hours later permanent banhammer struck my main account, my tech account, my porn account, my politics account.. the list goes on.

    So yeah, fuck Reddit. They had so many chances to be better, and chose to be greedy at every single one of them.

  • Thrupple?

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  • Don't forget, this way there's no risk of her getting pregnant again, thus no risk of traumatising Worf again.

  • Thrupple?

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  • She's sitting in the cuck chair, watching.

    She's Bashir's Emotional Support Symbiote and Host.

  • The Oligarchs Are Not Reading The Room

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  • You mean the bailout dubya signed before Obama was even elected? That bailout?

  • Fox Is Buying Roku in $22 Billion Deal

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  • I've spent a solid 4 years at Discovery/WBD, working on their video playback engine for all things Android. This includes all of Android TV.

    I am still an Android engineer, but all my TV systems are Apple TV. This should tell you everything.

    but if it didn't... Google really made the TV experience of Android go to waste. Underpowered hardware, badly written software, all resulting in stuff like sluggishness, UI freezes, apps crashing, not to mention the frequently messed up hardware/software layer (took us 2 years to make Sony admit they messed up like 3 years worth of Bravia TVs...).

  • Is there room for Windows selfhosters?

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  • Windows Server exists.

    It really shouldn't, but it does.

  • Odo's been holding back on his abilities this whole time!

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  • He also played a pretty solid space Nazi on Stargate, and a, well, researcher who literally loses his marbles on Warehouse 13

  • A $60 Mod to Meta’s Ray-Bans Disables Its Privacy-Protecting Recording Light

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  • That still makes you an asshole. At the end of the day you permanently blinded someone because... they used tech you dislike.

  • A $60 Mod to Meta’s Ray-Bans Disables Its Privacy-Protecting Recording Light

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  • Yeah, try to fry that camera from 5m+ distance then enjoy the lawsuit for blinding that person...

  • New York Becomes First State to Ban Bots That Scrape News Sites

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  • What are you on about?

    For AI purposes the really useful part of a news site is the actual news - you know, the stuff that changes practically every minute - not the "structure" of the site.

    These news sites aren't being scraped for training data anymore but to provide near-realtime up to date information to the models.

    Meaning e.g. Gemini can scan your news article, extract the useful information for the user, and deliver it to the user, without them ever going to your news site and providing the interaction that at the end of the day is converted to money - money your site needs to run.

  • UK’s Starmer gives Apple, Google 3 months to stop children sending nude images

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  • Check the discussion you're on right now.

    IT IS ABOUT FUCKING LEGISLATION THAT FORCES BIG TECH TO DO SOMETHING FOR "PROTECTING CHILDREN".

    My solution is that since we're already legally forcing big tech to do something, then why not do it the right way and force them to give tools to parents to enable them to protect their kids, instead of this fucking dystopian operating system level privacy erasure.

    And your solution is still to not give a fuck about the laws that are being introduced, AND not give a fuck about parents besides telling them to "protect their kids". You do see why your take is idiotic, right?

  • Why this $10 spectrometer chip could bring real-time chemical sensing to wearables

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  • I've never worked with spectrometers but physics and chemistry were some of my strongest subjects, so it made some sense to me - but the sentence was definitely written with the intent to say "look peons, I know big science words you do not, and I can string them into a sentence you'll question the legibility of".