Absolute horseshit. Bulbs don’t have microphones. If they did, any junior security hacker could sniff out the traffic and post about it for cred.

The article quickly pivots to TP-Link and other devices exposing certificates. That has nothing to do with surveillance and everything to do with incompetent programming. Then it swings over to Matter and makes a bunch of incorrect assertion I don’t even care to correct. Also, all the links are to articles on the same site, every single one of which is easily refutable crap.

Yes, there are privacy tradeoffs with connected devices, but this article is nothing but hot clickbait garbage.

In an international context, not everybody speaks English. A Japanese customer wants to switch to French. Which language should the language picker be in?

Alternative is to put the flag of each language next to the name in the picker. That way, whoever doesn’t read the current language can at least pick by icon.

CAT-10. The other one has the first 9.

Work smart, not hard.

They’ve already got it mapped out.

ILL is the older system, where you make the request to the library and they go try to find it.

There’s a newer “Link+” service where you can do the search yourself and request delivery to specific branches. Supported by a lot of member libraries, for example: https://sfpl.libanswers.com/faq/103121

In our library system, they don’t put Link+ holds with normal holds. You have to go ask someone to look. We get an email that it’s arrived and we have 3 days to pick it up.

Atlantis

Every time someone says something mean about Mamdani, you could post a link to his alter ego, Young Cardamom: https://youtu.be/DZ1OblYm5YY

Let’s go back to rocks and sigils…

I don’t think you’ll be able to keep AI out of those predictions. It’ll likely morph into something actually useful, and seep deeper into all kinds of technologies. Sort of like how so many cars now come with ‘Driver Assist.’

But I think a lot of it will migrate to run on devices, so your 3D printer or air-conditioner will be more adaptive and less prone to failing.

Also, given what Apple and Google recently showed at their dev conferences, we’re going to see a lot more use of AI inside games, like NPCs that say and behave in different ways. Or productivity apps that look at what you’re doing and berate you for being too stupid.

Apple just demoed exactly that, running fully on-device:

https://youtu.be/6Wgg7DIY29E

My car needed some repair work. Insurance set me up for a rental with Hertz who told me not to pay for bridge tolls with my own car’s transponder. When I take the car back, they tell me I’ll be invoiced later for the tolls. Had 4 toll crossings which ordinarily would come to less than $30 (even less if I had used the transponder).

A month later, the Hertz charges show up: $77 (including ‘processing fee’). Called and complained. They said they’d look into it. Never heard back.

Not using them again.

Chair needs to be closer to the front, otherwise it’s a wasted view.

To be fair, Vaseline literally says ‘Petroleum Jelly’ on the label. They’re not hiding it as ‘headache relief.’

On-device AI is the way to go. No privacy leak. Doesn’t have server and networking costs.

This specific use case (looking things up in Start menu and settings) is a good one, since finding out which setting to tweak is a major PITA.

Apple just announced at WWDC embedding Foundation Models on phones. Except they will allow apps to access them and give them custom prompts. This doesn’t go quite as far.

“People don’t realise that paracetamol comes from oil currently,” said Prof Stephen Wallace, the lead author of the research from the University of Edinburgh.

TIL: https://newatlas.com/science/paracetamol-manufacturing-trees/

Doesn’t replace MCP, but it’s a crapton more secure and well thought out.

Smart move, handing it off to an independent entity. They probably saw how fast MCP took off and realized few people would adopt it if wasn’t.

Similar to other apps, CoverDrop only provides limited protection on smartphones that are fully compromised by malware, e.g., Pegasus, which can record the screen content and user actions.

Irish Coffee and Mission Burritos.