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Practically a Chinese Trojan horse that people stick on their phones to spread stupid videos... never used it, never will. Discuss. |
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Yeah never used it, its like their version of the amazon echo |
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Its weird how everyone is putting surveillance devices in their own homes so willingly, i guess alot of it is ignorance, i know im not on the ball as much as i should be |
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If you combine something like Amazon echo with strong AI its a much scarier and complete idea of potential totalitarianism than Orwell envisaged |
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yeah I don't trust these "assistants" - they're so slow and useless anyway, I can search with my fingers much faster than it takes them to process my voice and then give me the result. Perhaps if I was disabled, I might reconsider a voice assistant. I think it's strange I could be having a conversation about, craving a whopper for example, and next I know there's a BK ad in my browser. They're already listening without our consent, almost sure of it. Too many happy accidents like this. *carefully corrects tin-foil hat* |
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dank cat memes, yes plz (nah i don't use it either) |
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The novelty soon wears off, i know people who have them, but they are rarely on |
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Yeah if the CIA dont have a back door into all of amazons collated customer data, gathered permissibly or not, id be amazed |
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yeah, i've never wanted one these shits.... but i do have to give alexa credit, there have been some moments. back in the day, lewis had an alexa. one of his other buddies was over and messing with it, saying all sorts of filthy things to alexa. hey alexa! suck my dick ...and alexa promptly begins playing by zed's dead at high volume another time, it was like 2am, and roommates and i were crashed on the couch, some chatting, mostly fussing on phones... and alexa activates during a moment of sheer silence, begins to play some spooky music... later we looked it up in the logs to see what triggered it and nothing was there i will use voice recognition to yell texts when i'm driving and can't type, but that's about as much as i want it in my life |
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i have boycotted most technology & big tech, at this point it is all government controlled data harvesting schemes and a way to create the means for turning you into an algorithm for artificial intelligence to analyze, predict, recreate, and replace. i strongly believe while you are reading/watching media on your phone, the camera is monitoring your reactions and putting a face to the content you look up & absorb and how you feel about it. the new phone i bought yesterday can be unlocked with a fingerprint or facial recognition and has an entire section devoted to biometric features in the settings. no thanks. |
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i have a coworker who will pull out his phone while we're having a conversation because siri is talking back to him. at some point one of us will have said something that siri mistook as a command and she's trying to repeat it back. and even though it's funny in nature because his phone is buried in his pocket and we weren't actually talking to siri, so whatever she repeats back has been completely misheard and is always a weird garbled mess...he doesn't understand that his phone is always listening. like he doesn't understand that if his phone isn't always listening, then how can it listen for it's name? how can it hear it's name? it has to be listening all the time for it to be able to hear it's name. i actually might have to stop sharing about more 'controversial' opinions around him at work even though that's the majority of what we discuss. |
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i remember i went to buy weed in 2011 or something and my guy had just gotten an xbox kinect with its three cameras and stereo microphones and i remember just thinking: is this shit watching me buy weed? |
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bill gates wants ur hook up, bro kinda weird where we may live in a society when that's less dangerous than saying certain things in front of said devices |
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yeah, but that was also 2011, before it was legal |
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lewis destroyed his alexa by taking it apart, trying to put in a switch for the microphone. it was for the best |
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* It collects every bit of data it can. (Far more than Facebook, Reddit, Instagram, Twitter apps) * It is obfuscated with OLLVM. * App changes behaviour if it thinks it's being analysed. * It has provisions for downloading a .zip and running an executable from it. * It wasn't using HTTPS for a long time (MITM attacks until a few months ago provided emails, etc. etc., anything in their REST API) And you watch the general tone of media coverage of India banning it as like 'lol they weird'. |
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Anyway watchout everyone Umbroman is a chinese agent!!! |
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Fuck Android, fuck iOS... you must be crazy if you agree to the ToS on those fucking things |
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Also, Zoom. |
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what up with zoom? |
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It's basically malware and also, where the fuck was it a year ago? Everyone is acting like they always used it but afaics it was released last Christmas along with COVID-19 so that we'd all stay at home and funnel all our conversations thru Chinese servers |
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alright i know the wikipedia page says different, but no fucker used it before corona-panic... very convenient |
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double christmas present |
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i get fairly frantic when i contemplate this stuff, tbh |
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Seems like a great platform to ruin your own career |
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well steve, you've touched on something i brought up the other day, where information will be stored digitally and our future generations will learn from tablets and when they begin to question what they're told, the information will begin to change itself to match a narrative. the pages they haven't read yet will reshape themselves to say something different. the pages they have read will reshape themselves to gaslight individuals into not believing what they read in the first place. it's not like books, where what is written is written and it either holds true or becomes outdated and revised for the next edition. no the history & narratives will be written & rewritten real time and no one will be the wiser. |
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blockchain |
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like in ghost in the shell when the major goes to check her offline cold storage widget at the lesbian enclave; you can see her copy of the laughing man incident doesn't have as much hacked crap in it |
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so how is hooters doing with their blockchain venture? i remember that in the news months back, but never actually searched to see wtf it was on about |
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srs man, it's basically what it's made for, i don't mean like bitcoin or a specific version of it, but it's the best thing going where nothing can be edited, deleted etc. |
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yeah it's a nice technology, public ledger, quite useful. but it's always fun to watch tech bubbles generate chaos like that |
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>>> so how is hooters doing with their blockchain venture? lol, this is 2017, tell some guy to change his middle name to 'OnChain' |
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>>> always fun to watch tech bubbles generate chaos like that it was fucking ridiculous, i wonder what the next one will be :) |
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do you remember whoopi goldberg's ? it's so weird to look back on that now with bitcoin and blockchain first dot com bubble was a nice ride. i made ten email address on the email server i ran off my cable modem, ten accounts, and for this, a now obviously defunct startup called asimba.com sends me a free polar fleece. it has held up amazingly; it blows my mind i got this thing twenty years ago with fake email addresses and i still use it |
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we need to decentralize the internet. we need to create multiple internets, pirate internets. |
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i'm just waiting for some trendy twat to very seriously talk about creating an off the grid internet, like a co-op |
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the real answer is to learn about about technology, encryption, stay away from free services (because you are the product), take control of as much of it as you can stand. people whining about censorship on twitter, well, hello, there's still a giant internet and you can still put up a web page or some shit. jesus crap. i don't see why this is so hard |
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was going to mention zoom. people got hacked to shit while using it. Not very secure apparently. And yes run by the Chinese overlords. They banned pro democracy Taiwanese and HK peeps, even though the ceo is in America, his heart is with the CCP, no doubt. Fuck Zoom. Wish my wife would uninstall that shit. @Papillon so if u don't have iOS or android, what are you using, Symbian or sth? maybe you just admitted to being crazy. |
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we have Xiaomi lights and a Xiaomi robo vacuum. The robot knows the layout of our apartment..Im however willingly giving that data so that it can clean and we can chill. I'm a hypocrite.. minimise your hypocrisy that's the best you can do. |
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i uninstalled zoom |
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